Showing posts with label athens georgia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label athens georgia. Show all posts
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
sorry i am been busy....
wow
efren on the loose.
really apologize to the 4 followers i have. jk.
this will be short but i promise to get back on the blogger train.
we gots lots of exciting things coming up.
mad shows.
NEW ALBUM dropping June 28th, but will be available at ATHfest the previous weekend!!
RISE ON UP AND MELT!!!!
we got some special treats for the Athenites that weekend so be on the lookout.
We are so so so proud of the album. i am giddy with excitement to share it with yall!!!
i will even give yall a sneak peak of the art for it here!!
Writing songs for you
Under a velvet moon
Hearing lines of red
Into simple heads
Richer times unbound
Crisp strings ground
Light moods will pay
Please sit and stay
Leaving this bus stop
Sweat the next spot
Sweet faces smile
Over southern miles
Invent an escape
To stay up so late
In bound roads split
Our golden hit
Inside a brainstorm
Lost in being born
Say you this morning
Curled up in glory
Lets stay up together
Close like its forever
Highway guard lied
Just let mama try
Open the lines to the last station
Right next to love’s confession
Always knew how you felt
Please, rise on up and melt
title track from upcomer!!
thanks for loving.
SL
efren on the loose.
really apologize to the 4 followers i have. jk.
this will be short but i promise to get back on the blogger train.
we gots lots of exciting things coming up.
mad shows.
NEW ALBUM dropping June 28th, but will be available at ATHfest the previous weekend!!
RISE ON UP AND MELT!!!!
we got some special treats for the Athenites that weekend so be on the lookout.
We are so so so proud of the album. i am giddy with excitement to share it with yall!!!
i will even give yall a sneak peak of the art for it here!!
Writing songs for you
Under a velvet moon
Hearing lines of red
Into simple heads
Richer times unbound
Crisp strings ground
Light moods will pay
Please sit and stay
Leaving this bus stop
Sweat the next spot
Sweet faces smile
Over southern miles
Invent an escape
To stay up so late
In bound roads split
Our golden hit
Inside a brainstorm
Lost in being born
Say you this morning
Curled up in glory
Lets stay up together
Close like its forever
Highway guard lied
Just let mama try
Open the lines to the last station
Right next to love’s confession
Always knew how you felt
Please, rise on up and melt
title track from upcomer!!
thanks for loving.
SL
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
another great review!! Thanks!!!
Out of Athens, GA, a city that’s produced many great musicians in the past, comes yet another band whose music is definitely well-worth a listen. Efren, whose new EP was released this past August, pleases from the second you press play. Always Been A Bleeder is a seamless combination of influences: some tracks vibrate with psychedelic and fairly experimental folk while others have distinct country and rock roots.
As a five-track release, the music is alternatively celebratory and brooding, the first four tracks consistently switching between jaunty folk rock romps (“Potholes”) and dwelling, reflective tracks (“Next Tuesday”). “Rapids,” the closing track, follows the tradition of sounding more like something experimental that the band enjoyed recording instead of a polished track. It’s a nine-minute outlier that starts with chaotic and dissonant mixture of guitar plucks, twangs, wails and warbles, bells, and the occasional cymbal crash until two minutes in, Scott Leon O’Day’s dry voice joins in and the song metamorphoses into something gentler and more melodic. While Always Been A Bleeder clearly has the influence of older folk, their music is also distinctly contemporary. At times they sound like a more youthful and energized Tallest Man On Earth, and as advertised by the band, many of the tracks should be well-received by fans of Iron & Wine (particularly if you enjoyed Beam’s sound on The Shepard’s Dog).
The vocals are, in the tradition of many folk-singers past and present, dry and raspy, often more mumbles than articulate words, but they never grate. Lyrically, Efren stays introspective while avoiding self-indulgence, which leaves their music more free-spirited than heavy. Track for track, they engage from the get-go, and their sound only grows more and more enjoyable with each succeeding listen. While none of the tracks stand out as singles, Always Been A Bleeder lays down an outstanding outline for a future LP.
www.adequacy.net
September 15th, 2010 by Emily Graham
Thanks alot!!!
As a five-track release, the music is alternatively celebratory and brooding, the first four tracks consistently switching between jaunty folk rock romps (“Potholes”) and dwelling, reflective tracks (“Next Tuesday”). “Rapids,” the closing track, follows the tradition of sounding more like something experimental that the band enjoyed recording instead of a polished track. It’s a nine-minute outlier that starts with chaotic and dissonant mixture of guitar plucks, twangs, wails and warbles, bells, and the occasional cymbal crash until two minutes in, Scott Leon O’Day’s dry voice joins in and the song metamorphoses into something gentler and more melodic. While Always Been A Bleeder clearly has the influence of older folk, their music is also distinctly contemporary. At times they sound like a more youthful and energized Tallest Man On Earth, and as advertised by the band, many of the tracks should be well-received by fans of Iron & Wine (particularly if you enjoyed Beam’s sound on The Shepard’s Dog).
The vocals are, in the tradition of many folk-singers past and present, dry and raspy, often more mumbles than articulate words, but they never grate. Lyrically, Efren stays introspective while avoiding self-indulgence, which leaves their music more free-spirited than heavy. Track for track, they engage from the get-go, and their sound only grows more and more enjoyable with each succeeding listen. While none of the tracks stand out as singles, Always Been A Bleeder lays down an outstanding outline for a future LP.
www.adequacy.net
September 15th, 2010 by Emily Graham
Thanks alot!!!
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
YIPEE! New release and big shows this weeks and live set for free!!
wow.
i like playing music
first
Today is the official worldwide release of our new ep 'Always Been a Bleeder'
get it here
www.efrenmusic.com
or now on itunes!!
yes!!
next
FREE DOWNLOAD OF NEW LIVE SET! free to be live, vol. 1
or just stream it
and FINALLY!
THE BIG SHOW!!!!!! to celebrate the Worldwide release of our EP!!!!
Hope yall are well
and hoping we will see ya FRIDAY AT LITTLE KINGS
i like playing music
first
Today is the official worldwide release of our new ep 'Always Been a Bleeder'
get it here
www.efrenmusic.com
or now on itunes!!
yes!!
next
FREE DOWNLOAD OF NEW LIVE SET! free to be live, vol. 1
or just stream it
and FINALLY!
THE BIG SHOW!!!!!! to celebrate the Worldwide release of our EP!!!!
Hope yall are well
and hoping we will see ya FRIDAY AT LITTLE KINGS
Thursday, July 8, 2010
super sweet sickness!
We are on the Team Clermont with our new EP Always Been a Bleeder!
POW! link^^^
Efren is a folk group hinting on the psychedelic, from areas around Athens, GA. Reaching out into the musical world with introspective lyrics and brooding energy, Efren has composed an EP of new broken heart strung songs and stories. Bleeding on the stage with over 45 shows in 10 months, learning who you are and finding the comfortably challenging sound, Efren is searching for the right vehicle of song expression.
Five songs, one fighting the frustrations, one hoping for potential, one battling demons, one winning, and finally the long epic surrender. Recorded in the spring of 2010 with Dave Sturgis at The Stewdio in Athens, GA Always Been A Bleeder is a proud installment in the young project Efren.
Always Been A Bleeder comes hot off the heels of the band’s debut album, Thunder & Moan. Both of the recordings are hard and quiet, while the live show invigorates the music and delves deeper into the compositions, exploring the sonic textures. Learning the rules of the stage in a songwriter’s realm has deepened and expanded the palette of the group’s compositions.
Efren is the songwriting vehicle of one Scott Leon-O’Day. But there are four men making this meal; with roots in jazz, blues, folk, bluegrass and rock. Efren touches on Southern Americana music, draws from indie lo-fi ideas, and respects the multitudes of great songwriters of our past. Lyrically driven, but emotionally wandering. Stories of trying to lose love, dreams of family past, tall boys, gambling, and whiskey stills…
POW! link^^^
Efren is a folk group hinting on the psychedelic, from areas around Athens, GA. Reaching out into the musical world with introspective lyrics and brooding energy, Efren has composed an EP of new broken heart strung songs and stories. Bleeding on the stage with over 45 shows in 10 months, learning who you are and finding the comfortably challenging sound, Efren is searching for the right vehicle of song expression.
Five songs, one fighting the frustrations, one hoping for potential, one battling demons, one winning, and finally the long epic surrender. Recorded in the spring of 2010 with Dave Sturgis at The Stewdio in Athens, GA Always Been A Bleeder is a proud installment in the young project Efren.
Always Been A Bleeder comes hot off the heels of the band’s debut album, Thunder & Moan. Both of the recordings are hard and quiet, while the live show invigorates the music and delves deeper into the compositions, exploring the sonic textures. Learning the rules of the stage in a songwriter’s realm has deepened and expanded the palette of the group’s compositions.
Efren is the songwriting vehicle of one Scott Leon-O’Day. But there are four men making this meal; with roots in jazz, blues, folk, bluegrass and rock. Efren touches on Southern Americana music, draws from indie lo-fi ideas, and respects the multitudes of great songwriters of our past. Lyrically driven, but emotionally wandering. Stories of trying to lose love, dreams of family past, tall boys, gambling, and whiskey stills…
Sunday, June 6, 2010
lots of shows, new EP
wow.
i love music.
even breaking strings, losing capos, driving thru the night. we are the lucky ones.
beer, guitars, and stomping feet.
New Album Art Above.
Done by the ADAM O'Day
Release party
Friday June 25th
ATHfest @Flicker
with Hope for a GOlden Summer
Thayer Serrano
and Major Love Event.
so sweet.
got NC, TN, and back to GA this week, yes. duo style, get ready Jonny!!!
thanks people of the listening galaxy.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Sunday, February 14, 2010
hello world and snow patrol.
hey yall.
snowy week in athens.
pretty nice.
melting away as i did this week.
two shows and lots of work.
good shows.
thanks for coming out to the Flicker and Farm yalls.
even with your snow shoes on.
epic snowball fight.
snowy duo.
got some footage in the snow.
feeling pretty good.
valentine's day satisfy.
you stayed in the yard.
got my felty slippers
and my lil guy, avi monk.
wife be back soon.
umi soomi klub.
low bankroll.
winter slumber land.
got some sleep last nite.
nice after two 3 hour nites.
hope you got some to love.
listen in.
snowy week in athens.
pretty nice.
melting away as i did this week.
two shows and lots of work.
good shows.
thanks for coming out to the Flicker and Farm yalls.
even with your snow shoes on.
epic snowball fight.
snowy duo.
got some footage in the snow.
feeling pretty good.
valentine's day satisfy.
you stayed in the yard.
got my felty slippers
and my lil guy, avi monk.
wife be back soon.
umi soomi klub.
low bankroll.
winter slumber land.
got some sleep last nite.
nice after two 3 hour nites.
hope you got some to love.
listen in.
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