Resilience

VINYL FORMAT. In an effort to help sustain awareness of the recent devestation in Japan and to help raise money for its relief efforts, the Rentals and Ernest Jenning Record Co. announce the release of Resilience, an album featuring 18 orchestral compositions written, arranged and performed by Lauren Chipman and Matt Sharp (founding member of Weezer). All profits from the sale of this album will go directly to the disaster relief efforts in Japan – donated to the Japanese Red Cross Society and the American Red Cross.

This album was originally recorded by The Rentals as part of Songs About Time, a conceptual art project that combines photography, film and music to create a total work of art (what the Germans call Gesamtkunstwerk). Originally titled Tokyo Blues, the album is a collection of instrumentals written for the short films of Songs About Time. Now, appropriately enough, what was once Tokyo Blues has become Resilience.