Sounds like all the participants really are gung-ho for this Gayngs thing. There's now an official page up on the all-star MN/WI indie project at the Jagjaguwar label site, a commissioned portrait of the participants by Michael Gaughan of Brother and Sister fame (seen above) and even a two-show First Ave release party on the books -- but alas, no sample track yet available -- for this new all-star local project. Jump-started by Ryan Olson (Digitata, Building Better Bombs) along with Solid Gold's Zach Coulter and Adam Hurlburt, the musical collective will see the light of day May 11 when the Bon Iver-affiliated label releases the album, titled "Relayted." Some of the other participants in the recordings were Olson's old Eau Claire buds Justin Vernon (a k a Bon Iver) and Megafaun, his Building Better Bombs cohort P.O.S., his Digitata bandmate Maggie Morrison, Morrison's Lookbook mate Grant Cutler, plus Dessa, Mike Lewis (Happy Apple, Andrew Bird), Channy Moon-Casselle (Roma di Luna), Shon Troth (Solid Gold), Jake Luck and Nick Ryan (Leisure Birds) and several more. That's so many people, even I'm a little offended I wasn't invited to take part.
The Jagjaguwar site describes the album as "drugged-up keyboards and slick bedroom production almost exclusively inspired by 10cc's 'I'm Not In Love.'" I'm sold. As for the release parties, there will be an early all-ages show and then a late 21-and-up show on May 14, and each will purportedly carry a prom theme since that's right in the heart of prom season. Tickets ($15) go on sale Feb. 26.
