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Directly from the proverbial horse’s mouth, and by horse I mean JACK!

“Okay, so here’s how this is going to work.

The Wilderness is expected to be rolling out in August or September.  A pre-order price of $10.00 gets you:

1. A compact disc of the album (remember those things?  shiny platters of digitally coded music?)
2. A selection in the weeks before the album’s release of downloadable practice sessions, in which we roll through the new tunes as well as some old favorites.
3. Inclusion on a special e-mail list with which we give you news on the album’s development.
4. Last but not least, your very own shortwavedahlia.org e-mail address!  Now your spam has somewhere new to go!

PayPal your money over to shortwavedahlia@yahoo.com OR to send it by snail mail, contact Jack at jack@shortwavedahlia.org for the mailing address.
So what do you say?  Ready for the next phase of Shortwave Dahlia?”

From the mouth of Jack….

Shortwave Dahlia has another gig coming up!
Saturday, July 5th
The P&H Cafe
1532 Madison Ave
Memphis, TN 38104

Shortwave Dahlia
with our friends
J.D. Reager & the Cold-Blooded Three (http://www.myspace.com/jdreager)
~and~
The Original Cyndi (http://www.myspace.com/theoriginalcyndi)
$5 and shit goes down at 10:00 PM.

Per Jack!

http://popsballot.memphisflyer.com/

Please do a write-in vote for “Shortwave Dahlia”. It would blow my mind to see us actually get written up as an honorable mention.

So get over there and do the Shorty D write-in!

I had a chance to toss some questions to the band, about the new album and their newest member, and here are their replies!

1: Now that you’re heading into your second full album, has your sound changed or evolved since the last album, Illuminated?

Jack: It’s evolved a lot! The process is much different to the point that it’s almost impossible for me to equate the two. Illuminated was an educational experience for me as much as it was an artistic endeavor. I was learning how to utilize the studio, but I wasn’t really trying to stretch myself as a songwriter so I hear it now and think about things I could have done better. In this process, I can actually say “Why don’t we do this instead?” It’s nice to have people to bounce ideas off of.

Mark: Because everyone in the group has the chance to contribute to the songwriting process, the sound cannot help but have changed as we have added more people. I think that the great thing about this particular group of people is that we all liked the sound of Shortwave Dahlia before we joined. No one is trying to strike off on a tangent, instead it is more a matter of developing what we had as a starting point.

2: You’ve added a fourth person to your band, Dana Liebchen. How has her addition modified the Shortwave Dahlia sound?

Jack: It’s allowed us to do more of the instrumentation live, which has improved things. Also, with Dana on board it’s nice to be able to focus on an instrument at times, personally. I’m no Freddie Mercury.

Ethan: There is definitely a new dynamic working with Dana. We are all impressed by her abilities and proud to include her as one of her own. So far, her influence has been subtle, as I believe she is still trying not to change things too much. But, I also believe that her role will grow the more comfortable she gets working together with us. “Paramour” is so far the most obvious Dana-influenced song, as her voice carries it to a level we could not have without her.

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DJ John Bowles over at One Kind Radio Webradio has “Loose Arrow” on his playlist for this month’s edition of his alternative/Indie radio show.

Click over and take a listen!

He also included a link back to this webpage so “Hello!” to anyone swinging by for a visit! Take a look around to learn more about Shortwave Dahlia and scan back through the blog here to see what the band’s been up to!

Your favorite electronic shoegazing pop quartet from Memphis now has a Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shortwave-Dahlia/9450546977

Be sure and become a fan! The more the merrier…

Love and gourami,
J

The music of Shortwave Dahlia will soon be heard by web-savvy Argentinians (and the rest of the world) on gFM Radio! Feel free to check out this station at http://gfmradio.mesuno.com, or load the following URL into your music player of choice: http://gfmradio.no-ip.org:8000/listen.m3u

As of now, they’ll be adding the Illuminated album and our Arsonist Radio Session to their playlist Friday, but we’ll aim to get them more music very soon!

Love and gourami,
J

I bet many of you are already on this, but what the hell!

Love and gourami,
J

We got together for the first time this year last night. First and foremost, we knew we needed to take some photographs (kinda makes it seem more official that we’re a quartet, plus it was long-needed anyway) so we went outside and, with a flash and the lawn security light to guide us we became immortalized in pixels.

After that, we went inside and pulled up something Ethan had sent over a while back…made ourselves acquainted to it—lots of great variations in the drums and some melodic elements that we instantly endeared to. Threw about a couple extra chord changes and had a good laugh about the chorus…hopefully next week we’ll give it a bit of structure and voila! A new song!

Had a look at the photos as practice concluded, ended up with about five keepers and one really fantastic one of Dana (that I can say with absolute certainty makes her cringe). Fun times…

Love and gourami,
J

Just a reminder, the 2007 EP is still available through the i-Tunes store for download.

Track listing is :

Song for Vara
Automata
Call and Response
Survival
Loose Arrow (Live)
Discontent (Live)

If you never got a chance to get your hands on this EP, and are needing something to tide you over till the new album is finished, take a spin by the i-tunes store and download some high quality mp3s.

You won’t be disappointed.