ABSOLUT HOUSE Xuhui District, Cha LingBei lu no. 20, 6th floor, 茶陵北路20号X2创意空间6号楼，近斜土路
Info tkt: 021-51086789
June 24th, h. 20:30 (entrance 19:30)
Tkt price: 60 Yuan (students: 50 Yuan)
BIOGRAPHY
Jennifer Gentle are one of the most idiosyncratic, improbable, bizarre Italian bands ever. Hailing from Padova, a foggy town not so far from Venice, they have been the first Italian band to be signed by legendary US label Sub Pop Records (home of Nirvana, Soundgarden, Mudhoney and more recently the Shins). Collecting fans as different as Mark Arm (Mudhoney), Graham Coxon (Blur), Jarvis Cocker, Julian Cope and members of Architecture In Helsinki and Dandy Warhols, Jennifer Gentle has probably become the best known Italian indie band abroad.
The brainchild of singer/ guitarist Marco Fasolo and drummer Alessio Gastaldello, Jennifer Gentle was born at the end of 1999 as a vehicle for Marco’s songs and as a reaction to the sleepy state of the contemporary Italian musical climate. 
Hungry for 50’s rock n’ roll and crude garage punk, with an obvious soft spot for Barrett-era Pink Floyd, the band (at this point augmented by guitarist Isacco Maretto and bassist Nicola Crivellari) recorded its first album I am you are in 2001 and self-released it on their own Sillyboy Records.
Their second effort Funny Creatures Lane followed an year later. Even stranger and outrageously absurd than their first album, Funny Creatures Lane found a way to crawl out of Italy, getting noticed in the States and United Kingdom. Good reviews came, comparisons were made. The band teamed up with Japanese guitar legend Makoto Kawabata for an Italian tour and a beautifully loud live album titled The Wrong Cage. 
Both their studio albums got re-released as a double cd called Ectoplasmic Garden Party by Australian label Lexicon Devil – in late 2004, following the interest created by this release, Jennifer Gentle (now reduced to a duo comprising only Marco and Alessio) were signed by notorious Seattle label Sub Pop. Valende, ,a more acoustic oriented effort, followed in 2005 getting excellent reviews and cementing the band’s cult status in the States. Jennifer Gentle toured extensively the US, with sold-outs gigs in New York and Los Angeles, playing even a laser show at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle.
After releasing two more experimental works on Italian label A Silent Place, the Jennifers are currently working on their album, due for release in June 2007 always on Sub Pop Records, while US label Empyrean Records will release an expanded, deluxe version of Funny Creatures Lane in August 2007.
DISCOGRAPHY
2001 I am you are (cd, Sillyboy)
2002 Funny Creatures Lane (cd, Sillyboy)
2002 The wrong cage (cd, Sillyboy) live
2003 Ectoplasmic Garden Party (2cd, Lexicon Devil)
2005 Valende (cd/ lp, Sub Pop)
2006 Sacramento session (lp, A Silent Place) limited edition lp
2006 A New Astronomy (cd, A Silent Place)
June 2007 The midnight room (cd, Sub Pop)
August 2007 Funny Creatures Lane deluxe (cd, Empyrean) remastered/ expanded version |
