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Gifts from Enola

Gifts From Enola is a four-piece instrumental post-rock band from Harrisonburg, Virginia. Their music is characterised with a strong riff-orientated guitar sound along with the soft-loud approach prevalent in some post-rock. They have released two full length albums and a split album. The band is currently recording material for a new album, expected for release sometime in 2010.

History

Gifts From Enola was formed by friends Andrew Barnes and Nate Dominy while in their freshman year in college in late 2005. After starting to perform and record in 2006, they added CJ DeLuca and Jordan Endahl to the lineup and recorded their first album 'Loyal Eyes Betrayed the Mind' which they self-released later that year. Loyal Eyes was commercially well received [1], and led to them being named 'pick of the month' for September 2006 by the prominent music website TheSilentBallet.com [2].
In 2007 the band went on their first U.S tour which increased national awareness of the band.
Gifts From Enola were one of the first band’s to be signed by the influential indie record label The Mylene Sheath. In March 2008 Gifts From Enola released a split album with the post-rock band You.May.Die.In.The.Desert which was titled 'Harmonic Motion Vol. 1' and was released nationwide through Differential records [3]. This was followed by a vinyl re-release of ‘Loyal Eyes Betrayed the Mind’ by The Mylene Sheath on the 3rd June 2008. The re-release was a vinyl exclusive limited to 500 copies: 100 on clear vinyl with black and blue splatter available exclusively from the band at concerts, 150 on clear vinyl with gray haze and clear with white haze available exclusively from The Mylene Sheath webstore, and 250 on gray vinyl [4]. Both of the exclusive versions sold out very quickly and the re-release cemented the band as a stalwart of the emerging post-rock genre. The release of both these albums increased both national and international appreciation of the band [5].
Immediately after releasing ‘Harmonic Motion Vol.1’ the band started writing and recording material for their next album. The band took a break from recording during the summer of 2008 to go on a nationwide tour of the United States [6] before returning to the studio to finish recording in late 2008.
In March 2009 Jud Mason replaced Jordan on drums and the band added Tim Skirven on keyboards[7].
The results of these efforts was released by The Mylene Sheath on June 23, 2009 and was titled ‘From Fathoms’. As with most other Mylene Sheath releases ‘From Fathoms’ was released on limited edition colored vinyl as well as on CD[8]. The album was limited to 500 copies on 2xLP and 2000 on CD. The vinyl colors were 100 in swamp green/translucent ice blue swirl and translucent orange/brown swirl which was available exclusive through the band on their supporting tour, 100 translucent deep blue and translucent forest green available exclusively from The Mylene Sheath webstore and 300 on half swamp green and half opaque navy blue [9]. As with the re-release of 'Loyal Eyes Betrayed the Mind' the exclusive versions sold out very quickly[10]. The album was critically hailed and received positive reviews [11][12]. The release of ‘From Fathoms’ was accompanied with a nine-week nationwide tour during which the band travelled around the country on a school bus converted to run on waste vegetable oil [13].
In late 2009 Tim left and the band returned to having four members.

Present-day

The band is currently in the studio writing and recording material for a new full-length album which is due for release in 2010, along with a supporting tour of the U.S, Europe and Japan[14]. In the meantime they will be playing a series of shows in the USA, including three sold out shows at SXSW, the world renowned independent music festival, one of which will be a label showcase for The Mylene Sheath, and will feature labelmates Junius and Caspian [15] as well as other shows in the area with bands such as If These Trees Could Talk [16].

Discography

'Loyal Eyes Betrayed the Mind' - CD – self-released (2006)
'Harmonic Motion Vol.1' - CD – Differential Records (2008)
Loyal Eyes Betrayed the Mind' - 2xLP – The Mylene Sheath (2008)
'From Fathoms' - 2xLP/CD - The Mylene Sheath (2009)

References

  1. ^ http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=762332
  2. ^ http://www.thesilentballet.com/dnn/Articles/tabid/55/ctl/Details/mid/411/ItemID/46/Default.aspx
  3. ^ http://www.differentialrecords.com/store.html
  4. ^ http://www.mylenesheath.com/pressinginfo.html
  5. ^ http://www.waytooloud.com/2010/02/04/gifts-from-enola-from-fathoms
  6. ^ http://www.thesilentballet.com/dnn/ToursBios/tabid/69/topic/Gifts+From+Enola/Default.aspx
  7. ^ [1]
  8. ^ http://www.mylenesheath.com/about.html
  9. ^ [2]
  10. ^ http://www.mylenesheath.com/catalog.html?Vl=22&Tp=2
  11. ^ http://www.scenepointblank.com/reviews/2432
  12. ^ http://www.waytooloud.com/2010/02/04/gifts-from-enola-from-fathoms/
  13. ^ http://afterthepostrock.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11986&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&hilit=gifts+from+enola
  14. ^ http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=15276117&blogId=523554808
  15. ^ http://sxsw.com/node/4540
  16. ^ [3]
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