new website + blog

Hi - just a quick note to let everyone know that we've updated our website and we're actually using. So we won't be making many myspace blog posts anymore, unless it's really important.

http://gregorsamsa.com

Also you can follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/gregor_samsa

thanks and take care,

-gs

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Rest - Packaging, Release Dates, etc

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"rest" streaming online

every sunday evening, starting january 13th 2008, we'll be uploading a song from our new album, "rest". hope you enjoy.

note that this will not be in the regular myspace music player as it doesn't allow more than six songs at a time!

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New Album, "Rest" - FINISHED
Category: Music

Happy Holidays...

New years tend to bring on new things, and this year, it's with great pleasure that we announce the completion of our latest full-length album, Rest. It's been a long, ambitious and challenging project, but one tends to forget all that with the fruits of the labor in hand.

We can't mention this album without also mentioning the huge cast of people that put it together:

Instrumentation:
Nikki King - Voice, Piano, Rhodes, Vibraphone
Billy Bennett - Drums, Percussion, Guitar, Bass, Vibraphone, Piano, Synth
Champ Bennett - Piano, Voice, Guitar, Drums, Bass, Vibraphone, Mellotron, Celesta,
Synth, Rhodes, String Arrangements
Jeremiah Klinger - Baritone Guitar, Guitar, Clarinet, Piano
Cory Bise - Bass, Baritone
Mia Matsumiya - Violin
Toby Driver - Clarinet, Guitar, Bass, String Arrangements
Andrew Miller - Cello
Alex Aldi - Synth
Alan Weatherhead - Guitar
Rick Alverson - Voice, Titles
Debra Wassum - Voice

Engineered By:
Alex Aldi @ Gigantic
Champ Bennett @ Viking Studios & Pencil Factory

Mixed By:
Alan Weatherhead @ Sound of Music

Mastered By:
Mark Christensen @ Engine Room Audio

Track Listing:
1. The Adolescent
2. Ain Leuh
3. Abutting, Dismantling
4. Company
5. Jeroen Van Aken
6. Rendered Yards
7. Pseudonyms
8. First Mile, Last Mile
9. Du Meine Leise


It will be available to you in a variety of formats as well as a variety of countries in April, or perhaps even sooner (more details on this soon).

Lastly, we'll be taking our 3rd trip to Europe during the month of May. Again, more details soon!

-GS

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the mean of all our choices

as usual, creating albums for us is a long process. organizing 6-7 people living in 5 different states all with little money to spare is a challenge of epic proportions. but there is light at the end of the proverbial tunnel.

all of the basic tracking is finished. there's still quite a bit of overdub work to be done, but it's moving along nicely these days. the album consists of 10 songs and will be our longest to date clocking in at around 60 mins. all of these pieces were written through email and not a single rehearsal was had until 3 days before we entered the studio**. this forced experiment was quite a thrilling approach to writing and it's safe to say that it resulted in somewhat of a departure from what we've been doing in the past.

we've received many requests asking about when the album is coming out and i'd like to address them all at once. release dates this early in the game are typically a jinx, but if all deadlines are met and things go well, we'll see a release in late april. It's about 8 months later than we'd hoped, but that's how it goes with these projects. if gregor samsa ever starts writing solo acoustic albums, i promise to meet our projected release dates.

i suppose that's it for now. one more thing, the brother's bennett have welcomed the addition of a new member to the family: sarah nikki king joined us by way of marriage in sept, increasing the total number of related gs members to four. who better to play music with than the ones you love?

enjoy yourselves,

c



**i have to use this space to give a quick shout out to our boy alex aldi who has pretty much blown our collective minds with his supportiveness of this album. we'll be happy to say that we knew him before he was famous.

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New Album

Just a quick update about the new album.

We'll be spending most of March in the studio recording a new full length album. No release date has been set. We'll post more info soon...

We'll tour the US and Europe around the time the album comes out.

take care

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A State - Dec 9 2006

Hello winter months. We're freezing.

There are lots of new songs awaiting completion and plans to release a new album in the works. Nothing official yet, but soon... soon. Expect our most ambitious album to date, complete with sounds you've never heard from us. Actually, perhaps it's better to not expect anything at all.

Thanks to everyone who has supported 55:12, both domestically and abroad. The results continue to be pleasant.

Be well... enjoy the coming holidays.

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