yearlongday

the five-year anniversary of yearlonday’s founding has come and gone. i thank each of you for your support and enthusiasm over the past half-decade. it’s been our pleasure & privilege playing in front of & alongside you, from our first humble performances in suburban coffee shops & bakeries, to our highest-profile metropolitan bookings. while some were on the same voyage as yearlongday, others passed by, like ships in the night. it means much to us that, at each turn of our journey, you were there to believe in and encourage us.

a lot has happened over the past year. we ‘retired from stage’, accepting no unsolicited bookings. although this gave us more time to craft our studio sound & develop our next album, it also left yearlongday as less of a multi-member group, and more of a duo. i also ‘restored’ & released the back catalogue of 3 pre-yearlongday demo-albums written & recorded between 2000-2005. this summer, i produced yearlongdecade: the best of jonathan t marlowe & yearlongday in advance of an documentography in the works.

as a rolling stone gathers no moss, it’s time we turn another corner, and leave behind yearlongday. this means that the music i am writing & recording now, and in the months to come, falls under a new/different category… maybe as ‘jonathan t marlowe’, maybe not. only time will tell how long-term this move will be, but for those of you who really enjoyed the earworm-melodies and boy-meets-girl harmonies, rest assured there are still more on the horizon. not only will leah l’orange be heard on the next (nearly finished) jonathan t marlowe album, she’s already agreed to record another yearlongday studio album as well.

until then, you can always stay updated by following yearlongday on facebook, myspace, reverbnation, ourstage, last-fm, or www.yearlongday.com.

love on ya!

,.. jonathan t marlowe