Feeding Fingers

Feeding Fingers

Feeding Fingers Live in Rome, Italy - 2014
Background information
Origin Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
Genres Post-punk, indie rock, dark wave, gothic rock
Years active 2005–present
Labels Tephramedia, Stickfigure Records
Associated acts Justin Curfman, Entertainme.nt
Website http://www.feedingfingers.com
Members Justin Curfman
Bradley Claborn
Danny Hunt
Past members Kris Anderson (2009-2010)
Todd Caras (2006-2009)

Feeding Fingers is a music trio[1] founded by artist Justin Curfman. The band was founded in 2006 in Atlanta, Georgia, but later relocated to Germany.

History

Formation (2005-2006)

Feeding Fingers' history began in Atlanta in 2005. Curfman began pre-production on his first feature length film, TICKS. Curfman found nearly 20 pieces of complimentary music in his sketchbooks, cassette tapes and hard drives, spanning nearly 10 years, that he considered for his film. However, Curfman later decided he wanted to start from scratch and locked away these pieces of music indefinitely. He purchased a house which had a large performance/studio space spanning the entire lower level. Feeling a need to use the empty space and tempted to rework his older songs into live performance pieces, Curfman decided to form a band. He submitted advertisements in music papers and internet networking sites (like MySpace), seeking a bass player and a drummer interested in playing in a group similar to Joy Division, Cocteau Twins and Echo and the Bunnymen. Bassist Todd Caras was the first phone call Curfman received. After a dozen more phone calls, Feeding Fingers found drummer Danny Hunt.[2]

They took their band name from one of their song titles, "Feeding Fingers" (which was inspired by a dream where Curfman witnessed girls standing in single file, waiting to put their fingers into small holes drilled into white walls in a white room, where behind the walls, men were waiting to eat the girls' fingers.)[3]

Wound in Wall (2007)

The group released their first full-length album, Wound in Wall, in 2007 as a joint effort between Stickfigure Records and Curfman's media company, Tephramedia.[4] The album was well received[5][6][7][8] and drew comparisons to the earlier works of The Cure, Joy Division, Echo & the Bunnymen, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Cocteau Twins.

Since the release of Wound in Wall, Feeding Fingers have regularly performed live in the US and Europe, and have appeared on several radio broadcasts (including two live shows on NPR)[9] and in entertainment and arts magazines, weeklies and newspapers.

A music video for "Fireflies Make Us Sick," a track from Wound in Wall, was completed in 2010 (three years after the album was released and a year after their second album was released). The music video was directed by award-winning digital artist Steven Lapcevic.[10] The video premiered at Ultra Music Festival in 2010.[11]

A music video for the song, "Manufactured Missing Children", directed by Danish video artist Daniel Dikov, was also released for the album.

Baby Teeth (2009)

Their second album, Baby Teeth, a more collaborative effort, was released in the US in January 2009, and internationally in March 2009. This album was a joint effort between Stickfigure Records and Tephramedia with co-operation for European distribution and promotional outlets such as NetManagement Musik Verlag and PromoFabrik, based in Germany. This album reached No. 16 on the Global Gothic Chart[12] and found a place on the Alternative Top 100 in Portugal. Baby Teeth was also ranked No. 4 on the Best of 2009 at Gothic Paradise.[13] This album, unlike Wound in Wall, helped Feeding Fingers finally reach a US audience through college radio stations.[14] Despite the acclaim, Justin Curfman mentioned in a 2010 interview that Baby Teeth was "very dense and bleak and just filled with confusion".[15]

During this time, Feeding Fingers began touring the US extensively, including dates in New York and opening slots with IAMX and others.

Detach Me From My Head (2010)

In the latter half of 2009, Curfman announced that thee production of the band's third album was nearing completion. The title track of the album, "Detach Me From My Head", and the song "I Am a Brutal Little Boy" appeared online and later in the band's live setlist in Europe (debuting in Bucharest, Romania).

In March 2010, Feeding Fingers embarked on their first European tour (playing in the Netherlands, Romania, Poland and Italy, where they shared the bill with electropunk icons Nitzer Ebb.)[16]

Curfman relocated to Germany shortly afterward in 2010.

Anything But Water, the band's first live album, was released digitally on May 19, 2010. The band's third album, titled Detach Me From My Head, was released exclusively through Curfman's own media label, Tephramedia, on September 28, 2010. The critically acclaimed album was co-produced by James “Coyote J” Battan and David Israel Nunez.[17]

In the winter of 2011, Curfman led Feeding Fingers, with new bassist Bradley Claborn, on a short East Coast tour to support the release of Detach Me From My Head, including a notable show in New York City supporting David J, former bassist for Bauhaus and Love & Rockets.

Maxi singles era (2012)

In January 2012, long-time collaborator/producer Nunez posted on Feeding Fingers' blog regarding the unique distribution plan for the band's upcoming album. Rather than release a full album, the band would issue maxi singles in a serialized fashion, each including an A-side and one or two B-sides.[18]

On January 24, 2012, the first single, "Where the Threads Are the Thinnest", was released, with B-sides "My Imagined House" (ukulele and voice version) and "Manufactured Missing Children" (piano and cello version).

On March 27, 2012, the second single, "Inside the Body of an Animal", was released, backed by "Where Mimes Come to Say Goodbye" (solo piano rendition).[19]

The Occupant (2013)

In the spring of 2010, Curfman began production in Cologne, Germany on what was to become Feeding Fingers’ fourth full-length album, The Occupant. Production on the album moved east with Curfman into Ingolstadt (birthplace of the Illuminati secret society and the setting for the novel Frankenstein) in 2011, then finally settled in Salzburg, Austria (home of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) from early 2012 through the winter of 2013. The album was completed inside the halls of the Mozarteum University of Salzburg and the Salzburg Musikum with support from listeners through a successful Kickstarter campaign and from the group’s management and production partners, Nunez and Battan.

Throughout the production of The Occupant, Curfman enlisted assistance not only from his band, but from the Salzburg Boys Choir, a Serbian female violinist, a Cuban female cellist and an American electronic musician. Im an effort to “expand the musical vocabulary of the group”, Curfman strayed away from Feeding Fingers’ more familiar guitar, drum and bass-driven pieces (though not entirely) in favor of composing music on a theremin, kalimbas, glockenspiels, a ukulele, an array of pianos and a hand-cranked, punch-card music box. Curfman not only expanded the group’s vocabulary, but the group’s language itself, with opening track “Eine Einladung in Ihr Gesicht mit Liebe geschnitzt”, a song written by Curfman entirely in German and performed by a soloist member of the Salzburg Boys Choir.

The Occupant was self-released digitally on January 29, 2013 along with the release of the first official music video for the album, “I Am No One That I Know”. Worldwide digital retail release followed on January 31.

Feeding Fingers completed their second tour of Europe in April 2014, including dates in Italy, Austria, Holland, Poland (with Ausgang), Germany and the UK, including an appearance at the biannual Whitby Goth Weekend in North Yorkshire, England.

In 2015, the band released "Your Candied Laughter Crawls", a preview single for their fifth album, Attend.

Discography

Studio albums

Live albums

Singles

References

  1. ↑ "Feeding Fingers notes". Tradebit. 2011-03-02. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
  2. ↑ "Feeding Fingers notes". Darkroom. 2011-03-02. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
  3. ↑ "Feeding Fingers notes". Gothic International. 2011-03-02. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
  4. ↑ http://www.justincurfman.com
  5. ↑ "Feeding Fingers notes". Amazon. 2011-03-02. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
  6. ↑ "Feeding Fingers notes". Performer Magazine. 2011-03-02. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
  7. ↑ "Feeding Fingers notes". Side-Line Magazine. 2011-03-02. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
  8. ↑ "Feeding Fingers notes". Stomp and Stammer. 2011-03-02. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
  9. ↑ "Feeding Fingers notes". Creative Loafing. 2011-03-02. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
  10. ↑ "Feeding Fingers notes". IMDB. 2011-03-02. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
  11. ↑ "Feeding Fingers notes". Ultra Fest official website. 2011-03-02. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
  12. ↑ "Feeding Fingers notes". Gothic Era. 2011-03-02. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
  13. ↑ "Feeding Fingers notes". Gothic Paradise. 2011-03-02. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
  14. ↑ "Feeding Fingers notes". Bescene Magazine. 2011-03-02. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
  15. ↑ "Feeding Fingers notes". Dry Ink Magazine. 2011-03-02. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
  16. ↑ http://www.last.fm/event/1371319+NITZER+EBB+-+Feeding+Fingers+-+Christabel+Dreams+UNICA+DATA+IN+ITALIA. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  17. ↑ "Feeding Fingers notes". Creative Loafing. 2011-03-02. Retrieved 2011-03-02.
  18. ↑ "Feeding Fingers singles". Feeding Fingers blog. 2012-01-24. Retrieved 2012-01-24.
  19. ↑ "Feeding Fingers singles". Feeding Fingers blog. 2012-04-05. Retrieved 2012-04-05.

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