JASON URICK

This must be a release intended to transcend city limits, because no one within Baltimore’s musical rhizome would even have use for a one-sheet, web page, whatever about Jason Urick and Jason Willett.  These two men each operate or have operated the best record shops in our uncommon city (Once Twice Sound (R.I.P.) and The True Vine, fyi) have lived and breathed musical curiosity for years, and have endless friendship and R.E.S.P.E.C.T.  worldwide because they know how to give back just that and do it generously, naturally, everyday. They are humbly prolific creators and mentors., humor-full, dedicated, perfectly-awkward living monuments for music (for sound) extraneous of music media and the market gambit. 

Jason Urick is a hold-steady of Floristree, Baltimore’s all-year-tropical warehouse life & show space, where he has hosted innumerable events, including Full House Fest (a collaboration between J.U. and Wildfire Wildfire to bring a live Cluster into our gigantoid living room) and was the ambient mouse work and man behind the smoke of WZT Hearts.  This same Fall, he celebrates his first full-length, Husbands, a stab at pop, to be released on Thrill Jockey Records.  He is the little boy in the red fireman’s hat.

This split is in the lineage of Friendship/Trips 2 & 3:  70g vinyl, letterpressed reverseboard, a homage project. 

Jason lives and books at Baltimore’s show space, Floristree, has toured the USA with WZT Hearts, hosted Once Twice Sound music festival and celebrates his first solo full-length, Husbands, on Thrill Jockey in the fall of 2009. 

Release Date:  November 11 2009