Jerome's Dream
Encyclopedia
Jeromes Dream was a Connecticut post-hardcore
/screamo
band, active from 1997 to 2001. The band had a unique vocal style - singer Jeff Smith opted not to use a microphone while performing live, instead screaming unamplified at the top of his lungs. The band was known for playing very short sets, usually no longer than 10 minutes. According to Smith, they thought 10 minutes was all they needed to get their point across.
The band's second full length album, Presents, featured a drastic change in vocal style, abandoning the raw screams of their earlier work in favor of a talk-singing style filtered through an effects processor. This stylistic shift was rumored to a product of vocal cord damage sustained by their singer from the repeated strain of performing. However, Smith cites an anecdote in which while recording with Orchid
his voice cut off and he passed out in the recording booth. Afterward, they changed their style overall.
After Jeromes Dream, Jeff Smith went on to play experimental drone music with Joseph Grimm as the Wind-Up Bird
. Drummer Erik Ratensperger now plays drums in the band Best Inventions and runs NYC streetwear
label Mishka
.
Post-hardcore
Post-hardcore is a genre of music that developed from hardcore punk, itself an offshoot of the broader punk rock movement. Like post-punk, post-hardcore is a term for a broad constellation of groups...
/screamo
Screamo
Screamo, though used loosely to generally describe music that features screamed vocals, is actually a musical subgenre of hardcore punk which predominantly evolved from emo, among other genres, in the early 1990s...
band, active from 1997 to 2001. The band had a unique vocal style - singer Jeff Smith opted not to use a microphone while performing live, instead screaming unamplified at the top of his lungs. The band was known for playing very short sets, usually no longer than 10 minutes. According to Smith, they thought 10 minutes was all they needed to get their point across.
The band's second full length album, Presents, featured a drastic change in vocal style, abandoning the raw screams of their earlier work in favor of a talk-singing style filtered through an effects processor. This stylistic shift was rumored to a product of vocal cord damage sustained by their singer from the repeated strain of performing. However, Smith cites an anecdote in which while recording with Orchid
Orchid (band)
Orchid was a screamo band from Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Considered by many to be one of the pioneers of the "screamo" sound, Orchid combined this with a post-modern aesthetic, releasing several extended play and splits as well as three LPs...
his voice cut off and he passed out in the recording booth. Afterward, they changed their style overall.
After Jeromes Dream, Jeff Smith went on to play experimental drone music with Joseph Grimm as the Wind-Up Bird
The Wind-Up Bird
The Wind-Up Bird is the musical project of musician and composer Joseph Grimm, formerly a member of the band 33.3. A track from the 2003 album Whips received an 8.5 out of 10 review at Pitchfork Media.- Albums :...
. Drummer Erik Ratensperger now plays drums in the band Best Inventions and runs NYC streetwear
Streetwear
Street wear is a distinctive style of fashion not to be confused with hip hop fashion. Its roots are in skateboarding and the "skatewear" of the 1980s. It was later adopted as an urban fashion in Japan before growing to an international business...
label Mishka
Mishka
Mishka is an internationally known reggae artist from Bermuda. He released his first self-titled album Mishka in 1999 and had a hit single in the UK with "Give You All The Love". He is currently signed to Matthew McConaughey's record label, j.k. livin, and is touring in support of his latest...
.
Trivia
- The sample played in "The Sea of Tranquility" is from a video on how to cope with depression from the mid-1980s. Erik found it in the psychology library at the University of Massachusetts AmherstUniversity of Massachusetts AmherstThe University of Massachusetts Amherst is a public research and land-grant university in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States and the flagship of the University of Massachusetts system...
. - The sample played in "A Second Grade Art Project" is from a circa 1960s interview with Carl JungCarl JungCarl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of Analytical Psychology. Jung is considered the first modern psychiatrist to view the human psyche as "by nature religious" and make it the focus of exploration. Jung is one of the best known researchers in the field of dream analysis and...
in Texas.
Discography
- Jeromes Dream/Amalgamation, 7" [EP]
- Rice Control Records
- Released December, 1998.
- Availability: Out of Print - 300 on Blue Marble, 100 on Pink Marble, 100 on Black.
- Notable Characteristics: The Black version is actually a special repress on rice paper. The Blue and Pink versions had a cover with a photo glued onto it or a hand painted piece of cardboard with the band names.
- Jeromes Dream/July, 7" [EP]
- Hit the ground running Records.
- Released Spring, 1999.
- Availability: Out of Print - 500 on Black, available with green and brown sleeve.
- Jeromes Dream/Book of Dead Names, 5" [EP]
- Witching Hour Records
- Released September, 1999.
- Availability: Out of Print - 750 on Black, 112 on Red Marble.
- Seeing means more than safety, 10" [LP]
- Old Glory Records
- Released May, 2000.
- Availability: Out of Print - 1600 on Black, 400 on White.
- Jeromes Dream/OrchidOrchid (band)Orchid was a screamo band from Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Considered by many to be one of the pioneers of the "screamo" sound, Orchid combined this with a post-modern aesthetic, releasing several extended play and splits as well as three LPs...
, 10" Skull-Shaped Record [EP]
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- Witching Hour Records
- Released May, 2000.
- Availability: Out of Print - 1000 with Black Ink, 1000 with Glow-in-the-dark Ink, 197 with Red Ink.
- Notable Characteristics: One sided 10" with both bands on one side. Jeromes Dreams' songs played from the inside-out, and vice-versa.
- Insert note for Red Pressing: "This little note is to let you know that you got a limited version...here's the info. We wanted to press 2000 of the split, but ended up with 2197 of them. So there are 1000 that are screened in just black ink, there are 1000 screened in two color, and 197 done one color in BLOOD RED ink! So this is my way to say thank you to everyone that was patient in waiting for this record. thanks Witching-Hour"
- Jeromes Dream/Usurp SynapseUsurp SynapseUsurp Synapse was an screamo band from Indiana. The group combined fast and frantic grindcore influenced drumming and guitar work, and raw screams.-Biography:...
, 7" [EP]- Clean Plate Records/Level Plane Records
- Release date: August, 2000.
- Availability: Out of Print - 1300 on White, 200 on Black, 20 Test Pressings on Black.
- Notable Characteristics: Some editions came with a Jeromes Dream tour button.
- V/A - Antipodes, 7" [EP]
- Featuring: The AssistantThe AssistantThe Assistant may refer to:* The Assistant , a 1908 novel by Robert Walser* The Assistant , a 1957 novel by Bernard Malamud* The Assistant , a satirical reality series starring Andy Dick....
, Neil PerryNeil PerryNeil Arthur Perry is a prominent Australian chef, restaurateur, author and television presenter. He also is the co-ordinator for Qantas Flight Catering under his company Rockpool Consulting and has a food brand sold under his name, available at Woolworths Supermarkets.Perry co-owns and is...
, Hassan I Sabbah, Jeromes Dream, Usurp SynapseUsurp SynapseUsurp Synapse was an screamo band from Indiana. The group combined fast and frantic grindcore influenced drumming and guitar work, and raw screams.-Biography:...
. - Level Plane Records
- Release date: October, 2000.
- Availability: Out of Print - 200 on Red, 45 or 75 copies (conflicting info) have an alternate hand-screened cover, 25 Test Pressings on Black.
- Featuring: The Assistant
- Presents, CD [LP]
- Alone Records.
- Release date: 2000.
- Availability: Out of Print.
- Jeromes Dream/The One AM Radio, 7" [EP]
- Garbage Czar Records.
- Release Date: Winter, 2000.
- Availability: Out of Print.
- Completed 1997 - 2001 - Discography, CD [2-Set]
- Alone Records.
- Release Date: January, 2005.
- Availability: Can be ordered from many distros.