yearlongday

Posts Tagged ‘leah l’orange’

in 1996, i was introduced to an album that changed both what i listened to & how i listened: eno’s 1975 breakthrough another green world. although this album led me into eno’s later ambient projects, the stand-out track for me was the more teleological composition, “st. elmo’s fire“. this is not to be confused with [...]

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 [...]

maybe ‘final song‘ over-dramatizes our latest recordings, but ‘the last singles released by yearlongday‘ would aptly describe them. “sex savant” and “smoke & mirrors” conclude our 5-year odyssey into the yearlongday project, almost to the very day of inception (10/16/06). they aren’t the last songs leah & i will record, but their release signals the [...]

what a fabulous year 2011 has been so far! let’s reminisce together… january- the original shot-story four years come, four years go is published. it is a narrative companion to my first album, humans, and foreshadows the imminent release of the “expanded edition“. doesn’t make a blip on the radar. february- the announcement is made [...]

recording is going well… slow, but well. john shaugnessy and i have been co-authoring lyrics since autumn 2010, and each day we get closer to completion. eventually, i’d like john to visit my home studio to records vocals, but transitioning from the old set-up to the new system has taken a back seat over the past few [...]

… from around may 2009. we don’t know if the interview was ever published, so we’ll respect the blogger’s anonymity for now. Who is Yearlongday, and whose idea was forming the band? [John] yearlongday is the alternative pop duo of Jonathan T Marlowe (singer/guitarist from United States) and Leah L’Orange (singer/percussionist from Canada). Although I [...]

maybe yearlongday isn’t destined for success. five years ago, things were different. songwriting was an outlet for ideas and emotions. i’d never performed in front of an audience. ’yearlongday’ wasn’t even in my vocabulary. today, songwriting is a contest, performance is a measure of talent, and i can’t seem to make ‘yearlongday’ a household word. i’m starting to [...]

is everyone enjoying our new cd? i hope so… it’s our debut cd, and we put a lotta love into it, but i suppose that goes without saying. there is much i can say about best excuses, but one characteristic of this album separates it from our other recordings: leah l’orange. this is her first [...]