Patience Book
Undefined / Undefined
Oftentimes stories of complex origin and pleasant resolve read without effort, saturated with charm and lulling semantics. But more often than not, storybook resolution refrains from appearing all at once and sometimes its very absence is what gives a story its shape and honesty. The diary of The Patience Book is as long as it is complicated. It is also unresolved and unfinished. The architecture through which this band constructs its music is alive and it is held up by ten thousand crumbling pillars that stand together so tightly. After nearly three years of calculable defeat, loss, and sedition the Patience Book has continually awoken on tired legs and smiled with honest sorrow. The sound they produce and the instruments that speak them have always conversed in voices that not even the band understood for many years. The Patience Book writes music at night with the lights off. They speak passionately about the phrases and think only through song. The layered sounds chronicle the sorrow of The Patience Book with painful honesty and texture. They reflect the band and the life of the group as a documentary would, with complexity, sadness and integrity through each succeeding unit of time.
In the fall of 2000 Brittany Collins (vocals, guitar) and Kyle Arneson (guitar), collided on an obscure 4th floor hallway of their University. Brittany’s previous band, Shrinking Violet, had recently dissolved following an album release with Brain Floss Records. Kyle was also looking for some new musical cohorts after a few years of various experimental projects. Along with David Zulaica (synthesizers) and Sharon Mackey (drums), Brittany and Kyle began writing songs together in the sleepy suburbs of Los Angeles. Across town, Christopher Morabito (bass) was struggling to put his equally unmarketable degree to good use with limited success. Kyle and Christopher had been old friends, and so Christopher was invited to join the fledgling band.
After a handful of local shows, The Patience Book released Physics Under Quiet Lights in the fall of 2002. This early recording shows its charm in spite of some rough edges. The songs are catchy yet intricate, with scores of layered guitar, violins, and vintage synthesizer tones. Christine Lee (violins, keyboards) had been recruited just to record the violin parts on Physics… but the band adored her so much that they invited her to remain as a full time member.
After a very complicated and long duration David and Sharon left the band for other pursuits in 2003. Things went quiet for a long while as the remaining core members took time to solidify the songs and find the necessary elements now missing. They stood and fell through countless dissolve but found it impossible to be silent with each other. The music took breath on its own as the band finally found its voice during this time. The Patience Book learned to repeat its being in sound and song, finding bittersweet veracity through complication. They also found home and friendship in Devil in the Woods who heard the whispers of promise and gave them what was needed to actualize their potential. As for the origin of the name, it was inspired by two different E.E. Cummings poems.
Now, after nearly three very long years of writing and performing The Patience Book is working on their first full-length record, to be released by Devil in the Woods in 2004
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