Jennifer Gentle / Evanescent Land EP - 4065895

Jennifer Gentle’s Evanescent Land CD-EP.

Released: July 28, 2008

Jennifer Gentle / The Midnight Room - SP738

Two years after the release of Jennifer Gentle’s critically acclaimed Sub Pop debut Valende, the Italian psychedelic avant-pop explorers are back with The Midnight Room. And, while the band is five members strong when they play live, with the recent departure of drummer Alessio Gastaldello, the recorded Jennifer Gentle is now solely the project of founder and songwriter Marco Fasolo. Marco wrote, performed and produced the entire new album alone in his Ectoplasmic Studio, a rambling old house lost in the foggy plains of Northern Italy, infamous for its previous owner’s suicide by rifle.

And, perhaps fittingly, the new record pulses with a nocturnal, feverish, hallucinatory emotional atmosphere, making for a truly unique aural experience. Informed by a deep love for American ‘50s rock ‘n’ roll and European musicians like Nino Rota and Kurt Weill, The Midnight Room is by far the most personal Jennifer Gentle album to date. Focusing on the possibilities of the quintessential rock combo (two guitars, bass and drums) and enriched by swirling keyboard touches, Marco created an album that feels like music from some forgotten amusement park at midnight. Evoking bizarre, otherworldly images of gas-lit street corners, abandoned theatres, labyrinthine corridors, The Midnight Room marries the intensity of primitive rock ‘n’ roll with a renewed taste for a certain kind of typically Italian melody—albeit deconstructed, shattered and broken into tiny little bits. Think of Link Wray, Krysztof Komeda and Federico Fellini rolled into one short, dense, cryptic tour de force. And then think again.

Released: June 19, 2007

Jennifer Gentle / A New Astronomy - RS-ASP13

Jennifer Gentle – A New Astronomy

Released: February 26, 2007

Jennifer Gentle / Sacramento Sessions 5 of 3 - RS-ASP03

This is a very limited LP released by A Silent Place records; there were only 500 copies pressed, and we have much less than that. It is a live recording of a piece that they all composed and played on Davis California’s KDVS radio station. It is pressed on pinkish red vinyl and has a super slick gatefold sleeve along with some really freaky sounds.

Released: January 23, 2007

Jennifer Gentle / Valende - SP658

Hailing from Padova, Italy, Jennifer Gentle is not a girl. Jennifer Gentle is, in fact, a band made up of singer/guitarist Marco Fasolo and drummer Alessio Gastaldello (joined by various accomplices when they play live). Valende is their third full-length, and first for Sub Pop (their first two albums, I Am You Are and Funny Creatures Lane were released individually on Italy’s Sillyboy Entertainment, and together as a double CD under the name Ectoplasmic Garden Party by Australia’s Lexicon Devil label). The record was, like its predecessors, home-recorded by Marco and Alessio and it’s a psych pop charmer, drawing on the band’s own brand of musical dementia: an almost impossible-to-describe melting pot of whacked experimentation, deep fried eccentricity and acoustic beauty, drawing judiciously on the band’s long-term fascination with Syd Barrett, 13th Floor Elevators, and Joe Meek production techniques. Jennifer Gentle is also the first Italian band Sub Pop has ever signed (such is our deep affection for the band). But, again, Jennifer Gentle is not a girl.

Released: January 25, 2005

Jennifer Gentle / The Wrong Cage: Jennifer Gentle and Kawabata Makoto Live - SB004

A live record with Jennifer Gentle and Kawabata Makoto from Acid Mothers Temple.

Track Listing:

1. Bring Them – 14:29
2. Man From Mu – 5:50
3. Couple in bed by a green flashing light – 12:46

Released: November 1, 2004

Jennifer Gentle / Funny Creatures Lane - SB002

Jennifer Gentle’s second release on the Italian Sillyboy Ent. label.

Track Listing:

1. My Memories’ Book
2. Logoweed
3. Wondermarsh
4. Mad House
5. Oui, C’est Moi!
6. Floating Fraulein
7. Ectoplasmic Garden Party
8. The Stammering Ghost
9. Ultraviole Lady Opera
10. Lord Hypnosis
11. Couple In Bed By A Green Flashing Light
12. The Wax-Dolls Parade

Released: November 1, 2004

Jennifer Gentle / I Am You Are - SB001

Jennifer Gentle’s first release for the Italian Sillyboy Ent. label.

Track Listing:

1. Sound-Check
2. Sweet Girl, I Love You!
3. Rubber and South
4. Rudy’s Key-Balls
5. No Mind In My Mind
6. Bring Them
7. Always Been Together
8. The Strumpfhose Melodie
9. Caterpillar Song
10. Husbands
11. The Pilots
12. Since I’ve Seen The Seas

Jennifer Gentle / Jennifer Gentle Logo Shirt (American Apparel) - T-JENGENT

Your favorite Italian boys Jennifer Gentle now have T-shirts that you can get from Sub Pop World Headquarters. These were only available on their US tour, so if you missed them then, you can get the shirt now and act like you were there.

Released: June 1, 2005