Artist Village: Evenings

North Dorm EP (June 2010)

There is beautiful solace to be found in nature, organic development and a sense of what life in its purest form is truly like. Personally, electronic dance music is the organic vibration we know as the baseline, the heartbeat of music even though ironically enough it is as artificial as it comes. When I listen to Evenings and the elusive tone within each sample, the subtle diligence of each chord, I am reminded that despite nature, there is so much brilliance in the exactitude of what there is that we control. The sound (and yes when you listen to the lyrically absent endeavors of Evenings this is the only syllable that comes to mind) is enticing, on the tip of your tongue until he couples another keyboard or snap or snare and you are impressed all the same. Evenings art works are just that; lacking detail in background, instrumentations boldly named and that are held close to the heart. We reminisce in the artist’s voice, the music, and create dimensions of our own led along simply by a name (Chesapeake and Babe) and the intrigue of a sound.

The elements in the repertoire of Evenings design your palate, not guide it. There is no expectation from this shoegaze mastery because the name of the musician once again leaves you guessing.  When I hear “Chesapeake” I envision Nathan in Charlottesville in a dorm behind a soundboard lost in his headphones creating metaphors and myths. In college we all seem to be wondering who we are and what we’re doing, and North Dorm for me is that expression. It is putting life together, sound-by-sound, anecdote by tribulation, and coupling them into an appreciation. Evenings hires life to run its own trajectory, and make the poetry from this empiricism dance. After all, life is just one moment standing on the shoulders of the last.

I should mention that North Dorm EP is coming up on two years old and not the most recent work to date (Lately was released this past year, “Lo-Vélo” is awesome) I just liked these tracks a little more. “Babe” was released on North Dorm and “Chesapeake” is a single release. 

Lately EP (August 2011)