We’re excited. Hope you can make it out!!
The new CD, Mechanical Sunshine, is out and available for purchase. Stop by www.clerestoryav.com to pick it up.
Jai Agnish and The Callbacks Live at the Mercury Lounge in NYC Sunday, August 27, 10 p.m.
Jai Agnish and The Callbacks
After releasing and touring in support of his self-released and critically acclaimed electro-poppin’ debut, “Automata” in 2000, Jai dropped off the map and fled back to his bed-room where the music making all began. Jai needed time to find the love of making music again after a bout with music biz burn out.
He did emerge, receiving a morale boost from his friend Sufjan Stevens’ who included a song of his on the new Mews Two Asthmatic Kitty compilation.
Jai finally got around to building a MySpace site where he stumbled across old fans and friends and found someone to release his new CD, “Mechanical Sunshine.” It’s the last of the electro-pop style songs released on the micro-indie label ClerestoryAV.
Jai’s now ditched the electro, drum-machine thing and put together a band of musicians he found in his North Jersey home town. The Mercury Lounge show will be just his second NYC gig since forming the band. Jai Agnish and The Callbacks performed to a packed house at the Knitting Factory in May with friends Denison Witmer, Saxon Shore and Ben & Vesper.
“`Automata’ is consistent and digestible. Agnish blends electronics, toys, and folk into a chalice and offers it to you as a gift. Both familiar and unlike anything else, you’d be wise to taste it. It may not (permanently) free you of worry, but if this music is what it feels like to be wholly satisfied with one’s life, then it’ll make you strive for such a life.” -Pitchfork
