The continuing saga of Falling August

[chanaleh]

For the uninitiated: Falling August was this band at Brandeis in the late '80s and early '90s. I maintain their only known fan page. This year, after some nudging from me, they also finally put up their own page at www.fallingaugust.com with -- joy of joys! -- free MP3s of every recorded song off their three albums. The site went down for several weeks shortly after it went up, then it was back (and right now it seems to be gone again, ugh!). But anyway, my page is still the top Google hit, and every so often (in fact, rather more often than you might believe), random people email me regarding the band.

While we were away last month, I got no fewer than 3 such emails. Two from fans -- and one from their audio engineer, Rob Lehmann (incidentally, also chair of Audio Media & Technology at the New England Institute of Art). Hey, he said, I found your page, Steve just had me remaster all the old albums to CD, I'd be happy to send you one since you're such a big fan, would you like a copy? Would I like a copy???

The CD came end of last week. I was so excited when I brought the mail in, J was like, "What *is* that?" :-) We were heading out on some errands shortly thereafter, so as soon as we got into the car, I popped the disc in and cranked it up.

It was -- like finding part of my heart that I had forgotten was missing. It sounds great.

Plus, with the more overt Celtic-folk-rock style on the surface of the music, I'd kinda forgotten the subtle but pervasive Jewishness about it. If that wasn't a conscious part of what I originally responded to in it, it certainly is now. (Interestingly, at a Jewish young-adult leadership conference in November, I went to a very cool session about Rebooters.net -- "redefining Jewish identity and community" -- wherein it was mentioned that Daniel Sokatch, a.k.a. the former FA lead singer, is one of their number. I think I let out an audible "Oh!". I am deeply amused, though not, I guess, surprised.)

I've already made one copy for tapuz, who was just as "bounce! bounce!" as I was. Anyone else? (Ping me with your mailing address at chanaleh@lj if there's no obvious time to hand it off in the next month or so. Worst case, I suspect I'll bring a few to Arisia, where I am likely to see many of you. :-)

Happy Thanksgiving, y'all.

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