Cleveland’s Spirit Oh Spirit releases new single

CLEVELAND, Ohio – Spirit Oh Spirit arrived after Andrew Arbogast wrapped up his earlier long-running band Lowly, The Tree Ghost.

“We had been collectively for 10-plus years, and whereas we had been nonetheless taking part in out, I felt like we had been reaching our inventive restrict,” Arbogast stated. “The power wasn’t there anymore when it got here to training and taking part in out each month. We had been additionally on our seventh drummer on the time.”

Arbogast “pressed the reset button,” and located the inspiration to pursue a brand new undertaking by way of his residence studio in North Ridgeville. Spirit Oh Spirit arrived, discovering the undertaking’s title from a tune by The Man Fits, a supergroup collaboration that includes members of MeWithoutYou, Dr. Canine and different indie bands.

The identical collaborative component is the main focus of Spirit Oh Spirit. Arbogast has labored with six musicians to date, and goals to herald extra native musicians for future releases. Lowly, The Tree Ghost’s bassist Joe Piedmonte and violinist Laura Simna seem on most Spirit Oh Spirit songs, and others pop up: electrical guitarist Ryan Marquette, trumpet participant Connor Mancini, flute participant Kari Rutushin, lap metal participant Brian Poston and extra.

“Just about each tune has included somebody from the Cleveland music scene,” Arbogast stated. “I’m tremendous grateful that they’d take the time to return out to North Ridgeville and report with me, or report from residence and ship me their tracks.”

The most recent Spirit Oh Spirit tune arrives on Thursday, June 9, referred to as “Consider You Me.” Test it out under.

The punky observe harkens again to a few of Arbogast’s favourite tunes in highschool, like Yellowcard, New Discovered Glory and Blink-182.

“As corny as a number of the songs I’d hearken to again in highschool, it’s a giant a part of the place I’m now,” Arbogast stated. “I’m fairly restricted with regards to my guitar expertise, so I performed three energy chords and introduced in Ryan [Marquette] so as to add extra elaborate stuff on it.”

Arbogast stated he doesn’t have EPs or album releases deliberate for Spirit Oh Spirit, as an alternative selecting to launch singles in the intervening time. Spirit Oh Spirit will put out a single roughly each different month, and the subsequent single titled “Regular Now” is slated for round August.

Past recording, Arbogast additionally hopes to carry out some Spirit Oh Spirit reveals sooner or later.

“Hopefully we are able to play a present at some point, this one massive blowout. I haven’t performed out in fairly some time, however I undoubtedly have the itch, each occasionally,” Arbogast stated. “Being a recording undertaking is fairly good and releasing, the place we are able to work slowly on one tune at a time. However in the event you’re not taking part in out, you’re not reaching the quantity of ears you’ll in the event you’re taking part in out constantly.”

Discover extra details about Spirit Oh Spirit at fb.com/spiritohspirit.

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