Summer/Fall Almanac
If you didn't get to see one of the Titus Andronicus shows featuring the Jah Hills Mini Orchestra you missed something special. We'll have some audio proof available for you eventually but for now we hope you enjoy some photos from the tour.
We'd be fools not to squeeze some short bouts of touring into our favorite season. Two long weekends in September and October culminating with a night-before-Halloween party/show in Boston. We'll also solve several mail fraud cases & teach a curmudgeonly teen how to rekindle her school spirit.
Ryan is asking for bands and musicians to send him recordings of songs without any vocals for an experiment in songwriting/overdubs. He'll make up a melody, lyrics, and record vocals on top of the track. Submitters need to either own the copyright or have not copyrighted the song at all. A free downloadable album is the planned endgame. Email MP3s to band@hallelujahthehills.com.
And finally, Hallelujah The Hills original artwork and more is now available for sale on Etsy.
Our Summer Vacation
When [Titus Andronicus] returns from Europe to tour North America in June, they'll expand into an eight-piece, complete with cello, keyboards, and horn players borrowed from tour openers Hallelujah the Hills. Considering that they already did a pretty amazing job conveying the heft and majesty of The Monitor onstage as a quintet, this should be pretty awesome.
Do I Really Feel The Way I Feel?
We're back from tour, we're alive, and we now have a place to put all that leftover hatred from adolescence (Texas). You can dig through the band's Twitter and Facebook pages for photos and play-by-plays but some highlights off the top of our heads go like so: being unexpectedly blown away by Drink Up Buttercup and The Wooden Birds, rigging a college lecture hall to function as a rock club, Thax Douglas showing up in Austin to write and read HtH #2, Tim Armstrong (from Rancid) grabbing our first album at the Los Angeles show, meteor watching in Charlottesville, VA, and inviting Patrick Stickles up to sing with us in Manhattan and hearing someone in the audience yell “this isn't happening!”
Every Number Has A Potency
Friends, Enemies, Barristers, & Solicitors:
The 2nd full length album from Hallelujah The Hills is hitting the street on September 22nd courtesy of all the hard working mavens at Misra Records. It's called Colonial Drones and in the time building up to its release we'll be telling you more about these specialized drones with some informational podcasts, music videos, and a few door to door knock-and-talks. The album is available for a pre-order super low price from Misra.
You can expect a fall national tour, you can expect us to dispense more information about future projects in a cryptic yet charming way, but you can't expect everything to remain the same. Or as a certain Irishmen once wrote, “Here in Moicane we flop on the seamy side, but up n'ent, prospector, you sprout all your worth and you woof your wings, so if you want to be Phoenixed, come and be parked.”
We have just finished a delicious meal.
Of course, by “finished” we mean “finished recording”; there's still mixing and mastering and pressing and so on. But the sounds have been captured! The end is in sight!
