Solution oriented muzik in a parallel universe
"For $19.95 you can get 20% more FREEDUMB"3.08.2010
The Naked Residency | March 2010 | 2 hour set + guests!
Buy Tickets to 1 or more shows.
HUMANWINE has earned a reputation for their lyrics and allegorical storytelling which is the showcase of The Naked Residency. From the minds of Nervous Relatives: HUMANWINE hosts "The Naked Residency" at Cambridge's Lizard Lounge each Tuesday in March starting on the 9th and ending on the 30th. M@ McNiss and Holly Brewer want to "Let the songs speak for themselves in an intimate setting. A large rock venue with all the lights and huge half stacks can be overwhelming and it's easy to look over the intricate details that give each song story their own personal identity." Come for one or all nights, every night will be different show with the thread of real homegrown music that walks the line of dark and light, heavy and soft, kind and cruel. A unique, hand picked guest opens the each evening at 9pm. The show ends at Midnight.
Labels: Acoustic, Boston, Clara Engle, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, Lady Lamb the Beekeeper, live music, Lizard Lounge, mat mcniss, Seth Chatfield, What time is it mr fox
1.05.2010
HUMANWINE's first show in 2010
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Labels: Boston, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, january, jeremy harman, live music, mat mcniss, Nate greenslit, Paul Dilley
12.11.2009
HUMANWINE is coming to Brooklyn, NY
 | December 27, 2009 The Knitting Factory - Brooklyn 361 Metropolitan Ave Brooklyn, New York 11211 [map] w/ Martin Bisi , Larkin Grimm & Extra Life HUMANWINE is on around 10:30p Doors at 7:00p 7:30p showtime ALL AGES / $8 Capacity= 250 Buy Tickets Now |
Labels: Brooklyn, Extra Life, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, Knitting Factory, Larkin Grimm, live music, Martin Bisi, mat mcniss, Nate greenslit, NYC, Paul Dilley
10.17.2009
Mass Exodus the Full Length Album is here
We are happy to announce our new CD through Nervous Relatives Records (the first in two years). Copies of the New Album 'Mass Exodus' are available now. Visit our store.
HUMANWINE's latest full length CD (released 10/08/09 through their own label, Nervous Relatives Records) Mass Exodus is a tall glass of allegorical song stories lifting a few more veils that have been covering their elusive Vinland since 2000; a land filled with riddles, keys, captains, seafarers, makers, breakers, dissenting masses, a drug hazed public, caustic self appointed leaders, a cog turned YerYerOwn called 01, their journey through a forbidden city which reveals important bits of enjoyeur history including an early deal with the terrible Not-Me, the listener is dropped off at the door of the Veil Nil in the form of a cliffhanger poised for a sequel that we won't have to wait 2 more years for. HUMANWINE has been bitten by the recording bug and how sweet the sting!
Mass Exodus reminds us that we are all a stone's throw away from shedding our self-imposed chains and encourages us to question not only how but why we chose them in the first place.
All 14 tracks were either recorded live at shows, a renegade trip late at night to a studio or recorded on HUMANWINE's own Converted School Bus, engineered by Holly Brewer, M@ McNiss, Anthony Froney and Matt Malikowski, HUMANWINE (Brewer/McNiss) produced, mixed and mastered the entire album.
Visit HUMANWINE's online store to purchase Mass Exodus.
Pass this around to anyone who you think would enjoy the work of HUMANWINE. Thank you.
LONG LIVE ART! RAH! RAH!
Labels: Boston, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, live music, live muzik, mass exodus, mat mcniss
9.15.2009
September News & Shows
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Labels: holly brewer, HUMANWINE, live, matteo Mcniss, merch, show
6.12.2009
Mass Exodus ep Review
Artist: HUMANWINE
CD: Mass Exodus ep
Label: Nervouse Relatives Records / Self Released
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With a previous EP ("Rivolta Silenziosa") the US wandering HUMANWINE introduced us full-on to their narrative world of Vinland. They matched the metaphor-as-politics (and vice versa) stories with a gutter-circus-folk sound style that was a stunning marriage of simplicity and subtlety. It's sepiachord required listening.
On their full-length follow up, "Fighting Naked", the band continued to explore their Vinlandish themes but the music had more of a "rock" feel. The end result was good, but the band seemed a little uncomfortable in their new skin.
The new EP ("Mass Exodus") finds the band returning to a three song format and returning to more pared down arrangements. The results are arresting.
Of the three pieces found on this CD the last, "Our Devolution is Televised", best continues the work that Vinland fans love. It's political (of course) and features an infectious circus bounce. It could easily have been slipped in as the fourth track on "Rivolta Silenziosa" and held its own against the great songs found there.
The opening piece on this new EP is also overtly political: "1st Amendment". Its "be the media" messsage might come across as a nuts-and-bolts politcal screed... were it not so spare and, well, pretty. It builds and flows nicely showing off the performers individual strengths especially Holly Brewer's remarkable voice. Its a perfect appetizer for the middle piece: "Megan Rose".
"Megan Rose" seems to pre-date the existence of HUMANWINE as a band and features Holly alone, just her voice and a piano. When the song starts you'd be forgiven for thinking that this is merely a ballad of friendship to the title character. It *IS* that, but takes stomach-wrenching turns that are all the more powerful because you don't see them coming. This is the key to tragedy: you don't see it coming. "Megan Rose" is a beautiful, seductive PUNCH IN THE GUT that will make you cough up a bit of blood and still make you want to play it over and over... even if, like me, you found yourself on the verge of tears the first time you heard it. This really is one of those songs that descriptions fail for, you have to sit down and listen to it. And you should.
HUMWINE's DIY aesthetic has never been more clear in their sound ~and~ in the EP's visual presentation. Not only does the look and feel of the packaging clearly place the band in the line of descent from seminal grass-roots political rollickers Crass but HUMANWINE does something other bands never seem to do: give credit where it's due!
Lots of politically charged punk bands have aped the art of Crass, but this is the first time I can think of where credit for inspiration is given to the artist responsible for this distinctive look: Gee Vaucher. Kudos.
Recommended.
HUMANWINE:
http://www.humanwine.org/
Labels: Ashley vandiver, Courtenay vandiver, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, live music, mass exodus, mat mcniss, nathan greenslit, Paul Dilley, recorded, sepiachord
6.01.2009
June Shows coming up
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Labels: a far cry, Boston, concert, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, live, matteo Mcniss, n8 greenslit, Paradise Rock Club, Paul Dilley
12.21.2008
HUMANWINE in Oakland for the Winter: 533D5 M15510N
533D5 M15510N; These Seeds Become Trees
HUMANWINE is looking to the OAK/SF Bay Area for folks who play
accordion
cello
oboe
saw
trashkit*
trombone
trumpet
upright bass
violin
washboard
washtub
We are also looking for unique acts**
- Please let us know what you do and how to get in contact with you.
- If you can provide us with a link to some examples we'd love to see/hear them. Send e-mails to info@HUMANWINE.org.
- Rehearsals will be with Holly & m@. We work around your schedule so we can get you well rested and as peaceable as possible. The first time you will likely play with everyone is the day of the show.
* like a trap kit but made of 'trash'
**HUMANWINE is looking for Socio-political, solution oriented material having to do with basic Earth Rights, Animal & Human Rights. Plays, mini-skits, dance, interactive acts, poetry/spoken word, bomb dismantling, etc.
Labels: Cambridge, Folk, freak, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, live muzik, matthew mcniss, musicians, oakland, singers, socio-political
10.18.2008
OKTOBER - NEWZLETTER
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Labels: donate, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, live music, m mcniss, October, Oktober, online store, Recycled Movement
10.15.2008
Our Dreams Came True [recording available soon through HUMANWINE.org]
September 28th, in a warehouse in Allston Massachusetts, with A Far Cry our dream came true.
8 songs were chosen 6 days before the show.
M@ transposed all of the songs within 3 days and e-mailed them off to Courtenay Vandiver (cello) and Ashley Vandiver (violin) who then built parts for all the songs in 2 days.
Day of the show
Sunday
A Far Cry trickled into the space
we went over each song once
The moment we heard the first song
We were seeing the song or real
for the first time
and a few hours later
our dreams came true
Ken from Brighton, MA said,
"I really enjoyed the performance and the backing strings section - it brought back the mystique of one of Pan 9's *you just had to be there to see them* shows to Rugg Road."
Then night began with What Time Is It? Mr.Fox, a welcomed, reoccurring visitor of Vinland, who filled the room with songs from their new album, tales of Joan D'Arc, love and Religious interference performed by Brian King (piano/guitar), Nathan cohen (violin), Courtenay Vandiver (cello) yes she was in all three bands! and Mike Leggio (double bass).
Brian King said,
"I have spent countless hours, driving through snowstorms, hurricanes, to concerts, shows, plays, movies, anything, hoping to be moved, shaken, or transformed. Unfortunately I'm often let down. Something is missing. I'm just not taken over or taken in. Or I just don't believe it. But I still continue to go, knowing that at some point someone is going to reach into my chest and shock me back to life. Sunday was one of those nights.
Everything felt real. No clever aesthetic. Just the raw beauty of true passion and talent transcending ego and creating something alive. I'm beyond thrilled to have been able to be there and part of it. That night I dreamt in strings. "
The center of the evening was filled with the sounds of Boston's Unconducted String Orchestra, A Far Cry who's set included the likes of Bartok & Mozart performed by Andrew Eng, Annie Rabbat, Ashley Vandiver, Courtenay Vandiver, Frank Shaw, Jesse Irons, Loewi Lin, Margaret Dyer, Megumi Stohs, Sarah Darling, Sharon Cohen
Amy Toxic said,
"It was a fantastic night. You sounded brilliant! Like it was meant to be that way.
It can’t get much better than hearing both Bartok and HUMANWINE live on the same night!"
Afterward members of A Far Cry came up to us and said, "I've always wanted to play to a standing audience."
Think about it
you're in an orchestra
the audiences generally are sitting and reserved
they clap at the end of each piece
and remain silent otherwise.
The set up of a Concert Hall lends a hand in creating
the atmosphere of institution unless you look deeper into ART.
It can seem like a "one way energy stream".
If the audience doesn't give back
the energy coming from the stage
hits a sponge.
The CYCLE is broken
it can be draining
whereas
when the energy coming from the stage
is allowed to be a CYCLE
it is so enlivening
you don't even feel like
you're pushing.
For example
2 shows
1 week apart
The artist(s) put 100% into both shows.
NIGHT #1 the audience is like the aforementioned audience (sitting, reserved, docile)
NIGHT #2 the audience is REACTING to you (standing/sitting/crawling on the rafters, laughing, dancing, singing along, standing perfectly still with their jaws open in appreciation), the 2 shows will "feel different" to the artist(s).
The first night will be more of a drain and the second night will leave the artist(s) energized.
It's a symbiotic relationship between the audience and the stage.
As lovers of ART, we are often in an audience
as a part of the audience
you can tell whether an audience
is a CYCLE or a SPONGE
HUMANWINE shows have been filled with positive and open energy for a long time running.
We all feel honored to collaborate with so many wonderful bands
who we love
and to know that there will be the likes of YOU there reciprocating, inspires us all
to do it a while lot more.
A Far Cry [Official Site][MySpace site]
“Homage” Quincy, Massachusetts - October 16, 2008
Tickets $5/$10/$15
7:30pm Eastern Nazarene College Cove Fine Arts Center, 23 East Elm Avenue
- Pärt: Cantus In Memoriam Benjamin Britten
- Mozart: Divertimento #2 in B-flat Major, K. 137
- Muffat: Concerto Grosso No. 12 in G major “Propitia Sydera”
- Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge, Op. 10
Hailed by the Boston Globe as “one of Boston’s most promising classical music groups,” A Far Cry is making waves, experimenting with how music is performed and heard. A tightly-knit group of 16 young professional musicians, A Far Cry formed in early 2007, seeking the freedom and flexibility of a string quartet as well as the power and beauty of an orchestra. Operating with rotating leadership and no conductor, A Far Cry is generating interest not only in the concert hall, but also with its innovative model. All artistic decisions are made by vote as a collective, and the musicians take care of all the behind-the-scenes work, from booking concerts to designing programs. A 501(c)(3) not-for-profit corporation, A Far Cry is also committed to social change and harmony, donating proceeds from concerts to homeless shelters in the Boston area, and partnering with other non-profits such as the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. A Far Cry’s 2008-09 season holds engagements at the Yellow Barn and Kneisel Hall Festivals, concerts from Minnesota to Florida, and a growing hometown series in Boston.
What Time Is It ? Mr.Fox [Official Site] [MySpace Site]
10-23-2008
T.T. the Bear’s
10 Brookline St
Cambridge
Massachusetts
02139
with Dorian Wood (L.A.)
Black Fortress of Opium
Garvy J
We are thrilled to bring Dorian Wood to Boston! A monster talent: "The androgynous emotionality of Wood’s singing voice lends itself to the demanding theatricality of [his] lyrics, arrangements and production. The nakedness of a lover’s need and the wide-eyed madness that ensues when that need is not met twine around one another." - LA Weekly ----- "Dorian’s voice is evocative of those persons, places and things in your mind that ring like cultural archetypes (the carnival ring leader who knows everyone’s secrets, the fool lamenting at the moon, the gregarious saloon piano player), but these apparently familiar characters he seems to be depicting yank at the proverbial rug under you and demonstrate his dynamic cultural literacy. Though they draw from different sources, his songs’ emotional roots are firmly planted in his own experience." - Signal Tribune ----- "Wood unleashes gospel-infused wails and testimony that bring the audience…to a frenzy.” – The Advocate ----- "Dorian Wood is an instigator extraordinaire. A shape-shifter. A subtle court jester posing as a harmless house pet. An inspiring addition to the freakish world we now live in...a true artist in the purest sense of the word. Fearless, confident, filled with passion. His songs are beautiful without being pretty, well orchestrated, and creepy almost to the point of being masochistic, all the while continuing to work under the guise of ’folk music’." - Citizen LA Mr. Fox goes on at 9pm sharp Garvy J: 10pm Black Fortress of Opium: 11pm Dorian Wood: 12 midnight
WHO is MR. FOX? a dahl character? bluebeard-like bachelor? a teacher? a friendly furry creature with an intimate knowledge of clocks? any ideas are welcome. Never fit into a scene. never subscribe to a specific genre. just try to be true to the guts of the song. whether it be gospel, carnival, psychedelic blues, folk, country or a collage, we hope the truth of it comes through. Lots of songs about relationships and their many beautiful and demonic manifestations. songs about identity, and trying to make sense of the inner workings of our own clocks. and of course the occasional "i just got dumped," "i'm afraid you're going to dump me," or "you smell" songs. So i write the songs and fantasize about being some sort of male annie lennox. nathan travels abroad like bartok, collects ideas, and basically proves you can play any type of music on a violin. so when we make music we get to be transported to turkey, alabama, ghana, hungary, ireland and sometimes pluto.
Labels: a far cry, Boston, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, live recording, m mcniss, music, Paul Dilley, What time is it mr fox
7.05.2008
July 7R4N5M15510N
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Labels: Adam Simon, Boston, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, live music, m mcniss, nathan greenslit, Recycled Movement, squirrel nut zippers
5.13.2008
2 hour TV Turn Off Show/ Getting on my own nerves
pictures by Dave Green are here
http://www.adoorable.org/temp/HUMANWINE/index.html
We loaded in around 6pm.
I walked through the door and noticed a huge altar to RCN (cable company), which I though ironic considering we rented the room for the night and we did not invite RCN to be a part of the event. We did however have 2 other organizations tabling the event, one is TEN The Emancipation Network which works to abolish modern slavery and RAW! RAW! RAW!, Boston's first radical cheerleading squad (of which I am a proud member, I am also the treasurer). Back to the RCN altar. I dropped off a bunch of my equipment and approached the guy working the table and asked him what 'they' were doing there and he said it was a promotional thing but didn't say much else. I told him we needed the space for our 2 organizations and that he could moved to another section. He started to pack up the key chains, flyers and the blue tarps saying "RCN Cable Network". I left to tell everyone else the scoop. When I started to set up the tables for our guest bands, We Will Eat Rats To Survive and Drake, I noticed that the fellow was now joined by another person, she said that they were from the Phoenix (a local magazine) and that they were sent to the show as part of a promotional thing. All this seemed very strange to me since, it was after all, a Celebration of "TV Turn off week". I mean. did they know, did RCN just see "TV" on our flyers and think, that's the show we want to be at. I don't know but I found it all amusing. The girl and the guy asked me if they should pack up completely. I said,"I'm not a censor, Cable companies DO exist, we just don't have any room for them, so do whatever you want as long as you don't eat into the merch table space. They seemed satisfied and a little surprised once I told them it was a celebration for TV Turn off week.
Meanwhile...
Since April 2nd I have been feeling a very strong pinching feeling in my pelvis (left ovary region), being a veteran of ovarian cysts I figured it was another one.
Having no health Care Insurance I decided to wait it out but it never ever went away.
It only got worse.
So on the say of the show 1 month and 1 day after the pain had started it all came to a climax.
I spent most of the day crying in intense pain.
I decided that I had to play the show but that afterwards I would just check into the ER for council.
When I got to Great Scott I was met by Courtenay (cello ninja) who promptly gave me a whole bouquet of flowers!
I decided that if I should spent time in the hospital that I would already have room decorations.
The Cellist from Drake told me she was a Reiki worker and offered to spend a little time one me.
Once I could rest for a moment during the dead time when the merch tables are set, the place is decorated, the TV had been stashed for the scavenger hunt, we had sound checked and Jill was on food details, I walked over to Monica (Drake's Cellist) and said I was ready. I got up on an unused merch table near the back of the room and laid my ass out. We Will Eat Rats To Survive was sound checking, I closed my eyes with little tears streaming down my face and just zoned out. It felt like she was pressing on me but there was no contact, I could feel "static" coming from my spine into my pelvis. We had a good 25 minute session before we realized the doors had been called and people were coming in. She wrapped up and told me to lay there for a bit, asking me how I felt. I noticed that the pain had moved for the first time, from my pelvis to my lower spine and that I was relieved to feel at least a different pain for once.
She is so wonderful. I really think that gave me the strength to do the night.
We powered through every bit, I felt like fainting about 3 songs from the end but we did it. I was happy.
So we finish the set and I go over to talk with the manager about loot and he hands me loot laughing and talking about the RCN guy.
I told him my story and he laughed even harder. He said, "When you had the Scavenger Hunt for the TV and the girl (Emily) found it, HAHHA The kids with the RCN table looked so..hahaha...everyone at the bar broke into hysterics when you announced the little factoids about spending 7 years of your life watching commercials...hahaha..oh my god so check this out okay...RCN picked HUMANWINE's show to promote apparently they were shooting off Ads on FNX (Phoenix) Radio for 2 weeks saying "RCN sponsors HUMANWINE @ Great Scott" or something like that..hahaha! I guess they dug your band, THEY OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T DIG DEEP ENOUGH!! HAHAHAH!
It was so ironic that I am truly touched. It may have well been Revlon, Nike or Buick but who ended up taking it upon themselves to use a band's local show for more airtime...a cable corporation...during TV Turn Off Week.
Now I know why he was laughing so hard, why they all were. I am too. I think I always will. That's one for the books I said, and here it is, on the books.
We've got some shows coming up, on of which is a Benefit show to pay for upcoming lawyer fees to get folks out of jail who are planning to attend the Republican National Convention (RNC) <---oddly enough. So in preparation for the Nazi tyrants at the Convention, we are playing a Benefit to raise loot to get the good guys out of jail. That's on May 23rd.
Go to HUMANWINE.org for show details.
P.S.
I went to the ER right after we broke down and packed up.
Jill took me.
We stayed there until 8am.
The docs were great.
They took ultrasounds of my insides from the outside AND the inside. yikes!
pain, pain,pain.
No lumps or cysts detected, I was left with the possibility that I was walking around with a pinched nerve that had "A typical radiant pain" coming through my pelvis.
Jill set up an acupuncture appointment for me that following Friday.
I went, it was awesome.
I have magnets taped to me still.
It was sooooooo expensive. $250 for the first visit.
I told her that if there would be a future visit it would have to be a barter.
So I'm making her a website in trade for more care.
Ever since they stick the inside ultrasound wand up me I have felt a tiny bit better.
It's like we scared the thing into submission for a bit.
Doing okay.
Thank you for your care.
LONG LIVE ART! RAH! RAH!
-HUMANWINE
Labels: Adam Simon, Ashley vandiver, Courtenay vandiver, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, Live Concert, m mcniss, music, Nate greenslit, nathan chohen, pain
4.04.2008
Boston Herald gives a "nod" to HUMANWINE twice today
Rumble Odds - This is an article by Jed Gottlieb about his opinion on who’s gonna take the tiara at the 30th Rock ’n’ Roll Rumble
WBCN’s Rock ’n’ Roll Rumble is still kicking - This is an article by Jed Gottlieb about the ghost of rumbles past. HUMANWINE is not mentioned in the article but they used our picture so we wanted to tell you about it.
Go to our "Rumble Coverage Site" to check out the dates we’re playing and find out what the hell this Rumble thing is all about and why we’re doing it.
LONG LIVE ART! RAH! RAH!
-HUMANWINELabels: article, boston herald, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, m mcniss, Rumble
3.18.2008
Holly Brewer nominated for Local Female Vocalist Vote until 4/4
I was included in the nominees for this years FNX Best Music Poll with some very talented and wonderful strong female voices from Boston. I’m honored that they thought to include lil me in it. I’ve never won an award as a vocalist in my life I don’t assume this will be the first but it’s fun to try!
Below is a quick message of WHO and HOW. Thanks you for your unending support of HUMANWINE and what it is that we are working to accomplish!
Go to www.bestmusicpoll.com to begin voting. Voting Ends April 4th. While you’re there, check out the other music categories and vote for your local favorites if you don’t see HUMANWINE in there and you think we should be, give up a "Write in" and we’ll be like the green party. ( A good idea just not a popular one)
Below is what you will find @ the site...
Look they even spelled our name right!
(bonus points for FNX)
Vote for your favorite! You have 6 options to choose from. If you don’t like those, show us what’s really good by writing in your own. Once you’ve made a choice, remember to click SUBMIT and then move on to the next category.
Boston’s Best Female Vocalist
* Sarah Borges
* Holly Brewer (HUMANWINE)
* Casey Desmond
* Casey Dienel
* Antje Duvekot
* Marissa Nadler
Labels: FNX, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, music, Poll, Vite
2.17.2008
Change is the only constant for Itchy Fish
Malleable HUMANWINE embraces fluid lineup
By Barry Thompson
Saturday, February 16, 2008
To stand out in the ultracompetitive Boston music scene, a band must bring something extraordinary to the table or have a good gimmick. At a glance, HUMANWINE is an act that manages both. But scratch the surface and the gimmick reveals itself as a philosophy that encompasses music, art, politics and life itself.
Soon HUMANWINE won't be a Boston band: Plans call for a summer departure to, well, everywhere.
"Our goal is to keep moving and not stop, like a fish," said vocalist and co-songwriter Holly Brewer, sitting in a Jamaica Plain pub.
"We've been (in Boston) three years," Brewer said. "It wouldn't matter if it was France or Mozambique. I would still be itchy."
Having purchased a school bus, HUMANWINE, which plays tonight at the Middle East, is in the process of converting the engine to run on vegetable grease, the electrical systems to run on solar power and turning the interior into living quarters for two to seven people.
"We end up taking people with us," said Brewer. "If someone's like, 'I'm good at what I do, and I want to go to Oregon,' they tour with us to Oregon. We drop them off, and pick up somebody else. We're like a Greyhound, except you play music."
Naturally, a liquid roster necessitates liquid songs.
"Sometimes you can't get somebody who plays upright bass," said multi-instrumentalist M@ (as in Matt) McNiss. "So we're like, 'We don't have a bass player, so we'll have the piano supplement it.' Then it's, 'Well, that changes the orchestration of what we're doing.' "
HUMANWINE formed in New Hampshire in 2001. The group matches parabolic lyrics set in the metaphorical realm of Vinland with haunting, neo-classical-anarcho-math-punk. Band mates, rightfully, cringe at comparisons to the Dresden Dolls, not that they hold a grudge. Brian Viglione of the Dolls played drums on HUMANWINE's "Fighting Naked." To the band, labeling itself anything would be self-defeating.
"That's what art is, the connection with life in your medium," McNiss said. "If you're guarding it, saying, 'We're a blah blah band,' you're shorting yourself."
Odds are any band dedicated to artistic freedom won't last on a label, which explains why HUMANWINE split from Cordless Recordings last year. Aside from an anti-corporate, self-reliant ethic, HUMANWINE does without boundaries.
"We like the sentence 'Change is the only constant,' " Brewer said. "Vinland changes, too. With the quilt of Vinland, every song is a patch. If you hold it a different way, each song shines differently."
barrythompson84@gmail.com
Labels: art, barry thompson, Boston, d.i.y., fighting naked, herald, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, live, m mcniss, music, WVO
2.11.2008
Radio interview WZBC 2/15 & 2/16 Show in Cambridge, MA 18+
Saturday Night! / 18+!
02.16.08
Middle East Downstairs
472 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge MA 02139
Purchase tix in advance by clicking the image below
11x17 flyer , 1/4 sized handbills
2. Make photocopies
3. Post them around town
More ways to help us promote are posted on our
street team page.
Labels: Beat Circus, Boston, Cambridge, Hallelujah the Hills, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, Live Concert, m mcniss, Mass., McNiss, O'Death, WVO, WZBC
11.23.2007
We got a bus!
Avast Comrades. In late July 2007 we came up with the idea of HUMANWINE staying out on the road for a Perpetual Tour. Now it seems that we have taken the first step of our journey. The remaining steps of converting the engine to run off of waste vegetable oil, outfit it with enough solar panels and batteries to run the band, and fill the interior with home.If all goes well, the bus will make it's first appearance at
this show.
We are so happy to announce that we will be overhauling the brake lines + tries next week. SAFETY FIRST! Here's is to the future!
LONG LIVE ART RAH! RAH!
holly & m@
Labels: bus, holly brewer, HUMANWINE, m mcniss, McNiss, music, Recycled Movement, solar, tour, WVO
2.01.2007
The Phoenix catches a glimps of HUMANWINE
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