Mark Westburg: guitar and vocals
Kevin Bertness: keyboards and vocals
Blang: drums
Caius van Nouhuys: bass
The men of Glacial are relieved to announce the release of our newest long player, Perilous Adventure! The collection features seven vocal songs that touch on a variety of topics, including the beauty of foggy skies; the mathematical discoveries of Vera Rubin; a rich guy on ice who spends his nights listening to the radio for the good news he was promised; a human on the run from AI overlords in the not-so-terribly-distant future; and a few other tunes about a world gone wrong. To break it up a bit, we've included four instrumentals, all bearing titles that have somewhat tangential connections to the music, except for the one in 7/4 that we nicknamed Seven, and it stuck.
Listen and buy at glacialmusic.bandcamp.com
Most of these songs were written and recorded starting 2022 at our rehearsal/recording space in San Francisco, dubbed Deadly Blue Light Studio. Originally founded in Dogpatch, we got run out for a condo development, which put us over on Jerrold for a few years. We've set up in the Bayview District and it was time to start a new recording project.
Formed in 2000 as a collaboration between Mark Westburg and Kevin Bertness, Glacial released their debut CD Side One in 2005. With a sound based on acoustic guitar, piano, and vocals, listeners were drawn in by the lush, warm quality of the production and the classically constructed and orchestrated songs, which included Stained Glass People, Here She Comes, Red Red Roses, 2 Steps Back, Love Charge, No Time Like No Time Now, and A Thousand Things.
Drummer Blang was a studio mate and joined Mark and Kevin when his previous band took off for New Mexico. Bassist Caius van Nouhuys heard Blang’s recordings of the band, liked what he heard, and took over bass duties. We're all long-time musicians and fans and carry with us the influences of the Beatles and Steely Dan, the Police and the Cure, Jimi Hendrix and Jeff Beck, the Canterbury sound and American jazz...and we'll leave it there, for now...