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April 22, 2009 |
17 Relics Emerge From Presence 
17 Relics entered Presence Studios for the first time in 1986 to record their first proper demo. The bulk of this material was re-recordings of their debut cassette release, Aix Sanctuary, as well as new songs written in the following year. The force that steered them to Jon Russel and Presence was Paisley Jungle lead bassist Steve Swan, who had worked at Presence previously and had taken a liking to the young Relics sound. Steve co-produced with Russel those sessions, which yielded the 17 Relics submission to the Towers of New London vol. 2 LP compilation, as well as a batch of unreleased songs that should appear here at the Archive sometime this summer.
The first real break in something resembling the "music business" for the Relics was having Paisley Jungle ask the band to open two shows in the summer of 1986 - one at Toads Place in New Haven and the other at the Agora Ballroom in Hartford. These shows allowed the band to realize the detail of which they had signed on for. The practices and performances during that summer helped the group to further realize their sound, and by the following spring, they returned to Presence to record the "Trout" single - which consisted of "Better Left Behind", a rocking meditation on the group mind, as the A side, with "Hurricane", an early Pellish political scrawl, serving as the B side.
The record garnered some attention for the band, getting rave reviews in most places, and a few scathing national reviews, which altered the Relics perception of themselves. In addition, the studio sessions created a home and guiding hand for the band from Russel and Presence, as they would record the vast majority of their material there. The foundation they had established at the release of "Trout" would be the platform the band would exist upon until their dissolution in 1994.to 17 Relics Home...
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