! March was a very hectic month for us D.evolution.Aires !

Our new album CESTUI QUE VIE is now off in Switzerland getting mastered! Taking swiss chocolate to a WHOLE NEW LEVEL!

Justin Bustin has resowed his vows as a DJ and is a weekly resident @ Belltown’s newest speakeasy The Upstairs. You can catch him with at least 100 lbs. of vinyl spinning class A tunes from the 60′s – 70′s! Check the Upstairs Facebook for dates!

Tim Tom has been flying all over the world beatin’ the skins! Puttin the pro-in productivity and professional. Laying down beat after sick beat. 

Russ Bass has now collected 4-5 decrypted basses and morphed them into one crazy sonic experiment. Think Cliff Burton meets Serge Koussevitzky on pot.

“The action was hot and heavy; the bass player was banging and plucking like a mad man. I swear I saw the soul of a stand-up bass in that boy, damn he was good….. ”

Click HERE for the full article on D.evolution.Aires CESTUI QUE VIE launch show with Barton Carroll Electric Band + The Sterling Loons

D.evolution.Aires departed Seattle on Wednesday the 15th of February in route to the wintertide of Montreal.

They had only four days to record, mix and finish their second album CESTUI QUE VIE.  It seemed somewhat of a dare to themselves, not only in time but also of expectations. You have to be satisfied at the end of those four days or you wasted a lot of money and don’t have a completed album. Most people nowadays know of all the digital contraptions that can “perfect” a recording, the limitless editing by a mouse, the mathematical fader equations… the “modeled” equipment.

From watching D.evolution.Aires at work, this album is none of that. This album is raw, electrical alternating currents captured by magnets from SPACE.

The first day of recording was like Rondel Melendez. Their first take usually the keeper, full of chaos and loads of energy. The sonic canvas was laid down to a nicely maintained vintage analog 2″ tape machine and console that was driven hard like a drag racer right out of the gate.

Luckily and completely ironic - the band and I were staying only two blocks away from the studio in an industrial loft space that after a long recording session served up good tunes via a nice record collection and sound system, a nicely blended mix of Irish Whiskey and Canadian lagers in the fridge and enough cigarettes to feed Greece.

Average sleeping hours per day: 4.

The second day was set aside to re-track the vocals, percussion, synth, piano and beer bottle over-dubs.  The overdubs were done simultaneously to save on time. If one song had a cowbell, triangle and tambourine – well… that was nicely divisible by 3, so each one of them would pick up their tool of choice and record together to one track, find their sweet spot in the room and mix by distance to the mic. The overdubs were nailed leaving us a nice window of time in the evening to eat some delicious greasy burgers, pulled pork sandwiches and come back and listen later in order for them to write out the mix ideas for the following day.

Day three was a challenge. It appeared like strolling into a candy store when your stoned but realize you only have $1.00. You want everything but you can only afford so much. I was told that usually mixing the first track sets up many of the remaining songs. The drums may be mixed the same way, the bass, etc….

This wasn’t the case with these songs!

It was amazing how much character and sonic alchemy all this gear had. Each track became it’s own masterpiece, it’s own symphony. The engineers would disappear, come back with another mystery box and then all of sudden take an already amazing sound and make it better. The patchbay began to look like a bag of worms. By the end of day three they had mixed nearly half of the album which was I was told was slightly behind schedule.

On their final day, one of the engineers had a family emergency so they were down a man in the studio. I remember their first question out loud was “so we’re finishing the album today?” To a nicely received “whatever it takes.”

We were there, nowhere else .. all hands on deck ready to take the final tracks to the same level…. and they did.

Every mix was done on the fly, mute this track here, hit those faders here, pan this here… If you fucked up, then you’d have to do it all over. Everyone in the group got a chance to be part of this album, from multi-instrumental performances, singing to mixing. Even if these lads had the album planned, it is my strong belief that something that nobody planned was at play here… Magnum Opus.

- this excerpt was written by Steven Jones who has followed obscure bands and chronicled their projects for the last 15 years. He is based in Austin, Texas and is compiling a book for release in 2013.

Our disc STUMBLE CULTURE will be in the bright, shiny, light filled music station at Sonic Boom records the entire month of October!

You can save yourself $2 on the physical disc by supporting your local music shop vs. buying the digital version via Itunes or Amazon.

Well we prefer to meet you, shake your hand and toss you a disc, freshly wrapped, nice art and get PHYSICAL, but we can go DIGITAL.

Well, looking back at this year and wee bit in to 2010, it has been a dandy time for the group! We spent the last portion of 2010 in the studio, working with many talented musicians, engineers, artists and videographers, then in early 2011 started to work with Bestiario Producciones to put together our tour of Argentina. After numerous shows, national press, radio and tv we hit those bucolic streets and airwaves and continue to make fans from Argentina daily. Our songs continue to spread like “mildfire.” ja ja ja.

Towards the end of this year we will put out what’s left of our inventory of the disc STUMBLE CULTURE throughout the West Coast and play shows at our favorite local spots around town once a month. We will occasionally make some treks South (Olympia, Portland, SanFran, etc) when the invites are there but this “diet” will give us the time we need to stay solid, but also to focus on writing new material because……

In February of 2012 we are heading to Montreal to record our next album entitled CESTUI QUE VIE

This album will be tracked live, limited to 16 tracks, completely analog and absolutely raw compared to the persnickety production of STUMBLE CULTURE.

Our sound is beginning to anger, so I think this approach, plus the addition of leaving Seattle, will help us channel all of our non compos mentis energies and devout spirits into creating what I hope to be an elevated sense of musicianship and friendship amongst the three of us.

In the meantime, please continue to keep stopping by our site for the latest info and show dates.

Thanks for being a part of our family!
Justin “Bustin” Roeser

D.evolution.Aires were excited to be part of the first edition of Seattle Weekly’s new REVERB magazine!

“Rollicking, gutbusting rock and roll fronted by Justin Roeser’s ample vocals, their melodies are occasionally directionless, but their
high octane energy is appealing” Erin Thompson, Seattle Weekly