Music Black Heart Procession

January 6, 2010 - 11:17 am

BHP

Temporary Residence, Ltd. | There’s a lot of different kinds of music to love in San Diego’s The Black Heart Procession. A little of the Victorian-era, a bit of Voltaire (the musician, not the philosopher); even some of that keyboard could be the soundtrack to a carnival freak show, complete with Lynchian, calliope imagery that brings Merrick himself to mind. There’s a lot of the circus to BHP, too — they’re kind of the musical equivalent of Barnum and Bailey, with five extremely versatile musical stunt artists.

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July 21, 2009 - 3:11 pm

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The Black Heart Procession took root in San Diego in 1997, when Pall Jenkins (vocals, guitars, synths, etc.) and Tobias Nathaniel (piano, guitar, organ, etc.) put their previous band, Three Mile Pilot, on an open-ended hiatus. They are the core members of Black Heart, joined by drummer Joe Plummer (Modest Mouse, the Magic Magicians), bassist Jimmy LaValle (The Album Leaf) and violinist Matt Resovich (The Album Leaf).

The Spell is their fifth full-length album. To make it, the band assembled a new recording studio and then traveled between San Diego and Portland, OR to write and rehearse the material. The album was recorded and produced by The Black Heart Procession in their new studio, SDRL, in San Diego.

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