JULY 28, 2006

BACKPORCH REVOLUTION ANNOUNCES "PROUD TO SWIM HOME" COMPILATION and CD RELEASE PARTY ON 8/29/2006

NEW ORLEANS, LA -- Backporch Revolution, a New Orleans-based record label and artists' collective, announces the forthcoming release of their first compilation, "Proud To Swim Home: a Backporch Revolution Compilation for New Orleans" on August 29th, 2006, the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. On the same day, a CD release party will be held at the Circle Bar in New Orleans.

The album features all local New Orleans bands and musicians all working in the electronic/experimental scene both before and after the hurricane, including New Orleans' best-known names in the local electronic scene: Chef Menteur, potpie, and electro duos Time Promises Power and the Buttons. It also features for the first time on CD tracks by newcomers B. Killingsworth, Liteworks (Mike Mayfield of Electrical Spectacle), and Archipelago. It was mastered by the legendary John Fischbach at Piety Street Studios, and will be distributed by Mass Mvmnt of Seattle.

The CD release party (also held on K-day, severe weather permitting) will be held at the Circle Bar on Tuesday, August 29, and will feature live performances by heavy ambient/drone-rock outfit Chef Menteur, prolific experimentalist and minimalist potpie, abstract audio alchemist B. Killingsworth, and Moog mastermind Anton Gussoni (of Electrical Spectacle).

The title "Proud To Swim Home", seen famously on the bumpers of cars all over New Orleans, was first conceived mere days after the two members of Time Promises Power evacuated from New Orleans with their spouses and pets. As they smoked out in the rain on a balcony of a Motel 6 outside of Memphis, the idea of the compilation followed the stickers. The bumper stickers took very little time to make; the compilation CD took a bit longer.

All proceeds from the compilation CD, like its bumper sticker namesake, will go to charity. 100% of sales from the bumper sticker, as always from www.proudtoswimhome.com, go to the Humane Society and Habitat for Humanity; 100% of sales from the compilation CD will go to hurricane relief as well. The various members of the Backporch Revolution collective raised the money to produce and manufacture the recording.

Backporch Revolution was founded in North Carolina in 1993 and released its first single in 1996. It relocated to New Orleans in 1997 and is the premiere organization in the region representing experimental and electronic musicians. It is currently run by a coalition of the artists it represents.