Spitting at the Glass

The new Venus Bogardus album, entitled ‘Spitting at the Glass’, will be released in February 2010, supported by a west coast tour. A local/soft launch is planned for December 20009. Album launch parties will be hosted at great New Mexico venues the Atomic Cantina (Albuquerque, Friday December 11th) and The Cowgirl Hall of Fame (Santa Fe, Saturday, December 12th). The album sleeve features photography by Michele Maier, who worked as an assistant to feminist artist Judy Chicago at the time of Chicago’s Birth Project during the early-mid 1980s. Spitting at the Glass is the band’s first new release on New York’s five03 records. The album contains twelve new tracks recorded at Warehouse 21 in Santa Fe, NM that were engineered, mixed and produced by the band. Intern Max Grand also assisted during the session where the band recorded Judy Davis Lips and Scatter. Spitting at the Glass records the first time that Venus Bogardus have been able spend more than four hours in a studio and the new album with its played-live essence (only minimal vocal overdubs, and some additional guitar texture tracking were added) evidences the improvisational, free noise influences that have been suggested behind the band’s previous releases. The result is an album that finally possesses the raw poetic power of Venus Bogardus live.