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Members: Scott Weigel, Bill Weigel, Joe Ledbetter, Tom Risse, Ruth Maurice, Steve Sparapani

Hello there! We have finally updated our site with some new music from our latest album, La Guitarra (see bio below). It is available for purchase everywhere on the interwebs...

- Scott

Absinthe Glow - La Guitarra
Northern California's Absinthe Glow recorded their latest album, La Guitarra, at their Santa Cruz Mountain studio using the most basic, yet time-tested, techniques to create the rich musical textures found within this ambitious concept album. It's not often that such grandiose musical efforts are launched from such humble and elemental means, but the rawness of their approach only accentuates the sophisticated lyrics and arrangements of this bold new record. Acoustic guitars and complex harmonies combine with the sounds of running water, farm animals and bullfrogs in the night to lay the foundation for the songs. Electric instruments, percussion and the electronic wizardry of producer Alex Bonnie (Kid Loco, Cornu, Julie Bonnie, Jarvis Cocker) give the music an angry edge tempered by accordions, violin and cello.

La Guitarra is Absinthe Glow's second full length and represents a thematic and musical departure from their 2004 debut album while retaining its essentially acoustic guitar based roots. The album tells a tale of love, life, friendship, loyalty, corruption and greed. The story, sung in both English and Spanish, details the interweaving lives of 6 friends, a guitar and the songs of a troubadour and their lifetime in a mythological town on a hill. Songwriters Scott and Bill Weigel created this musical allegory while holed up in their studio over the course of the darkest days in recent history. The brothers were able to draw upon such diverse influences as the Machiavellian methods ever present in current politics, Joseph Campbell's Meta Myth and the poetry of Federico García Lorca to create a timeless tale of political intrigue.

Musical influences are equally diverse. One can hear elements of Elliott Smith, Brian Wilson, Kid Loco, Air, REM, and Tarmac.
The record was mixed at Holy Roch Records, producer Alex Bonnie's cave/studio dug deep into cliffs that line the banks of the Loire River. Alex's obsession with detail and nuance create a multilayered listening experience that continually surprises and challenges - every trip through these fourteen songs will present the listener with a new, unique musical journey.