. Community Music.Associated acts,WebsiteMembersStewart ColeJosh CollazoChristian LettsSeth Ford-YoungMark NoseworthyCrash RichardMitchell YoshidaNico AgliettiPast membersJade CastrinosAaron EmbryAaron OlderTay StrathairnEdward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros is an American band formed in, in 2007. The group is led by lead singer.
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The band's name is based on a story Ebert wrote in his youth, about a messianic figure named Edward Sharpe. Drawing from, and, the band's image and sound evoke the of the 1960s and 1970s. The group's first show was played July 18, 2007, at in. Their first studio album, was released on July 7, 2009, on Community Records and featured the popular single '. The group released their second full-length album, on May 29, 2012, and third album, on July 23, 2013.
Their fourth studio album, was released in April 2016.Since its founding, the band has undergone several alterations. Most notably, singer Jade Castrinos left the band in 2014.
The band's current members are Mark Noseworthy, Josh Collazo, Christian Letts, Nico Aglietti, Seth Ford-Young, Mitchell Yoshida, Crash Richard, Stewart Cole,. The band also operates Big Sun, a non-profit focused on funding and developing co-ops and land trusts in urban areas around the world. Their first large-scale project, 'Avalon Village,' is in Highland Park (within Detroit), Michigan.
The group performing in a park in 2009After years of the party life and subsequent drug addiction, frontman broke up with his girlfriend, moved out of his house, and spent time in. During this time, Ebert began to write a book about a named Edward Sharpe who was 'sent down to Earth to kinda heal and save mankind, but he kept getting distracted by girls and falling in love.'
Ebert adopted the Sharpe persona as his. He said, 'I don't want to put too much weight on it, because in some ways it's just a name that I came up with. But I guess if I look deeper, I do feel like I had lost my in general.
I really didn't know what was going on or who I was anymore. Adopting another name helped me open up an avenue to get back.'
Ebert began initial writing and recording completely alone, doing 'the horn lines with his mouth or a kazoo on the demos' and 'all the background vocals layering. Pretending that there were people there.' After meeting singer Jade Castrinos outside a Los Angeles cafe, Ebert and Castrinos started writing music together, and became a part of the art and The Masses, which was partially started by some seed money from actor. Their fledgling group eventually swelled to more than ten members, some of whom had been Alex's friends since he was young.
In mid-2009, Ebert, Castrinos, and a group of musicians toured the country by bus as Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros. The first show they played in 2009 was at the in. The band recorded their debut album, in Laurel Canyon.
Produced by Aaron Older and Nico Aglietti, it was released on July 14, 2009. Up from Below is also the name of one of the songs in this album, in which Alex states 'I was only five/when my dad told me I'd die/I cried as he said son/ was nothing could be done'. Says Alexander, 'My dad would be doing therapy in his office upstairs and I'd hear screamings, because they'd be role-playing and he'd be acting as his patient's father and they'd get upset and hit him and all this stuff. When he wasn't working, I'd go up there to draw and one day the music he was playing, Beethoven I think, delivered to me the idea of life and death.
The information was bequeathed to me by the music. It was sonic and emotional. I tapped my dad on the shoulder and asked him if I was going to die and he said, 'Yeah.'
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' On April 12, 2009, the band released 'Desert Song', a and the first of a 12-part feature-length musical called SALVO! Part 2, 'Kisses Over Babylon', was released November 24, 2009 through Spinner.com. Part 3, '40 Day Dream', was uploaded to YouTube by the band on May 19, 2011.
Big Easy Express and second studio album (Here) In April 2011, the band joined and on the. According to, the tour stopped in six cities, playing alternative venues such as an Austin, Texas high school where Mumford & Sons taught the marching band how to play their hit 'The Cave'. The tour was also the subject of Grammy-nominated director 's latest documentary Big Easy Express, which strove to capture 'the pure joy of music' through Americana folk imagery.
The documentary went on to win in the category for at the. In 2011, Railroad Revival Tour bands Mumford & Sons, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, and Old Crow Medicine Show together closed their shows at every stop with 'This Train'.The group's second album, was released on May 29, 2012.Third studio album (Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros) The band's self-titled third studio album, was released in 2013. This was followed by tours of North America, UK, Europe, and Australia which included headlining concert dates as well as major festivals. The band became known for taking people onstage with them, including a former patient they had previously met in a hospital performance, and a disabled man in a wheelchair. Fourth studio album (PersonA) The band's fourth studio album, was released April 15, 2016 through Community Music. Recording the music almost entirely in one room together in, their approach was a far cry from their ramshackle, come-one-come-all production audible on recordings of their previous albums.In an in-depth interview with, Ebert explained his desire to evolve on PersonA, stating, 'In a lot of ways this album does things that are missing.' He went on to discuss why the name Edward Sharpe is crossed out on the cover, saying, 'There was no character to begin with, so why not kill him?
He never really was there. If anything, and at most, Edward Sharpe was a vehicle for me to get to slough off whatever I had become up until that point, and to get back to or sort of allow my pure self to come forth into sort of a clean slate.' . 'One Love to Another' did not enter the Billboard Hot 100, but peaked at number 18 on the chart. 'Man on Fire' did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100 but did peak at number 23 on the chart, which is an extension of the Billboard Hot 100. 'Man on Fire' did not enter the Alternative Rock Songs chart, but peaked at number 18 on the chart.
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