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a silent place (italy) #asp 13 cd

jennifer gentle “a new astronomy” compact disc

  • lost aurora
  • hidden flower
  • red apple devil
  • hollow earth theory
  • sex rituals of the dead
  • hiss from nowhere
  • the cannibal club
  • church of the black emptiness
  • “what did you say?”
  • a classification of clouds
  • music from mars
  • last aurora
  • me and joe on the moon
a silent place press release...
asp13
jennifer gentle: 'a new astronomy'
cd digipack

this album is dedicated to giovanni paneroni, amateur astronomer and misunderstood genius. he was born in 1871 and made a living out of peddling sweets and ice-creams around northern italy's towns and villages. in his free time, he developed his own, revolutionary astronomical theories: the earth is flat, surrounded on every corner by perennial glaciers; the sun is nothing more than a small silver ball with a 2 meter diameter and a weight of approximately 14 kilos; copernicus was wrong: the entire official astronomical science is just a bunch of lies; planets don't move, stars are just little fires hung in the sky, the universe doesn't exist. he also invented a new solar compass based on his extraordinaries discoveries.

in his unstoppable attempts to promote the truth, paneroni tried everything and suffered countless humiliations: he stalked professors, was arrested and became a well known character in many italian universities. after some years spent in a mental institution, he died in 1950. thousands of people from all over the country attended his funeral.

"a new astronomy" is probably the most eccentric and out-there jg release to date. recorded mostly in marco fasolo's bedroom on a 4-track cassette machine, the album has been conceived as the imaginary soundtrack for some of their most bizarre, vivid dreams - obviously interspersed by the occasional nightmare. it's made by grainy, hallucinated musical scores trying to depict the beautiful, the scary, the annoying and the simply absurd inhabiting dreams. it runs the gamut from ghostly ambient drones to brain-damaged acoustic sketches, covering everything in between - furious guitar freak-outs and a hommage to british 60's producer joe meek included.

(note: this is the official release of the ultra rare cd-r released by sub pop in 2005 in a 100 copies limited edition).

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concert-recordings

a silent place (italy) #asp 03 lp

jennifer gentle “sacramento session b/w 5 of 3” long playing record

  • sacramento session

  • 5 of 3
a silent place press release...
asp03
jennifer gentle: 'sacramento session'
lp gatefold sleeve

portland/oregon-sacramento/california: 580 miles. one of the longest trip for the first jennifer gentle north american tour. they play at the academy of fools, a sort of garage converted as an art gallery: a big open space, low ceiling, completely empty, walls without anything, no stage, no audio system, just a microphone. it seams the beginning of a bad night, on the contrary due to the wonderful view and the beautiful californian sun, or just for themselves and their fans, the jennifer gentle decided to play anyway; not their usual repertory to much noisy but just an improvisation made by their instinct. the result was a hypno jam session, relaxed, honeiric.

the day after jennifer gentle play at the davis kdvs radio, where they propose and records the same jam of the previous night, which became the “sacramento session”. back to home, working on marco’s improvisations with different sounds, manipulated, mixed and remixed, they found the specular image from a distorted mirror of the “sacramento session”: “5 of 3” is the perfect b side, the balance and overturn of that californian night. we would like also to remark you that "sacramento session / 5 of 3" is not the jennifer gentle new studio album, but is instead a combo of a jam session together with a studio manipulation.

packaging in a de-luxe and elegant fold-out cover. the vinyl is coloured as solid red.

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august 1st, 2007

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sub pop (usa) #sp 738 cd

jennifer gentle “the midnight room” compact disc

  • twin ghosts
  • telephone ringing
  • it's in her eyes
  • take my hand
  • the ferryman
  • electric princess
  • quarter to three
  • mercury blood
  • granny's house
  • come closer
sub pop press release...
jennifer gentle
the midnight room

two years after the release of jennifer gentle’s critically acclaimed sub pop debut valende, the italian psychedelic avant-pop explorers are back with the midnight room. and, while the band is five members strong when they play live, with the recent departure of drummer alessio gastaldello, the recorded jennifer gentle is now solely the project of founder and songwriter marco fasolo. marco wrote, performed and produced the entire new album alone in his ectoplasmic studio, a rambling old house lost in the foggy plains of northern italy, infamous for its previous owner’s suicide by rifle.

and, perhaps fittingly, the new record pulses with a nocturnal, feverish, hallucinatory emotional atmosphere, making for a truly unique aural experience. informed by a deep love for american ‘50s rock ‘n’ roll and european musicians like nino rota and kurt weill, the midnight room is by far the most personal jennifer gentle album to date.

focusing on the possibilities of the quintessential rock combo (two guitars, bass and drums) and enriched by swirling keyboard touches, marco created an album that feels like music from some forgotten amusement park at midnight. evoking bizarre, otherworldly images of gas-lit street corners, abandoned theatres, labyrinthine corridors.

the midnight room marries the intensity of primitive rock ‘n’ roll with a renewed taste for a certain kind of typically italian melody—albeit deconstructed, shattered and broken into tiny little bits. think of link wray, krysztof komeda and federico fellini rolled into one short, dense, cryptic tour de force. and then think again.

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sub pop (usa) #sp 658 lp

jennifer gentle “valende” long playing record

  • universal daughter (2:47)
  • i do dream you (2:24)
  • tiny holes (4:11)
  • liquid coffee (4:51)
  • circles of sorrow (6:30)

  • the garden (part one) (3:11)
  • hessesopoa (7:33)
  • the garden (part two) (3:19)
  • golden drawings (5:18)
  • nothing makes sense (4:21)
sub pop press release...
jennifer gentle
valende

hailing from padova, italy, jennifer gentle is not a girl. jennifer gentle is, in fact, a band made up of singer/guitarist marco fasolo and drummer alessio gastaldello (joined by various accomplices when they play live).

valende is their third full-length, and first for sub pop (their first two albums, i am you are and funny creatures lane were released individually on italy’s sillyboy entertainment, and together as a double cd under the name ectoplasmic garden party by australia’s lexicon devil label).

the record was, like its predecessors, home-recorded by marco and alessio and it’s a psych pop charmer, drawing on the band’s own brand of musical dementia: an almost impossible-to-describe melting pot of whacked experimentation, deep fried eccentricity and acoustic beauty, drawing judiciously on the band’s long-term fascination with syd barrett, 13th floor elevators, and joe meek production techniques.

jennifer gentle is also the first italian band sub pop has ever signed (such is our deep affection for the band). but, again, jennifer gentle is not a girl.

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sub pop (usa) #sp 658 cd

jennifer gentle “valende” compact disc

  • universal daughter (2:47)
  • i do dream you (2:24)
  • tiny holes (4:11)
  • liquid coffee (4:51)
  • circles of sorrow (6:30)
  • the garden (part one) (3:11)
  • hessesopoa (7:33)
  • the garden (part two) (3:19)
  • golden drawings (5:18)
  • nothing makes sense (4:21)
sub pop press release...
jennifer gentle
valende

hailing from padova, italy, jennifer gentle is not a girl. jennifer gentle is, in fact, a band made up of singer/guitarist marco fasolo and drummer alessio gastaldello (joined by various accomplices when they play live).

valende is their third full-length, and first for sub pop (their first two albums, i am you are and funny creatures lane were released individually on italy’s sillyboy entertainment, and together as a double cd under the name ectoplasmic garden party by australia’s lexicon devil label).

the record was, like its predecessors, home-recorded by marco and alessio and it’s a psych pop charmer, drawing on the band’s own brand of musical dementia: an almost impossible-to-describe melting pot of whacked experimentation, deep fried eccentricity and acoustic beauty, drawing judiciously on the band’s long-term fascination with syd barrett, 13th floor elevators, and joe meek production techniques.

jennifer gentle is also the first italian band sub pop has ever signed (such is our deep affection for the band). but, again, jennifer gentle is not a girl.

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