Introducing Kevin Lee Florence

DSC_0021Fluff and Gravy Records is proud to welcome Kevin Lee Florence to the family. A native of Folsom, CA, Kevin now calls Portland home, where he has quickly integrated himself into the burgeoning Indie Folk scene. Raised in an environment that disparaged folk and country sounds, hearing Gillian Welch’s Soul Journey for the first time, followed by a chance meeting with her in a Sacramento suburb was the catalyst the moved Kevin to take up the guitar and try his hand at songwriting.

In August, 2014, Fluff and Gravy will release Kevin’s first solo record, Given. While the record is clearly a modern folk record, with the requisite finger-picking and lush harmonies (courtesy of his sister, Kelley Florence), there is something intangible between the notes where Kevin has carved out his own distinct place. The record features a roster of world-class musicians, including drummer James McAllister (Sufjan Stevens, Bill Frisell), and Garth Hudson (The Band).

You can see Kevin debut these tracks with a full band, including members of Parson Red Heads and M. Ward’s band, at Dante’s (Portland) on 4/18, as part of a Fluff and Gravy Records Showcase. Get your tickets here.

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Evangenitals Turbulent Flow video premiers at Relix

Check out the new video from The Evangenitals, brought to you by the fine folks over at Relix. The video from the acclaimed Espina Blanca Productions (Monterey, Mexico) was masterminded by director, by Sofia Garza-Barba, and finds the band, well… being The Evangenitals.

The track wraps up side A on their new record, Moby Dick; or The Album.

From the Relix.com:

The new studio record from The Evangenitals was inspired by Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby Dick; or, The Whale. As the group’s co-founder and vocalist Juli Crockett Feldman explains, “Moby Dick is one of those iconic texts that has a life beyond its pages. People who have never read the book still have an understanding of its themes and its characters. Much like Don Quixote, characters like Captain Ahab and the White Whale transcend literature and enter the realm of the symbolic. Great works of art aren’t satisfied with being passively received; we are meant to engage, challenge, and play with them. The greatness of great literature is in its ability to respond with resiliency to the times, over ages and eons. Without changing a word, they somehow manage to consistently change our lives.”

Today we premiere the new video from the recording. Feldman offers, “I’ve had a geeky obsession with the phenomenon of turbulence for a long time. The original idea for the song floated around in my head for years, but I knew I needed help writing it, as it was a new sound that I wasn’t going to be able to pluck out on an acoustic guitar sitting in my room by myself. We were almost finished with the album (determining song order) when our bassist, Joey Maramba turned to me and said, ‘I wish we had just ONE more song on the record, something a little edgy.’ And this old idea popped into my head. I said, I have a song about turbulence I wanna write, but you and Mike need to help me write it.” What resulted was one of the greatest cowriting and execution experiences in the history of my life.”

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