Jennifer Gentle - Sacramento Session / 5 Of 3 LP
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ASP03 - A Silent Place 2006
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Portland/Oregon-Sacramento/California: 580 miles. One of the longest trip for the first Jennifer Gentle North American tour. They play at the Academy of Fools, a sort of garage converted as an Art Gallery: a big open space, low ceiling, completely empty, walls without anything, no stage, no audio system, just a microphone. It seams the beginning of a bad night, on the contrary due to the wonderful view and the beautiful Californian Sun, or just for themselves and their fans, the Jennifer Gentle decided to play anyway; not their usual repertory to much noisy but just an improvisation made by their instinct. The result was a hypno jam session, relaxed, honeiric. The day after Jennifer Gentle play at the Davis KDVS radio, where they propose and records the same jam of the previous night, which became the “Sacramento Session”. Back to home, working on Marco’s improvisations with different sounds, manipulated, mixed and remixed, they found the specular image from a distorted mirror of the “Sacramento Session”: “5 of 3” is the perfect B side, the balance and overturn of that Californian night. We would like also to remark you that "Sacramento Session / 5 of 3" is not the Jennifer Gentle new studio album, but is instead a combo of a jam session together with a studio manipulation. Packaging in a de-luxe and elegant fold-out cover. The vinyl is coloured as solid red; the first 100 copies as black vinyl.
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Biography: Jennifer Gentle comes from Padova, a foggy city in Northern Italy, not so far from Venice. She was born in early 2000 and her short life has been both quiet and tumultuous, at the same time. Actually, Jennifer Gentle is not a girl, but a band formed by two guys: Marco Fasolo, who sings and plays guitar, and Alessio Gastaldello, thinking drummer. Two self-releases cd were released soon. Jennifer Gentle started immediately cooking their own brand of psychedelia (Syd Barrett, 13th Floor Elevators) – an almost impossible-to-describe melting pot of whacked experimentation, deep fried eccentricity and acoustic beauty..., an affair of colorful, hallucinated phantasmagoria bubbling with ideas and unpredictable noises... Radio stations in New York, Paris and Belgrade played them. The band slowly started building a kind of fan-base, especially in the US and Great Britain, where their wigged-out musical offerings found more sympathetic audiences and won appreciation by fellow musicians like Oneida, Acid Mothers Temple, Sun City Girls and Chris Robinson from the Black Crowes (strange, but true). They toured and recorded with Acid Mothers Temple’s Kawabata Makoto and cut a session at WFMU. When Nicola left the band, Paolo Mioni (on bass & guitar) and Liviano Mos (keyboards) stepped in to fill out the Jennifer Gentle live show. In February 2004 Jennifer Gentle became the first Italian band ever to sign with Sub Pop Records. Suddenly, they became semi-popular in their own neighborhood. Valende was the third Jennifer Gentle studio album. Marco and Alessio played all the instruments and sang all the vocals. As usual, they tried new instruments and new solutions: toy glockenspiel, bowed guitars, old Bontempi air organs, plastic flutes, chains and clocks pop up here and there (and a deflating helium balloon makes for a good solo in “I do dream you!”).