At The Spine - Vita - 2008

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At The Spine - Vita - 2008 -





ARTIST: At The Spine


TITLE: Vita


LABEL:


GENRE: Indie


BITRATE: 189kbps avg


PLAYTIME: 0h 43m total


RELEASE DATE: 2008-00-00


RIP DATE: 2008-07-17





Track List


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A1. Chisel 2:15


A2. Crumble 4:21


A3. Accordian 2:36


A4. Primrose Hill 3:58


A5. Transylvania 2:53


A6. Spanish Anarchy 5:45


A7. The French Girl 3:34


A8. Sometimes 2:33


A9. Delirious 2:41


A10.Nora 2:53


A11.6 A.M. 3:18


A12.Dine 3:22


A13.World Turned Upside Down 2:58





Release Notes:





Vita is the fourth album in five years for the Seattle born and based band At


the Spine. This album was mainly written in Europe after main ATS songwriter


Mike Toschi (Toe-skee) left the states in the final days of 2006. Having grown


increasingly disenchanted and frustrated with the political conservatism of the


country and the continual corruption of industry and government, Toschi secured


a six-month work permit for the UK and left to explore music, culture, people,


and politics of Europe, unsure if he would return.











On New Year’s Eve of 2006, a few days into his visit, Toschi was jumped by five


males (claiming to be from Iraq) after a trivial verbal exchange near Trafalgar


Square in central London. After a few days of recovery, he began working as a


privatized substitute teacher in a stretch known as Murder Mile in the Hackney


section of London. Flashbacks of teaching in the South Bronx were constant and


depressing. He found the same poverty, segregation, and failing state school


system, but in a country with less armed citizens where kids would call you sir


while treating you like dirt.











As an American during an unpopular war and president, teaching children in


England’s class stratified system was not a pleasant situation. But as London


was not a cheap place to live, he plugged onward in various teaching


assignments, taking advantage of all school breaks and the strength of the


British currency to explore the rest of Europe and write songs.











Like life everywhere, there were good times and bad times: beauty, ugliness,


lust, love, sex, kind hearted strangers, thugs, and thieves. The isolation and


loneliness of being an immigrant away from the lifelines of home. Hitchhiking


into the mountains of Emilia Romagna to search for and find relatives in a


village of 100 people. Spending a week in Barcelona, or a day passing through


southern France. Struggling to crack into the London/EU music scene. An


occasional night homeless or stranded in the middle of nowhere. Loving, hating,


thinking, and reflecting. “Vita”, Latin and Italian for “Life”. Sometimes sour,


sometimes sweet.











After seven months struggling to find a drummer in London, Toschi returned to


the U.S., reconstituted the At the Spine and began experimenting with and


polishing the songs written abroad. Re-joining him were drummer Chris Croft and


guitar wizard Richie Parish. Adding some new blood and ideas on bass, guitar,


and organ was an old Seattle skateboarding and music friend from his youth, Doug


Starcevich. The album was recorded in Portland, OR with longtime friend and


engineer Rob Bartleson (Wilco, Pink Martini, Pond, etc.) at Haywire recording in


Portland, OR, with additional tracking done in Seattle.

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