ABOUT

Formed in 2006, NORMAL LOVE is a Philadelphia-based instrumental quintet which comprises amplified violin, two electric guitars, electric bass, and drums. The band’s music generally has a loud and brutal aesthetic with compositional influences ranging from African minimalism to serialism to death metal, but rarely within the same piece.

Amnon D. Freidlin - guitar
Evan Lipson - bass
Eli Litwin - drums
Alex Nagle - guitar
Carlos Santiago, Jr - violins

Normal Love’s debut album was released by High Two in November 2007.

Members have performed and/or recorded with various artists including: RUINS, Man Man, Dr. Dog, Pauline Oliveros, Kayo Dot, Dynamite Club, SATANIZED, Make A Rising, Thoughtstreams, illuminea, Mat Maneri, Jamie Saft, Andrew D’Angelo, Mike Pride, Gene Coleman, Alvin Curran, Jack Wright, Forbes Graham, Katt Hernandez, and Nate Wooley.
NORMAL LOVE has shared the stage with artists such as:
Make A Rising, Dysrhythmia, Daughters, Zs, Chinese Stars, Ocrilim (Mick Barr), Ex Models, Cheer-Accident, Aa (BIG A little a), James Plotkin, Weasel Walter, Time of Orchids, Stinking Lizavetta, Genghis Tron.

NORMAL LOVE has been invited to perform in Guitar Festival @ The Stone (February 2007), Dark Forces Swing Blind Punches Festival (December 2006), the 1st annual Philadelphia POPPED! Festival (April 2007), and the Clark Park Festival (September 2007).
“NL, which recently released its debut self-titled CD on High Two, makes brutally intricate music, aggressive and perfectionist. If the Warriors had scratched past the Orphans and the Baseball Furies only to chance upon a shiv-wielding chamber ensemble, Normal Love would be perfectly cast.”
-Shaun Brady, Philadelphia City Paper