JVPITER, by Gabriel Sullivan

JVPITER

by Gabriel Sullivan

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1.	Seven Cataracts 03:47	buy track
2.	Tucson Rose 02:53	buy track
3.	Fall Apart 04:01	buy track
4.	Flower Song 04:15	buy track
5.	The Ghost of Tom Joad 05:36	buy track
6.	If You Came To Me So Softly 03:01	buy track
7.	Hollow Hunter 04:56	buy track
8.	Mr. Flagg 04:12	buy track
9.	Who Are You? 03:20	buy track
10.	Man In The Maze 04:10	buy track

about

Gabriel Sullivan's latest solo album, JVPITER, finds Sullivan stripping away the horns and percussion of his last project, Taraf de Tucson, to bring the focus on the songs themselves.

JVPITER was written over the course of a year in Tucson, Arizona. Through the help of Kickstarter Sullivan was able to fly himself and bassist Thøger T. Lund to the Northwest coast of Denmark to spend one week recording in a secluded farmhouse with the Danish portion of Giant Sand as the backing band. There was no internet and no phone service, the sun was only down for 2 hours a day, animals wandered outside the windows of the studio... this all comes through the musicians performances to provide the foreign sonic landscape of JVPITER.

After spending two years supporting his last release, None Of This Is Mine, with the 10 piece balkan brass meets cumbia ensemble Taraf de Tucson, Sullivan decided it was time to focus his attentions on making songs that could stand on their own. Songs that could be performed with a voice and a guitar and still have the same power as with a band. The album's opening track "Seven Cataracts" is a Hazelwood-esque tune laced with big electric guitars and silky string sections, but through it all the listener's focus remains on Sullivan's voice and the content it delivers. "Hollow Hunter" is a psychedelic and haunting reflection of the artist's producing capabilities as it weaves floating synths with a tribal rhythm section all culminating into a bizarre and otherworldly string melody.

Sullivan currently tours as a solo artist with just him and his guitar, or with backing bands upwards of ten musicians. He performs and collaborates regularly with Tucson staple Howe Gelb. His psychedelic cumbia group Chicha Dust, with fellow Tucson musician Brian Lopez, performs frequently in the Tucson area. Sullivan has produced multiple albums for other artists over the past couple of years. He has even found the time to write, record, and post one song per day in 2014 as part of a project he calls The Crucible. Through all of the projects he has taken on, JVPITER, stands as the most cohesive and explorative collection of songs in his catalog.

JVPITER is available November 25th, 2014 via Sullivan's label Fell City Records.

credits

released November 25, 2014

The Jvpiter Band, aka The DeSoto Caucus:
Nikolaj Heyman - Guitar, Organ, Pedal Steel, Keys
Thøger T. Lund - Bass, Backing Vocals, Guitar, Keys
Anders Pedersen - Guitar, Lap Steel, Keys, Backing Vocals
Peter Dombernowsky - Drums, Percussion

Additional musicians include:
Nick Coventry - Strings, Jon Villa - Trumpet, Nive Nielsen - Vocals

Produced by Gabriel Sullivan
Mixed by Nikolaj Heyman
Recorded by Nikolaj Heyman at Stablesounds on the northwest coast of Denmark
Additional Recording by Jim Waters at Waterworks Recording in Tucson, AZ
Jordan Prather at Commercial Apeal Records in Tucson, AZ

Photography by Jacob Sullivan with assistance from Lauren Russell
Design and layout by Gabriel Sullivan

All songs written by Gabriel Sullivan (Where The Bad Ones Go / ASCAP / administered by Modern Works Publishing)
except: “The Ghost of Tom Joad” by Bruce Springsteen
and “If You Came To Me So Softly” by Sullivan/ Billy Sedlmayr

Thank you: To all of the Kickstarter supporters for making this record possible... What a thrill it was to see it all come to fruition in such a raw manner. To The DeSoto Caucus - some of the most talented, kindest, and creative musicians I have ever played with! To Billy Sed, Brian Flagg, Melissa, my Mom and Dad, the crazy drunk in Vienna .. .. all of you that inspired these songs. Jake Sullivan, Joe Sullivan . .. Howe Gelb - thanks for . .. so, so much. To Jordan Prather and Sarah Stanton for that final push . .. what a selfless act. Brian Lopez, Chicha Dust, Cyril Barrett, Sergio Mendoza, The Jons, Tom Walbank, Thee Verduns (and Gustave), Marianne Dissard, Crystal Radio, Weird Womb, Womb Tomb, Laurent and all the French Cumbia Ambassadors, Jean-Luc Navette, Gerardo & family, Joe Novelli, Esteban, Jim Waters, Craig Schumacher, Nick Coventry, Nive Nielsen . ... thank you all. - GABRIEL SULLIVAN

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