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the Nabokov Project the Nabokov Project 
Location:Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Website: www.theNabokovProject.com Artist Description: Born of an eclectic heart and spirit of classical music and garage guitar, and molded by contempt for “pop” and all things overly contrived and commodified, the Nabokov Project attempts to meld sounds as if painting rather than simply “composing.” Although the goal of these songs is not to move the listener to a vocal or lyrical “hook” that is then stuck in their head in a less than pleasurable repetition of notes and words, this in no way signifies that you won’t walk around all day with the whispers of these pieces in your head… We believe that there is a deeper pleasure just beyond the accessibility of “pop,” which doesn’t abandon pop but doesn’t relegate the attempt at musical “art” to the background in the name of reaching the largest mainstream audience possible. Music is something of the “people” and for the “people” and when it is marketed (which is inevitable at this stage of capitalism), often we loose more than we gain. the Nabokov Project is about returning to that bareness, the essential that is lost in our progress into the post-al world where music matters only in that it can be sold and profited on. Band members: m. w. gargo: voice, guitar, bass, drum stuff, keys, violin, computer...Thea Morton: cello on "Japanese Pop"...Former project members: Ted Leslie, Dave Pollock, Josh Land, B. Marcks Instruments: acoustic guitar, weird guitar, bass, synth, drums, cello, violin, vocals, drum machine Music Style: Experimental, Post-Rock/Pop, Folk Alternative with a touch of noir Influences: Radiohead, Jean-Luc Godard, Marxian Theory, folk, post-punk, post-rock, experimental, rave, goth, guitar pop, hardcore, 'classic' rock, you know like...Gang of Four, Tori Amos, Bob Mould, Built to Spill, Modest Mouse, U2, Sunny Day Real Estate, Sibelius, Shiner, the Buddyrevelles, Pavement, Cursive, Brahms, Engine 88, the Velvet Underground, Portishead, Good Riddance, Jawbreaker, Dvorak, Tanner, Beck, Elliott Smith, Bach, Miles Davis, Silver Scooter, Salt, Thelonius Monk, Bruch, Crayonblack, Bloch, David Gray, Moby, Chopin, the Cure, the Cranes, Stravinsky, Massive Attack, John Coltrane, Fugazi, the Smiths, Tchaikovsky, Bob Dylan, Dj Shadow, the Beatles, Tricky, David Lynch, Simon & Garfunkel, Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Sarah Dougher, bad electronic, Karl Marx, Bartok, Henri Dutilleux, Ingmar Bergman Similar Artists: Radiohead, Sarah Dougher, Joan of Arc, Neil Young, the Cure, R.E.M., the Smiths, Bob Dylan, David Gray, John Lennon, Pj Harvey, the Magnetic Fields, Belle & Sebastian, Elliott Smith, Cat Stevens History: Formed in the shadows of a Midwestern university in the mid nineties, the Nabokov Project has no set membership or contributors. Its most recent incarnation has included the membership of Dave Pollock (spoken-word vocals), Ted Leslie (percussion), Thea Morton (cello, guitar, and keys), and m. w. gargo (vocals, guitar, computer, and keys). Many of the songs on/in these pages were part of this collaboration (even though they were all written by m. w. gargo). Ted Leslie, however, after the start of this collaboration developed brain cancer and has since died. His illness and death put this version of the band on hold permanently. With the graduation of m. w. gargo, it has moved East and, as Finnegan, begins again in Pittsburgh, Pa. Our demo effort, "Effete Coquette," was dreamed and recorded over the past three years in the living room and closet of an upstairs apartment in Eau Claire, WI and in a one room hole in the north part of the Oakland neighborhood in Pittsburgh, PA. |
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