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Total Request: 1245 (810 downloads, 435 plays)
Request since monday Aug 30: 5 (5 downloads, 0 plays)
Year: 2008
Location: Chicago, Illinois
Categorized as: Rock, Pop
Comments: 2 comments
Members:
Joe Daley : Drums, Blair Douglass : Electric Bass Guitar, Paul Foreman : Guitar, Vocals, Synths/Organ, Nick Rocchio : Guitar, Vocals, Synths/Organ

Soft Speaker's third single, A Violent Parade, was released in July, 2010. Artwork was designed by Mark Milic of Modularlab. Both songs were recorded at the band's rehearsal space, mixed by Joe Cheesman and mastered by Carl Saff. To celebrate the release, "Grand Parade" and "Violently Shaking" were packaged along with the songs from their previous digital releases as a six-track singles collection. Fans in attendance at their July 10, 2010 Schubas show received beer mats featuring the Modularlab-designed artwork and a download code.
2010,
Stranger In The Alps, Soft Speaker's second EP, was recorded at Phantom Manor and the band's rehearsal space throughout 2009 and was released on February 26, 2010 on limited edition cd and as a digital download. It was mixed by TW Walsh and mastered by Carl Saff. The artwork was designed by Mark Milic at Modularlab. All songs were written by Nick Rocchio and Paul Foreman.

Soft Speaker's second single, Concerning Your Memoirs / Maybe Baby, was released in September, 2009 as a free digital download through the band's website. Philadelphia-based artist, Ian Eckert, was commissioned to create an original pen and ink drawing for the sleeve. Both songs were recorded live, with no overdubs, at Gallery of Carpet Recording in Villa Park, Illinois by Brian Zieske, who also handled mixing and mastering. "Concerning Your Memoirs" was written by Paul Foreman and "Maybe Baby" is a Buddy Holly cover.

Soft Speaker's first EP, Conditions, was released in April of 2009 on white vinyl (500 copies) and cd. Philadelphia-based artist, Ian Eckert, was commissioned to create an original pencil and ink piece for the vinyl sleeve. The band's bassist, Blair Douglass, designed an alternate sleeve for the cd version. All songs were recorded at the band's rehearsal space in Chicago's West Loop, mixed by Darin Phillips and mastered by Carl Saff. The cd version includes a bonus track, a remix of "The Great Brick Mosque & I," by the UK-based band d_rradio. Gabriel Stutz contributed pedal steel to "Barbershop Quintet." Writing credits are as follows:
Paul Foreman: Burden You, Barbershop Quintet, Danger Red & Breaking Bones
Nick Rocchio: Mercury Park & Don't Read The Rags

Soft Speaker's debut single, The Great Brick Mosque & I / Effects Will Show Soon, was released in November of 2008 as a free digital download through the band's website with a limited number of cds also produced. UK-based artist, Andy Council, contributed a painting for the sleeve. Both songs were recorded at the band's rehearsal space in Chicago's West Loop, mixed by Darin Phillips and mastered by Carl Saff. "Brick Mosque" was written by Paul Foreman and "Effects" by Nick Rocchio. "Brick Mosque" was later remixed by the UK-based band d_rradio and included on the cd version of the band's Conditions EP.
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Glad you like the art. Mark Milic of Modularlab (www.modularlab.com) did the Alps artwork. An artist from Philadelphia, Ian Eckert, did the Conditions and Memoirs/Maybe Baby sleeve.
Paul