NCM East has produced 21 predominantly new jazz records in recent years, many from the New York scene. We are now pleased to announce one of our best releases yet from the smashing duo, RIX GLASSMEYER. While solidly rock, the horns, changes, and space give away its jazz roots.
Tastefully minimal without monotony, 24,200 miles is a collection of powerfully subtle songs about insects, Incas, angels, farmers, human-powered planes, Satan, snowmobiles, and, of course, women. Each track presents a fresh mood, maturely keeping tabs on the duo's vast musical vocabulary.
Although the 13 tracks have a common thread in vocal sound, vivid lyric imagery, and rock backbeats, the approach of each song varies widely, contrasting the familiar power trio sound with ukulele, Moog bass, and horns. These guys owe as much to AL GREEN as to VAN HALEN. The ear-snagging melodies and solid songwriting is built on invented instruments and adventurous recording techniques, somewhere in the territory of TOM WAITS or MITCHELL FROOM. The memorable choruses grab you at first listen, but ten more passes in headphones only raise your interest.
The obsessive team of JANO RIX and MATT GLASSMEYER present the material in a way only possible through excessive hours in a windowless room. MATT GLASSMEYER brings a slew of sounds (guitars, electric bass, ukulele, mandolin, melodica, his own acoustic guitar-turned-drumset invention, samples, and his buzzed saxophone) while JANO RIX lays down a broad range of original drum and keyboard timbres.
Note the artwork design pays tribute to MATT GLASSMEYER'S grandmother, the subject of the tall tale of global circumnavigation on a snowmobile that appears in two tracks of the record.
This release is distributed to stores nationwide by CITY HALL RECORDS, www.cityhall.com.
To receive additional press information or review copies please contact:
Eric Hastings - [email protected]
About Rix Glassmeyer
JANO RIX is an overworked drummer with a jazz piano degree. When not playing with RIX GLASSMEYER, he is in high demand as the drummer with groups like THE GABE DIXON BAND (Warner Brothers) opening up shows for major pop acts like THE DAVE MATTHEWS BAND, MAROON 5, and NORAH JONES. RIX has an unmistakably hard-hitting style as well as a natural and profound approach to analog and digital keyboard playing.
MATT GLASSMEYER, son of a Nashville music veteran, has a bizarre range of experience. He has been an active creator in the New York contemporary jazz and otherwise scene since 1999, playing saxophone, contra-alto clarinet, electric bass, shuitar, and buzzaphone in groups like BIFT, JUSTIN MULLENS' DELPHIAN JAZZ ORCHESTRA, DDYGG, and THE MORPHOLINOS. He has spearheaded unique projects like THE MG MARCHING BAND that played 30 consecutive monthly concerts in the reverberating Broadway-Lafayette subway station in Manhattan. Prior to his New York tenure, Matt spent time on the road and recorded with acts such as ARETHA FRANKLIN and KENNY ROGERS and played sold-out concerts at the Royal Albert Hall with THE MAVERICKS.
About NCM East
NCM EAST is a record company and retailer whose main goals are to provide an outlet for new, original music and to establish the NCM EAST name as a synonym for honest, well-crafted, forward-thinking sounds.
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