Grant Wallace Band
Axle of the World (with Rabbit)

The story goes like this: an art writer is at a party. He is editing a book about apocalyptic and cosmic visions by self-taught “outsider” artists. There is a guitar player at the party, and his instrument case is overflowing with strange drawings. “They’re by my great-grandfather, Grant Wallace,” the guitarist says. “He had a cabin off in the woods of Big Sur. There are piles of these drawings. I can take you there.”

That’s the story, and that’s the band name, and that’s the book--The End is Near, curated by Roger Manley—that inspired many of the songs on Grant Wallace Band’s debut album, Axle of the World (with Rabbit). Composed during the band’s initial phase, a year in which they rehearsed and workshopped music in Chicago before playing a single public performance, these songs display a hermetic idiosyncrasy, a tremendous perfectionism, a puckish sense of humor, and a broad range of expression.

GWB has been to other places and sought other inspirations since Axle, but this album is what got it started: self-recording and producing this album turned these three composers into a band.

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Format

CD / digital

Release Date

7 july 2015

Catalog #

2LR 003

Words

"Axle cogently balances each musician’s compositional ideas with a collective vision..." — Bandcamp Daily