Umbrellas

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Lost At Sea 00:00 Tools
The City Lights 00:00 Tools
Ships 00:00 Tools
Ghost 00:00 Tools
The Black Dress 03:13 Tools
Broken Ice 03:27 Tools
Sleep Well 00:00 Tools
Boston White 03:33 Tools
Emergency 03:02 Tools
Your Exit 03:26 Tools
Again And Again 01:03 Tools
Vampires 00:00 Tools
Crooked 00:00 Tools
Set the Scene 00:00 Tools
June, Summer, Rose 00:00 Tools
Reactionary 00:00 Tools
Tests on My Heart 00:00 Tools
Thinking of You 00:00 Tools
Comfort in Suffering 00:00 Tools
Angel or Demon 03:01 Tools
Dignified Exit Society 00:00 Tools
We Fall 00:00 Tools
Idle And Waiting 00:00 Tools
O' Holy Night 00:00 Tools
Love 00:00 Tools
Help 00:00 Tools
Constants 00:00 Tools
Picture of Departure 00:00 Tools
Beach Front Property 00:00 Tools
Walking on Water 00:00 Tools
Again & Again 00:00 Tools
Idle & Waiting 00:00 Tools
09 - Ships 00:00 Tools
03 - Crooked 00:00 Tools
One Fall 00:00 Tools
Two Guns, AZ 00:00 Tools
1.21 Gigawatts! 00:00 Tools
Sleeping At Last 04:24 Tools
Umbrellas - The City Lights 03:21 Tools
The Fall of Mankind 00:00 Tools
Hold 00:00 Tools
Adain and Again 00:00 Tools
Midwestern 00:00 Tools
Lady Luck 00:00 Tools
La Strada Part 2 00:00 Tools
Amacord 00:00 Tools
Don't Say Maybe, Baby 00:00 Tools
Lounge Suite Tango 00:00 Tools
08 Ships 00:00 Tools
June, Summer, and Rose 00:00 Tools
La "Fogaraccia" 00:00 Tools
Otto E Mezzo 00:00 Tools
Angle Or Demon 00:00 Tools
La Strada Part 1 00:00 Tools
Le "Manne" Di Primavera 00:00 Tools
La Strada Part 3 00:00 Tools
The Proton Pack 00:00 Tools
La Dolce Vita 00:00 Tools
Vascello Di Susi 00:00 Tools
Rosa Aurata 00:00 Tools
Rugiada Sui Ranocchi 00:00 Tools
Ernie’s Green Bucket 00:00 Tools
08. Ships 00:00 Tools
Il Teatrino Delle Suore 00:00 Tools
I Vitelloni 00:00 Tools
The Ciry Lights 00:00 Tools
Signal Noise Dichotomy 00:00 Tools
La Dolce Vite - Finale 00:00 Tools
Amore Per Tutti 00:00 Tools
Blues - La Dolce Vita Del Nobili 00:00 Tools
Faccette Scintillate 00:00 Tools
Parlami Di Me 00:00 Tools
Again 00:00 Tools
1.21 Gigawatts! (Post-Hardcore.RU) 00:00 Tools
signal...noise...dichotomy.... 00:00 Tools
Greys Anatomy Soundtrack- the city lights. 00:00 Tools
La Ballerina Del Circo Snap 00:00 Tools
Valzerino Del Nonno 00:00 Tools
07 - Reactionary 00:00 Tools
Umbrellas-The_City_Lights 00:00 Tools
the_city_lights 00:00 Tools
Quick March 00:00 Tools
08 - June Summer Rose 00:00 Tools
Umbrellas-Ghost 00:00 Tools
Hank’s Vacation 00:00 Tools
Sleeping Beauty 00:00 Tools
Kaleidoscopic Visual Malfunction 00:00 Tools
The City Light 00:00 Tools
04 - Broken Ice 00:00 Tools
05 - Emergency 00:00 Tools
The Initiation 00:00 Tools
The City Of Lights 00:00 Tools
01 The City Lights 00:00 Tools
03 - Ghost 00:00 Tools
Umbrellas - Comfort In Suffering 00:00 Tools
09 - Your Exit 00:00 Tools
10 - Vampires 00:00 Tools
Orpheus 00:00 Tools
the city lights. 00:00 Tools
Test On My Heart 00:00 Tools
The City Lights [2005] 00:00 Tools
06 The Black Dress 00:00 Tools
11 - Comfort In Suffering 00:00 Tools
Umbrellas - Ships 00:00 Tools
City of Lights 00:00 Tools
Honest Truth 00:00 Tools
01 - The City Lights 00:00 Tools
02 Sleep Well 00:00 Tools
The Ghost 00:00 Tools
03 Ghost 00:00 Tools
12 - Set the Scene 00:00 Tools
Ghost [2005] 00:00 Tools
Lost At Sea 00:00 Tools
Track 4 00:00 Tools
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Umbrellas is an indie rock band fronted by Scott Windsor, of Lyndsay Diaries fame. The band signed to The Militia Group in 2005, following Windsor's departure from his solo work. Umbrellas currently has two records out, a self-titled release in 2005, and "Illuminare," released in 2006. UMBRELLAS’ ILLUMINARE (Latin; meaning to light the way or illustrate.) When Scott Windsor and the timeless yet refreshing band Umbrellas released their debut self-titled record in 2005, they may not have guessed that one year later, they’d find themselves livening-up a drab, abandoned comedy club—recording songs on giant stages and in refrigerators for their follow-up, Illuminare. Umbrellas’ sophomore Militia Group release was recorded in two solid weeks of near fifteen-hour recording sessions, where Scott and his band’s musings were tested and brought to life. When Umbrellas’ debut hit the shelves, it was recognized as a dynamic, eager offering. The band toured heavily and new ideas began swimming inside Windsor’s head. Those ideas formed icebergs—and the only option was to dismantle and re-conduct the near-avalanche of visions, abstractions, melodies and structures. The debut, birthed in decidedly artistic, collaborative ways, proved to be an even more cautious outing compared to Illuminare. Hanging blankets across the empty, dusty and evocative shell of an old comedy club, Scott and his Umbrellas started tracking their new record Illuminare. They went forth in unsafe, less-than secure scenarios with nearby ‘06 tornados in Oklahoma. Scott recalls: “The old comedy club had an odd feel to it. Grossly low-lit, strange hallways, off-color backrooms good for nothing—right there in the middle of downtown Tulsa—dodging tornados in the midst of recording. We constantly heard sirens going off, went outside to piss-green skies, sideways rain and I thought to myself ‘maybe they’ll find these recordings someday after we were all carried off.’ One of the band members’ car was stolen during the recording process by homeless people who stole it just to impress their friends. The van got broken into- we had a stolen hard drive. But bad luck could not stop this record.” James McAlister (Ester Drang, Sufjan Stevens) played the drums, percussion, programming, and added lively, innovative ideas like sampling Scott’s voice as the keyboard parts for the song “Again and Again.” On the song, Scott sings: “Where’s the piano? The big, big bass drum?” Well, in that song, the piano’s right there in his vocal chords—which were adamantly, angelically bared just as they are on Illuminare. “Most of these songs only had one take on vocals—80% of the record. Every record nowadays, it seems you can find some pretty blonde, put auto-tune on it and just go with it.” Scott modestly adds: “I’m not the best singer but at least when you see us live, what you see is what you get and I’m not lying to fans.” And it seems that’s what the general mood and stance of this record: reality, and a sense for the organic, raw, forgotten sentiments. In the song “Tests on My Heart, Windsor sings of ‘getting over the self,’ recording in the aforementioned refrigerator with cold vocal-shadows and a Vaudevillian piano interlude. Illuminare grapples with notions of solitude, life, death, and the plain old blues. Scott sings of realistic love, infatuation, satisfaction, disappointment, life-balance, the letting-go, appeasement, idealism, and grace—all with a backdrop of blustery fall-out tunes with strange swirls of sound, smatterings of echoes and pulsings, huge bass hammerings and bells to chime the gladness in being right there where one’s supposed to be. Weathering the storms, and taking on the shadows and memories of calmer times and warmer rooms. The players: Chad Copelin (producer, keys, guitar, bass), Nathan Price (drums, percussion), Eric Arndt (bass), Scott Windsor (vocals, guitars, percussion) James McAlister (drums, percussion, programming), Ryan Lindsey (piano, background vocals) Scott 09 Sep 2006 Taken from their Website: www.umbrellasmusic.com Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.