GREYFEATHER

Crossover Prog • United States

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Greyfeather biography
Greyfeather is a remote, long-distance art-rock collaboration conceived by multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Kevin Jarvis (Farpoint, The Green Swamp Collective) and involving members of progressive rock bands Cobweb Strange, Farpoint, Iluvatar, IZZ, and Little Atlas. The origins of the band date back to the early 2000s, and the project was borne out of a shared deep and abiding affection for music, together with a belief in its power of being able to convey emotion in a way that no other artistic medium can.

The results of the collaboration were recorded over several years and thousands of miles. Although their self-titled debut album took a long time to bring to fruition, and various hardships had to be overcome along the way, the album was finally released on February 10, 2017 by Kevin Jarvis's own Starcross Music label.

Multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Kevin Jarvis lives in central South Carolina. He has released music both as a solo artist and as a member of several bands, as well as working as a musician and/or recording engineer on numerous other releases. He is also the band leader at Sumter First Church of God in Sumter, South Carolina.

The collaboration itself consists of Brian Coralian (IZZ) on drums and percussion, Kevin Jarvis on acoustic guitars & vocals, Steve Katsikas (Little Atlas, Grackle) on keyboards & vocals, Dennis Mullin (Illuvatar, Images of Eden) on electric guitars and Wade Summerlin (Cobweb Strange, Shovin Sunshine) on bass & vocals.

The band members have never all been in the same room together. Brian Coralian and Wade Summerlin recorded their parts at different times at Kevin Jarvis's studio, and Steve and Dennis recorded their parts at their respective homes and sent the files to him. Despite the method of recording, the participants were well satisfied with how cohesive and organic the whole thing sounded in the end. The album was well received by music critics too, with several positive reviews being published on line in the months which followed the release.

The project was still ongoing as of January 2025, and a new song called "The Dreamer" was due to be released later that year.

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Studio Album, 2017
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Greyfeather
Greyfeather Crossover Prog

Review by Mellotron Storm
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3.5 stars. GREYFEATHER is the project of FARPOINT's Kevin Jarvis who is based in South Carolina. He enlisted the help of a bass player I'm not familiar with, but the drummer is from IZZ and based in New York. The guitarist is from LITTLE ATLAS and he's from Florida, and the keyboardist/vocalist is from ILUVATOR who are from Maryland. I mention their home bases because this band was never in the same room. And this took many years to complete. And the biggest surprise for me was that this sounds nothing like the music from the bands these guys come from.

I first spent time with this cd over 7 years ago and my expectations were fairly low to be honest. I do like some IZZ and ILUVATOR but I wasn't expecting a lot. This is really good! There's a theme here about the American natives as the band's name would suggest. And that 2 1/2 minute opener has this navajo drumming before this western/cowboy sounding guitar joins in. "No Name" is like this anthem from the 90's and it's uptempo and guitar driven with a calm and vocals on the chorus.

"The Fire" really resonates with me for some reason. it's simple enough with reserve vocals, and I like the soaring guitar. "Bloodstripe" is an instrumental with some prominent bass and piano before the guitar arrives and leads. I'll skip to "Lines Are Drawn" with the beautiful acoustic guitar and laid back vocals, as synths provide the atmosphere. The chorus features more passionate vocals and organ. Back to "Greyfeather Pt.2" and this is my favourite song here. And one of my favourite tracks of all of 2017. It's 8 1/2 minutes long and there's a native vibe like on Pt.1 but the chorus is to die for. An incredible track.

Now the album closes with two songs that dropped this from a solid 4 stars to 3.5 stars. Yes in my opinion they are that bad. Especially "Life Sonnet #4" which is so commercial sounding, but worse it sounds lame. The closer is better but not by much, essentially ruining what I thought was a pretty strong record. Interesting that those two final songs were the only ones composed by people outside of the band. And they both are thanked in the liner notes, sarcastically I hope. Kidding.

So in the end this is definitely worth checking out. A very impressive record that just doesn't end well in my opinion.

Thanks to yam yam for the artist addition.