"I wander with my eyes / I wander with my feet / I wander through the forest / I wander down the street / I wander through my memories / I wander through my dreams / of drowning in the ocean / of bathing in mountain streams..."
The beautiful folk rusticity of "WNDER" by Portland based glam-folk duo Ned and Wendy the Band pulls you into both vast and intimate places. The track, from the duo's recently released third album "Back Around Again", moves you with acoustic guitar percolations that flick and flutter like nature itself and Jordan and Lindsey Plotner's evocative vocal contenance. Whether in solo or in harmony their voices complement each other, their vocals married and dancing. The track as a sort of existential confessional, while wonderfully raw in terms of emotional contexts, has sophisticated sonic embellishments from lead guitar accompaniment, to dramatic cello drones and vocal support like a pretty tiny choir.
Often when I write about a song, I listen on repeat with headphones on to let the track saturate my head and heart and interestingly, the moving melodies (both musical and lyrical) of "WNDER", after awhile, became very transcendent. Like a meditation, the words and the melodies that carried them had me thinking of so many vital things I am going through and have gone through, of people past and present, of loved ones long gone and loved ones still here within reach. Oh, the power of music.
Jordan and Lindsey Plotner's artistic, communal endeavors stretch way past music and many of their other accomplishments, road posts are covered below in their 'LINER NOTES' so to speak. You can also learn about their origin story / love story on the wonderful mini-bio flick entitled “Welcome Home Ned and Wendy” Short Film (Full Film): Just click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QodxiEM2XYc&t=3s
-Robb Donker Curtius
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Ned and Wendy the Band is a Portland-based Glam-Folk duo - “glam-folk” being a made up term that the band and a friend accidentally coined at The Old Portland (and it just felt right).
Ned and Wendy the Band have released two albums with a third on the way, each album documenting its own uniquely ridiculous chapter of their lives - from falling in love remotely in quarantine to moving across the country to be together and hosting intimate house shows with entirely improvised second acts. Now their third album Back Around Again captures the ups, downs, ins , and outs of moving to a brand new city, beginning a brand new marriage, finding a brand new community, and realizing that, somehow, this new road still leads back to the same place: home. Back Around Again drops July 25, 2024.
Their 2021 musical documentary short film Welcome Home Ned and Wendy premiered at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. as one of eight finalists in the Emerging Young Voices in Film Festival, and it went on to win Best Romance Film in the 2021 Los Angeles Film Awards, as well as official selection in Dumbo Film Festival, Toronto Documentary Feature & Short Film Festival, and Cambria Film Festival of Romance, Love, and Rom-coms.
Lindsey and Jordan are also the hosts of the radio show City Hums - providing a platform for the wildly raw and talented musicians of Portland and beyond - on KXRW Vancouver 99.9FM. Recently, Lindsey and Jordan journeyed up to Seattle as the official media sponsor of the Northwest Folklife Festival, where they hosted live interviews with Mary Eliza, Strange & the Familiars, and Jet Black Pearl. Other artists featured on past episodes include Trinity Jane & Michael Easley, That Loathsome Devil, and Exceptional Failures.
With a love of community and connection, and a ~proclivity for songs that make you want to dance while crying, Ned and Wendy the Band are on a mission to create joy, wonder, and kick ass music.
https://linktr.ee/NedandWendytheBand
Ned and Wendy the Band is a Portland-based Glam-Folk duo - “glam-folk” being a made up term that the band and a friend accidentally coined at The Old Portland (and it just felt right).
Ned and Wendy the Band have released two albums with a third on the way, each album documenting its own uniquely ridiculous chapter of their lives - from falling in love remotely in quarantine to moving across the country to be together and hosting intimate house shows with entirely improvised second acts. Now their third album Back Around Again captures the ups, downs, ins , and outs of moving to a brand new city, beginning a brand new marriage, finding a brand new community, and realizing that, somehow, this new road still leads back to the same place: home. Back Around Again drops July 25, 2024.
Their 2021 musical documentary short film Welcome Home Ned and Wendy premiered at The Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. as one of eight finalists in the Emerging Young Voices in Film Festival, and it went on to win Best Romance Film in the 2021 Los Angeles Film Awards, as well as official selection in Dumbo Film Festival, Toronto Documentary Feature & Short Film Festival, and Cambria Film Festival of Romance, Love, and Rom-coms.
Lindsey and Jordan are also the hosts of the radio show City Hums - providing a platform for the wildly raw and talented musicians of Portland and beyond - on KXRW Vancouver 99.9FM. Recently, Lindsey and Jordan journeyed up to Seattle as the official media sponsor of the Northwest Folklife Festival, where they hosted live interviews with Mary Eliza, Strange & the Familiars, and Jet Black Pearl. Other artists featured on past episodes include Trinity Jane & Michael Easley, That Loathsome Devil, and Exceptional Failures.
With a love of community and connection, and a ~proclivity for songs that make you want to dance while crying, Ned and Wendy the Band are on a mission to create joy, wonder, and kick ass music.
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