UPCOMING SHOWS

SATURDAY FEBRUARY 13
w/ Rauelsson
Sunset Junction
Spokane, WA

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 14
w/ Rauelsson
@ Sunset Tavern
Seattle, WA

FRIDAY APRIL 2
CD Release show
@ Doug Fir Lounge
Portland, OR

WEDNESDAY APRIL 7
@ Sam Bonds
Eugene, OR

THURSDAY APRIL 8
@ Sophia's
Davis, CA

FRIDAY APRIL 9
@ Cafe Deva
Modesto, CA

SATURDAY APRIL 10
@ The Partisan
Merced, CA

SUNDAY APRIL 11
@ Crepe Place
Santa Cruz, CA

MONDAY APRIL 12
@ Cafe du Nord
San Francisco, CA

TUESDAY APRIL 13
@ Cafe Flo
Chico, CA

WEDNESDAY APRIL 14
@ Echo Curio
Los Angeles, CA

THURSDAY APRIL 15
@ Pappy & Harriet's
Pioneertown, CA

FRIDAY APRIL 16
@ Lestat's
San Diego, CA

MONDAY APRIL 19
@ The Patio
Salt Lake City, UT

TUESDAY APRIL 20
@ The State Room
Torrey, UT

FRIDAY APRIL 23
@ Red Room
Kennewick, WA

SATURDAY APRIL 24
@ Great Pacific
Pendleton, OR

DISCOGRAPHY
A NARROW WAY (2008)
An album recorded in a "classic" or possibly "classy" fashion: the whole band playing together in the room, doing a take while someone in the other room mixes it live to tape.  Mess up and you do the whole thing over.  No overdubs, no punch-ins. 

Available on CD from HUSH
Available on vinyl from Jealous Butcher
WOOL (2008)
An album of piano songs, recorded on Elliott Smith's old piano before it was loaded on a truck and sent off to some museum.  Quiet, sleep-time music, with odd rustling in the background. 

Available on CD from HUSH
THE 7 STATIONS (2006)
A diverse album, sometimes a vibraphone shimmies up to the bar, sometimes a banjo saunters by.  Recorded when the band was just coalescing.

Available on CD from HUSH

NEW THINGS

January 6, 2010

Introducing a new album

Coming April 13th on HUSH Records is a new album from Nick Jaina.  Half of it was written on the sunniest hill in California with seven red-tailed hawks circling overhead.  The other half was written in the middle of a snowstorm in Portland that shut down the city for a week.  The other half was written in a van leaving a Waffle House.  Is that three halves? 

Twelve new songs, featuring Nick's wonderful band.  Where the last album was raw and live, this one is polished and purposeful.  It is called A Bird in the Opera House.  Advance tracks, live sessions, music videos all to come soon.
A very sparse album.  "Underproduced" in the most elegant way.  Nothing gets between a man and his poverty-stricken sentiments.

Available on CD from HUSH
THE BLUFF OF ALL TIME (2005)

CONTACT

booking, business: nickjaina@gmail.com

publicity: chris@230publicity.com

record label: chad@hushrecords.com

A BIRD IN THE OPERA HOUSE (2010)
A studio album.  In a good way.  Many different guitars, textures, sounds.  Songs about the most famous fruit vendor in the world, the most beautiful town in California, the best place to find a hotel in Cincinnati.  Also, more songs about girls.

Available on CD on April 13th