Very - Darker By Light

Beauty/Beast is the first album from Very, lovechild of Brian Cleary. Cleary also plays keys for Los Angeles mainstay, Radar Brothers (Merge) and singer/songwriter for a new band, Strange Parade (strangeparade1.bandcamp.com). Brian formerly played keyboards in The Movies throughout the 00's and on rare occasions has performed in Boston and Los Angeles as Very since the mid 90's.

The album was recorded live in a home studio using a Zoom hand held recorder with some post-editing, mixing and reverberation done on a computer. The idea was to capture as much kinetic/live energy as possible before packaging it all into a sonic theme.

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The concept of Beauty/Beast was germinated when the first Very recording was made on New Years night, 1984. Cleary had just read an interview of Jeffrey Lee Pierce (Gun Club) discussing theology. He'd also recently read an essay on Cocteau's "Beauty and the Beast." Somehow the concepts were fused and inspired the first Very recording, "1984."

Cleary re-explores the themes in Beauty/Beast, a glacially-paced, sonic/emotional tug of war, stretched out to a 120 minute trip.

Very - Beauty/Beast

Very - Damage/Repair

Very - Dew/Tendrils

Beauty/Beast is the first album from Very, lovechild of Brian Cleary, keyboarder for Radar Brothers (Merge) and formerly The Movies (Gern Blandsten (US) / Houston Party Records (EU)). Brian also writes & sings for a new L.A.-based band, Strange Parade  (strangeparade1.bandcamp.com). 

Since the mid-90's and on rare occasions, Very has performed live, mostly in Boston and Los Angeles, sharing show and festival stages with Lightning Bolt, Max Tundra, Hopewell, The Vehicle Birth, Bright, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Ross Hamlin and others.   

Beauty/Beast was recorded mostly live in a home studio using a Zoom hand held recorder with some post-editing, effects, and mixing done on a computer. For a few of the pieces, Instead of traditional overdubs, parts of songs were placed under/over other parts and 'composed' in this way. The idea was to capture as much kinetic/live energy as possible before packaging it all into a sonic theme.

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The concept of Beauty/Beast germinated when the first Very recording was made New Years night, 1984. Cleary had just read an interview with Jeffrey Lee Pierce (The Gun Club) discussing theology. He'd also just watched a TV movie, "The Day After" and recently purchased Bill Nelson's "Bette La Belle." These 'dark versus light' themes inspired a first 'Very' recording, "1984" and were re-earthed and re-explored here in Beauty/Beast 
-- a glacially-paced sonic tug of war.


Brian Cleary :: Keyboards, Acoustic Guitar, Effects

Artwork: Jeneleen Floyd
http://someremotesea.tumblr.com/

Very on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/thevery1



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VZW Radio - "Kanye"

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Village Inn Radio - "Parmanini"

Brian Cleary, LA-based musician.  Page features current band, Strange Parade w/former members of The Movies and Radar Brothers. Also featured, Tables & Chairs (instrumental band w//3 members of The Movies) and Very (solo experimental project) Strange Parade's debut album is being finished now (2018).  

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