October Project

   
Artist: October Project

   Genre(s): 
Rock: Folk
   Rock: Folk-Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Falling Farther In

   Year: 1995   
Tracks: 11


   
 October Project

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 12

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In their abbreviated, three-year career, October Project released two albums stuffed to the seams with soaring, sweeping, aching melodies. Their intense, mournful kill songs ar tinged with the influence of both the alternative pop and new geezerhood movements of the 1990s, merely they seem to have more in vernacular with Broadway musicals than with whatever other pop musicians (although the band has admitted a law of similarity to early Jefferson Airplane recordings). Both of the latter comparisons ar in turgid metre due to the enormous sound of Mary Fahl's powerful atomic number 82 vocals. At a sentence when most female pop up singers unnatural some degree of waifishness, Fahl held naught back up. Her vocalization was the focal point of a sound henpecked by vocal harmonies -- all four of the band's musicians babble out at some spot, and the soaring arrangements have aggravated frequent comparisons to classical choral music. The melodies ar written by Emil Adler, wHO plays pianissimo, keyboards and reed organ. Marina Belica also plays keyboards, and sings duets with Fahl on almost every chorus line. David Sabatino's rhythmic acoustic and galvanising guitars are the primary reason these string-dominated ballads remain in the region of pop-rock music. The fifth band member is not a musician: Adler's married woman, Julie Flanders, wrote to the highest degree of the lyrics. Her speech flux a subtle mysticism with an earthy sensualness, and her stories ar well suited to the vivid longing of the music. One of her songs, "Take Me As I Am," is a dark passion story elysian by Anne Rice's novel Interview With the Vampire. The band began its life history performing in friends' living rooms, only they really constructed the specifics of their distinctive sound in the studio piece in the treat of recording their first (self-titled) album. Released in 1993, the phonograph recording was produced by Peter Collins (wHO has also produced the likewise harmony-driven Indigo Girls). Their second album, Falling Farther In, surfaced on Billboard's Top 200 in 1995. Apparently that wasn't sufficiency for Sony's Epic label, which booted the band off its rolls in 1996 and October Project disbanded shortly thenceforth. Three age later, Adler and Flanders decided to continue on by releasing A Thousand Days under the byname November Project and in front long, Belica invited the two to participate in making her debut album Decembergirl, on which Belica covered "Return To Me", originally plant on October Project's 1993 self titled debut. After the experience of performing on Decembergirl, Adler, Flanders, and Belica chose to reunite as a triple under the name October Project to continue the legacy, which they did with the self-released 2003 EP Different Eyes.