Dunedevil

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Dunedevil
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Digital cover art image. The physical vinyl's front cover has a die cut circular hole for the record label to show through.
Studio album by
Wear Your Wounds
ReleasedMay 19, 2017 (2017-05-19)
RecordedWinter 2016
StudioC-Scape Dune Shack [1]
(Provincetown, MA)
Genre
Length29:25
Label Self-released (WYW002)
Producer Jacob Bannon
Wear Your Wounds chronology
WYW
(2017)		Dunedevil
(2017)		Rust on the Gates of Heaven
(2019)

Dunedevil is a mixed-media project by Converge's frontman Jacob Bannon. The musical component of the project serves as Bannon's second album under the Wear Your Wounds moniker, while the physical mediums were compiled into a companion art book titled Dunedevil: An Artistic Journey Into Abstraction and Isolation. Both pieces were created during a seven-day excursion to Dune Shacks of Peaked Hill Bars Historic District and self-released on May 19, 2017 [2] —only one month after Wear Your Wounds' debut album, WYW .

Converge (band) American hardcore punk band

Converge is an American hardcore punk band formed by vocalist Jacob Bannon and guitarist Kurt Ballou in Salem, Massachusetts in 1990. During the recording of their seminal fourth album Jane Doe, the group became a four-piece with the departure of guitarist Aaron Dalbec and the addition of bassist Nate Newton and drummer Ben Koller. This lineup has remained intact since. They have released nine studio albums, three live albums, and numerous EPs. The band's sound is rooted in both hardcore punk and heavy metal, and they are considered pioneers of metalcore as well as its subgenre mathcore.

Jacob Bannon American musician

Jacob Bannon is the vocalist, lyricist, and graphic artist for the American metalcore band Converge. He is the founder and owner of the record label Deathwish Inc. and the author of many visual works for independent punk rock and heavy metal musicians. Bannon has also composed and performed experimental music as Supermachiner with Ryan Parker and more recently as Wear Your Wounds.

Dune Shacks of Peaked Hill Bars Historic District

The Dune Shacks of Peaked Hill Bars Historic District includes dune shacks that were home to American artists and writers from the 1920s to present day. The historic district, located in the Outer Cape towns of Provincetown and Truro, comprises 1,950 acres of the Cape Cod National Seashore. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012. The name is derived from a Life-Saving Station known as Peaked Hill Bars that was established in 1882 on the lower cape.

Contents

Background and creation

One of the many Dune Shacks of Peaked Hill Bars Historic District in Massachusetts. Jacob Bannon spent a week creating music and art in a shack much like this one. Dune Shacks of Peaked Hill Bars Historic District.jpg
One of the many Dune Shacks of Peaked Hill Bars Historic District in Massachusetts. Jacob Bannon spent a week creating music and art in a shack much like this one.

After nearly 30 years of creating music for Converge, Supermachiner and Irons, in addition to creating artwork not limited to album covers for dozens of bands, Jacob Bannon had an epiphany. "I've had a lot of things going on in my life in the past couple of years that have made me realize that time is not infinite. The songs that you create, the art that you create, needs to go to the public if that is the intention." [3] Over his career, Bannon created music that was never publicly released, but started to change his mind about these methods. "When I kept writing songs and filing them away and not sharing them with people, that was doing me a disservice creatively, so I'm now at a point in my life where I just want to get it out to people." [3]

Supermachiner was an experimental music project that Jacob Bannon and Ryan Parker began writing for in 1994 and soon became a collection of four track recordings. When Converge had about six months of down time as the band searched for a drummer, Bannon and Parker found the time to resurrect that project. Bannon and Parker named the project "Supermachiner", a play on the term "Supermachinder" the compound word for Japanese giant robot toys from the 1970s. The music was very different from Converge's, having more in common with influences Swans, Bauhaus, and others.

For one week during winter 2016, [2] Bannon rented out one of the Dune Shacks of Peaked Hill Bars Historic District located outside of Provincetown, Massachusetts (Bannon's home state), a part of the Cape Cod National Seashore. Specifically, he stayed in the C-Scape Dune Shack (formerly known as the Cohen Shack). [2] Scattered throughout the National Park, these shacks were originally built by the United States Life-Saving Service in the 1920s for shipwrecked sailors to seek refuge. Some were made from pieces of debris that has washed ashore, and none have been modernized with running water or electricity. [4] Over the last century, many famous artists have spent time in the Dune Shacks for creative inspiration, including: playwright Eugene O'Neill ( A Streetcar Named Desire , Death of a Salesman ), poet and abolitionist Henry David Thoreau ( Walden , Civil Disobedience ), abstract expressionist painter Jackson Pollock ( Mural on Indian Red Ground , No. 5, 1948 ) and iconoclast novelist Jack Kerouac ( The Town and the City , Big Sur ). [4]

Provincetown, Massachusetts Town in Massachusetts, United States

Provincetown is a New England town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod in Barnstable County, Massachusetts, in the United States. A small coastal resort town with a year-round population of just under 3,000, Provincetown has a summer population of as high as 60,000. Often called "P-town" or "P'town", the town is known for its beaches, harbor, artists, tourist industry, and its status as a vacation destination for the LGBTQ community.

Cape Cod National Seashore protected area

The Cape Cod National Seashore (CCNS), created on August 7, 1961 by President John F. Kennedy, encompasses 43,607 acres on Cape Cod, in Massachusetts. It includes ponds, woods and beachfront of the Atlantic coastal pine barrens ecoregion. The CCNS includes nearly 40 miles (64 km) of seashore along the Atlantic-facing eastern shore of Cape Cod, in the towns of Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet, Eastham, Orleans and Chatham. It is administered by the National Park Service.

United States Life-Saving Service Precursor to the U.S. Coast Guard

The United States Life-Saving Service was a United States government agency that grew out of private and local humanitarian efforts to save the lives of shipwrecked mariners and passengers. It began in 1848 and ultimately merged with the Revenue Cutter Service to form the United States Coast Guard in 1915.

During each one of the seven days Bannon spent at C-Scape Dune Shack, he wrote and recorded a piano-driven track through a portable and solar-powered setup. [5] After he returned home, The Red Chord's Mike McKenzie recorded additional guitars for the final track, "Be Still My Heart". [3] The musical pieces he recorded during the seven-day excursion were compiled into the Dunedevil album, while the visual pieces (journal entries, paintings and photographs) were compiled into the nearly 300-page Dunedevil book. Commenting on the spontaneity of the project, Bannon said: "I didn't go out there with the intention to make a book, I went there with the intention to make stuff, but I like what I did so I'm going to share it with people." [3]

The Red Chord American deathgrind band

The Red Chord is an American metal band from Revere, Massachusetts, formed in 1999. The group comprises vocalist Guy Kozowyk, guitarist/vocalist Mike "Gunface" McKenzie, bassist Greg Weeks and drummer Michael Justian. The band gained a fanbase with its 2002 debut album Fused Together in Revolving Doors. The second album, Clients, was released in 2005 and sold over 50,000 copies in the U.S. They released their third album, Prey for Eyes in 2007, which sold between 4,000 and 5,000 copies and debuted at No. 198 on the Billboard 200 chart. Their latest album, 2009's Fed Through the Teeth Machine, debuted at No. 180 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Track listing

  1. "Invitation" – 4:55
  2. "Great White" – 4:48
  3. "Insects" – 2:51
  4. "Outsiders" – 2:26
  5. "Relic" – 5:07
  6. "Steps" – 4:48
  7. "Be Still My Heart" – 4:30

Personnel

Dunedevil album personnel adapted from LP liner notes. [1]

Dunedevil book

Dunedevil: An Artistic Journey Into Abstraction and Isolation
Author Jacob Bannon
IllustratorJacob Bannon
Cover artistJacob Bannon
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Publication date
May 19, 2017
Pages300
ISBN 978-0-692-79191-2

Dunedevil: An Artistic Journey Into Abstraction and Isolation is an art book and journal by Jacob Bannon. Created during the same week-long excursion as the Dunedevil album, the nearly 300-page book largely features Bannon's abstract paintings (including that piece that eventually became the cover art for both the book and album), but also includes brief daily diary entries and photography. The diary entries detail his daily activities, which also helps to illustrate the context behind the album's track titles. In an excerpt from "Day 2" he wrote: "I crawled into bed and read news of a great white shark seen just four feet from the beach today. Likely it was preying on the seals that have been keeping me company." [6]

The book primarily features the work of Bannon, but also includes a foreword written by tattoo artist Thomas Hooper and additional photography by Reid Haithcock and his wife Janelle Bannon. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 Dunedevil (Media notes). Self-Released. 2017. LP label. WYW002.
  2. 1 2 3 New Noise Staff (May 9, 2017). "Wear Your Wounds Announces Forthcoming Book 'Dunedevil'". New Noise Magazine. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Morton, Luke (May 12, 2017). "Why Jacob Bannon locked himself away in the dunes for his new album". Metal Hammer . Future Publishing. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
  4. 1 2 Repanshek, Kurt (October 12, 2009). "What to Do With the 'Dune Shacks' At Cape Cod National Seashore?". National Park Service . Retrieved May 14, 2017.
  5. ↑ Kamiński, Karol (May 9, 2017). "J. Bannon of Converge announce new book 'Dunedevil' / side project Wear Your Wounds announce new LP companion". Idioteq. Retrieved May 14, 2017.
  6. 1 2 Bannon, Jacob (2017). Dunedevil: An Artistic Journey Into Abstraction and Isolation. ISBN   978-0-692-79191-2.
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