Photo by Clare Connolly, from TRKfest 2009.
As we near the fateful date of this year's bliss-tacular TRKfest, we'll be periodically profiling each band that will be gracing the stage. We'll tell you who they are, why they're special and why we invited them to play.
Artist: Butterflies
Hails from: Chapel Hill
Played TRKfest?: Twice
Butterflies is the ever evolving project of Chapel Hill's Josh Kimbrough. Josh has been an important force in the world of Trekky Records since the early days, as his bands Westfalia and Straight No Chaser were some of the first we could coax into being a part of our developing label and collective. Josh was our older classmate at Chapel Hill High School, and we began obsessively following his music, drawn to his heart-on-sleeve sincerity, preternatural guitar ability and DIY cassette tape output. Over the years, Josh has augmented his unique songwriting style by incorporating elements of old-time finger picking, math rock, and the jazz scales he tirelessly drilled as a teenager. The result is hard to describe, but its a stirring synthesis of technical ability and earnest emotion. Josh has led Butterflies through half a dozen line-up changes, and having seen all of them, we have no doubt that the current form is the most powerful vessel for the compositions. With bassist Ross Connolly and drummer TJ Maiani, the trio seem to anticipate each other psychically, playing the ups and downs of the songs like jazz veterans. Patrick Jones, who is producing Butterflies' upcoming album, fills out the spaces, adding warm synth and guitar textures exactly where they're needed. You'll be hearing a lot from Butterflies when their new record drops in the Fall, so make sure to catch them at TRKfest for a taste of what's to come!
MP3 | Butterflies - Mind Games [from the Nothing's Personal LP]
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