Coming out of the Boston underground in the 1980s, the short-lived band Via made up of Thalia Zedek (Come, Live Skull, Uzi) and Jerry di Rienzo (Cell, Nuclear Theater) only played two shows during their brief lifespan: one in Boston and one in New York. There was little left by this lost gem of a band, but one of the few remnants left are the six songs, recorded in Jerry’s basement studio in Somerville, MA. Now those remnants are being compiled into a self-title album, out November 14 on Dromedary Records.
Today, Dromedary Records is debuting the track “1,000 MPH” from Via. Noisy, powerful, and utterly vital, “1,000 MPH” is a testament to a great but forgotten band, unearthed for all the world to hear all these years later. ” “This may be the first song we wrote,” explains Zedek. “This song was inspired by the sensation of sitting on a parked train in a station, next to another parked train and thinking that the train that you’re on has started moving, only to realize that actually it was the other train that was moving and that you’d been sitting still the whole time. At the time it must have felt like a metaphor for my life.”
Check out the track below.
