8/2/2010

Oh dearest friends!  Today we launched our IndieGoGo new album campaign!!!As ya’ll know we are just about done making a new album… and we’re broke. Busted. Penniless. Ruined. Literally, we have less than $300 in the bank. The matter came to a head last month when Page’s tooth-whitening addiction was compounded by Claire’s strong urge to complete her Faberge egg collection. And so our money was spent.

We were thrown into a grave melancholy for several weeks. But then we saw you at the farmer’s market last Tuesday and the following thought occurred to us, “Each & every person who likes our music is physically beautiful, highly intelligent, & unusually generous. Surely such angelic beings would want to help us fund our new album.”

And so, we decided to pre-sell our album and thus raise the funds we need for mixing, mastering, replicating, packaging, promotion, publicity, and possibly vinyl.   We hereby invite you to visit our campaign site:

www.indiegogo.com/hopeforagoldensummer

Here, let us tell you about our project. This is the fourth Hope For Agoldensummer album. It is yet untitled. There are 16 songs. Some you may have heard and some are secrets. It will undoubtedly be enclosed in lovely and environmentally ethical packaging, featuring drawings by our own Page Campbell & Deb Davis. We expect to release this album in late Winter or early Spring 2011. We are offering many killer perks in return for your support.

AND TAKE NOTE: CLAIRE CAMPBELL HEREBY PROMISES & GUARANTEES TO MAKE A VIDEO OF HERSELF STANDING ATOP A MOUNTAIN OR IN A RUSHING RIVER BELLOWING OUT THE NAMES OF (& GRATITUDE FOR) EVERY PERSON WHO HELPS US FINISH THIS PROJECT. SHE MIGHT EVEN WEAR A DRESS AND POSSIBLY SOME WATERPROOF MASCARA .

7/12/2010

OOO YEAH!!!  So, it turns out that we have a show this Wednesday, in the middle of the summer, in the middle of recording our new album, in the middle of the work week.  Hurray!!! CALEDONIA LOUNGE (Athens, GA) Wednesday, July 14th Maria Taylor & Andy LeMaster Hope For Agoldensummer Nate Nelson (solo) Doors @ 10pm $7 (21+) $9 (18-20)

May 13, 2010

Page asleep at the drums.

OMG, fools!  We just got invited to play the raddest show this Saturday, May 15th! It is called 26 PROTONS :: Iron Pour 2010.  It is an actual iron pour where everyone shows up, carves a sand mold and then when the metal is ready, it is poured (which involves lots of heat and pretty sparks). Location: Railroad Earth Street: 1467 Oxford Rd NE City/Town: Atlanta, GA $5 admission $10 sand molds (optional) EVENT DETAILS 5:30 Doors open to carve sand molds 7:30 Furnace fired 8:30 First tap of the furnace 9:00 Music and performance begins MUSIC BY: • Rising Appalachia • Hope for a Golden Summer • Ladislaus MORE INFO: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=123261377688839&ref=ts http://www.rre.net/IronPour2010.html

April 25, 2010

We hereby invite all ya’ll to our upcoming show at the 40 WATT in Athens, GA on MAY 7th…

And here’s why:  We will take the stage EARLY at 10pm.  After us, touring act BARBEZ will perform with world-reknowned theremin player, Pamelia Kurstin.  And our hometown americana symphony, Venice Is Sinking, will close out the night.  All this radness for the low, low price of $6. If you’ve never seen a BARBEZ show, prepare to be amazed.  And if you have never heard a professional thereminist, you won’t believe your ears: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamelia_Kurstin

Feb 26, 2010

We are super-psyched to report that our music was used for the entire score to this short film made by Athens, GA’s own Jason Miller & Ben Myers.  Two stand-up gentlemen.  It is a short doc about the slow coffee movement.  mmm coffeeeee…

Feb 25, 2010

Oh, holy radio!  Our song “Threads” is featured on NPR’s All Songs Considered BLOG.  We are rabid NPR fans.  It is the main way we get our news, aside from that subscription to The Week that mom & dad give us every year. Check out the blog here: http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2010/02/its_not_very_often_that.html

Feb 7, 2010

We just got some killer band pics back from Mr. Donahue.  They were all taken in the Donahue Family’s front yard in Asheville during our last tour. Right at this very moment we are mixing down songs for the new studio album.  We just finished two of Page’s songs: “Fix This” and “Be Free”.  Mixing is a very tedious process, as most of you know.  Lots of downtime for writing this and taking bad pictures. See…..?

Claire is just passing her dang time...

Suny hace el tercer mixto.

Jan 12, 2010

Kickin it at Woodruff Arts Center.

Howdy Sweet-cheeks! Hope For Agoldensummer is hereby requesting your assistance! We’re touring all over the country in this new year and most especially want to play the NPR showcase at SXSW in Austin, TX this year.  We frickin’ adore NPR!  Won’t you please head on over to the following link and leave a comment about what a loverly addition we’d make to their showcase? http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2010/01/who_should_play_nprs_sxsw_show.html Thank you Thank you Thank you Yours, HFags

Jan 7, 2010

Don't be skeered of her mallets.

Howdy snowflakes! Hope For Agoldensummer is hard at work finishing our 3rd full-length studio album and booking spring tours! This new album has us hopping from studio to studio, all over Athens.  Sometimes we’re at Suny’s house, or Claire’s living room, or Normal Studio, or Chase Park Transduction or The Bakery or out in a field.  We’ve been at it for about 6 months, whenever we have money & time.  All was going well until a fateful power surge that burned out everything on the firewire chain: MacBook Pro, Digi 003, hard drive.  We’re thankin’ our lucky stars we’d backed up all our sessions the previous week. Yikes.  Since then we’ve been begging & borrowing & renting gear and studio space.  Or just making do at Claire’s house, running xlr cables from her tiny bedroom, past the bathroom and into the music room… and pausing when big trucks or airplanes rumble near.

A book under Claire's feet so we can all hear the beat!

Today we worked with the cutest Emily Armond getting her high but mighty piccolo flute sounds.  Yesterday we recorded the crazy-talented Heather McIntosh & Thayer Sarrano, on cello & piano, respectively.  The previous day we got some fantastical drumming from Mr. Jim Wilson.  And our cousin, Justin Gilmore, came in this past Sunday to lay down some killer trumpet parts.  In the next few weeks we’ll have the soul choir in for vocal harmonies, and get Amanda Kapasouz in for some fiddlin’. Aside from the loss of all our recording gear, sigh, things have been going fairly well.  Oh, except this one time at the bakery when my singing saw fell and hit me in the foorhead and made me bleed. So, so, so lame.

Claire stopping the bleeding at The Bakery.

Below are some pics of the magical reality of the art of the contemporary recording…

Suny keeps his machines in a closet and has to climb in to get at 'em. Those are his legs/feet hanging out.

Page cuts drums sitting on a couch, blockaded by gear.

Suny looking spiffy as usual.

Cuttin' a glock track.