Dayvid McClung + Lisa Highfill contact magic apron @:
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Over the past three years i've had the joy and pleasure to play live with many very talented and encouraging friends who have also been magic aprons.... joanna bajandas, andre paraguassu, lisa highfil, isia cooper, tom homolya, bradley bailey, jeffrey lerner, alan bajandas, and ryan gregory. i am very grateful for the fun times and kindness they have shown me.
Magic Apron__discography:
-Orphan Harmony-New Street Records july/august 2007
JANO ep-currently CDR-unreleased
past moniker:thesoulraydio
discography:
-YOU WEAR SURVIVAL!-august 2005- hoo-poo!records available through contacting us or digging into earthshakingmusic.com
-TIP TOE GLOW-june 2006- hoo-poo!records
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Southeast Perfomer's CD of the Month September 2007
**** -gerald van weis (psyche van het folk radioshow/belgium)
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A BITTERSWEET HARMONY
by Chad Radford
CREATIVE LOAFING
Hiding amid the flickering acoustic glide and the warm male/female croon of Magic Apron's Orphan Harmony lies a wolf in sheep's clothing. Each song unfolds with candle-lit intimacy, painting a picture of a safe and sound 4 a.m. as the last fleeting moments of consciousness slip away. But while the dreamy and love-stricken atmosphere that billows from the opening song "Bells in Our Fingernails" sets the tone for the rest of the album, it does not last. As songs such as "Dahlia" and "Jackknife Swan" sink deeper into comfortable oblivion, the hint of danger swells.
For vocalist/guitarist David McClung, the key to writing these songs was drawing out a sense of solitude in the face of impending collapse. McClung approached Orphan Harmony knowing that two of his closest friends and musical collaborators, vocalist/guitarist Joanna Bajandas and Rhodes synth player Jeffrey Lerner, were leaving Atlanta for an indefinite period. So Orphan Harmony became a celebration of three friends living in the moment before it all came to an end.
Each song is bound by alluring harmonies that build around the subtle inflections of Bajandas' voice and are countered by mesmerizing bouts of noise and wide-eyed drones that wash over songs such as "Eleanor" and "Love Ocean/Chord." Every note of every song drips with melancholy; but the sentiment never comes to a point as McClung pushes it down to focus on the time at hand, rather than confront the end.
As such, Orphan Harmony is a bittersweet affair, but is by no means a closed chapter.
under a persimmon moon they are re-enacting a dessert storm battle like d-day with beach umbrellas in the background men slither across the montana skyline at night women and children armed with bags of play box sand and gatorade stand next to rented wind machines anxiously awaiting their cue's 500 yards to the east in a hole dug into the ground a greek man with a mustache and rented suit weeps he cannot afford the remaining payments on the camel
THANK YOU! Your tunes conduct a symphony in my sailing soul boat as it cruises to the tuneage down the atlanta river bank! Lets play some tunes soon. SOON! holla atcha boy. word. --victor victroovious beau
i played at nightlight this weekend, and I went into the bathroom, and I saw MAGIC APRON written on the wall. So i thought about you guys! I hope you're doing well!
