Mail the Horse, Soft Eyes, Rick Rude, and Footings

Description

The story begins years prior to Mail the Horse, when a group of musicians and artists gathered weekly in a lofted woodshed or cold­water kitchen in coastal New Hampshire to share their work and collectively scratch some itch none of them could reach on his own. In this setting, longtime songwriting partners Michael Hesslein & Michael “Donny” Amidon and rhythm section Brendan Smith & William Lawrence discovered they shared a common aesthetic, and bonded over a love for timeless rock & roll, the short-­fiction of Raymond Carver, and skewed, harrowing outsider folk music.

ABOUT SOFT EYES:
 
Soft Eyes was formed in the winter of 2012 as the recording project of MMOSS 12 string guitarist Lukas Goudreault.  Without intention of performing live renditions of his brand of experimental bedroom pop he soon found himself jamming with housemate Rachel Neveu, organ and flute player of MMOSS.  After two cassette releases on GNAR tapes (LA) and eyevybe (Chicago) they've been touring as 4 piece sharing their laid-back, psyched-out, jams.  They are located rurally, near Portsmouth New Hampshire.
 
 
ABOUT RICK RUDE:
 
Out of speakers came noise and out of noise came RICK RUDE. A four-membered creature whose tattered robe, four-string guitar, and sand-filled shoes are surrounded by a haze of sweet smoke and empty beer cans, thrashes about with a charismatic enthusiasm matched only by its lethargic demeanor, speaking fluently in the cryptic languages of dreams, love, and ennui. It inhabits a dark cave on the mountainside of truth, carefully furnished with dismantled electronics, books on meditation, and warped records of Guided By Voices, Built to Spill, and Cheap Trick. A nocturnal creature, Rick Rude feasts on mystical fungi, boredom, mushy guitar riffs, and the delicacy of the human soul.
 
ABOUT FOOTINGS:
 
Footings is the newest vehicle for the songs of Eric Gagne (Redwing Blackbird, Passerine, Death to Tyrants, Dweller on the Threshold). Now joined by Bunny's a Swine's Dustin Ashley Cote on drums, and Elisabeth Fuchsia on viola, Footings sound falls somewhere between the Dirty Three and Smog.