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Occupation
  
Musician

Role
  
Musician

Name
  
Jason Russo

Siblings
  
Justin Russo

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Born
  
August 16, 1973 (
1973-08-16
)

Music groups
  
Mercury Rev (1994 – 2001), Hopewell, Common Prayer, The Silent League

Albums
  
Deserter's Songs, All Is Dream, See You on the Other Side, Good Good Desperation

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Jason Sebastian Russo (born August 16, 1973 in Yonkers, New York) is a rock musician. He was a member of Mercury Rev from 1994 to 2001, and rejoined in 2011 for the Don't Look Back concert series Deserter's Songs reunion tour. He founded the psychedelic rock band Hopewell in high school. Hopewell has since been constantly recording and touring. They released their fifth full-length album "Good Good Desperation" on Tee Pee Records in 2009. He is also leader of the band Common Prayer.

Contents

Common Prayer's debut record 'There Is A Mountain' was released in the UK by Big Potato Records, a label founded in part by Neil Halstead. It was recorded on the site of the Truck Festival in Steventon, Oxfordshire, by Joe and Robin Bennett of Goldrush. Other players include Russo's brother, Justin Russo.

Childhood

Jason Russo grew up in a religious household with two brothers, a sister and no TV. The son of a psychiatrist, he spent the better part of his youth in graveyards, woods and strip malls in upstate New York before music consumed much of his life. At the age of 19, Russo found himself touring alongside his brother Justin as bassist for critically acclaimed Mercury Rev during the band's peak, before moving on to focus entirely on his own eclectic psychedelic rock band Hopewell.

Albums

  • Harmony Rockets Paralyzed Mind of the Archangel Void (Big Cat, 1995)
  • Hopewell Contact (Burnt Hair Records, 1997)
  • Grasshopper and the Golden Crickets The Orbit of Eternal Grace (Beggars Banquet, 1998)
  • Mercury Rev All is Dream (V2 Records, 2001)
  • Hopewell The Curved Glass (Priapus, PIAS, 2001)
  • Grand Mal Bad Timing (Arena Rock Recording Company, 2003)
  • The Silent League The Orchestra, Sadly, Has Refused (File-13, Something in Construction, 2004)
  • Hopewell Hopewell & The Birds Of Appetite (Tee Pee Records, Star Mole Records (Japan), 2005)
  • Hopewell Hopewell and the Birds of Appetite (TeePee Records, 2005)
  • Mercury Rev The Essential Mercury Rev: Stillness Breathes 1991-2006 (V2 Records, 2006)
  • Grand Mal Love Is The Best Con In Town (New York Night Train, 2006)
  • Hopewell Beautiful Targets (TeePee Records / Star Mole (Japan), 2007)
  • Grand Mal Congratulations You¹ve Re-joined the Human Race ( Groover Recordings, 2007)
  • The Silent League Of Stars and Other Somebodies (Something in Construction, Rallye/Klee, 2007)
  • Camphor Drawn To Dust (Friendly Fire Recordings, 2008)
  • Hopewell Good Good Desperation (TeePee Records, 2009)
  • Grand Mal Clandestine Songs (Groover Recordings, 2010)
  • Common Prayer There Is A Mountain (Big Potato Records / South Cherry Entropy, 2010)
  • Hopewell Live Volume 1 (Virtual Label / South Cherry Entropy, 2010)
  • Common Prayer Frame The River (O+ / South Cherry Entropy, 2013)

    • Soundtracks

  • Jesus' Son Soundtrack (1999)
  • Tarnation Soundtrack (as Hopewell) (2003)
  • Alphonso Bow Soundtrack (2009)
  • Psycho Guru Soundtrack (2010)
  • Lapse: Confessions of a Slot Machine Junkie Soundtrack (2013)
  • River Of Bears Soundtrack (2013)

    • EPs / Singles

  • Hopewell Windy & Carl / Hopewell (Burnt Hair Records, 1996 7" Single)
  • Hopewell Stranger (Priapus Records, 1997 7" Single)
  • Hopewell Purple Balloon (Priapus Records, 1998 EP)
  • Mercury Rev Goddess on a Highway (V2 Records, 1998 Single)
  • Mercury Rev Delta Sun Bottleneck Stomp (V2 Records, 1998 Single)
  • Mercury Rev Opus 40 (V2 Records, 1999 Single)
  • Mercury Rev Holes (V2 Records, 1999 Single)
  • Hopewell Planetarium / Hopewell (Burnt Hair Records, 1998 12" S/Sided, Ltd)
  • Hopewell Small Places (Zeal Records, 2000 7" Single)
  • Hopewell Safe As Milk (Cutty Shark, 2001 CD/ 7" Single)
  • Hopewell The Angel Is My Watermark (Cutty Shark, 2001 CD/ 7" Single)
  • Hopewell The Notbirds EP (Sunnylane / South Cherry Entropy, 2006 EP)
  • Hopewell Hopewell / Lions & Tigers Keep - Mother Vol 3 (Fire Records, 2006 10" Ltd)
  • Hopewell Good Good Good Desperation / Opus Part 2 (TeePee Records, 2009 7" Single)
  • Hopewell Another Music (TeePee Records, 2012 CD/7" Single)

    • Compilations

  • Hopewell Clooney Tunes (Fierce Panda Records, 2000)
  • Hopewell Psychedelica Vol: 2 (Northern Star Records, 2007)
  • Hopewell Psychedelica Vol: 4 (Northern Star Records, 2011)
  • Hopewell Songs From A Sonic Land (Reverb Records, 2011)

    • Songs

    Holes
    Goddess On A Hiway
    commonprayer
    He Was a Friend of Mine
    Opus 40
    You're My Queen
    Little Rhymes
    The Dark Is Rising
    A Drop in Time
    Purple Balloon
    Chapter Meeting
    Isolation
    Trouble
    Sudden Ray of Hope
    Texico Bitches
    Florida
    Young Man's Stride
    Lincoln's Eyes
    Hello Radio
    Tonight It Shows
    Tides of the Moon
    Nite and Fog
    I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier
    Love Sweet Cancer
    The Tolka - Not The Liffey
    Trumpet for a Lung
    Goddess on a Highway
    Paralyzed Mind of the Archangel Void
    Sadness
    Call To Prayer
    Prayer For The Nihilist
    Waste

    References

    Jason Sebastian Russo Wikipedia
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