Jolly (band)

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Jolly
Jolly Live 2014 MUC.JPG
General information
Genre (s) Progressive rock , alternative rock
founding 2006
Website www.jollyband.com
Founding members
Anadale
Joe Reilly
Louis Abramson
Anthony Rondinone

Jolly is an American progressive rock / alternative rock - band .

history

The New York based band names influences from Tears For Fears to Radiohead to Pink Floyd for their music . The four members got to know each other via internet forums and were planning to release their first EP with their own material when the Swiss record label Galileo Records became aware of their music on YouTube and offered them a recording contract for their first CD. The resulting album Forty Six Minutes, Twelve Seconds Of Music brought the band first live appearances outside of the USA - together with Pure Reason Revolution and Riverside - and brought Jolly a record deal with InsideOut Music .

On the subsequently released album The Audio Guide To Happiness Vol. I Jolly invented the effective advertising legend of supposedly the subconscious influence binaural tones that would make the handset of Jolly music happy (this was a professor of New York University and a field test of 5000 Students listed).

Mike Portnoy invited Jolly as the opening act to concerts of his supergroup Flying Colors .

Before the concept of the two-part "Guide to Happiness" could be completed, the floods in the wake of Hurricane Sandy destroyed the rehearsal room, studio and all of the band's equipment, which had been in the basement of drummer and producer Louis Abramson in Queens . A fundraising campaign helped the band to purchase new equipment and instruments, after which the second CD of the Audio Guide 2013 was released; the video for Dust Nation Bleak , released at the same time, was filmed in the ruins of the hurricane-ravaged studio.

In 2014 the band performed at the ProgPower Europe music festival .

After breaking up with InsideOut Music, the band began crowdfunding their albums directly from fans (as Marillion have been doing for some time). The record company founded for this is called - after Jolly's debut album - 46:12 Records .

Discography

  • 2009: Forty Six Minutes, Twelve Seconds Of Music
  • 2011: The Audio Guide To Happiness Vol. I
  • 2013: The Audio Guide To Happiness Vol. II
  • 2019: Family (also as deluxe edition with bonus CD)

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