WHY ARE THERE SO MANY SONGS ABOUT RAINBOWS? Two reasons to be happy about ing.

Date: Sep 12, 2007

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WHY ARE THERE SO MANY SONGS ABOUT RAINBOWS?
Two reasons to be happy about ing.


The Los Angeles-based band ing has announced the independent release of two new records: 'ing 6' and 'You Can See It Here, Flashing.'

For their sixth album ('ing 6'), the tireless and constantly-reinvented experimental pop duo ing gives us yet another heartwarming excursion. Stemming from their earlier works of homemade, minimalist collage cuteness, which garnered comparisons to The Books, Little Wings, and happier versions of Godspeed! You Black Emperor and A Silver Mt. Zion, Max Markowitz and John Wood give voice to various characters tied together by the sense of joyous optimism that has come to define the Los Angeles-based band. The provoking instrumental support of piano, guitars, tiny keyboards, trumpet, sampled clicks and pops, synthesizer, claps, bells, whistles, and a kid-sized set of drums delicately weaves through the hopeful, often childlike, and sometimes humorous stories offered on 'ing 6'.

'You Can See It Here, Flashing,' an album of songs based on the poetry of Shel Silverstein, is available for free download exclusively on ing's website (ingismaxandjohn.com). The songs were orignally written for a performance of the color yellow, which was part of ing's monthly series of shows in Los Angeles that told an original creation myth of the rainbow.

'ing 6' track list:
1. sixtytwo 6:42
2. sixtythree 1:58
3. sixtyfour 3:04
4. sixtyfive 4:51
5. sixtysix 2:46
6. sixtyseven 2:49
7. sixtyeight 3:05
8. sixtynine 4:16
9. seventy 2:30
10. seventyone 3:58
11. seventytwo 4:16
12. seventythree 4:25
13. seventyfour 5:12

'You Can See It Here, Flashing' track list:
1. Falling Up 2:48
2. Needles and Pins 4:45
3. Noise Day 3:40
4. The Voice 4:04
5. Stone Airplane 5:33
6. Weird Bird 3:52
7. The Bear Fire and Snow 2:08
8. New World 2:36
9. Hand Holding 1:40

You can listen to all seven of ing's albums and learn more about the band at ingismaxandjohn.com.