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Updated Thursday, June 5th
Whew. It's called "The Moon", and will be released late August / early September as the debut album from Elkhart - which is what we've decided to christen ourselves moving forward. Jarad, Mike, and I have been playing together for about 2 years now - with Sam on board for the past 8 months or so - and this thing we have going has progressed beyond the little Travis Hopper band (which, truthfully, always made me really uncomfortable. "What's your band called?" "Travis Hopper." "Nice - does anyone besides your ego like that name?" "No.") There may be some additional parts added down the road, but for now, the four of us are Elkhart. As for "The Moon" - we recorded with Salim Nourallah at his Pleasantry Lane Studio, tracking drums, bass, and guitar live for the entire record in three 4-hour sessions at the end of December. In January and February we did guitar and keys overdubs, and in April, we cut vocals. In March we did a whole lot of nothing. The record was mixed in May, and is now awaiting its trips to be mastered and pressed. The sounds you'll hear were - by and large - created by the four of us, but we did enlist the help of a few people that made it (infinitely) better. Eric Pulido (Midlake) and Kevin Minihan (Eastwood) each provided celestial backing vocals. It may be hard to discern their voices since they sound like a cross between a gothic choir and angels, but it's them. And Salim - as usual - lent his tasty harmonies and skills on the keys. Anyways - there will be much more to come throughout the summer, I'm sure - but we wanted to give you a little update since it's been pretty silent around these parts for awhile. Moving forward, you'll find our updates on www.myspace.com/elkhartband (until we get a proper website up and running). Come check it out, be our friend, and have some good, clean interweb fun. We'll have some shows this summer, and definitely a good run of them in the fall. And if you'd like to book us for a show, just contact us through our MySpace. We're always up for playing places other than the same few, loud, smokey bars and places that we go to drink to much and make a bunch of bad decisions. So, that's all we've got for now. In the meantime, have a kick ass summer...and, you know, whatever else.
Elkhart
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