 Conductor
started as a collection of songs written in the winter of 2003 at house
on the North Carolina coast. Cold winds blowing in from the Atlantic
would often rustle palms and wind chimes on the porches of of empty
beach houses. The steady noise made it a little easier for a string
of break-ins to continue. Baffling local authorities.Although most of the houses were boarded up that winter, a few remained occupied. One of these, lit almost exclusively by candle light in the evening, housed a 4 track recorder, an acoustic guitar, a small city of wine bottles (both full and empty), and Andy Herod. At the end of a 2 year relationship and faced with having to find a new place to live in 6 weeks, the songs began to come out. Loss of love and identity and all that.  Eventually
each night he ended up on the couch watching the only movie that made
sense or mattered, Dark City. Upon each viewing finding new meaning, symbolism
and hope that seemed to apply directly to his own life.Some felt that this period may have gone on a bit long... At the end of the winter several cassette tapes where passed along to band mate Nicole  Gehweiler
as well as friend and producer Alan Weatherhead. A record was soon underway.
Recorded at the Sound of Music studios in Richmond VA, Conductor ended
up a swampy mix of pop and fuzzed-out rock songs. But when it came time
to sequence the record, the band was stumped. Finally one smoky evening
in the studio around 4 am, a story line began to reveal itself in the
music they were hearing. Almost
instantly, the track order fell into place and plans to animate the story
began. Six weird months later came Conductor, a monument to the suicide
of love erected by robots against a wintry sci-fi back drop of dark towers,
moonlit skies and a cast of lost characters. Or perhaps it is just a break-up
record. It is not yet known. What is known is that it's here, and it's
massive. |