Melt – Out Now!

Melt, The Splendors’ second recording effort, is out. Available only in the Ithaca, NY area and online, try your luck at local record stores like Small World Music, Volume Records, and No Radio Records or at the internet vendors CDBaby.com, VelvetMusic.nl, Funkyside.com, and CDShark.com. Free copies and a short bio are available upon request to anyone who is planning to write a review of the album or a story on the band.
Email: splendors@thesplendors.com

Track list:

America, Unexpectedly
Here I Am
Pictures of you
Seamstress
Gave Me Tears
Voyage
For You I’ll Always Yearn
One of these Days
Babe, I’m Your Lover
Meestal Regent ‘t
I Heard You Sing That Song
Being Dead

All songs are originals penned by The Splendors. Bass player Jim Turner wrote the lyrics for Seamstress. Kathy Ziegler played piano and organ on several tracks and provided backing vocals on Babe, I’m Your Lover. Sound magician Greg McGrath recorded most of the songs at The Shack in Mecklenburg, NY and MonkSound in Ithaca, NY. He also mixed and produced the album. Matt Saccuccimorano, who mastered the album, recorded Here I Am, Seamstress, and I Heard You Sing That Song at Electric Wilburland in Newfield, NY.

Current line-up of The Splendors:

Jairo van Lunteren – Vocals, Guitars
Sid Green – Guitars
Jim Turner – Bass
Gregg Lightfoot – Drums

We still have copies available of our self-titled debut album as well. That album, which won the Ithaca Journal’s Jimmie Award for Rock Album of the Year in 2005 was recorded, mixed and produced by former Donna the Buffalo-bass player Bill Reynolds, who went on to produce an album of the Avett Brothers and is currently the bass player for Band of Horses.