Memoryhouse

Memoryhouse on Sub Pop:  http://www.subpop.com/artists/memoryhouse 

The Years

Quiet America

Memoryhouse - Quiet America

Modern|Normal

Memoryhouse - Modern Normal

Memoryhouse on Sub Pop: http://www.subpop.com/artists/memoryhouse

The Slideshow Effect

The Kids Were Wrong

Memoryhouse - The Kids Were Wrong

Memoryhouse, "This Will Be Our Year" (The Zombies Cover)

Memoryhouse on Sub Pop http://www.subpop.com/artists/memoryhouse

Walk With Me

Memoryhouse - Walk With Me

http://www.subpop.com/releases/memoryhouse/full_lengths/the_slideshow_effect

Memoryhouse formed some five years ago in the depths of Southern Ontario, Canada, in a mid-size town called Guelph as a collaborative project meant to serve as an artistic outlet for composer Evan Abeele and photographer Denise Nouvion. Evan, a dedicated student of classical music and a pop-music encyclopedist, intended Memoryhouse to be a multimedia art project, pairing his instrumental compositions with Denise’s photographs and short films. Testing ways to blur the boundaries between genres, to weave a synthesis of music and photography, they experimented with themes, lyrics and multiple layers of instrumentation. Nouvion’s soft, ethereal voice anchored the frozen textures of Abeeleâ€™s compositions with frank sentimentality—a unique approach towards humanizing the electro-pop compositions they were creating. The results, at once timeless and new, were impressive and in September 2011 we at Sub Pop released a fully re-recorded, remixed and re-mastered version of the band’s 2010 self-released, digital-only EP, The Years.

The new album is called The Slideshow Effect and its title speaks to what hasn’t changed for Memoryhouse: their continuing interest in the synthesis of the aural and the visual. It refers to the photographic/cinematic technique of zooming and panning to animate still images, often used in documentary film making to give movement to archival photographs. The 10-track album, produced by Abeele, with assistance from friend, collaborator, and occasional Memoryhouse bassist Barzin Hassani Rad, finds Memoryhouse heading toward a new clarity in composition as well as sound; a more organic direction for artists who are, in their own words, transitioning from a “bedroom recording project” into a fully realized band. Nouvion’s voice has never been more present than on the new album, which finds her stepping away from Memoryhouse’s past reverbed sound in favor of a more upfront, and intimate vocal approach. They half-seriously refer to their new sound as “Taylor Swift with Built to Spill as her backing band.” However The Slideshow Effect might be described, we fully-seriously love it.

Sub Pop's 5th Terminal Sales Sampler as released Record Store Day, April 21st, 2012.
 
Mixed Nuts includes the following artists, as found on subpop.com 

1. Shearwater - "You as You Were (Demo Version)" http://www.subpop.com/artists/shearwater
2. Memoryhouse - "Walk With Me"  
http://www.subpop.com/artists/memoryhouse
3. feedtime - "rock n roll"  
http://www.subpop.com/artists/feedtime
4. Spoek Mathambo - "Kites"  
http://www.subpop.com/artists/spoek_mathambo
5. THEESatisfaction - "QueenS"  
http://www.subpop.com/artists/theesatisfaction
6. Poor Moon - "People in Her Mind"  
http://www.subpop.com/artists/poor_moon
7. Retribution Gospel Choir - "The Stone (Revolution!)"  
http://www.subpop.com/artists/retribution_gospel_choir
8. Shabazz Palaces - "bop hard" (from the Live at KEXP 12" EP) -  
9. Father John Misty - "Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings"  
10. Beach House - "Myth"  
11. King Tuff - "Bad Thing"  
12. Jaill - "Waste a Lot of Things"  
13. Beachwood Sparks - "Forget the Song"  
14. Debo Band - "Asha Gedawo"  
15. Husky - "History's Door"  
16. Niki & The Dove - "DJ, Ease My Mind"  



From 'The Years EP' (2010)

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Memoryhouse

Mihaela Trifan