Gary’s Dream (album release show) w/Adam Lytle & Lea Thomas and John Thayer
Founding members Vive and Ryan have been playing music together since 2015, but both grew up immersed in music in different ways. Vive grew up in NYC in the classical music world of Laguardia and Manhattan School of Music studying violin and opera by day, but secretly ran around Brooklyn playing rock shows in the last true DIY era by night, in abandoned lots and makeshift venues. Her voice has been described by veteran music industry pro and Avalon Lounge owner Liam Singer as ‘Virtuosic melded with a sense of fragile intimacy”. Ryan is an upstate boy who honed his style in a million bands and as many garages and basements, and shines on the guitar with atmospheric and technical imagination. Our drummer Shelby is Ryan’s sister and has rhythm in the blood, as a 3rd generation drummer. Wesley Harper is our talented multi-instrumentalist member, mixer, producer, and keyboardist, and is a beloved fixture in the emerging Catskill NY music scene.
With influences ranging from Edith Piaf and classical choral music to Smashing Pumpkins, Modest Mouse and Galaxy 500, our sound is a hybrid of everything that ever helped us understand and integrate our experiences, both dark and light, of being alive.
After taking a long break from music to do some healing and start an herb farm, we are back and our upcoming debut album ‘Pretty Blue’ is a compilation of songs stretching from our early 20’s to the present.
This work could be classified as a ‘draining of the wound’— an exploration of our journeys through that post-adolescent but pre-adult phase, with all of its infatuation and heartbreak…and how we each sank to the bottom of it and learned to swim back out again.
Adam Lytle
A technician of the sacred, Adam Lytle writes songs that explore the darker regions of the heart.Wielding the language of the unconscious, he confronts the ordinary with the arcane,summoning radical transformations with each sonorous figure played on hisSpanish guitar.With its striking lyricism and evocative arrangements, his solo debut,This is the Fireintroducesa new voice in the haunted tower of longing where the likes of Leonard Cohen and ScottWalker reside.Known for the power of his live performances, Lytle honed his craft for years leading acclaimedbands,Quicksilver DaydreamandWild Leaves. He has won crowds all over North America andwill be embarking on his first European tour in the Fall of 2024.
Lea Thomas and John Thayer
Lea Thomas’ album “Cosmos Forever” unfurls in a moment of exquisitely gentle suggestion: “Let’s go for a walk/Don’t talk.” Hers is a voice that is at peace with itself, that is trusting of its own ability to convey the truths of her experience and her personal philosophy, and to express her enduring love for the natural world. These truths, inspired by growing up on Maui, are embroidered with elegantly simple imagery. Fragments and fine details of a myriad different landscapes–a spray of leaves, a winding river, a bracing trade wind–seem to weave themselves together into a blanket of sound that is warm and wholly enveloping.
Lushness without drama, honesty without sharpness–rare and fine qualities that suffuse every song. Like a friendly hand resting on the shoulder, this music encourages the listener to become more at ease with the unanswered questions they might contain within themselves. It suggests that to forgive oneself for being uncertain, to allow oneself to experience pure and simple goodness, is to feel more at home in the world, and to better feel the embrace of the all-encompassing universe itself.
