Terrene

Video for "Unwelcome"



Video for "Fifty-One"



Terrene started as the solo project of John

Dylan. Recording, distributing, and performing everything himself,

Dylan built a small empire around his unique style of music. Keeping

expectations at bay, Terrene's music can be as tetra-aural

and cacophonous as Sonic Youth, as ethereal and haunting as

Sigur Ros and Godspeed You Black Emperor!, and as folksy and

pop-savvy as Sufjan Stevens and Built to Spill.



While working as a solo artist in the

late nineties, Spin magazine

dubbed Dylan's "Fifty-One" to be the "Cool Track of

the Day" due to the widespread internet distribution of the song.

Canadian production company, Propaganda Culture, then

commissioned Dylan to create the theme song for their self-titled TV

Show and also contribute a track to the soundtrack for their film,

Parasidium, shooting a tie-in video (which Dylan directed). Fans

launched a fan site cataloging all the songs and interviews Dylan gave

while a college radio program did a 30-minute documentary on his

do-it-all-yourself project.



Overwhelmed at having accomplished so

much by doing relatively little -- and all by himself -- Dylan

formed Terrene in 2003 to pursue his music more seriously. That

December, Terrene completed a 4-song demo with longtime friend

Bobby Nath of noted Seattle band Mars Accelerator, whose

production credentials include Kinski (Sub Pop),

Transitional (Pehr), Welcome (RXRemedy), and Mars themselves.



The demo landed pieces on

Terrene in the magazines Magnaphone ( Philadelphia), The

Stranger (Seattle), The Tablet (Seattle), and UW Daily

(Seattle). It also secured shows for Terrene at all of

Seattle's major venues, as well as opening spots for Of

Montreal. Gaining steam, they were awarded a full-length

broadcast of a Terrene set with the the purveyor of talent,

KEXP.



In 2004, wanting to record a full

length, Terrene sent the demo to producer Phil Ek (Built To

Spill, The Shins, Modest Mouse). Blown away, Ek came

on board to record Terrene's first album titled The

Indifferent Universe. Initially recorded at Jupiter and AVAST!

Studios with Ek at the helm, Dylan continued expanding and refining the

sounds on the record -- a process that took over two years to

complete. Resulting in a 42-minute mini-epic, the record captures

Terrene's stormy instrumentation as a huge wall of

overdubs.



Slated for a July 2007 release on Wax

Orchard, The Indifferent Universe, will be released as a

dual-disc featuring a full-length live performance and a documentary

featurette. Several videos are in production, with directors including

famed avant-garde flash animator Mumbleboy, and feature directors, The

Nee Brothers.



A North American tour is scheduled for

the fall where Terrene and their laptop (which produces six different

amp feeds) will deliver the atmospheric sound live as an immersive,

sense-o-round experience.