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“All of the chords, every one of them” got a c

“All of the chords, every one of them” got a couple video edits coming down the pipes from the release show, our first real deal music video, and show announcements real soon. Thank you ❤️

What an epic end to such a beautiful night, thank

What an epic end to such a beautiful night, thank you for everyone that came out, and all the incredible musicians that gave their time. Got some footage of show we’ll roll out later. Thank you @volcanictheatrepub @mellocutie @mattyj541 @migzmendoza82 @amirahfusion @goodbyedyna @stephen522 @joel_chadd_music @markkarwan @jeshuamarshall @dijring @thirdsevenmusic @aliciaviani_music ❤️❤️❤️

What a night. So many amazing people involved whic

What a night. So many amazing people involved which is incredibly humbling. Thank you all for coming out to help us roll this thing out in world, new show announcements soon. @jeshuamarshall @thirdsevenmusic @joel_chadd_music @aliciaviani_music 📷 @mellocutie @stephen522 @mattyj541 @migzmendoza82 @dijring @markkarwan @volcanictheatrepub @philmcintirerocks @covertwatermelon @goodbyedyna @amirahfusion

This is crazy cool, if anyone we know is going to

This is crazy cool, if anyone we know is going to be at the game by any chance we’d be forever grateful for some video ha ha. Thank you Alex ❤️ @publicdisplaypr 🏀

Thank so much @sourceweekly and @instabiehl ❤️

Thank so much @sourceweekly and @instabiehl ❤️ for such a beautiful write up

11/11/22 Our new album, Future Past Present Tense,

11/11/22 Our new album, Future Past Present Tense, is out in the wild. It's hard to really describe how it feels to release something you've worked so hard on for 18 months through a global pandemic and everything else in our lives. It's the best album we can make right now, and I'm immensely proud of it and my bandmates and friends who've given so much time and love to the journey with me. Such a humbling thing in so many ways and I'm so grateful for you all. Available now on your favorite platform. We have plans to press some records eventually, things just so backed up for independent artists right now it's going to be a bit. If you're in Oregon, we're performing the album start to finish @volcanictheatrepub 11/19 (tix in bio) with @jeshuamarshall and @thirdsevenmusic and special guests. -Love

Melissa Atillo @mellocutie - Keys / Piano, Percussion, Vocals
Matt Jackson @mattyj541 - Bass
Steven Reinhardt @stephen522 - Guitar
Andy Jacobs @goodbyedyna - Drums, Vocals
Miguel Mendoza @migzmendoza82 - Horn, Percussion
Andrew Lyons @andrew.d.lyons - Sax
Sarah More @sarahhelenmore - Art
Recorded and Mixed by Scott Oliphant @parkwaysounds
Additional Mixing guidance, Larry Crane @jackpotrecording
Mastered by Greg Calbi & Steve Fallone at Sterling Sound NJ @sterlingsound

Hey there, thank you so much @happymagtv for the a

Hey there, thank you so much @happymagtv for the amazing review and record premiere. Stream it now a day early if you like at the link in our bio ❤️

Come join us in a little less than two weeks 11/19

Come join us in a little less than two weeks 11/19 @volcanictheatrepub as we try to do right by the record we spent 18 months making while so many things changed. With our friends @thirdsevenmusic and @jeshuamarshall and special guests. Tix @volcanictheatrepub and in our bio. -love @bendbulletin @sourceweekly @mattyj541 @goodbyedyna @stephen522 @mellocutie @migzmendoza82

This it, first big show , playing album in a coupl

This it, first big show , playing album in a couple weeks (11/19) start to finish with special guest choir / strings. Great night of music @volcanictheatrepub ; @thirdsevenmusic and his incredible cello playing starts off night with the bombastic @jeshuamarshall and the flood before we bring out the big sounds and bring the record finally into the world. Link in bio for tix ❤️ Art @sarahhelenmore 🙏

Vinyl is mega backed up currently (like up to a ye

Vinyl is mega backed up currently (like up to a year) unless you’ve got some major influence or pockets. So… until that day, the record which comes out in a few weeks will be available on all digital platforms, and we’ll make a short run of cds. Excited to bring it into the world.

Wrapping up music video in Washington this weekend

Wrapping up music video in Washington this weekend 👽🛸

Video shoot day 2, thank you all our friends who c

Video shoot day 2, thank you all our friends who came out. Going to be so fun. @grackle_king @colin.mcnally @jeshuamarshall @andrew.d.lyons @j_hernandez1981 @mocapup @migzmendoza82 @leazy_from_the_bigeazy @trick.dingo @gio_differentworldz and many more I need to figure out how to tag.

Day 1 music video with shoot ghost village films

Day 1 music video with shoot ghost village films

Abbey Road is freakin’ dream

Abbey Road is freakin’ dream

Planning some fun things for record release shows

Planning some fun things for record release shows #stringsection #choir

New single, “I Wanted Light / Between” out eve

New single, “I Wanted Light / Between” out everywhere, here’s some behind the scenes shots.. Special thanks to @andrew.d.lyons for Saxaphone. Been a journey making this record over past 2 years, can’t wait to get it out in the world 11/11 . Make music with your friends! So fortunate and grateful for this group of folks. Thanks y’all. ❤️

Thank you so so much @undertheradarmag for the ki

Thank you so so much @undertheradarmag for the kind words and for premiering our new single, out everywhere tomorrow! Link in bio.

“Bend-Oregon-based indie rock outfit The Color Study originally began as the solo project for singer/songwriter Scott Oliphant in the lead up to his eponymous debut record, The Color Study. Since then, the band has expanded with the addition of a range of collaborators and a new heady existential bent on their forthcoming sophomore album, Future-Past-Present Tense. The band have teased the record this year with its lead single and title track, and today they’re back with a new single, “I Wanted Light / Between,” premiering with Under the Radar.

“I Wanted Light / Between” shows off all of what The Color Study does best, weaving a rich instrumental mix that proves irresistible. There are hints of Spiritualized’s acid-fried fusion of rock and soul at play, or of Wilco’s more ambitious and layered arrangements, but Oliphant’s songwriting shines bright all on its own.

The track shows off a loose and vital flair, with rollicking rhythms and piercing bursts of brass, but also incorporates an ambitious song structure. The band moves between tense acoustic rave-ups and storming full-band moments, steadily building into an electrifying jam session in the latter half and then subsiding into a gorgeous instrumental interlude."

New single, I wanted Light, Friday. For those musi

New single, I wanted Light, Friday. For those musically inclined, here’s the instrumental interlude / outro. 3/4, legato, 90ish bpm, play it with your reed wielding friends like we did. If pre-saving a song yer thing, we’ve got a link in the bio. Love-

Our dear friend and bass player @mattyj541 lost hi

Our dear friend and bass player @mattyj541 lost his house and beloved cat in a fire yesterday. We love y’all, we’re going to try to put something together to help out, more info soon. Matt’s sister setup a go fund me, we’ll add link to bio! https://gofund.me/4fe039f2

We’ve got a new song coming out in a few weeks.

We’ve got a new song coming out in a few weeks. Found this clip that was the beginning of the composition for the end section. Good night / morning / day.

Cool (free) festival in Redmond this weekend . We

Cool (free) festival in Redmond this weekend . We play at 8 tomorrow (Saturday) but come check out everyone! Lot of great music. @highdesertmusichall

Thank you so much @wonderland for the kind words a

Thank you so much @wonderland for the kind words and awesome premiere! Read the full article at the link in our bio

First single off the new record released into the

First single off the new record released into the wild today. Find it wherever music makes it's way to your head (links in bio). Been 18 months of hard work through uncertain times putting these songs together, but we’re at the end and it’s about the best album we can make and can’t wait to get the whole thing out into the world. Full album release date scheduled for 11/11. Until then, we’ve got a couple singles and music videos we’ll be rolling out.

This is the title track for the full length album, Future Past Present Tense. Just a little ditty about the randomness (or not) of how our lives unfold, weave together, come apart, how the past / present / future all exert influence on each other, why some people are strangers you never meet, some you know for a lifetime, others are somewhere in between; trying to wrap a brain around the “why” of that in the midst of so many big things in the world and lives of everyone you know.

More details

Melissa Atillo - Keyboards, Vocals
Matt Jackson - Bass
Andy Jacobs - Drums Vocals
Stephen Reinhardt - Guitar
Miguel Mendoza - Horns, Percussion
Scott Oliphant - Guitar, Vocals
Andrew Lyons - Saxophone (Somewhere, Future Past Present Tense, I Wanted Light / Between)

Artwork by the amazing Sarah Helen More (thank you!)
sarahhelenmore.com @sarahhelenmore

All songs written by Scott Oliphant. Recorded loving to 2" tape and Mixed by Scott Oliphant at Parkway Sounds in Bend, Oregon. Mastered by Greg Calbi & Steve Fallone at Sterling Sound NJ.

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First single off our new record, Future Past Prese

First single off our new record, Future Past Present Tense, releases Friday, 8/5 everywhere.
More details real 🔜

This freshly photographed (thanks @sansimonbend )

This freshly photographed (thanks @sansimonbend ) outfit ready for kind of a last minute show announcement. This Wednesday @bevelbeer we’re taking part in their Wednesday music series. Free, 6-8 ish. Should be fun as we continue to shake off the live show covid cobwebs.

Getting the rust out of the older songs with the m

Getting the rust out of the older songs with the mighty @migzmendoza82 . Very grateful to play music with these folks.

@mellocutie ‘s vocals at the quiet end of this s

@mellocutie ‘s vocals at the quiet end of this song is one of my favorite moments on the album

Our 2nd album, is finally complete and off to the

Our 2nd album, is finally complete and off to the mastering legends @sterlingsound . 2 years of recording, that have felt like a decade, both in and out of the studio to probably most if the world, that somehow seems to one-up itself with heartbreaking terrible things.

The album Artwork will be courtesy of the incredible @sarahhelenmore . More details soon on all things. Love, still

Unfortunately, COVID has has other plans with the

Unfortunately, COVID has has other plans with the band at the moment with a couple positive cases after dodging it for over 2 years. We were really looking forward to playing with @marble_band and @nightchannels_band @highdesertmusichall this Friday but that’s an impossibility. Hope the shows amazing and go support the bands on tour if you can! Enjoy @migzmendoza82 operatic solo during lighter times in Oakland. See y’all soon ❤️

Going to be supporting our new friends from seattl

Going to be supporting our new friends from seattle @marble_band on their way south on their west coast tour @highdesertmusichall in Redmond April 15 ! Also with @nightchannels_band

Thanks @krismetzdorf for spinning preview of a new

Thanks @krismetzdorf for spinning preview of a new song of ours called satellite tonight off *almost* completed new record @929online . #analogdrums #wallofsound . Really Looking forward to Thursday with @maitamusic @volcanictheatrepub for info. Even if you don’t come check out her incredible new album on Spotify or wherever you get your sounds “I just want to be wild for you” out on @killrockstarsofficial . Austin friends, go see her at and around sxsw! Everyone else, go see her tour wherever you are.

Show @volcanictheatrepub in a few weeks on 3/10 wi

Show @volcanictheatrepub in a few weeks on 3/10 with @maitamusic going to be amazing. Don’t miss their new record out now on @killrockstarsofficial or seeing them live for the album release tour! So good.

We are really excited to be supporting @maitamusic

We are really excited to be supporting @maitamusic march 10 @volcanictheatrepub flyers etc imminent. She’s amazing and we’re huge fans since being introduced to her by a mutual friend after her last album. Her new video is incredible and her first album on @killrockstarsofficial is going to be insane. So pumped. Go check out her page and watch it now, it’s so freakin good!

@migzmendoza82 horns just about there, one more tr

@migzmendoza82 horns just about there, one more track to go. So happy with the horn performances and arrangements for this album courtesy this amazing human who we get to play with and @andrew.d.lyons who contributed saxophone on this track and others. #hornarrangements #brass #albumrecording

Steve finishing last of guitar tracks with that fe

Steve finishing last of guitar tracks with that fender bridge honk and @milkmansound #chordprogressionsfordays been a little quiet o’er here, focused on large task of mixing album and getting it prepped for mastering and finished woo woo . Hope you’re staying healthy. Looking forward to an exciting spring and summer. @parkwaysounds

Getting ready for first real show tonight in a lon

Getting ready for first real show tonight in a long while @volcanictheatrepub with @gabbyholt and @flockofschlegells We’ve been recording practices @parkwaysounds everyone’s doing such a great job with the new stuff, there’s a lot of weird music nerd things, so super fun to hear it sounding like it was recorded. Finally getting around to workshop the songs off new record and really excited to play them together for people. @mellocutie @goodbyedyna @stephen522 @mattyj541 @migzmendoza82

@mattyj541 @stephen522 @mellocutie @goodbyedyna @m

@mattyj541 @stephen522 @mellocutie @goodbyedyna @migzmendoza82

Super excited for tomorrow night with . @volcanict

Super excited for tomorrow night with . @volcanictheatrepub @flockofschlegells @gabbyholt @officialcosmonautical . Going to sit in with @flockofschlegells for a few songs on guitar which I’m looking forward to, he’s such a great songwriter 🎶

Alright. First big rock show in a long while. @vol

Alright. First big rock show in a long while. @volcanictheatrepub Friday Dec 10. With our new friends from Portland @gabbyholt and old friends @flockofschlegells @officialcosmonautical who’s making a reappearance from the Midwest. Really excited about this show, going to be a fun one.

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