Phantom Lease
Phantom Lease, Jacob Trombetta and Brenden Vencel, met while working on algorithms to inspect beer cans. Brenden wanted to make ska, Jacob wanted to make new age music, so they combined forces to make neither. Mary Riley joined the band for the upcoming album Goldline my Coffin, in order to scream about the things that make a middle aged suburban woman angry.
Deco Danger, released on June 30, 2023, is the third album by Phantom Lease. This collection of music was exclusively composed for an arcade game that had a fleeting existence of just one week. This ephemeral gem was showcased at an aluminum can exhibition in 2019.
Memories of Happier and Less Complicated Times explores the world of fish and chips. It was released on June 30, 2022, the fiftieth anniversary of the final Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips restaurant and first anniversary of Arthur Treacher's day in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. The title Memories of Happier and Less Complicated Times is taken from a quote by the owner of the restaurant. Due to the cultural impact of the album, Arthur Treacher's was able to open a second location in Ohio.
The album Home chronicles two evangelical grifters who conned Phantom Lease into writing music for their line of promotional videos about healthy eating. The album was governed by only two rules: songs should be a minute long and include a nylon string guitar part. Home was released on November 19, 2021.
GOODMORNING VALENTINE
It was winter. Six Parts Seven had returned to Ohio after touring out to Washington State, to record "Casually Smashed to Pieces."
There was down time between the recording and the actual release of that album in January 2007, and we were rehearsing, playing local shows, and collaborating, with most of us involved in other projects to keep the momentum going (Mike w/ Talons, Al w/ Beaten Awake), but the one we all came together over was recording an album with Joey Beltram, the songwriter behind Goodmorning Valentine, a local band we shared players with, a band we deeply admired.
The music on Kissing Distance came together over two weekend days. There were a lot of people around; 6P7 and GMV players coming and going from the Saint Ledger House. There were handles of whiskey, there was weed, stacks of Marlboro Reds for the ones still dragging butts. We all went 'dancing' at Thursday's, in Akron, Ohio, on Saturday night. Not sure how we were productive the following day. Chalk that one up to relative youth. Over those two days, songs were cut without any prior rehearsal time. None of us remember how the idea came up. In hindsight, it seems inevitable.
"Drunk from the Bottle," is the first of the one-take/one mic songs: an SM58 used for both vocal and guitar, making it impossible to over-think anything: You got the version, or you did not, that simple.
HORSES 4K
Playing cowboy screensavers from the Pentium 2 era.
Paninoteca will be closed this week! But The Living Room and Bar will be open for early cocktails!
Doors: 7:00PM / Showtime: 7:30PM