Present The Nitrate Hymnal

The Gena Rowlands Band follows their Lujo debut Le Merde et Les Etoiles with a joint recording with Anti-Social Music called The Nitrate Hymnal, taken from the hit indie opera of the same name. Anti-Social Music is a collective of musicians and composers from New York that includes members of the Hold Steady, Ida, Gutbucket and World/Inferno Friendship Society. The two bands met three years ago during the creation of the original production of a multimedia opera by Bob Massey and David Wilson. The opera, inspired by 50 years of home movies given to Massey by his grandfather, told the fictional story of a couple who obsessively filmed their own lives. For this recording, the score was cut into songs and reorchestrated, then recorded in three days powered by passion and caffeine.