The Butterflies of Love

Jeff and Daniel Greene officially launched the Butterflies of Love in New Haven, Connecticut, USA on March 15th, 1994 under the name The Silver Bug. Although little of commercial success was ultimately achieved throughout the next few months, Jeff & Daniels magical on-stage charisma would become as totally undeniable as the rough talent each had in crafting completely meaningful and relevant pop-songs. Ditching the world of coffee-shop open mic nights and organic farmers market one-off performances, the duo assumed the name The Super-Sonic Daredevils of Show-Business and penciled in a quick ascension up the pop charts for the fall of 1994. With a six-piece avant-garde improvisational jazz band backing their efforts, Jeff and Daniel set out on New Englands county agricultural fair circuit through the harvest season. Garnering a motley collection of fans, but completely exhausting their budget, The Super-Sonic Daredevils of Show Business disbanded at the conclusion of 1994, and Jeff and Daniel decided it was time to return as a stripped down two-piece, calling themselves The Butterflies of Love. With all the anxious energy that the new moniker described, they hastily recorded an album in the living room they shared during the spring months of 1995. Thoroughly dismayed by the outcome, resolve was made to record a completely new debut album for The Butterflies of Love in the completely opposite fashion. Returning to Jeffs hometown of Middletown, Connecticut, the pair was fortunate enough to land in Mike Arafehs Coffeehouse Studios. Over the course of the next two years, Jeff, Daniel, Mr. Arafeh, and a thorough collection of friends and fellow musicians made Coffeehouse Studios the home and recording a record as much a plan as any other. Over time, the best of Jeff and Daniels songs were recorded, and though most of the musicians that they played with found their ways into, and then out of, the life of the band, a few found themselves permanent members of The Butterflies of Love: the terrifically creative Scott Amore on all sorts of keyboards, the young and talented Pete Whitney on the bass guitar, the star in his own right (and co-producer of much of the bands early output) Mark Mulcahy on everything that needed doing, from vocals to drums to piano riffs, and finally the steady right foot of Neil OBrien on the drums.
By the time of its release in 1998, How To Know The Butterflies of Love was an apt summarization of the times for the band. Woozy and intoxicating collages of heartache, promise, and hypnotic sadness deftly alternated the vocals and songwriting of Jeff and Daniel. The foundation of brilliantly jangly melodies was sparsely decorated with Scotts swirling keyboards and punctuated with explosive drumming, then finally drenched in heavy reverb and lush vocal harmonies. Beloved by fans of the band, How To Know was also received with fervor by the press. The single to precede the LP, Its Different Now, garnered the certainly thrilling Single of the Week award by Great Britains NME magazine, while a few months later the albums first single Rob A Bank would find its first airplay on the BBC radio at the able hands of the legendary late DJ, Mr. John Peel. Mr. Peel, who followed the song on his broadcast with his own personal literal round of applause, was kind enough to then invite the band over to his stations Maida Vale Studios in London to record a Butterflies of Love Peel Session, a terrific honor. Lone dissent for the album was provided by fellow Americans Blink 182, renowned popsters themselves, who publicly decried the release as crap and the band as ...idiots in Englands Melody Maker magazine.
Following up How To Know was undertaken almost immediately in Michael Demmings Hartford, Connecticut studio Studio 45. Their new single Wintertime Queen, a psychedelic whirl of heart-stopping beauty, was released on Christmas of 1999 to critical acclaim. In the official final year of the millennium though, the persistence of the band members personal lives would take a heavy toll on the recording process, as 3/5 of the band made permanent departure from their Connecticut homes to settle in Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and the New Jersey shore, respectively. Struggling to retain cohesion, it would take the Butterflies until 2002 to release The New Patient. Although over-all perhaps not as spectacular as How To Know, The New Patient would ultimately yield an impressive quartet of smashers showing their versatility when at their best: the summertime pop of Dream Driver, the morose intricacy of Over It and Over It Again, the grandiose despair of The 100th Floor, and sonic terror of live favorite, Belt & Shoelaces.
Following their most successful tour ever in support of The New Patient, the Butterflies returned home determined to make their already complicated personnel ever the more so. Childhood friend Jason Mills and his melodic lead guitar stylings were finally enlisted after his having successfully managed to skirt the issue for the past 10 years. Now, with the finalization of their professional line-up, the band is as we speak--so to say--primed to release their newest album under the utterly fine title, Famous Problems. The thirteen songs that make up the full-length were honed to perfection as the band has spent much of the past four years in performance residency at various east coast nightclubs, perhaps most notably Shrewsbury, Mass.s Klub Kaleidoscope as well as Trenton, NJs Red Genesis and Saugatuck, Conn.s Anticipation Lounge. Recorded almost in live fashion by the supple engineering of Alap Momin at his Parsippany, NJ Sweetwater Sound studio/garage, the Butterflies and Mr. Momin did find suitable use to employ the absolute latest in computer multi-tracking data technology with the addition of some absolutely divine backing vocals as well as the occasional percussive flourish or hand-clap overdub. Although we must wait for the publics final verdict, the band is confident that Famous Problems will be regarded as the continued progress of their finest material, and that tracks such as Take Action, In a Blizzard In a Lighthouse, Orbit Around You, Act Deranged, and Sunshine will prove to make anybodys day better, at anytime, and anywhere. Early reaction has indeed looked to be unanimously positive, with many of the bands closest friends calling the album, Great. They look forward to playing their record for you.
This is where they currently stand.