David Bernabo + Assembly feature some of the coolest album artwork you ever see; their new body of work, Happener-Magicker is on an even par. Two years in the making, it's a cyclonic mix of pop, jazz, rock, and even a bit of modern classical. Some of work on the new album detours into the music of Frank Zappa, Eberhard Weber, and Marvin Gaye to name a few. If the need to hear something totally different is tugging at you, this is at the end of the string. Also highly recommended.

Saxton
David Bernabo+Assembly: Website • Free album download here

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Assembly Radio, Edition 01  

Assembly has a new website and a new blog!

www.plusassembly.com

Click on that link to download (for free) the new Assembly record HAPPENER-MAGICKER on Sort Of Records.  If you love (or like) (or want to support us), feel free to click on the white record to the right.  This will take you to our label, Sort Of Records' store.  You can pick up a now-limited white vinyl record, black vinyl, or CD.

Also on the website is our first blog.  Some audio samples are up now and 4 posts.  Coming to you in November is the first edition of Assembly Radio, featuring Ravish Momin (nyc) and more!

Thanks for checking in! Hope you enjoy the music!

DB/Assembly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyeebTfGQsQ

New Video. HAPPENER-MAGICKER Officially out today!!! www.sortofrecords.com for purchasing!

HAPPENER-MAGICKER, David Bernabo + Assembly's new album will be released nationally on Sort Of Records on August 18.  But you can pre-order and pre-listen today!

The album comes in three formats: vinyl, cdr, and digital download.  The vinyl is very nice: full-color jacket with amazing art by Owl Kahol, full lyric and credit insert, and a secret message with a link for a free high quality download.  On top of that, the vinyl-download includes a bonus song featuring a piano solo by yours truly and a vocal quintet piece by Vocal Assembly (http://www.openthread.org/OTQ2009Summer/dbernabo.html#).  If that was not enough. we have 100 copies of beautiful white vinyl!!! However, we're down to about 40 - so get them right quick.

How, you ask?

Easy: go to http://www.sortofrecords.bigcartel.com and order your copy.

Coming up, Assembly will be playing with Mikael (from Wilco) new project Pronto at Brillobox, Sept 15.  Sure to be an amazing show! Show up early!



In other news, the vocal quintet called Vocal Assembly received a great write-up with audio and visual samples over at Open Thread Quarterly: http://www.openthread.org/OTQ2009Summer/dbernabo.html#

And the second pressing of the ever-popular Nathan Hall + David Bernabo duo disc is just coming in.  Go ahead and order your copy here: http://www.sortofrecords.bigcartel.com/product/nathan-hall-david-bernabo

Thanks to everyone that made the release show a truly wonderful evening! So much talent in Pittsburgh - we hope to continue the mixed media events. 

Keep an eye out for a new animated video for "Out There"....

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Check the live stream of the release show at: Stream Assembly Release Show Here

from Pgh Tribune Review:
Music: Working his 'Magick'

Composer and multi-instrumentalist David Bernabo has long been a fixture in many of Pittsburgh's most exciting and forward-thinking bands -- Boxstep, Vale & Year, Ninth Ward.

As a measure of how highly he's regarded on the local scene, it seems like everybody has come out to play a part in Bernabo's new Assembly album, "Happener-Magicker." A crew of 25 local musicians -- including vocals from Julie Sokolow and guitar from Daryl Fleming -- support the project, which draws from near-impossible extremes of progressive rock, indie pop, Steely Dan-inflected jazz-rock and ideas from modern classical composition.

David Bernabo & Assembly will have a release party for "Happener-Magicker" at 8 p.m. Saturday at Brillobox in Bloomfield, with openers Meeting of Important People. The event is a collaboration with Incredibly Thin, and will feature films, readings and art. Admission is $5.





and in Post-Gazette:

Local scene: David Bernabo + Assembly
Thursday, July 09, 2009
By Scott Mervis, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Assembly required

• The 25-piece David Bernabo + Assembly -- a concoction of pop, jazz-rock and modern classical -- will release "Happener-Magicker" with a show at the Brillobox in Bloomfield on Saturday.

Bernabo says of the project, which is more than two years in the making, "It is definitely the most rock thing I've done, but also includes some more harmonically complex writing."

The 25-piece Assembly includes Julie Sokolow (Western Vinyl), Will Dyar (ex-Oakley Hall), and the core Assembly live band of guitarist Daniel Gene Newman II, drummer Owl Barns and saxophonist Brandon Masterman.

Meeting of Important People will open this show, and there will be readings by Deejay Brewer, Lori Jakiela, Matthew Newton, David V. Matthews and Omar White and films by Gordon Nelson, Thad Kellstadt, Dina Bernabo, Rebbyro and David Bernabo.

It begins at 9 p.m. Tickets are $5.

Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09190/982537-388.stm#ixzz0Kz7Op1EC&C

http://www.pittsburghcitypaper.ws/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A65601

Pittsburgh City Paper Article by Manny Theiner

Great review of Assembly's new record - Happener-Magicker

Speed of the Pittsburgh Sound Review

Release show this Saturday at Brillobox 9PM with Meeting of Important People