Dromedary Records unearths a piece of post punk history with the release of Via, the long-lost, self-titled EP from the short-lived Boston/New York outfit. The band’s lineup included Thalia Zedek (Come, Live Skull, Uzi), Jerry di Rienzo (Cell, Nuclear Theater), James Apt (Six Finger Satellite), Adam Gaynor (Nuclear Theater), and Phil Milstein (Uzi).
Via existed briefly at the tail end of the eighties, playing just two shows before vanishing, one in Boston, the other in New York, as the members gravitated closer to Zedek, who was pulling deeper into her work with Live Skull. What they left behind was a basement’s worth of 8-track recordings, a handful of lo-fi live cassettes, and a lone gig flyer.
Thalia Zedek comments on the just unveiled 1000 MPH: “This may be the first song we wrote. It was inspired by the sensation of sitting on a parked train in a station next to another parked train—thinking the train you’re on has started moving, only to realize it’s actually the other train that’s moving while you’ve been sitting still the whole time. At the time, it must have felt like a metaphor for my life.”
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