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Since I was a child, I dreamed of
hearing my voice and song rising from the resin of a vinyl record. The scratch of the needle settling into
a groove, the hiss of the cushion comforting the waves, and the final pulsing
of a completed side ordering my excitement to dream. Sitting cross-legged on the carpet with headphones to my
ears listening to Springsteen’s Nebraska, I knew that somehow I would achieve
my goal.
October 04, 2011 is a day that will
live within me until my time expires.
Not only was I able to achieve my goal, I was able to do it with a group
of extraordinary musicians and artists that happen to be my closest and dearest
friends. A perfect example of
reality being more beautiful than the dream.
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Buffalo Bio
Written beneath the chill of winter....
Buffalo. Harmony and
balance. Purification observing the healing of vision. The grass of
relations drains fast into the inheritance of borrowing. Let the Black
Hills be approached with one mind, one heart, and as one people. A
starting point. Stemming from mistakes and little victories. Carbon
spinning with footprint control. Movement for progress. Rebuild and
thrive from lessons woven delicately in our past. There is always a
line. Instruct the merriment of symbolism to misplace the baggage of
claims. For we are all connected to the Buffalo.
The Buffalo recordings take shape over
the course of an extensive touring schedule and personal events unforeseen.
We press on... Negatives become our twist. Situations in shift.
Stacks of concrete bookend the prairies as time marches. But where? On is
abstract.
Jesse Payne stems from a soil deep in
the Southeastern region of the United States. He nests in scenic views of trees
and mountains blending into valleys of skyscrapers and barns. Canvas for his
yellow shade of timeless polaroids transposing over lake and swing suggests an
inheritance of owls and their nocturnal solitude. His sound and sight each born
from a landscape of heavy cotton hands and autumn chairs.
Upon returning to his home in early
2007, after a couple of years of touring the eastern coastal region, as far
north as Boston and as far west as Chicago, Jesse Payne delivered the EP, “Beyond the
Leaves.”
The EP earned him a spot in The Big Takeover’s Top 40, alongside Band of
Horses, Death Cab For Cutie, and Willie Nelson. His song, ‘Thief Among Us,’
also found its way on national compilations that included artists such as Ryan
Adams and Sondre Lerche. Jesse Payne released his debut full-length
album, Nesting (Capture Music Inc.) on November 10, 2010. The
album reached #3 in California on KDVS radio and stayed in the College top 30
across the United States for weeks at a time.
His latest, Buffalo, releases October 04,
2011. Buffalo is an audio-painting of expansion and
reservation. Patents and assembly lines. Light bulbs versus
alternating currents. Phonographs threading impact factors busy
documenting waves genetically modified to roam.
Jesse Payne’s team of sonic painters
include, Thomas Warren, Mike Creager, Noel Johnson, Mason Boyd, Dave Crenshaw,
Stephen McCollough, and The Chad Fisher Group.
Buffalo has synchronization
capabilities with the Kettle & Crow DVD (out October 04, 2011).
--See jessepayneonline.com for
instructions on how to synchronize vinyl to DVD--
(Kettle & Crow DVD directed by Jacob Falls and edited by Jason
Schuck)
-JP 2011
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
--Michelangelo
Battlegrounds 
