About Reservoir

There are at least three bands with the name Reservoir, though only one appears to be active. They are listed in order of relevance. 1) Emo/post-hardcore band from Pennsylvania. Not quite three years since their formation, Pennsylvania-based Reservoir have churned out a demo, the three-song 7-inch 'Into Endings' and a split 7-inch with Bicycle Ride. Now, they're ready to release their seven-song debut EP, 'I Heard You As I Walked Away.' Reservoir have a thick sound with nods to Sunny Day Real Estate, Planes Mistaken for Stars, Texas is the Reason, Planes Mistaken for Stars, and Small Brown Bike. The band's discography can be found at www.reachthetracks.bandcamp.com 2) Ambient rock solo project of Jud Ehrbar from New York, NY. SPIN magazine review of Pink Machine. As a member of Space Needle, drummer Jud Ehrbar has flown the prog-rock flag as proudly (and insanely) as General Patton saluting the Stars and Stripes. Conducting excessive synthesizer experiments that bent the time/space continuum toward the year 2112, Space Needle even enlisted legendary Yes cover artist Roger Dean for a pterodactyl-over-the-sea-of-tranquility album motif. At times, Ehrbar has seemed almost ashamed of his melodic gift, cloaking pretty gentle-voiced songs in weathered trench coats of four-track noise, or burying them in 13-minute feedback freakouts. On Pink Machine- the second release from his one-man band, Reservoir, he admits "Something's wrong / When you hear the sound but you dont hear the song." Its like that scene from an ABC After School Special when the tough kid in a denim jacket brushes the greasy bangs away from his face and lets the caring teacher see the tear in his eye. Hes letting us in. Its emotional, man, seriously. On the title track, over a slow, echoing electric guitar, Ehrbar sings like hes alone at the edge of a cliff, a loser who came to jump but somehow found hope in the expansive view. "So if you see me tonight / Come back and hold me tight," he nearly whispers. "Pink Machine" may be one of the saddest, most beautiful songs youll hear all year. A decade ago, during a particularly inspired stupor, Paul Westerberg mightve rasped it himself. Though the album emphasizes Ehrbar's skewed taste for 70s radio fare (he covered Paul Simon's "American Tune" and Genesis's "Back in NYC" on a recent 7-inch), his prog monster still creeps out of the closet. Amid sparse songs like "Weight of the World", Korg solos take wing as gracefully as a flock of seagulls off an empty beach. You just know a faux-velvet poster hangs on the wood-paneled wall of Ehrbar's Long Island basementglowing eerie and fantastic in the black light. -David Bry, October 1997 3)Reservoir are an international alternative rock band, consisting of german, austrian and hungarian members, currently residiing in Budapest, Hungary. The line-up consists of Gabor Czajder, Claude Jordan, Mandy Murai, and Alexander Wolfger. Tracks can be downloaded here: http://alturl.com/kgnye