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Suspension
Suspension is the only album by Number19, the Brooklyn band of Tony Diodore, Leah Coloff, Mark Righter and me. Nine songs, released in 2001 on Searching Eye Records and credited to Number 19. Diodore on guitar and violin, me on bass and a Yamaha EX5, Coloff on cello and voice, Righter on drums.
The songs1. Tuner/Escalator. 2. Cold Fish. 3. Water. 4. Wheelies. 5. Everyone’s Desire. 6. I Before E. 7. Light. 8. Blue. 9. Intro.
Paid for by downloads
The record was paid for out of mp3.com downloads, and the single that led them was “Water,” track three. Number19 reached number eighteen overall on that site and took more than ninety thousand downloads in six months. From the biography on my old site: The band they established, Number19, funded its first record with downloads from mp3.com in 2001.
Nine songs, recorded with Diodore on guitar and violin, me on bass and a Yamaha EX5, Coloff on cello and voice, Righter on drums. The band’s site called the music Rhythm & Strings. Spotify dates the album 2007, the year it went up there; it came out in 2001. The sixth track, “I Before E,” has its own page with the note I wrote about it in 2022.
Listen
The creditSarth Calhoun, bass and Yamaha EX5, on Suspension by Number19, with Tony Diodore, Leah Coloff and Mark Righter. Searching Eye Records, 2001. On Apple Music and Spotify, credited to Number 19.
Tony, Sarth, Leah Coloff, and Mark Righter formed Number19 in 1999. After we released Suspension, Tony went on to play with Puracane, and eventually form BM Linx. Now, Tony and Sarth have joined forces again, playing with Lou Reed.
Sarth Calhoun, introducing the band on his old site
Conspiracies
Made by Number19. It was the first record I made with Leah Coloff and with Tony Diodore; the three of us went on to Lucibel Crater and Lou Reed’s band.
My lines are from my old WordPress site, recovered from the Wayback Machine. Track list from Apple Music. The single and Rhythm & Strings are from the band’s own site, numbernineteen.net, as captured in 2001.