Presented by Spirit of '68 ADIA VICTORA / PLATEAU BELOW
Adia Victoria - http://www.facebook.com/adiavictoria
Ask Adia Victoria outright about her life and you'll be met with a few readied no-fluff bullet points: she's from South Carolina. She was raised seventh day Adventist. She started playing guitar at twenty one and she's never stopped moving. On the rare chance she divulges more, you'll quickly notice a common theme threading itself through her story--rivers.
"When I was 18, I stood on the bank of the Seine. I didn't have a friend in Paris and I thought about jumping in and letting the water take me where ever."
At nineteen she hovered above the East River, newly arrived in New York City, and whispered to the city "I'm gonna rule the world."
She will tell you at twenty three she saw the Chattahoochee swell up and swallow Sandy Springs. At eight years old the Pacolet River in her native Campobello washed away her black patent leather shoes.
Adia moved to Nashville in 2010 just after the Cumberland devastated the city's downtown and started moonlighting solo in clubs and bars around town. After three years of playing out between her school schedule and family life she formed a band with Ruby Rogers, Tiffany Minton and Mason Hickman to flesh out her primitive songs on misery, madness, hope beyond reason and the eponymous South.
"The one thing I like most about rivers is that they never stop to explain. They just keep moving"
Plateau Below - http://plateaubelow.com
Plateau Below is a (insert your genre choice here) band based in Bloomington, Indiana. The group is drawing a solid fan base thanks to their captivatingly energetic live shows and raw, honest sound. From sharing the stage with artists like Into it. Over it. and Cayucas to releasing their debut album, Still Paradise, the group’s momentum has carried them far.
It’s no wonder that the concept of time is a recurring theme throughout Still Paradise. Although the band is just reaching its first anniversary, its members share a much longer history. Drummer Jared Jones, bassist Jacob Gumbel, and guitarist Joe Creech have played music together since 2006; Jones and Creech even learned their instruments side-by-side. After casually collaborating for months, lead singer and songwriter Logan Carithers officially joined the trio in 2012, and Plateau Below was born.
After months of crafting the band’s sound, Plateau Below shifted their focus to recording their debut album. In order to capture the free-tempo vibe of a performance, the band recorded all of the bass, drums and rhythm guitar in live takes. They spent much of 2013 recording the remainder of the album in their own homes, mixing and mastering all of the songs themselves. The album features a variety of different musical styles all connected by Carithers’ poetically-inspired and thought-provoking lyrics. Catch their live show or take a listen to Still Paradise, out now on Jurassic Pop Records.