Producing a full length music album is no small feat. For the band Aan, it took two years of meticulous work to come out with their debut album “Amor Ad Nauseum.”Aan was formed in Portland. in 2007 when bassist Reese Lawhon and singer/guitarist George “Bud” Wilson added a drummer and second guitarist to their band.
Wilson, University of Idaho alumnus and former D.J. for the school’s radio station KUOI 89.3, said work on the full length album started two years ago when the band entered the studio to begin recording.
“We had a bunch of songs all ready to go into studio,” Wilson said. “But the recording process wasn’t easy, as the band painstakingly refined their songs down to exactly what they wanted.”
Wilson is the main songwriter for Aan, so most of the band’s songs started as rough ideas in his head that were later defined more with the entire band, Wilson said.
Aan’s album “Amor Ad Nauseum” will be released on Feb. 4, with the band planning to embark on a tour in support of it for the first half of the year.
The band has seen numerous changes in guitarists and drummers in their lineup, but the current iteration is going strong and ready to support the album.
“In the last year, we’ve really coalesced into one moving unit,” Wilson said.
Aan plans to embark on a roughly six month national tour in support of “Amor Ad Nauseum.” The first leg of their tour will have them sharing the stage with Provo, Utah, band Desert Noises. The band is hoping to make it to Europe sometime soon, but doesn’t foresee it as likely until at least 2015, Wilson said.
With their tour slated to take up the first half of this year, the band plans to head back into the studio to try and release something by the end of 2014.
“A lot of these songs were written almost two years ago and they don’t feel nearly as new,” Wilson said.
Wilson is currently writing new material and already has a handful of demos to work with for their next endeavor. Wilson said he always had a passion for music and with Aan starting to pick up speed, he has no intention of stopping anytime soon.
“It’s the one thing that keeps me excited,” Wilson said.
The future of Aan is still uncertain at this point, but Wilson was sure about one thing with his vision for the band’s future.
“I don’t want to be part of a massive rock band,” Wilson said.
Preferring to keep the band to just the four members and the few people they have as a crew, Wilson wants to keep it a small, personal project.
Aan’s album release tour starts in February, with a stop in Moscow at Mikey’s Gyros on Feb. 5.
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