Working on new material for Eisenhauer, as well as writing for other projects, the Burdens Down (Hank Williams style country band), and Podvig (Refused style punk band). Hopefully a concert will happen soon.

12/25/2010

Merry Christmas. Almost exactly 1 year ago, Eisenhauer ‘turned off’. It was a much needed break, but we are regrouping, writing new material, and discussing a new recording for the new year. Thanks for keeping in touch.

12/01/2009

EISENHAUER will be turning off for a while. We are going on a Christmas tour this
December, 2009. Than we might disappear for a while and possibly re-appear down
the road somewhere.

IN THE MEAN TIME, my wife Sheree Plett is releasing a new album this January, 2010,
and than she is releasing a new baby in March 2010. We hope to do some family tours
this summer, but who knows what will happen.

THANKS for all the fun these past few years. We’ll hopefully see you in a while.

11/10/2009
Christmas Tour 2009 (& Babies)

This December we are hitting the road full band for a Christmas tour in Western Canada. Dates are coming real soon. Also! My lovely wife is having a baby soon! So we’ll be taking a break once the new year roles around. Stay updated on our other blog if you please!

tourtourtour.tumblr.com

I said before that I deleted the Eisenhauer facebook page. Turns out I don’t really know how to do that. So it’s still there for you to enjoy, but the updates will be scarce at best.

09/09/2009

The rumors are true – we are touring again. This fall Eisenhauer kicks it with Lance Odegard and, of course, Sheree Plett. We’re doing 6 or 7 shows in BC and Alberta. Look a little to your right for all the dates.

Over the past months I’ve take some what of a leave of absence from the blog, website and myspace. I plan on maintaining it somewhat – but we will be blogging everyday day on tour – and those posts will go up on Tvitter if you need another excuse to sit around and wait for our posts.

It’ll be great to back on the road for a few days! And even greater to see a few familiar faces in Calgary and Edmonton and so on. Please come and say hi and hear the new line up

13/08/2009

It’s been a while! Home from tours, and planning more – including a tour with Lance Odegard in BC and Alberta this September. Look for dates soon.

Also! In an effort to slow down, I have deleted the EISENHAUER Facebook group, and am no longer Twittering. Weird turn of events? We went from blogging, facebooking, twittering, websiting and myspacing on the tour. TOO MUCH! I hope this will slow things down for us, and for you too.

Enjoy

05/20/2009

Last week Jere(me) went into the CBC Radio 3 headquarters in Vancouver for an interview with Tariq. It was awesome.

And here is the interview:

In-Conversation-Eisenhauer – CBC Radio 3

Enjoy!

04/14/2009

Check it out!
We’re now keeping tabs on our tours! You can read about them here on the TourTourTour blog. The plan is that we are going to try and take you with us when we tour. We’re calling it a ‘Real-Time’ Documentary. We’ll be touring for all of June and some of July this summer all across Canada (Vancouver to Halifax and everywhere in between). So the hope is that every day, we’ll blog about what is happening, take some pictures, and videos etc.
If you’re a twitterer, you can also look us up there: twitter.com/tourtourtour.

Right now both these sites are set up as retrospective sites – documenting our last tour in April. We will be posting updates on the goings on of booking, promoting and all the other junk that goes with booking long tours.

Thanks for all you who came to the shows on the BC/Ab tour earlier this month. It was wicked fun.
Word!

03/25/2009
REVIEWS!

We haven’t gotten too many reviews for the new album. But the ones we have gotten have been great!

Check it!

Exclaim! review.
DiSCORDER review.

Leaving for tour in a week. Playing tonight with IMR and the Magic.ian, Lance Odegard CD release show tomorrow night (March 26, 2009) at St. James Hall (Sheree Plett opens with band). Good things!

13/02/2009
Tours are being booked:
-In April you will find us in Kelowna, Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer.
-In June you will find us touring from Vancouver to Halifax.

Until than, we’re playing around town at some fun events and recording Sheree’s new album in March. If all goes well, we’ll be doing short or long tours every month from April until October/November. Stay tuned for more dates.

02/02/2009
We struggle on.
Over the past 10 or so months (and on and off for the past few years), we have been trying and trying to make music our career. No jobs, no set income, no hourly clocking in and out. It’s no easy task, but it can be so rewarding. Are we crazy? We are not on a big label, getting paid big money. We fund our own recordings, our own tours, our own publicity.

Some mornings I wake up and ask: Is music worth all this effort? Can an artist really make a living if he/she isn’t known on an international level? When is it time to get a job that pays real money? Why can’t I just go to work like most people, and make a descent living?

When it all boils down, I know that performing, and writing, and recording, these things are my crafts. And just because I can’t sell them at IKEA, doesn’t mean I can’t do everything possible to make my music my life.

So tell me what you think: info@eisenhauermusic.com. Some days we just need someone to tell us how it is. Most days, my wife does that for me, but today could be your day!
Yours-
Jeremy

02/01/2009
Thanks for making it out to our new site. We’re really glad it’s finally here. Check out the MERCH section for your copy of the new album and a limited supply of T’s.

Please also visit the links, and check out www.jamesmoes.com. He and his lovely wife did the illustrations for the album, and the website, and they are poor artists like us. Also visit www.wemakeone.com and send Steve Willows. all your money for his beautiful work on the design/layout of this site.

News:We’re finally releasing ‘Time of Year’ in stores all over the country. January 13th, 2009 is the official in-store release. Also please phone or email your local college/coop radio station and request Eisenhauer!

Shows: We’re booking Canadian and US tours for April and a whole bunch of crazy stuff for June/July and hopefully September. If you want us to play in your house, let us know!

Other than that, we’re recording a new full length ‘Sheree Plett’ album in March. Watch for it!

December 3-Kelowna, BC: House show

December 4-Fernie, BC: Brickhouse

December 5-Calgary, AB: House show

December 6- Calgary, AB: House of Commons

December 7-Lethbridge, AB: House show

December 8-Camrose, AB: House show

December 9- Edmonton, AB: Haven Social Club

December 10-Jasper, AB: Whistle Stop Pub

December 11-Prince George, BC: Art Space

December 12-Quesnel, BC: House Show

December 13-Kamloops, BC: Knutsford Community Hall

December 14-Vancouver, BC: The Orphanage

December 17-North Vancouver, BC: Christmas Presence

December 18-Abbotsford, BC: Christmas Presence

December 19-Vancouver, BC: Christmas Presence

A busy Canadian tour schedule ensued for about two years, where the band began to learn how to perform, while discovering more about who they were musically.

After performing new material for several months of touring, EISENHAUER recorded their sophomore release, ‘TIME OF YEAR’. At the time, it seemed there was a lot more direction in the sonic feel of the music.

After many, many more Canadian shows in bars with next to no people (from Vancouver to St. John’s Newfoundland), Eisenhauer began to turn to performing in homes and small halls, rather than bars. It noticeably softened the sound of the band, and began to shape into something more ‘folk sounding’ than desired by main songwriter, Jeremy Eisenhauer.

Around a year and half ago, Jeremy decided it was time for a break from his own music. He devoted most of his time to writing and performing with his wife, Sheree Plett, who was releasing a new album at the time, and they performed numerous shows all over Canada with their band ‘Eastside Jubilee’.

During his break from performing as ‘EISENHAUER’, Jeremy delved into genre’s of music more rooted to his formative years of music. He formed a four piece punk band called PODVIG with his little brother Jordan, and friends Aaron and Christian Zenga (of the film making/bike building fame ‘Zenga Bros’).

In playing more aggressive music for a year or so, while focusing on laborious work in carpentry, and becoming a father, Jeremy has written a new group of songs all based around the idea of Labor and Manhood. The resulting sound is much more bare, and more aggressive than previous material.

EISENHAUER is returning to the stage soon in Vancouver to celebrate their 5 year anniversary. They are also hoping to release a new EP or full album in 2011, and there is talk of a tour again this summer for the first time in two years.

BIO FOR ‘TIME OF YEAR‘, 2009

The seasons make us up. They weather us, shape us, get inside of us and sway our moods. They cause us to stay indoors on cold dreary nights, or run outside on warm afternoons. It’s in this reality that TIME OF YEAR finds its context. The sophomore release from Vancouver quintet EISENHAUER brings these seasons to life, creating a soundtrack to our Canadian year.
Tracks like “City in the Country” and “I Will Not Let Go” call for snow with the wet, dreary wind of tremolo-clad electric guitars, mixed with twinkling piano, lapsteel and banjo that somehow sounds like a cold winter night when the snow first falls. Subtle and intelligent drum and bass parts entwine to make these songs complete, like the pulse of a cold body trying to stay warm. The indie-pop gem, “Feel the Same”, warms the listener right back up again. The lyrics ‘dusty summer air spins swirls around your head, slowly as the morning floods the bed” chime out, and cant help but evoke an air of summer love. Front man Jeremy Eisenhauer has taken noticeable strides and leaps as a melodist and songwriter since bands 2006 debut album “To Those Impressed”.
Beyond just stirring up nostalgia for seasons past and present, EISENHAUER digs deeper. The opening track, “Face Painter” touches on the loss of innocence of today’s youth to mass media. “Harder to Know” packs a brave statement for today’s world: “It’s harder to know that love we don’t show, will be the end of it all. So here’s to hoping at all”. “Oh America” rings out like an anthem, expressing a sense of endearment for our western world, seeming to choose love a motive for change, rather than the cynical path most commonly walked.
TIME OF YEAR was written over the past two years, in different cities all over North America. The band spent 3 months straight touring from Canada’s east to west in the spring and summer months of 2007. Following that, Jeremy Eisenhauer and wife Sheree Plett (also a rising singer/songwriter in Canada’s thriving indie music scene) recorded a Christmas album, combining the powers of the two songwriters in one album. Within the month, the record was finished and they flew off to Eastern Canada for another tour to complete the goal of playing music in every city in Canada. Upon their return home, they released the Christmas album and within 2 weeks were back on the road in Western Canada for another 40 some shows in November and December of 2007 alone.
Exhausted from 8 months of non-stop touring, recording, and more touring, the band took some time off to write and record TIME OF YEAR. With prominent indie-rock producer Jonathan Anderson (In Medias Res / Stabilo / Kensington Priarie) at the board, they took to the studio for 2 weeks of intense recording. The album was tracked in Jonathan’s cozy suburban studio Buena Vista Audio. Wanting to retain the urgent ‘tension and release’ of their live show, the inner core of the songs were recorded in a live fashion – drums bass and rhythm guitar. Plenty of lush overdubs – featuring a near symphony of organ, horns, clarinet, cello, bells, Wurlitzer, Rhodes, cardboard boxes, choir, and anything they could get their hands on – were added in the following days. The intertwining vocal harmonies of Sheree and Jeremy are a constant in the sound of EISENHAUER and a thread running through much of the album. Like the basic core instruments, they were nearly all recorded live, face-to-face, giving the album a tangible sense of intimacy. Then the results were mixed and sifted into place with warm textures and ambiance by Jonathan.
TIME OF YEAR was mastered by Ed Brooks (Death Cab for Cutie, Fleet Foxes) at RFI CD Mastering in Seattle WA. The professionalism of the finishing touch is a complimentary match to the recording and musicianship of the album on the whole.

“With masterful indie-pop songwriting hooks and formula, Time Of The Year doesn’t waste a second in establishing its passionate and turbulent beauty…The shared vocals between lead man Jeremy Eisenhauer and Sheree Plett, his wife, superbly bind everything together, making for an extremely enjoyable listening experience… This album is nearly as good as it gets and deserves a spot in any music lover’s collection.”
-DiSCORDER (March, 2009)

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TRACKLISTING:

Face Painter     3:27
Feel the Same        3:29
Will Not Let Go        5:22
Harder to Know        4:47
What Have I Done?        4:26
Sundays        4:16
Oh America        4:40
All My Life        4:03
City In the Country        5:00
Time of Year        6:05

To Those Impressed – 2006

TRACKLISTING:

To My Wife        3:00
Need to Know        3:38
Alter        1:44
All In A Winter Time Smoke        5:55
Hope Somehow        5:25
Eyes Held Head        4:18
Because of These        4:39
Perfect Position        4:45
Of Winnipeg        3:32