Pale Blue Day

Editorial Reviews
Rege Behe
"Pale Blue Day" -- Inventive, creative, experimental, bold -- just a few adjectives describing the debut of a local band, New Invisible Joy.

About the Artist
New Invisible Joy, formed in the late winter of 1997, is the manifestation of four Pittsburgh artists from varying backgrounds, each contributing their own specific musical influences. Together, John Schisler (vocals), Mike Gaydos (guitar), Evan Handyside (bass), and Brian Colletti (drums) emanate a swirling, driving, soaring sound that draws comparisons to Euro-Brit bands Radio Head, U2, and London Suede.

Band members: Mike Gaydos (guitar)
John Schisler (vocals)
Evan Handyside (bass)
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Album Description
Drawing from old/new british underground rock/pop influences, New Invisible Joy creates a long-awaited fresh voice in the psychadelic/alt-pop genre with the release of their first albulm "Pale Blue Day." New Invisible joy conjures a unique mix of subtlety and power, creating an album that sounds like sex feels.

Pale Blue Day

Tracks:

I Hear You Calling Me
If I Could Tell You
Trees
Until
Passing By
Green-Eyed Dragon
Lost Chord
My Lovely Celia
Serenade (Rimpianto)
Calm as the Night
Do Not Go, My Love
Bird Songs at Eventide
Love's Philosophy
Love, Could I Only Tell Thee
Annabelle Lee
Little Boy Blue
World Is Waiting for the Sunrise
I Love, And the World Is Mine
Kashmiri Song
Evening Song
Cloths of Heaven
Perfect Day
I Love Life
Homing
When I Have Sung My Songs

Customer Reviews:

Sung Like This, They Should Stay Remembered.......2005-09-30

Commenting last June on CDs featuring the tenor, Kenny Baker, I wrote that his might be the most beautiful recorded tenor voice of the 20th century. My comparison included a lot of fine tenors, but I hadn't heard John Aler. Recently, I have been listening to him as Jupiter in Handel's SEMELE, then as Nadir in Bizet's PEARL FISHERS, and more recently as the soloist for this album. Kenny Baker's voice is pure, limpid, naturally musical throughout his range. The lower part of Aler's range has less music, but the upper part is richer than Baker's, and the whole is tremendously exciting. Nowhere is his voice lovelier than in the first song on this CD, "I Hear You Calling Me." Composed circa 1903, overflowing with love and longing, it became the immensely popular signature-piece in the 1920s and '30s of the Irish tenor, John McCormack. (Who, with less primitive technology, might well have provided the most beautiful recorded tenor voice of the century.)

I found some of the Aler collection quite familiar, others new and highly attractive (where have they been all my life?), and others that are lifted above the ordinary more by the singer's voice and art than by intrinsic merit. The songs are predominantly art or concert songs, composed mostly in the late 19th or early 20th century. Elegant, highly romantic, often ambitious, sometimes sentimental, popular in their time with lovers of semi-classical music, and often performed in concerts by leading singers of the day. Their lyrics include the poetry of Joyce Kilmer, Robert Herrick, Rabindranath Tagore, Shelley, Poe, Yeats, Eugene Field, and Sydney Lanier.

Did Aler get the idea for this CD from the fine baritone Thomas Hampson's CD, "An Old Song Resung"? Hampson's CD (unfortunately out of print), came out in 1990; Aler's, in 1995. The songs in both collections might well have been sung to similar audiences at similar concerts by similar singers. Still, the two CDs have only two works in common: - "Do Not Go, My Love," composed by Richard Hageman in 1917, and "When I Have Sung My Songs," by Ernest Charles in 1934. Both songs are superb, and both singers do them beautifully. I would give Aler a slight edge on the first; Hampson, on the second.

Average customer rating:

New Invisible Junk -PEWWWWW!!!
Stunning piece of artistry.
Greatness!
NIJ-Pale Blue Day
A Great Debut

Pale Blue Day

Manufacturer: Midwest Artists Dist.
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004SYLJ
Release Date: 2000-04-09

Tracks:

NEW ORLEANS
EDGE OF SEPTEMBER
SHE GOES ON
MS. UNIVERSE
SPARROW
COME
FIGURE STUDY (LESSON ONE)
GOLDWISH
TIDEPOOL
SOMETHING OF A CAT & MOUSE
THE LOOK INSIDE
THE CONVERSATION

Album Description

Drawing from old/new british underground rock/pop influences, New Invisible Joy creates a long-awaited fresh voice in the psychadelic/alt-pop genre with the release of their first albulm "Pale Blue Day." New Invisible joy conjures a unique mix of subtlety and power, creating an album that sounds like sex feels.

Customer Reviews:

New Invisible Junk -PEWWWWW!!!.......2006-08-16

Man, what a sad attempt to rip off the Verve! If I were assoc. with the Verve, I would sue. Not because the sound, words and melodies are the same, but rather because if you are looking for the Verve sound, and New Invisible Junk does appear to try to cultivate the neo-psychedelic Verve image, and you stumble on New Invisible Junk, you will not only be sadly underjoyed but you will have to endure endless octipilian vocal screaches, that in no way come close to Ashcroft's bittersweet sonic aptitude.
My advice to Schitsler; reign it in man. Find some direction and your own style and quit your futile attempts to replicate a master's style.
The drugs aren't working anymore!

Stunning piece of artistry........2006-05-18

Dreamily ethereal to powerful with soaring studio effects the music seems to surround you from every direction. The subsequent releases are also good but they do not reach the caliber of this debut. There is not a single weak song here.

Greatness!.......2002-12-23

I Love this cd. Its really great. I tell all my friends about it all the time. Everyone Needs to go out n buy every NiJ cd thats out!!

NIJ-Pale Blue Day.......2002-12-04

Brit-sounding pop? No way...! The music tries to rip off the Verve, but doesn't come close. The vocals are over the place. Let's see how many vocal ranges I can do....please. Give it up. This cd [stinks] and I own it, and have seen them live. Don't buy this cd.

A Great Debut.......2001-07-01

When I first heard "She Goes On" on a local radio station, I called them immediately to find out what it was. The song blew me away. It sounded like "Bends"-era Radiohead with Tim Finn on lead vocals. It was a huge surprise to me to find out it was a local (Pittsburgh) band, New Invisible Joy. Needless to say, I went out and bought it a day or two later, and was not disappointed, even though the rest of the album is mostly heavier stuff than the tune I heard. It's moody and melodic, like the Verve in their harder moments. The opening track, "New Orleans," is a killer, and the aforementioned "She Goes On" is simply staggering. If there were any justice, it would be a monster hit, maybe not here, but definitely in the UK. The Brits would love it. To me, these two tracks alone are worth the price of the album. But the nice thing is, the rest is good too.

Playing and production are very good throughout, but the highlight of this band has to be singer John Schisler. The guy is amazing -- one of the best rock voices I've ever heard (and I've been listening to this stuff for 25 years). And what's stunning is the fact that this CD, good as it is, doesn't exhibit Schisler's talent as well as the band's live show does. He does some vocal things in concert that will simply drop your jaw.

But this is not to say that the rest of the band are in any way slouches. NIJ isn't just a great voice with an okay backup band. Brian Colletti (drums) and Evan Handyside (bass) are as good a rhythm section as is anyone out there, and guitarist Mike Gaydos is an inventive, inspired, and very powerful player. NIJ is a great band all the way around.

Great heavy Brit-sounding pop from Pittsburgh! Who'd have thought it? And for heaven's sake, if you get the chance to see them live, don't pass it up.

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