"Brad and Ryan started making tapes in their Iowa dorm rooms in 1996. They convinced Jessie to put viola parts on the tapes starting in 1998 or so. A little while after that, the sounds from Cory's room were just too much and he started putting his keyboard bits on the tapes. Somewhere in there the live shows began. The first ones were either very weird or very small performances in art galleries and coffeeshops. In 2000, the shows moved into the rock clubs. Jessie still played on tapes but mostly lived in Boulder. Kevin and Grant and Powell and Peter all played in the rhythm section for a time until Phil started playing drums and Steve started playing bass. That was the lineup for about 4 years.
"The band made an album called "My Ice-Fingered Ghost" in Chicago in 2003. It came out in 2004 on Future Appletree Records. They toured the midwest a couple of times and played with bands like Outrageous Cherry, The Frogs, The High Strung, Menomena, The Rosebuds, and Quasi.
"The band holed up in a house in Waterloo, Iowa with a bunch of recording gear in the hopes of recording their second album, but it never really panned out. In 2006, Brad and Ryan moved to Chapel Hill, North Carolina. A while later, Cory moved to Saxapahaw, which isn't terribly far away. The three of them resumed playing, this time with a laptop, looper, and hand percussion as the rhythm section. Jessie was living in Baltimore by this point, which though not close isn't too bad for a weekend trip, so she said she'd start to play her viola parts in the band again. A is Jump is currently writing, recording, and rehearsing new and old material."
- from their entry on the Secret History of the Cedar Valley website
Credits:
Casey Averill
Brad Brandhorst
Ryan Creery
Cory Hamilton
Mary Jessica McGee
Philip Sterk
Recorded April 2006 - July 2014 in Chapel Hill, Durham, Hillsborough, and Saxapahaw, NC.
Engineered and Produced by A is Jump for The Hate Salon.
Mixed by Chris Wimberley and Brad Brandhorst at Nightsound Studios in Carrboro, NC.
Mix Assistants: Mark Oglesby, Meghan Puryear, Adrianna Villa, and Geneva Walata.
Mastered By Carl Saff
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| From their Facebook page: "photo by Elaine, used without permission." |
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/A-is-Jump-124240155806/
Sump Pump Records:
http://sumppumprecords.com/distro/io88s18j0o4c7yyw71vpb50b56euu3
Bandcamp:
https://sumppumprecords.bandcamp.com/album/weird-nostalgia
https://sumppumprecords.bandcamp.com/album/my-ice-fingered-ghost-2
To download the whole podcast, right click on the link below and hit "Save as...":
https://archive.org/download/IowaMusicShowcaseEpisode61/Iowa%20Music%20Showcase%20-%20Episode%2061_.mp3
Labels: 2010s, 2015, A is Jump (band), Brad Brandhorst, Chapel Hill (North Carolina), cloud rock, Cory Hamilton, Crazy Days (song), Ep 061, rock music, Ryan Creery, Sump Pump Records, Waterloo/Cedar Falls area
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