Hey friends, welcome to a long winded, long overdue blog post about all the latest events in the lives of Metavari. Since last November we've been writing and recording new material for our first full-length release. It's been a beautiful and, at times, a dark process reflecting on all the change the last year has brought through our lives. It's amazing to watch how each of our interpretations of these seasons has shaped the songs.

Along the way we lost two members. And strangely enough, it was unbelievably inspiring. Tommy and Simon are two of the most motivated and creative people we've ever met. Which was why their parting was bittersweet. Simon engineered our EP in its entirety and over half of our new album and has helped us immensely on technical aspects of our sound that we couldn't have been without. He now lives in Beijing and is attending Tsinghua University. Tommy has been a collaborator and writer as well as the guitarist in Metavari since day one. He is the web developer at One Lucky Guitar, Inc. and the founder and sole programmer on several successful web companies. One includes a micro-blogging service called Publr which was recently featured among other new companies in Newsweek. Their pursuit of the things that make their heart glow are indeed the reason why we are playing music.

The Album - Be One of Us and Hear No Noise

The album doesn't necessarily tell a linear story (although if you have an afternoon to waste away we could unpack each track for you and it might actually seem to be as straight as an arrow) and it isn't necessarily a concept album, but the title we ended up with seemed to encapsulate everything we're struggling to write down right now. "Be One of Us and Hear No Noise." We could write all day long about what that title means to us, but the point of this record is for both the title and the songs themselves be interpreted. Literally. We are building a website (with the help of Tommy) called "HearNoNoise.com" where anyone can post anything they want, not just about the record, but about "hearing no noise" in any context that makes sense to post about. Lyrics, audio, video, images, links, quotes, notes... anything. And the "Us" in "Be one of us"... is this community.

An Exhibit

When the record becomes available this June, we've decided to do something in collaboration with an album release show. Feeding off this online community, we're curating an exhibit of artists who are working on pieces of all different media inspired by Hear No Noise. We can't wait to send you all the details in the next few weeks, and we couldn't be more excited too see all these scribbles on paper and hours spent in our smelly basement come into fruition. If you want any more information about the exhibit or are even interested in being a part of it, don't hesitate to shoot us a message.

The WWW

And in an attempt to legitimize our web presence during this whole project, we've updated our web site and myspace pages and become a part of the Twitter community. Check us out on all of the above, we'd love to have you follow us along the way. All new photography is courtesy of our good friend and photographer, Joel Faurote.

Muxtape.com

We're thrilled to have been invited to be a part of Justin Ouellette and Luke Crawford's re-launch of Muxtape. It's a new website that allows bands to create mini profiles and "mixtapes" of their own music. The site has so much potential and there are many more features yet to be revealed as it exits its "beta" period. We're excited to have been among the first bands to be invited to create an account. Some of the others were Dan Deacon, Black Lips, Anamanaguchi, Health, DM Stith, of Montreal and Girl Talk. This week they just gave all the bands that were invited to be a part of the beta period 3 invitations to invite more bands on their own. And those bands in turn can invite 3 more bands, and so on. It's growing by the minute. We think this project is going to explode. Check it out and keep an eye on what these guys are unpacking!

Tour

We are headed out for a 2 week trek across the Midwest and East Coast in May in support of the release of "Be One of Us and Hear No Noise." The dates are updated on our myspace and website as they become official. We'd love to meet all of you in person who have been following us this last year and are miles away from Fort Wayne so don't hesitate to send us a message or be in touch. And if you know a cozy floor we can rest our heads, we'll be forever grateful!

Thanks for reading all this and we hope to see you soon!
Nate, Andrew and Ty