Raised in California , songwriter Jeremy Jay recalls pop songs of Lou Reed ou Ian Curtis.

After Airwalker (2007), EP including a cover of Siouxsie and the Banshees, Lunar Camel, he later recorded a version of Into the Groove from Madonna for the tribute album Through the wilderness (2007).
The same year, he composed the soundtrack of the movie Dreamland.
But it's with A place where we could go, released in 2008, that the the singer received good reviews from the critics and Pitchfork.

Biography
Jeremy Jay was born in the San Diego suburb of Chula Vista in Southern California. His family later moved to Los Angeles. At the start of elementary school, they moved 5 hours north to Monterey, California.

Early on, when Jeremy was 14 he started playing in high school bands with schoolmates performing to packed venues in the area. Having seen her sons devotion to music, his mother had bought him an eight track reel to reel recorder that Jeremy made recordings on in a studio that he made in the garage.

When Jeremy was 18 he moved to Portland, Oregon, where he would later meet
Calvin Johnson , the singer of the 1980's/90's band Beat Happening from Olympia, Washington, and founder of K records, which later on released Jeremy's records:
Airwalker EP in 2007; A Place Where we Could Go LP in 2008; and Slow Dance LP, in 2009.

Jeremy Jay currently lives in Los Angeles and loves photography, painting and writing.

The 7" single, Breaking the Ice, from the K LP, Slow Dance, is slated for release on K and is currently preparing to go on a UK/European and American tour
starting September 10th - November 15th.


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There are at least two bands by the name Slowdance,
1)
The band Slowdance played their 11th (or possibly 12th) show March 31 2011, opening for PS I Love You and Diamond Rings at Glasslands. Unusually captivating for an unheralded opener, the quintet zipped through a quick set of tight and moody, occasionally Francophonic indie-pop. (This sat well with French-Canadian fans of the bill's headliners.) Slowdance bring keyboard and guitar and a rhythm section that can flip from a new wave throb to a spaghetti western rumble as easily as it delivers punchy indie-pop, all anchored by vocalist Quay Quinn-Settel's demure cheek and soprano dramatics. She recalled France Gall, and they did Stereolab, because language still counts (even the set-closing cover of New Order's "Consent" was not without its tie to France). Says Quinn-Settel: "I learned how to read in French before learning in English. It's half of me, it wouldn't feel right to sing in English alone. Plus the way the language shapes the mouth changes the timber of my voice, so it's nice to have both."

Other formative reference points Slowdance cite include Blondie, the Raincoats, and '70s synthwave, which help contextualize the tracks here for you to sample (the spaghetti-soaked "Spell," the coy "Sweetness," "Slashed Tires"' airy angst). Those are below, along with a mixtape playlist we asked the band to compile as the perfect primer to the aesthetic of Slowdance.

2)
A pop punk band from Tallahassee. That faded into complete obscurity in the Mid 00's


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There is more than one artist using the name Quilt:

1. QUILT

"QUILT have forged a captivating universe of psychedelica, dream-pop, and folk-- full of warmth, sure, but also a calmness and a peacefulness that leaves us longing for New England green." - Daniel Gottlieb (Altered Zones)

"Listening to these Brooklyn-via-Boston psych-folkers is enigmatic. First, they sound as though they write and record their music on some far-out teepee commune in New Mexico in 1971 while wearing navajo print drug rugs and smudging sage around the campfire." - YVYNYL

"Bearers of God's personal shamble-pop dripped all the way from heaven..."-Bodies of Water

"Luminous, unfiltered, haunting psych-folk that teeters among three dangerously creative minds" - Boston Phoenix

1..2....3 humans currently living between Cambridge, MA, Brooklyn, NY and Hamilton, NJ.

http://quiltmusic.bandcamp.com
http://myspace.com/quilt

2. Quilt is the Brooklyn-based ambient synthesizer project of Seth Graham, formerly of the band Romance of Young Tigers. Now known as Henry Dawson.

http://quilt.bandcamp.com/

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Philadelphia, the city of Brotherly Love, and Brooklyn, the former home of Walt Whitman, provide the cornerstones of Backwords, a collection of socially aware misfits that hail from the various mileposts of what was once Penn's Woods, and once Iroquois tribal hunting grounds long before that. Our Backwords story, though, starts somewhere in the year 2006 of our Lord G.W., on a southbound road trip where Brian Russ and Ryan Belski birthed the band vocally amidst a smoggy gridlock.

Thus came Backwords, a band driven by the many layers of our reality to write songs that represent all the forces at play. American in its mishmash of what was and what will be, of who speaks and who can't, the songs are a translation of the common history we all, inexplicably, are forced to be a part of. Keeping with the melange, each band member has a distinct influence. John Sheldon, drums, is a metal head/spazmaniac; Jared DesRuisseaux, keys, a noise and soundscape economist-pianist with a natural ear for music; Ostyn, bass, is a garage rocking neo-political urbanian; Ryan, guitar, is a jazz wanderer; and Brian Russ, guitar and songwriting, is a miniature subdued cowboy who once wooed South Dakota and the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation with his folk and roots sounds.

But the soul of Backwords is more than what it was and what it is. Let's just say, it's hard to put into words the magic of how persons come together and make music. But, since I'm writing, I'll say this: Backwords explores the elimination/culmination of genre in its quest towards the jagged coast of psychedelia, where the water is every color, and all songs swim in a wild ocean.

-Lauren Belski


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