BAND OF HEATHENS

Overview

“All I’m asking/Let me change your mind”

Ed Jurdi: guitar, keys, vocals

Gordy Quist: guitar, vocals

Trevor Nealon; keys, vocals

Richard Milsap: drums, vocals

Scott Davis: bass, vocals

duende – [duen-de] (noun) 1. a quality of inspiration and passion 2. A heightened sense of emotion, expression and authenticity 3. a spirit

Duende, the title of The Band of Heathens’ fifth studio album (and eighth overall), marks their tenth anniversary as a group, and it certainly applies to its overall theme about the collective search for connection and communion in a technology-fueled world increasingly splintered, distracted and lonely. As band co-founder Ed Jurdi, who first learned of the term, explains, “It’s the essence of the artist,” or as partner Gordy Quist says, “It’s a word we don’t have an equivalent for in English, Artistically, that’s where we tried to set the bar, to do what this band does best.”