José Ayerve


José Ayerve is a recording artist/singer and songwriter and the front man for northeast-based indie rock groups Spouse and Nuclear Waste Management Club. He has released a number of singles and albums on vinyl and CD and is a frequent collaborator with a number of musicians and bands.
In addition, Ayerve is a recording engineer and producer for not only his own projects, but also for artists that include Winterpills, Lo Fine, Sometymes Why, Pernice Brothers, Katie Sawicki Dennis Crommett, New Radiant Storm King, Michael Merenda, and Kristen Gass.
He has also helped co-write the single "Pega Luna Manny" along with Joe Pernice of the Pernice Brothers, a song about former Boston Red Sox player Manny Ramírez. which enjoyed moderate success when the Boston Red Sox won the world series that year, for the first time in 86 years. It was included in the credit roll at the end of the 2005 film, Fever Pitch.

Biography

José Ayerve was born in Bogotá, Colombia on April 28, 1974, though his family soon relocated first to Springfield, Massachusetts, then Quito, Ecuador before again returning to Springfield.
Ayerve began studying music at the age of nine. He transitioned from piano to guitar at 13, and became a multi-instrumentalist by the time he reached college in 1992. After 1992 he relocated to Portland, Maine and would eventually join the Portland-based group Bullyclub in 1999. Though Ayerve has performed with innumerable bands throughout his career, his main pursuit since 1995 has been the schizophrenic, indie-pop group, Spouse. He currently resides in Western Massachusetts, but spends much of his time touring and/or collaborating on various projects.

Discography

Albums

  • Cinco Pesos
  • Nozomi
  • Love Can't Save This Love
  • Catch 22
  • Are You Gonna Kiss or Wave Goodbye?
  • Relocation Tactics
  • The Nuclear Waste Management Club

Singles

  • Marvel to DC
  • *Wonder Woman
  • *X-Man
  • *Superman)
  • Focus 7" vinyl single, released: 04/99, Pigeon Records)
  • *Focus
  • *Harry Crooker, FLA
  • *Marbles

With other artists

Sometymes Why

  • Your Heart is a Glorious Machine
  • *produced by José Ayerve, engineered by Max Feldman

Haunt

Katie Sawicki

  • Time Spent Lost
  • *J.Ayerve: producer, bass, backing vocals, sk-5

Bullyclub

  • Like Songs
  • Tender Hooks

Chappaquiddick Skyline

  • Chappaquiddick Skyline, released: 2000
  • *J.Ayerve: b.vocals on "Knights of the Night, Vol III"

[Lo Fine]

  • Slow To a Crawl
  • *recorded & produced by José Ayerve, Kevin O'Rourke, & Bruce Tull
  • *J. Ayerve: bass, sk-5, charango
  • Not For Us Two
  • *recorded & produced by Kevin O'Rourke and Mark Alan Miller.
  • *J. Ayerve: b.vocals on "Damage Twins", "Over My Shoulder", "My Favorite Illusion ".

New Radiant Storm King

  • Winters Kill
  • *recorded by Thom Monahan, Mark Alan Miller, and José Ayerve
  • *J. Ayerve: b.vocals on "Golden Parachute", tape manipulations on "Constellation Prize"

Winterpills

  • Winterpills
  • *recorded, produced, and mixed by José Ayerve, additional mixing by Dave Chalfant
  • The Light Divides
  • *J.Ayerve: co-production, bass, backing vocals