First review of our new Album - Contains 2 tracks. Please opine.

chris818 · #1 03-26-2011, 04:46 PM

Hey guys, my band The Venus Illuminato just finished our second album - a 4 song EP. Anyhow, would love to hear your feedback on the two tracks that were reviewed.

Click here: The Mad Notes: The Venus Illuminato

Thanks,
Chris

chris818 · #2 03-27-2011, 02:24 AM

Thoughts? Anybody? Is this the right forum?

Zitch · #3 03-27-2011, 02:37 AM

wow! Music like this make me want to ditch my current music collection and start over. Freaking amazing! Count on my benjamins for sure.

Zitch · #4 03-27-2011, 05:32 AM

Downloaded the EP from Digmusic, tracks 3&4 are the best, slings and arrows being my favorite. Wasn't crazy about Sea of Cortez, just never really felt the groove on it, but the rest was awesome, you guys should draw some interest with this one.

chris818 · #5 03-27-2011, 02:15 PM

Thanks for your input and honesty. Glad you dig some of the tracks.

We toured from LA to Austin TX...made some stops in Las Cruces, NM (played a radio show there) and stopped in El Paso, TX (great audience reception there), then continued on to Austin to play a couple shows at SXSW...so much fun. It was great to get out of Los Angeles and finally play for some people who appreciate bands. LA is tough cause there's alot of excellent bands so people get kinda spoiled. I wanna get back on the road so badly.

Mike M. · #6 03-27-2011, 02:52 PM

Just listened to "Civil War Ballad." Wow!!! When it first started I thought it was reminicent of John Mellencamps "Lonesome Jubilee" album (one of my all tiime fav's) but it quickly turned into your bands own thing. Excellant song, great playing and the tones from all are really good.

I am going to listen to more later tonight, I promise. But it's a nice day, I don't get outside enough due to working nights (got today off) so I'm going to head back out.

Great music!!

Kyle Olin · #7 03-27-2011, 03:09 PM

Deadly! You guys can shred and groove! Really cool sound!

chris818 · #8 04-01-2011, 12:40 AM

Thanks for taking the time to listen and respond. I appreciate the feedback.

saysiadog · #9 04-01-2011, 05:36 AM

I hope you don't mind that I just posted "Civil War Ballad" on my facebook page. Incredible song!! Thank you!

chris818 · #10 04-01-2011, 08:59 AM

Ha. Don't mind at all. Glad you dig it.

Dbass10 · #11 04-01-2011, 09:41 AM

Of the two songs that I heard I definitely liked Civil War Ballad better. For me is was very reminiscent of some Jeff Buckley. Nice Job!

chris818 · #12 04-02-2011, 12:54 PM

Cool, yeah you might hear some Jeff Buckley in there...our singer's definietly influenced by his style. Thanks for gving a listen.

zeroncali · #13 04-02-2011, 04:14 PM

Very cool! I love listening to bands that mix interesting genres. For example a couple of my favorite bands are Gogol Bordello and Diablo Swing Orchestra. Civil War Ballad kinda sounds like Gogol Bordello gone dark (its a good thing lol)

chris818 · #14 04-02-2011, 10:15 PM

Cool.

Wish you guys were in LA...we have a show at Silverlake Lounge on Wednesday.

Yeah, we mix it up quite a bit. We're a five piece band - singer, guitar, bass, violin and drums but in the recent months, we've added a percussionist and a tamborine player (she's really good) and sexy too. The addition of the two has really filled out the sound of our songs...awesome rhythms. Our live shows are getting alot more interesing and full sounding...theres a lot going on...which is cool.

You can hear older tracks here: http://www.myspace.com/venusilluminato and you can see that what we're doing now, is quite different. We still play these older tunes but they way rocked up now...in a good way.

Thanks to who've listened.