Before launching his solo career, Gerald Slevin made a name for himself as the songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and producer of Brooklyn’s psychedelic, vocal harmony-driven artpop outfit, The Color Bars. The band’s layered vocal arrangements and acrobatic instrument-swapping performances quickly gained the attention of the NYC music press, and they were soon sharing bills with artists like The National and Metric at famed NYC venues like the Mercury Lounge and Knitting Factory. Their bombastic stage show, along with their kaleidoscopic records (on which Slevin was the primary producer, instrumentalist, and vocalist), would eventually take Slevin around the world, after a particularly explosive SXSW set with The Brian Jonestown Massacre resulted in a deal with Tokyo-based label, 5D. Performing in Japan sparked a flurry of creative output for Slevin, which led to 4 albums, several tours, and a string of singles.
Slevin recently retreated from his native NYC to Upstate NY to immerse himself more fully in his current solo project. His forthcoming album, a concept album entitled Quantum Jitters that grapples with the contradictions of love and relationships via the metaphor of quantum entanglement, is his most expansive and fully-realized work yet. A classically-trained painter and visual artist who has exhibited and painted for Art World juggernaut Jeff Koons in his Manhattan workshop, Slevin says this background continues to inform his process. “I’m very lucky to have had all the experiences I’ve had in both visual art and music. It’s given me an extremely useful perspective on how so many of the same rules apply across superficially different media. Finish what you start. Work the whole thing. Never give up. That sort of thing. It’s also taught me to be eternally grateful that I get to make stuff.”
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