EP Release! It’s more than Amplification

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Alec Gross & The Band – Live from The Living Room EP
Available now on BandCamp & iTunes!

A blazing set by Alec Gross & The Band at New York City’s legendary listening venue, The Living Room. Captured on the evening of June 27th, 2012, ‘Live from The Living Room’ finds this 5-piece band at the top of their game just days before heading into the studio to record the still unreleased album, ‘Old Elijah’. ‘Live from The Living Room’ features four extended tracks which find the musicians playing with sheer joyful intensity.

Available now on BandCamp & iTunes!

With:
Greg Barbone: Piano, Hammond organ
Nick D’Agostino: Drums
Alec Gross: Vocals, acoustic guitar, harmonica
Will Hensley: electric guitar, vocals
Jeremy McDonald: electric bass, vocals

Videos of the live performances:
Ballad of Pretty June: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVVgD3kJgT4
Ballad of Pretty June - Live from The Living Room

Old Elijah & The Sorry Sorry Sun: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu44y_VPmow
Old Elijah & The Sorry Sorry Sun - Live from The Living Room

Zero Sum: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoMT09Tyme0
Zero Sum - Live from The Living Room NYC

Poor Poor Me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsGR-jquCls
Poor, Poor Me - Live from The Living Room

Available now on BandCamp & iTunes!

New Record Released by Handsome Lady Records, Alec Gross – ‘The Sorry Sorry Sun EP’

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10-16-2012  ‘The Sorry Sorry Sun EP’, released on Oct. 16, on Bandcamp, courtesy of Handsome Lady Records, is composed of 5-tracks detailing dark images of the weird and the grotesque, the painful and the raw, the planting and the harvest.

In keeping with Handsome Lady’s preferred practice of live-to-tape recordings, ‘The Sorry Sorry Sun EP’ was recorded live with a single microphone onto a 1973 TEAC reel-to-reel, quarter-inch tape machine. The results of this home-grown effort sound distinctly haunted, the tape machine helping to capture a ghostly set of sparsely strummed songs, graced by Gross’ soft, echoed vocals. Whether it’s the ominously thumped “Zero Sum”, or the mournful “Talking to a Pretty Blonde Girl,” this latest collection of songs is an ethereal meditation on mortality.

This, then, is the “Cinematic Americana” of 2011′s ‘Strip The Lanterns’, cast in black & white. Gone are the Technicolor hues of lushly arranged horns, steel guitars, and thick Louisiana-swamp drums. The sole focus of these songs is to evoke just as much imagery with far more stripped-down instrumentation. The songs on ‘The Sorry Sorry Sun EP’ compose an honest and tear-inducing wistfulness that has always been at the core of great folk songwriting.

Alec Gross’ ‘The Sorry Sorry Sun EP’, is available for download on a “pay what you want” basis here. Each track on the album is accompanied by an intimate live video performance, available for viewing on Handsome Lady Record’s YouTube channel.