the Nabokov Project
We were born of an eclectic heart and spirit of classical music folk goth and garage guitar Chopin the Velvet Underground Cobain Dylan Dvorak the Cure and broug
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Lost and Found Lost and Found
song about a city, a girl, a murder, an airport, and a field
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 wont 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 doesnt abandon pop but doesnt 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/artist 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.Have you performed in front of an audience?Yes. Every day.
Your musical influences
Radiohead, Jean-Luc Godard,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, Shiner, the Buddyrevelles, Pavement, Cursive, Engine 88, the Velvet Underground, Portishead, Good Riddance, Jawbreaker, Dvorak, Tanner, Beck, Elliott Smith, Miles Davis, Silver Scooter, Salt, Thelonius Monk, Crayonblack, 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 BergmanAnything else?
Hope you can find a song you like so you can take it home with you under your arm!
Pittsburgh, PA
USA
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4805
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