The Black Dress - Music

Umbrellas Is An Indie Rock Band Fronted By Scott Windsor Of Lyndsay Diaries Fame. The Band Signed To The Militia Group In 2005 Following Windsor's Departure From His Solo Work. Umbrellas Currently Has Two Records Out A Self-Titled Release In 2005 And "Illuminare " Released In 2006. UMBRELLAS’ ILLUMINARE Latin Meaning To Light The Way Or Illustrate. When Scott Windsor And The Timeless Yet Refreshing Band Umbrellas Released Their Debut Self-Titled Record In 2005 They May Not Have Guessed That One Year Later They’d Find Themselves Livening-Up A Drab Abandoned Comedy Club—recording Songs On Giant Stages And In Refrigerators For Their Follow-Up Illuminare. Umbrellas’ Sophomore Militia Group Release Was Recorded In Two Solid Weeks Of Near Fifteen-Hour Recording Sessions Where Scott And His Band’s Musings Were Tested And Brought To Life. When Umbrellas’ Debut Hit The Shelves It Was Recognized As A Dynamic Eager Offering. The Band Toured Heavily And New Ideas Began Swimming Inside Windsor’s Head. Those Ideas Formed Icebergs—and The Only Option Was To Dismantle And Re-Conduct The Near-Avalanche Of Visions Abstractions Melodies And Structures. The Debut Birthed In Decidedly Artistic Collaborative Ways Proved To Be An Even More Cautious Outing Compared To Illuminare. Hanging Blankets Across The Empty Dusty And Evocative Shell Of An Old Comedy Club Scott And His Umbrellas Started Tracking Their New Record Illuminare. They Went Forth In Unsafe Less-Than Secure Scenarios With Nearby ‘06 Tornados In Oklahoma. Scott Recalls “The Old Comedy Club Had An Odd Feel To It. Grossly Low-Lit Strange Hallways Off-Color Backrooms Good For Nothing—right There In The Middle Of Downtown Tulsa—dodging Tornados In The Midst Of Recording. We Constantly Heard Sirens Going Off Went Outside To Piss-Green Skies Sideways Rain And I Thought To Myself ‘maybe They’ll Find These Recordings Someday After We Were All Carried Off.’ One Of The Band Members’ Car Was Stolen During The Recording Process By Homeless People Who Stole It Just To Impress Their Friends. The Van Got Broken Into- We Had A Stolen Hard Drive. But Bad Luck Could Not Stop This Record.” James McAlister Ester Drang Sufjan Stevens Played The Drums Percussion Programming And Added Lively Innovative Ideas Like Sampling Scott’s Voice As The Keyboard Parts For The Song “Again And Again.” On The Song Scott Sings “Where’s The Piano? The Big Big Bass Drum?” Well In That Song The Piano’s Right There In His Vocal Chords—which Were Adamantly Angelically Bared Just As They Are On Illuminare. “Most Of These Songs Only Had One Take On Vocals—80% Of The Record. Every Record Nowadays It Seems You Can Find Some Pretty Blonde Put Auto-Tune On It And Just Go With It.” Scott Modestly Adds “I’m Not The Best Singer But At Least When You See Us Live What You See Is What You Get And I’m Not Lying To Fans.” And It Seems That’s What The General Mood And Stance Of This Record Reality And A Sense For The Organic Raw Forgotten Sentiments. In The Song “Tests On My Heart Windsor Sings Of ‘getting Over The Self ’ Recording In The Aforementioned Refrigerator With Cold Vocal-Shadows And A Vaudevillian Piano Interlude. Illuminare Grapples With Notions Of Solitude Life Death And The Plain Old Blues. Scott Sings Of Realistic Love Infatuation Satisfaction Disappointment Life-Balance The Letting-Go Appeasement Idealism And Grace—all With A Backdrop Of Blustery Fall-Out Tunes With Strange Swirls Of Sound Smatterings Of Echoes And Pulsings Huge Bass Hammerings And Bells To Chime The Gladness In Being Right There Where One’s Supposed To Be. Weathering The Storms And Taking On The Shadows And Memories Of Calmer Times And Warmer Rooms. The Players Chad Copelin Producer Keys Guitar Bass Nathan Price Drums Percussion Eric Arndt Bass Scott Windsor Vocals Guitars Percussion James McAlister Drums Percussion Programming Ryan Lindsey Piano Background Vocals Scott 09 Sep 2006 Taken From Their Website Www.Umbrellasmusic.Com read less