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Holiday Single 2011 - Duets From The Films of Christopher Guest

noreply@blogger.com (Adriana Roze) — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 16:30:00 +0000

Happy Holidays, everyone! GO HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE 2011 HOLIDAY SINGLE! And go here to watch our video introducing the new songs!

This year, we had the pleasure of recording duets from the films of Christopher Guest with some lovely guest stars.

The first song, from the film A Mighty Wind, is the Mitch & Mickey classic, "A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow." We were thrilled to record this with the brilliant comedian (with the voice of an angel), Paul F. Tompkins. Find out when he is coming to your town or listen to his hilarious podcast here.

Our second track is "A Penny For Your Thoughts" from Waiting For Guffman, which we recorded with the hilarious television and Broadway actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson, currently starring in ABC's hit show Modern Family.

We were also honored to have accordionist Gee Rabe donate her time for the song "Penny For Your Thoughts."

All proceeds from the sale of this year's single will go to Habitat for Humanity (www.habitat.org), and HRC (www.hrc.org).

To download the 2011 Holiday Single, click here.

We are excited to have our entire catalog up now on Bandcamp. You can download all of our music (including all past Holiday Singles) and purchase t-shirts as well.

Songs by Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Annette O'Toole

Guitar, Cello, Slide Guitar, Programming: David Roze

Vocals: Adriana Roze, Paul F. Tompkins, Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Accordion on "Penny For Your Thoughts": Gee Rabe (www.geerabe.com)

Musical saw: Joel Dickman

Produced and Engineered by David and Adriana Roze

So, Uh, Where's That New Album?

noreply@blogger.com (Adriana Roze) — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:29:00 +0000

Hi. Yeah, wow, look at that. It's the end of 2011 already. I think we said we'd have a new album out, oh, what, this summer? Yeah, that didn't happen.Want to know why?

Yup. This guy. I don't mean David. I mean our amazing, incredible, beautiful, spirited, spritely child. I think, on some level, it was impossible to estimate how impossible it would be to get anything done with him being the young and precious age he is. We are trying to savor this, and he is savoring us, and there's a whole lot of savoring going on, and the music right now is reluctantly being pushed aside. Things are progressing, just much, much slower than we anticipated. The music is there, a bag of bones waiting for some flesh. The new songs are in fragments and thoughts and some even have fully-recorded skeletons, but none of them are ready to walk out the door. They would certainly shiver in the cold.

We are looking at alternate ways of releasing music right now. One that fits better with our needs as artists. There really are no rules right now in music, so if we have to put out one new song at a time in 2012, we will. We would rather do that than wait another year to get the final album to you. I am one who likes to write albums in a narrative, novel-like format, so perhaps this story arc will just span several releases, and then we can collect it later, perhaps in vinyl. We shall see.

But hold tight, dear listeners! There will still be a new release in 2011! We are hard at work on the 2011 Holiday Single, and man, it is going to be awesome. There will be wonderful guests joining us in song and we are really looking forward to sharing the mic with such creative, talented people. More info very, very soon!

Hunt For The Heart Video is Being Distributed by Radar Music Videos!

noreply@blogger.com (Adriana Roze) — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:51:00 +0000

We are very excited to announce that the "Hunt For The Heart" video is being distributed by Radar Music Videos and will be seen all over the world, notably at such awesome places as iTunes, Hulu, Playstation Vidzone, Indieflix, and many more venues (possibly MTV in our future!). We will keep you all informed with links when we have them! Big thanks and kudos to our director, Mathias Erixon of Oddity, for making such a beautifully arresting animated video.

Want to know how to get our music right now? Go to our download store here (self-determined pricing) or just use this link to our CDBaby wares!

We are at this very minute in the process of gathering ourselves up from a year taking care of a new baby, and are starting a BRAND NEW project that we hope to unveil to you in the coming weeks. To keep up with us and our new music ventures, please consider following us on Twitter and liking us on Facebook. Our music is also on Spotify, so please enjoy listening there as well!

2010 Holiday Single - Boys Don't Cry & Nature Boy

noreply@blogger.com (Adriana Roze) — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:10:00 +0000

Hello friends,

Happy Holidays to you! It's been a bit of a quiet year for us musically. As you might know, we had a baby boy this year, and it has profoundly touched our lives (and kept us very busy!). We decided this year in honor of him, we'd do a few songs for the holiday single about boys.

The first song, "Boys Don't Cry" by The Cure, is one that we used to perform a lot live but had never gotten a chance to record until now. It's a simple but unusual arrangement that we've always really liked. "Nature Boy" is another classic that, we think, has one of the simplest and most profound lyrics in all of music history: "The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return." If there's one thing we want to pass on to our little one, that is it. We were happy to have saxophonist Joel Dickman joining us on this one.

To download the songs, visit the 2010 Holiday Single page.

We hope this finds you well and we look forward to releasing an EP of new songs for you in the new year!

Love and Light,
Adriana & David

Family Photos

noreply@blogger.com (Adriana Roze) — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:02:00 +0000

We had another beautiful and fun photo session (as a follow-up to our pregnancy shots) with the talented photographer Marisa Guzman-Aloia, this time with our little baby! Just wanted to share a few pics from that session and recommend Marisa. She is fantastic! You can follow her on Twitter at @mga_photo.

As you can see, we are doing well.

Announcement

noreply@blogger.com (Adriana Roze) — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 22:51:00 +0000

Hello friends,

Sorry for the delay in updating. As I'm sure you can understand, we have been quite busy welcoming our new son into the world. He was born on June 5th and we couldn't be happier. He is beautiful and healthy and magical, and we are so amazed to know him.

Despite being quite occupied by this little creature, we do hope to be bringing you new music in the coming year, including a holiday single in December! We have started a new EP and hope to have it released by next summer. Stay tuned here for more info and I am always updating on Twitter whenever possible.

Much love,

Adriana, David, & the RozeBud

Some Recent Pictures

noreply@blogger.com (Adriana Roze) — Mon, 03 May 2010 02:01:00 +0000

Hi friends,

Just thought we'd share a few pics of our impending bundle of joy with you that we recently had taken by the wonderful and talented Marisa Guzman-Aloia. Please go check out her website!

As you can see, we are, respectively: hopefully, conscientiously, deliriously, laughingly, and lovingly awaiting our little family member.

Thank you for your love and support during this special time.

-Adriana and David

Checking In

noreply@blogger.com (Adriana Roze) — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 17:40:00 +0000

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to quickly check in and let you know that, like listed below, we had to convert our blog to this new address, so please re-set your RSS feeds for http://blog.theendlessband.com/feeds/posts/default.

In case anyone missed the news, we are about 7 weeks away from welcoming a baby into our lives, and things have been extremely hectic around here! David has been mixing sound for a film, and that has been a huge project to take on right now. I wanted to let you all know that we are still working on songs that will hopefully find their way to a new EP that we anticipate releasing by the end of the year. Wish us luck, as this is a huge change in our lives coming up, as you might imagine.

I'm finding it to be a very different process to write music right now while pregnant. My brain isn't working in the same way it usually does when it comes to poetry and metaphor. Things are more direct, simple, to the point. I feel like I'm parallel processing, creating mentally and physically at the same time. I'm drawing a lot of inspiration from the lectures of Joseph Campbell, directions on old maps, and what lies at the bottom of the ocean. Here be monsters.

Thank you for your patience during this time and we can't wait to share our experiences and music with you soon. There is so much music in us that wants to get out, it's just finding the right time to help it into the world.

-Adriana

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noreply@blogger.com (Adriana Roze) — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:57:00 +0000

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Writing Again

noreply@blogger.com (Adriana Roze) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 01:17:00 +0000

Hello everyone,

We are working on a new EP! Some of you may know that we are expecting a baby in early June (...whaah? Yes). Because of this, we know that this coming year is going to be pretty nutty. With that in mind, we hope to get much of a new EP written and (hopefully mostly) recorded before the baby comes, with the goal of getting it released by fall/winter.

It may be flat-out madness to think we can do it, but we are so excited to give it a go. We already have sketches for five songs and probably more in our souls, so we'll see what comes out.

These are pictures from a storm this week here in LA. It's pretty rare to see such a lovely sight here. Growing up in New Mexico, we had rainbows and thunderstorms a-plenty, but here it is a rare treat.

Inspiration comes by a different road for us on every album. We have our ears perked and are listening intently for clues. "I hear you singing in the wires..."

We'll be sharing the journey of writing this little bundle of love here on the blog and on our Twitter page. Thank you for coming along, once again.

A big thank you those of you who purchased our music for the Haiti earthquake relief drive. We will tabulate and get that money donated as soon as we have the final info from CDBaby.

Haiti Earthquake Relief

noreply@blogger.com (Adriana Roze) — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:05:00 +0000

Hi Friends,

We just wanted to let you know that we are partnering with CDBaby for the next two weeks to donate money to earthquake relief in Haiti. On our side of things, 100% of our profits on CD sales and digital downloads will be given to UNICEF (we even have a corporate sponsor who will match all of our donations so they will be doubled). On CDBaby's side, they are donating $1 from every CD sale to the American Red Cross and Mercy Corps.

It should be noted that every CD at CDBaby (and digital downloads over $8.99) for the next two weeks will have the $1 donation promotion, so now is a good time to get some great new indie music like Jane Siberry's latest album or the new release from Trespassers William, to name a few. We know you have probably already given in different ways, but this is just another option out there that could help.

To find our music at CDBaby, just go here: the Endless on CDBaby.

Thanks,
Adriana and David

Best of 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Adriana Roze) — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:06:00 +0000

Somniloquy has been named one of the Best Of 2009 by Collected Sounds, an amazing music blog run by the fantastic Amy Lotsberg. We are so grateful to her for her support. Go see the list of great music here!

Happy and wonderful holidays to you. If you haven't already, please go download our 2009 Holiday Single as our gift to you. See you in the new year!

The 2009 Holiday Single - Muppety Music

noreply@blogger.com (Adriana Roze) — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:00:00 +0000

Friends, we are excited to share with you our 2009 Holiday Single! Go here to download the songs and see a short message from us. Be sure to watch the video to hear a special announcement from us about the coming year.

To fill you in, every year we record a couple of songs just for fun, to thank you for being our fans. This year, we decided to do a few Muppet songs, so we went with "I Don't Want To Live On The Moon" from Sesame Street and "Saying Goodbye" from The Muppets Take Manhattan. Both songs are written by the incomparable Jeff Moss.

Fun Fact: "Saying Goodbye" marks the first Endless song with David sharing lead vocal duty. We got pretty silly and it turned into a Piaf-tinged French chanson. Very fun.

We wish you wonderful holidays and thank you again for your support.

VIDEO DEBUT: "Lit From Within"

noreply@blogger.com (Adriana Roze) — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 20:44:00 +0000

Enjoy this beautiful and luminous video for "Lit From Within," directed by Bob Blunden of Bath, England and commissioned via Radar Music Videos. We think it captures the simplicity and minimalism of the song beautifully. We hope you like it!

A Sale For The Holidays!

noreply@blogger.com (Adriana Roze) — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:23:00 +0000

Hi Friends,

We've initiated a bit of a sale for the holiday season. Two great deals are coming your way. Here we are to tell you all about it:

To sum up:

This Friday, November 27th, through Monday, November 30th, we will be offering our CDs for only $5 on CDBaby.com. This means you can catch up on releases you've missed or maybe buy several for your friends and neighbors. Indie music makes a lovely and unique gift!

Also, from now until December 25th at our web store, we are offering a very special Holiday Collector's Pack. It includes the following:

For download immediately:
* The entire Somniloquy and The Republic Of Heaven albums

By mail:
* Signed CDs of both albums
* 11 x 17 Somniloquy and The Republic Of Heaven posters
* 1 Men's or Women's (your choice) Alternative Apparel T-shirt in brown or plum, lovingly and sustainably made with eco-friendly inks on organic cotton

All of this for only $35 including shipping!

We will be happy to sign anything you'd like to anyone you'd like. Just let us know when you are checking out what you need. Happy holidays! Look for our new music video for "Lit From Within," debuting on December 1st!

Art Begets Art

noreply@blogger.com (Adriana Roze) — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 01:29:00 +0000

We are back from what felt like a somewhat long trip. We went with my dad on a cruise on the Queen Mary 2 from New York up the East Coast to Nova Scotia, Canada. It was a really interesting experience. Cruising is strange. Here are a couple of pictures:

In Acadia National Park, Bar Harbor, Maine

The huge ship (don't call it a boat, people will get mad)

When in Nova Scotia, please don't hit Santa's flying reindeer.

Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia

St. Martins, New Brunswick

We then spent a few days in our old stomping grounds, NYC. While there, I had a bit of a mystical experience at the MoMA with a piece of art that just grabbed me by the throat. Edvard Munch's The Storm.I don't recall noticing the painting in the past. You never know when or why art is going to hit you. Even looking at this here online doesn't have the same emotional impact (reproductions rarely do).
There was something about that moment, in that space, that broke me. I was shaking. I love Munch's work. He evokes for me a sense of beauty, isolation, and terror that can be overwhelming. This woman in the night on this dark path - I understand her. I want to know what she's going to do. Where she will go, because clearly she is outside the circle of women and way out side the warmth of the house lights. Yet she carries her own light.

I'm always grateful for moments like this because I feel music in them. I feel a song, a story, or just the shape of something that I can pull up a month or even years from now in my writing. Visual art is a primary way we both get inspiration to write. It works differently for David because he gets inspired by structure/color/light and I get inspired by the story. Which is great and why we work so wonderfully together.

Right now as I type this, David is recording guitar and MIDI parts for the 2009 Holiday Single. The holiday single is always fun. I feel it's a way to be a bit care-free and do things outside the normal "Endless-y" way of writing. I hope you'll like what we're up to this year!

In other news, the music video for "Lit From Within", directed by Bob Blunden of Bath, England, is scheduled to debut on December 1st. Look for it here!

Harvest Time Again

noreply@blogger.com (Adriana Roze) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:06:00 +0000

Hi friends, is it Fall where you are? Or Spring? Crisping leaves or budding petals?

We are busy tinkering away (in the still rather blistering LA heat) in our studio on pulling apart Somniloquy and re-weaving it for playing live (I know you have heard this line before but I swear, if you saw what we had to do computer-wise, you'd understand the delay - long story). We might even be writing some new songs, and also scheming about our upcoming Holiday Single (can it already be time for that again?). If you missed it, last year's holiday single was a tribute to the music of Mr. Rogers.

Did you got a chance to see the new music video for "Hunt For The Heart"? We think Mathias Erixon did a lovely job. We are currently in production on a new video for the opening track from the album, "Lit From Within." Expect a beautiful new creation from a great UK-based director just in time for the holidays!

We also wanted to let you know that our song "Was I Not Your Muse?" is being featured on the AAA evening playlist this fall on the Women of Substance radio show. The show can be heard on Tuesday nights from 7 - 8 PM PST here. Also, our cover of Neil Young's "After The Gold Rush" is currently being featured on the WomensRadio channel which you can listen to here.

Geez, what else can I tell you? We love you and miss you, wherever you are. We are both on Twitter if you'd like to join us there for some every day conversing.

Hunt For The Heart Video

noreply@blogger.com (Adriana Roze) — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:53:00 +0000

Here it is! Enjoy it, pass it on, tell your friends, and a huge congratulations to Mathias Erixon for his most excellent and hard work in this venture. This is his own special creation and we applaud him. This video was commissioned through Radar Music Videos, a site that pairs musicians with video directors.

We hope you like it!

PS - We believe the monster's name might be Oleander.

Your Fear Is Now Your Map

noreply@blogger.com (Adriana Roze) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:48:00 +0000

Still #3

I WIll Bring Back Her Heart For You

noreply@blogger.com (Adriana Roze) — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:04:00 +0000

Still #2

Like Paper Cranes On The Wind

noreply@blogger.com (Adriana Roze) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:33:00 +0000

Still from the Hunt For The Heart video. One pic per day until the premiere!

New Review and Sneak Peak of the Monster!

noreply@blogger.com (Adriana Roze) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000

We are so close to premiering the Hunt For The Heart video! @MathiasOddity is hard at work at putting the finishing touches on it. Here is a picture of the monster that our heroine is hunting in the video:
Isn't he gorgeous?

We are also still slogging through a million plug-ins, trying to re-create Somniloquy in Logic (it was made in Cubase) so we can play out live. David is an extreme champion of computer skillz and we are coming to the top of the (much higher than we expected) mountain. I am cooking up all kinds of ideas for the live show and trying to learn how to play the music we wrote.

Somniloquy has gotten a really cool review in ReGen magazine. Some quotes:

A very lovely glimpse of otherworldly realms..."Was I Not Your Muse?" is one of the album's most beautiful gems, with a powerful vocal performance that conveys exceptionally strong feelings of love, loss, and a tinge of anger...

The album culminates with "Rosabelle: Answer-Tell," a superbly arranged piece that blissfully ebbs and flows between mellow, understated, and melancholy moments and strong, poignant, and boisterous moments with Adriana Roze once again astonishing the listener with the range of emotion in her voice.

Very nice!

New Video - "Somniloquy"

noreply@blogger.com (Adriana Roze) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:37:00 +0000

As we wait for the "Hunt For The Heart" video to be released, I thought I'd share this piece I just edited for our song "Somniloquy." You might recall that the song was made with the help of you, our sweet and dedicated fans, who sent in your dreams on a special hotline for us to share. We hope you like what you see (be sure to watch in HD where possible).

We shot this footage at the astounding Catacombs of Paris. Here are some pictures from that day:

To find the songs for download, just go here.

Welcome, New Comic-Con Friends!

noreply@blogger.com (Adriana Roze) — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:19:00 +0000

We have dragged our half-conscious selves back home after a week and a half of trips which culminated at Comic-Con in San Diego this weekend. A big hello to our new friends who we met along the way, welcome! If you want to know more about us, please look around here, follow us on Twitter, be-fan us on Facebook, and so on. We are glad to have you. If you are looking for our music, you can find it here. Please feel free listen and download what you like. The Endless t-shirts we were wearing this weekend can be found here.

Special extra hellos to those nice people who made the trip extra fun along the way. @vampandora, @DaveMcKean (who instantly recognized the ectoplasm on our album cover), the lovely Allen Speigel of Allen Speigel Fine Arts, Tom at Century Guild Fine Arts (whose Doctor Who CD I accidentally lifted), Rebecca and the Wonder Woman at the Masquerade viewing (there were a few moments there where we were laughing so hard I think we almost lost our minds).

A quick re-cap:

We started last week in Costa Mesa, CA seeing Tears For Fears (David long-time fan, first time viewer, very satisfying to hear Woman in Chains live). We then made our way to Phoenix to see Tori Amos at the Dodge Theatre. When we got to our hotel (the Royal Palms), we were surprised by an incredible upgrade to the 8 ROOM, 4 PATIO-ed Presidential Villa. It was NUTS. We quickly grabbed our camera and took as many pictures of us in the space as possible:

Oh, that's just the living room. *yawn*

David in shock

Clawfoot!

It was also David's birthday, so it was an extra special treat. We had an incredible meal in their restaurant, T. Cook's.

Then at the Tori show we got the chance to meet the awesome Robyn of FoodPorn.com.

Second row seats meant a chance to watch the incredible Jon Evans in action.

Even though it was a mind-melting 115 degrees, the show was really fantastic.

We then travelled to New Mexico for family purposes. We arrived in San Diego on Friday, in time to catch Neil Gaiman and company talk Coraline, which was nice.

The one, solitary picture we took with our camera at the con. Boo. The rest of our pics are from our phone and are on our TwitPic feed.

So, that's the current scoop. We are off now to work on the live show (yes, we are still working on the live show. Computer hell). Hopefully we'll have some news on that front very soon.

An Endless Mini-Tweetup

noreply@blogger.com (Adriana Roze) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:46:00 +0000

We will be attending a few concerts this weekend and we want to meet you there! Here's where you can find us:

Fri 7/17: Tears For Fears, Pacific Amphitheatre, Costa Mesa, CA
Sat7/18: Tori Amos, Dodge Theatre, Phoenix, AZ

If you see us, please come up and say hi and we will be happy to give you a signed Somniloquy CD. I will be tweeting our seat location from the venues.

We look like this:
...except I am not a giant (and do have legs), David is not tiny, and we neither of us will be standing against white surfaces (to the best of my knowledge).

We will be doing something similar for Comic-Con next weekend. See you there!