His Name Is Alive

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American experimental rock band from Livonia, Michigan.

The group's early albums, starting with 1990's Livonia, saw them working more or less in an ethereal dream-rock vein. Later efforts found the group playing with everything from dub to '60s pop to garage rock to psychedelic classic rock. Circa 2000, ringleader Warn Defever's fixation with gospel and R&B took His Name Is Alive in an utterly unprecedented direction: towards making experimentally minded smooth urban balladry. That wasn't the last left turn the band would make; as of the late teens the band has pursued a still different psychedelic rock sound.
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hisnameisalive.com, Facebook, YouTube, Bandcamp, Wikipedia
Members:
Andrea Francesca Morici, Elliot Bergman, Fred Thomas, J Rowe, Karin Oliver, Lovetta Pippen, Trey Many, Warren Defever
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WL 0005 I Had Sex With God — His Name Is Alive His Name Is Alive I Had Sex With God ‎(Cass) Not On Label (His Name Is Alive) WL 0005 US 1988 Sell This Version
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CAD C 0008 Livonia — His Name Is Alive His Name Is Alive Livonia (Album) 4AD CAD C 0008 UK 1990 Sell This Version
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none 1985-1989 Stuff Early Works — His Name Is Alive His Name Is Alive 1985-1989 Stuff Early Works ‎(Cass) Not On Label (His Name Is Alive) none US 1990 Sell This Version
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none Love Can't Buy Happiness — His Name Is Alive His Name Is Alive Love Can't Buy Happiness ‎(Cass) Not On Label (His Name Is Alive) none US 1990 Sell This Version
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CAD 1013 Home Is In Your Head — His Name Is Alive His Name Is Alive Home Is In Your Head (Album, Comp) 4AD CAD 1013 UK 1991 Sell This Version
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9 45214-2 Mouth By Mouth — His Name Is Alive His Name Is Alive Mouth By Mouth (Album) 4AD 9 45214-2 US 1993 Sell This Version
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none Selections From Mouth By Mouth — His Name Is Alive His Name Is Alive Selections From Mouth By Mouth ‎(Cass, Promo, Smplr, Cr0) 4AD, Warner Bros. Records none US 1993 Sell This Version
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none 93 — His Name Is Alive Red House Painters / His Name Is Alive Red House Painters / His Name Is Alive - 93 ‎(Cass, Promo, Smplr) 4AD none US 1993 Sell This Version
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none Sound Of Mexico — His Name Is Alive His Name Is Alive Sound Of Mexico (Album) time STEREO none US 1994 Sell This Version
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none Great Lakes State Blues — His Name Is Alive His Name Is Alive Great Lakes State Blues (Album) time STEREO none US 1996 Sell This Version
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9 46207-2 Stars On E.S.P. — His Name Is Alive His Name Is Alive Stars On E.S.P. (Album) 4AD 9 46207-2 US 1996 Sell This Version
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none Untitled — His Name Is Alive His Name Is Alive / Mountain Singers His Name Is Alive / Mountain Singers - Untitled ‎(Cass) time STEREO, Generator none US 1996 Sell This Version
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none Michigan's Finest — His Name Is Alive His Name Is Alive Michigan's Finest ‎(Cass, S/Sided, Album, Ltd, C60) time STEREO none US 1996 Sell This Version
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SMMG 026 Radio LP — His Name Is Alive His Name Is Alive Radio LP (Album, Comp) time STEREO SMMG 026 US 1998 Sell This Version
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none Frog And Toad '92 - '97 — His Name Is Alive His Name Is Alive Frog And Toad '92 - '97 (Album) time STEREO none US 1998 Sell This Version
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CAD 8009 Ft. Lake — His Name Is Alive His Name Is Alive Ft. Lake (Album) 4AD CAD 8009 UK 1998 Sell This Version
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none The Emergency LP — His Name Is Alive His Name Is Alive The Emergency LP (Album) time STEREO none US 2000 Sell This Version
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SMMG 016 When The Stars Refuse To Shine — His Name Is Alive His Name Is Alive When The Stars Refuse To Shine (Album) time STEREO SMMG 016 US 2000 Sell This Version
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none In The East — His Name Is Alive His Name Is Alive In The East ‎(CD, CDr) time STEREO none US 2000 Sell This Version
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none Golden City — His Name Is Alive His Name Is Alive Golden City ‎(CDr, Album) time STEREO none US 2000 Sell This Version
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none Ten Years Long Time — His Name Is Alive His Name Is Alive Ten Years Long Time ‎(CDr) time STEREO none US 2000 Sell This Version
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none RMX's — His Name Is Alive His Name Is Alive RMX's ‎(CDr, Album) time STEREO none US 2000 Sell This Version
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none Finer Twilights — His Name Is Alive His Name Is Alive Finer Twilights ‎(CDr) time STEREO none US 2000 Sell This Version
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none In The West — His Name Is Alive His Name Is Alive In The West ‎(CDr) time STEREO none US 2000 Sell This Version
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CAD 2101 CD Someday My Blues Will Cover The Earth — His Name Is Alive His Name Is Alive Someday My Blues Will Cover The Earth (Album) 4AD CAD 2101 CD UK 2001 Sell This Version

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maxal

October 27, 2020
I am a fan of the jammingexperimentalfolkpsychedelia of HNIA since the Livonia album. That's almost the beginning, I seem to have missed having sex with god. Their music goes through so many different trends, soulfolkbeachboyshawkwind . . . ; reassesing them to the HNIA ethic. It can often seem like a jumble of soundforms, but there is definite shape when you pay attention. Often, going through the brambly sounds, you can stumble on a patch of heaven (Lemon Ocean, Man on the Silver Mountain . . . ). And there are weird rock treats such as the hilariously long, uncut Wish I Had a Wishing Ring at over 17 minutes long - a technically brilliant piece of freeform guitar playing, you keep on thinking when is it going to be over, when is it g . . .

Beyond 4AD, I still follow HNIA with their home-spun products. It seems this may take their work full circle back to the home-made casette approach of I Had Sex with God, and no surprise, once you have had such an experience you are hardly going to shrug it off. True to form, beautiful. It's notenough to say it evokes a nostalgic feeling when you consider the later purity of the HNIA 'home' / 'hand' constructed music packaging, their minifactory in Michigan, with the deep snow of the winters and beautiful summers: the real achievement, aside from the great soundscape, is the perseverance, honesty and integrity of the whole project, and when you consider the worldly setting of the music industry in general . . . it's great HNIA is continuing their ethic in this way. [Shame I can't see them live as I live in the UK, but . . . ]

From the individual CDs there are then the 'boxes' - Heart and Hand, Cloud, Tecuciztecatl, Patterns of Light are a joy of simplicity, taking things back to craft, asserting passion and honesty in music. Patterns of Light I haven't yet got to grips with. I haven't got the box set of that (just the lp) and I would love to see the book to understand the project more. What a connection (!!!). From having sex with god to the Hadron collider (is that the opposite of god, or the same, I don't know?), it's fascinating.
Crijevo

Crijevo

March 4, 2007
edited over 5 years ago
The band of the highest recommendation to any serious alternative music fan. Music that is certainly hard to describe as it is constantly changing course from album to album - once it is avant-garde noise, switching to moody guitar works with every next suddenly twisting into weird electronic treatments... With recent efforts dared reaching impressive heights of smooth r'n'b, each record is a masterpiece of its own right, it is just too hard to write down sole impressions on each. Make 'His Name' ALIVE indeed!

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