Browse by Artist: VERLAINE, TOM

Artist:	VERLAINE, TOM
Title:	Warm and Cool
Label:	THRILL JOCKEY
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	THR 162CD

"Warm and Cool was recorded with the help of Television band-mates Fred Smith and Billy Ficca (also of Verlaine's earlier band, Neon Boys), as well as Jay Dee Daugherty (The Church) and Patrick A. Derivaz, who helped engineer Television's 1992 self-titled album. Verlaine and his collaborators created the album mostly by improvisation and recorded the tracks with a minimum of rehearsal. Unlike most of Verlaine's work, Warm and Cool is entirely instrumental, with guitars often filling the traditional role of a voice in the melody. The album was initially released in 1992 in the wake of a short-lived Television reunion and the rise of Nirvana into a musical environment that clearly favored loud guitars and walls of sound. Warm and Cool's sparse sound scapes represent a clear rebellion from that. Now in 2005, Warm and Cool is being reissued in the midst of another Television reunion."

Artist:	VERLAINE, TOM
Title:	Songs and Other Things
Label:	THRILL JOCKEY
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	THR 173CD

"Thrill Jockey's simultaneous release of Around and Songs and Other Things will be the first new releases by Tom Verlaine since Warm and Cool in 1992. Songs and Other Things is Tom Verlaine's first vocal release since The Wonder in 1990. The return of his cool vibrato weaving in and out of his guitar lines is exciting. For this new vocal release, Verlaine recorded with a variety of friends including Television bassist Fred Smith. He wrote all the songs, played all the guitars and even spent some time on bass."

Artist:	VERLAINE, TOM
Title:	Around
Label:	THRILL JOCKEY
Format:	CD
Price:	$13.50
Catalog #:	THR 174CD

"Around continues where Warm and Cool left off, using many of the same musicians. Former Neon Boy Billy Ficca's drumming shares the spotlight with Verlaine's guitar, whose varied tones move effortlessly from melody to rhythm and are at once panoramic, pastoral and atmospheric. The influence of Verlaine's love of jazz saxophone is manifested in sustained single-note melodies and his expert finesse is rousing. Around is a largely improvised record. 'The recording style is: get the mics set and start recording,' Verlaine says, 'edit the mistakes and erase the stuff you don't like.' This freewheeling style allows the raw talents of Verlaine, Ficca and Derivaz to shine through, while showcasing the cohesion of a trio that's been playing together for years. Verlaine calls them 'intuitive musicians.'"

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