Green Cookie records

“Come On 69″ cd   == OUT NOW ==

A Limited Edition (313 copies) Picture Disc LP == out NOW == available at the gigs

GERMANY TOUR | VINYL RELEASE CONCERTS | August 2010

• Aug 19, 2010 @ Grüner Jäger (Hamburg, St. Pauli, Germany) | MySpace | Poster
• Aug 20, 2010 @ Wild At Heart (Berlin, Kreuzberg, Germany) | MySpace | Poster
• Aug 21, 2010 @ Karo (Bremen, Walle, Germany) | MySpace | Poster
• Aug 22, 2010 @ tba (Germany) | MySpace | Poster
• Aug 23, 2010 @ Bei Chez Heinz (Hannover, Niedersach, Germany) | MySpace | Poster
• Aug 24, 2010 @ tba (Germany) | MySpace | Poster
• Aug 25, 2010 @ tba (Germany) | MySpace | Poster
• Aug 26, 2010 @ tba (Germany) | MySpace | Poster
• Aug 27, 2010 @ Wutzrock Festival (Hamburg, Allermöhe, Germany) | MySpace | Poster

RECORD RELEASE PARTY | 17 February 2010

• Feb 17, 2010 = RECORD RELEASE PARTY w/ The Magnificent Brotherhood @ Molotov club (Hamburg, St. Pauli, Germany)

Painted Air – Come On 69 (Green Cookie / Clearspot)

Een bandje dat een cover opneemt van Moving Sidewalks moet wel iets hebben. In elk geval een goed gevoel voor onbekende briljantjes. Want “Every Night A New Surprise” zul je hoogstens tegenkomen op een curieuze sixtiesverzamelaar of een album dat de bronnen van ZZ Top probeert te exploreren. Moving Sidewalks’ belangrijkste claim to fame is immers dat ZZ Tops Billy Gibbons lid was. Het Hamburgse (preciezer: uit St. Pauli afkomstig, zo melden ze trots op hun website) Painted Air bestaat uit liefhebbers. Niet alleen van obscure nummers, maar ook van een fijn analoog geluid voor hun met fuzz (de gitarist noemt zich niet voor niet Fuzzomazz) overgoten garagerock. De vette gitaarlicks worden bijgestaan door een uitermate smerig orgeltje en hoewel de basis vaak relatief simpele rock ‘n’ roll is, is het een fijn psychedelisch sausje dat het geheel op smaak brengt. Een klein puntje van kritiek? Vooruit: het tempo kent wel erg weinig afwisseling (uptempo is het motto), maar dat wordt weer gecompenseerd door de lengte van deze plaat: met vijfendertig minuten klokken ze keurig op lp-lengte. Hoezeer de wereld van sixtiesfanaten en psychedelicaliefhebbers grensoverscheidend is blijkt overigens ook hier weer: de band is gevestigd in Hamburg, heeft een Deense zanger (en tot voor kort een Franse organist) en brengt Come On 69 uit op een Grieks label.

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DubbelMono | 04 april 2010 – 08:57

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rockaroundtheblog.com 20.3.2010

Ninguém diria que esta banda alemã, de Hamburgo, desde o inicio da sua existência (1990), e tendo começado como tipicamente de “60´s garage”, se tornaria em purista na arte do “psych fuzz”. O álbum agora editado, de título “Come On 69” é disso exemplo, entrelaçado entre o “garage” e o mais denso, muitas das vezes bem (ob)escuro, “psych”, abre com “Hey Hey”, canção marcada pelo órgão de Organella (Cécile Musy), membro dos franceses Curlee Wurlee!, que influência dai em diante faixas, onde o “organ-driven” é mais saliente, como “Make It Real”, “Night Lies” e “Don’t Be Jealous”, tornando-se menos denso em acompanhamento noutros temas, em que os “riffs” e “fuzz´s” fazem base de sustentação, mas o rock mais psicadélico é a base deste álbum, “Restless Hedonist”, “Bliss”, “Drain Your Blood“, “I Don’t Get It” e “Morphine” contêm punhados de riffs, tão difusos como melódicos, que salientam as harmonias vocais. Chegamos a “Goodbye”, a única música perfeitamente dispensável no disco, isto porque, na minha opinião, é demasiadamente “proto/kraut”, “Come On 69” encerra o disco, e volta a colocar-nos na posição de ouvintes atentos para aquilo que de fantástico os Painted Air fizeram. “Come On 69” foi gravado em 2008, totalmente em analógico, e produz efeito quando o escutamos, acreditem, este disco tem algo de especial.

No one would say that this German band, from Hamburg, since the beginning of its existence (1990), and having started as a typical “60′s garage”, would become as purists in the art of “psych fuzz”. The album now released, titled “Come On 69″ is an example, interlaced between the “garage” and more dense, often obscure “psych”, opens with “Hey Hey”, a song marked by the organ of Organella (Cécile Musy), a member of the French Curlee Wurlee! band, that influence thereafter tracks, where the “organ-driven” is more prominent, as “Make It Real”, “Night Lies” and “Don’t Be Jealous”, becoming less dense follow-ups in other songs, where the “riffs” and “fuzz’s” do underpinnings, but the more psychedelic rock is the basis of this album “Restless Hedonist”, “Bliss”, “Drain Your Blood“, “I Don’t Get It” and “Morphine” contain handfuls of riffs, so diffuse as melodic, that emphasizing the vocal harmonies. We arrived till “Goodbye”, the only song on this records quite unnecessary, because, in my opinion, is too “proto/kraut”, “Come On 69″ closes the album, and once again places us in position of aware listeners to what fantastic the Painted Air did. “Come On 69″ was recorded in 2008, fully analog, and takes effect when heard, believe me, this album has something special. publicada por Francisco às 4:31 PM | http://www.rockaroundtheblog.com/2010_03_01_archive.html

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1beat.de | 01-03-2010 Seit nunmehr fast 20 Jahren machen die Hamburger Kiezrocker von „Painted Air“ Musik, als hätte nach den MC 5, der Chocolate Watch Band, den Sonics und den Monks nichts mehr anderes gegeben. Das hat es zwar, aber ob es etwas Besseres war, sei dahingestellt… Wenn man beispielsweise von der durchgeknallt jaulenden Vox/Hammond/Farfisa-Orgel auf „Come On 69“ die volle Dröhnung ab hat, kommt einem jeder Synthie-Teppich wie Alleinunterhaltung für Neo-Spießer vor. Oder die Fuzz-Gitarre! So hat das damals geklungen, als Tigerstreifen- oder Wölkchenfurniere noch auf Omas Schlafzimmermöbel zu finden waren, und nicht auf Instrumenten, mit denen schließlich die Welt erobert werden sollte. Diese Band klingt nicht authentisch nach Sixties, sie IST Sixties! Rasch noch mal den Quercheck mit meinen alten „Pebbles“-Vinylschätzchen: Ja, das ist sie! Genau die Musik, mit der man sich lieber nicht bei den zukünftigen Schwiegereltern vorstellen sollte. Heute nicht, und vor 40-50 Jahren auch nicht. Es gibt sie noch, die guten Dinge… Jo Neckermann | http://1beat.de/review/painted-air-come-on-69/

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Ox 88 Feb./März ’10 Seit nahezu 20 Jahren sind PAINTED AIR aus Hamburg nun im Geschäft. Als Swamp-Room Hausband rockten sie so einige Hannoveraner Happenings mit hirnzerfressendem Lyserg-Punk, Sägezahn-Fuzz und Waber-Orgel waren immer schon Markenzeichen, dazu dann das ausdrucksvolle Organ von Shouter Martin Brujah, der seine Lektion Iggyismus summa cum laude abgeschlossen hat. Was PAINTED AIR auch immer ausmachte, war die personelle Inkonsistenz, denn selten hielt mal ein Line-up länger als ein, zwei Jahre. Die aktuelle Besetzung ist übrigens dann natürlich auch nicht die, die das Album einspielte. Orgelgöttin Cecilé „Organella“Musy (Curlee Wurlee!) hat mittlerweile auch schon wieder in den Sack gehauen und die Tastatur dem Todesorgler Czerno überlassen. Musikalisch ist die Band jedoch wieder im Garage-Genre unterwegs, die Hippie/Kraut Obsession der Frühzeit ist zum Glück ad acta gelegt. Bemerkenswert druckvoll und direkt klingt „Come on ’69“ jedenfalls, kein Wunder, es wurde live im Vintage-Analog-Studio des Müllaffen Dennis Rux eingespielt, Overdubs und Frickeleien finden nicht statt, nur straighte Garage-Kracher mit brutal schmutzigen Gitarrensound und Cecilés eindrucksvoller Hammond-Penetration, die die Songs direkt in die Beat-Synapsen tackern. (8) Gereon Helmer

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Painted Air – Come On 69 (Green Cookie / Clearspot)

Zaterdag 27 Februari 2010 at 11:06 pm

Twelve delicious garagerock tracks with a catchy organ filling up the holes…  This album won’t let the attention slip away during the full 33 minutes. (translated excerpt)

Na de retro thrash van Battalion gaan we een stukje noorderlijker en komen terecht in Hamburg. We blijven echter in de retrohoek zitten. De uit deze stad afkomstige band noemt zich Painted Air en de naam alleen al klinkt behoorlijk sixties. Na het beluisteren van Come On 69 waant de luisteraar zich al helemaal in de jaren ’60. Twaalf heerlijke garagerocknummers met een immer aanstekelijke orgel die links en rechts de gaten opvult. Het prettige van Painted Air is dat de band naast de voor de handliggende retrosound ook een dun psychedelisch laagje weet aan te brengen. Het uit Griekenland afkomstige Green Cookie Records komt regelmatig met opvallend venijnig klinkende acts op de proppen en Painted Air past perfect in die traditie. De band vliegt geen enkel moment uit de bocht, echt gevaarlijk wordt het nooit, maar de plaat blijft de volle 33 minuten de aandacht vasthouden.

reviewed by Joost Jan Meertens for Planet Trash | http://www.planettrash.nl/?e=422

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popkiller.de 02/10 Written by Marvin Thursday, 25 February 2010 …So nehmen Painted Air den Hörer mit auf eine Reise durch die Nacht auf der Reeperbahn, erzählen von verliebten Idioten, einsamen Junkies und Lebensmüden, begleitet von musikalischen Abstechern in die 60er und 70er-Jahre. …So nehmen die Songs den Hörer mit in die Nacht, und wenn das Album zuende ist und es wieder hell wird, weiß man nicht mehr alle Details der Erlebnisse, nur, dass es auf jeden Fall gut war… | http://www.popkiller.de/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=904&Itemid=26

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Stern 9/2010 Prügelfest Wie eine wüste und extrem unterhaltsame Schlägerei in einer schummrigen Hafenkneipe klingt die Hamburger Band PAINTED AIR. Sänger Martin Klingberg und seine Bandkollegen beschwören den psychedelischen Geist der Doors und leiben den ungebügelten Garagen-Rock von Iggy Pop. Wer ihr Album >Come on ’69< hört, der will sich direkt ins Getümmel stürzen. Wenn eine Rockband so etwas bewirkt, hat sie alles richtig gemacht.

CDs/LPs/Singles – Reviews

GRAVES BROTHERS DELUXE  “San Malo”

Format: CD | Label: Green Cookie | Spielzeit: 41:03 | Genre: Rock’n'Roll/Garage

Wertung: 7/10

Eine wilde Mischung aus Psychdelic, Psycho, Rock, Surf und Konzept liegt dem Album zugrunde. Vor allem gibt es sogar eine Story, die die Songs nacherzählen, sie berichten von der versunkenen Piratenstadt San Malo.

Dabei sind die Geschichten der Songs sehr schräg, könnten manchmal ein wenig mehr zurücktreten hinter dem Sound. Am besten sind die zurückgehaltenen Gitarren, die auf einen Einsatz warten, zögern und sich dann langsam in den Vordergrund spielen und mit ihrem Sound manchmal unberechtigterweise hinter dem Gesang zurückbleiben.

Und dann sind da die Tracks, wo die Gitarren sich fast wie THE SURFARIS anhören, und dann wieder so freie Improvisationen, dass man an Noise erinnert wird. Eigentlich müsste man es unter Psychedlic-Surf einordnen, wenn es die Kategorie geben würde.

Ein cooles Fusion-Album der skizzierten Genres, für jeden Geschmack ist etwas dabei und zu einem neuen Süppchen zusammengebrutzelt. Manchem mag es vielleicht ein wenig zu viel an Zutaten sein, aber man kann es gut anhören!

Thomas Neumann

© by Ox-Fanzine / Ausgabe #88 (Februar/März 2010)

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03 March 2010

the graves brothers combine near-suicidal excess with hairpin-turn discipline to create the most confounding and commanding rock album of the year.
thanks mike and nikos. shelton

John Shelton Ivany

http://www.jsitop21.com/

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Graves Brothers Deluxe – San Malo (Greek import CD, Green Cookie, Progressive)

So many bands either go for a total pop/rock approach…or experimental music so weird that it alienates most listeners. The guys in Graves Brothers Deluxe manage to tread on the fine line that separates both worlds. The band has been very busy over the past few years recording their own music and working with a wild array of different artists in all kinds of different mediums. San Malo is right up there with the Brothers’ best recordings. Some of these tracks are moody distorted pop/rock…while others feature more abstract sounds and ideas. Interestingly, the album is being released on the Greek Green Cookie label. Strange how many cool credible American bands find far more support in other countries (?). Ten groovy cuts here that glide all over the audio map. Our favorite tracks include “I’m Fine,” “My Heart Burned Down Today,” “The Ballad of San Malo,” and “Noisy Kind of Nothing.” Another killer release from one of the true American classic underground bands. TOP PICK.

http://www.babysue.com/2010-March-LMNOP-Reviews.html#anchor80612

babysue® | March 2010

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Schwindy’s indie music spotlight: Graves Brothers Deluxe

February 26, 5:07 AM | Orange County Music Examiner Gary Schwind

Orange County Music Examiner rates this: 4/5

Let’s start this off with a little quiz. Choose the best answer. You know you are an indie music artist when:

a. You play a gig for a dozen or fewer people.

b. You sell your merchandise from the back of a van.

c. You end up on a Greek record label.

OK, I don’t know exactly how Graves Brothers Deluxe ended up on Green Cookie Records from Thessaloniki, Greece. However, it’s not surprising to me that the band couldn’t find a label in the US. This is a band that plays the antithesis of 3-minute pop songs. San Malo is a collection of songs that includes a lot of heavily distorted, hypnotic guitar, and skronking saxophone. Oh, and lyrics that sound like they should be recited by some beat poet smoking a French cigarette and topping off an all-black outfit with a black beret. Either that or Captain Beefheart. A couple examples of the sort of far-out beat feel are “Splinters” and especially the last song on the album, “Song for Mating Mailmen.” Yes, someone wrote a song for mating mailmen. (It’s about time.) And yes, it’s easy to imagine this song being the backdrop for someone’s poetry reading.

But that isn’t even the song I would classify as the most unusual on the album. That designation belongs to “Papio Papio (the Swamp Ape Again).” This song has tremendous energy. And tremendous discord. This is not the sort of song you play for people who enjoy the Grammys. Well, it is if you want to chase that person away. Trust me, I don’t mean that in a negative way. I mean, quite simply that this song is the perfect antithesis of all things Grammy and pop.

I have never seen your music collection, but I think it is fair to assume that you don’t have many albums like this in your collection. According to the one-sheet, this is a “post-Katrina retelling of St. Malo, Louisiana, a swamp village founded in 1763 by Filipino deserters of Spanish galleons.” All I can say is that if this is the soundtrack of a village, it must be one really unusual place. WARNING: This album will take some getting used to. It’s not one that you can sit down with and immediately start singing along. But if you ask me, it’s this sort of album that makes music worth exploring. The musical world would be pretty dull if every band played easily digestible pop songs. Graves Brothers Deluxe most certainly does not. If you are looking for something different, and a little challenging, give this album a try. I think you’ll find it’s worth the challenge.

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February 20, 2010

NEW MUSIC REVIEW: THE GRAVES BROTHERS DELUXE San Malo CD

Filed under: Album Reviews, Reviews — russelforster @ 12:01 pm | Pirate Cat Radio 87.9 fm, USA

THE GRAVES BROTHERS DELUXE / San Malo CD / Green Cookie Records / 2009

Brilliant bad-attitude rock expertly produced by L.A. legends Geza X and Paul Roessler. World-weary in a totally pissed-off way that’s also very funny, with some of the tastiest slide guitar I’ve heard in years. BONUS: Features PCR ace DJ STOO ODUM on stringed instruments, vocals, and way-offbeat songwriting.

SOUNDS LIKE: RADIOHEAD, NOMEANSNO, GUN CLUB

SUGGESTED TRACKS:

1 “San Malo National Anthem” (instrumental goodness)

4 “Five Foot Category Five” (ambivalence defined)

6 “My Heart Burned Down Today” (catchy and danceable – a hit!)

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The Graves Brothers Deluxe, “San Malo” (Green Cookie Records) Rating: 4 TCB’s ****

I kept scratching my head on this one. I love it, no question about it, but I was puzzled at why I was so drawn in. Then it hit me. The stripped down, beat driven arrangements and haunting lyrics remind me of the late great Mark Sandman and his jazz/experimental work with Morphine. If you can imagine a musical stew of Morphine, Beck and Wall of Voodoo with a pinch of Gang Of Four and the Sex Pistols thrown in. Now picture Frank Zappa stirring the pot then you’re about halfway there.

This album is the musical re-telling of a swamp village in Louisiana founded in 1763 by Filipino deserters of the Spanish galleons. Heady stuff indeed but these guys not only pull it off, they’ve created an album that the listener can really sink their teeth into for years to come. This isn’t disposable music that loses its flavor after a few listenings.

“Five Foot Category Five” has an eerie swamp groove that will have you checking the skies and battening down the hatches. “My Heart Burned Down Today” sounds a bit like the Sex Pistols “Submission” covered by a young Talking Heads. “The Ballad Of San Malo” is a mesmerizing personal favorite. Highly recommended stuff.

Review by J.R. Oliver | Ear Candy magazine  http://www.earcandymag.com/reviews-0210.htm

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The Big Takeover > essays

Nara Denning (featuring Stoo Odom of The Graves Brothers Deluxe), Part II

by Chris Stroffolino | 16 January 2010

The Graves Brothers Deluxe were one of the first three rock bands I got into when I moved to the Bay Area, the only one not named after a front-man (in contrast to Kelley Stoltz and fellow Mississippi Exile, Hudson Bell), and the only one for which I jumped around in an Apesuit, on our package shows for the now defunct Good Forks record label (before my accident).

Always one of the most danceable of the Bay Area bands, the band’s first release in 5 years, SAN MALO, and their first on Greece’s GREEN COOKIE records (an implicit commentary on the paucity of quality/viable Bay Area independent labels), has even tighter grooves, from the rhythm section of Marco Villalobos and Stoo Odom, while
stepping their “noise rock” jams up a notch; the glorious melodic cacophony of Willie The Mailman’s (ex-Residents ) sinuous and jagged guitar/saxophone lines recall Albert Ayler, as “backed” by the rhythm section of The Minutemen, if not Firehose). Perhaps it’s a result of 5 years of touring since 2005’s FILTER FEEDERS, or their work on the MAHIKARI album (Birdman 2008), with Japanese noise-rock legends SEIICHI YAMOMOTO and MAKOTO KAWABATA, but many of the tracks on SAN MALO have a much more expansive instrumentalization, while the words —never a central aspect to GBD— take even more of a backseat. Perhaps because GBD’s singer is first and foremost its bassist, the words are usually only important insofar as they call attention, often playfully, to the inadequacy of words, as on FILTER FEEDER’s “…And The Conversation Turned To Sex” or SAN MALO’s “Noisy Kind Of Nothing.”

At the same time, San Malo is the most melodic, and tuneful LP in the GBD’s catalogue —not that melody was ever that important for GBD. But, with the addition of Allison Lovejoy on keyboards, many of the new GBD compositions are much more “college radio” friendly, without sacrificing anything about what makes them such an engaging live band. I recently sat down with Stoo Odom to talk about GBD and his work with Nara Denning. Here’s some videos.

“It came from the Id,”

Interview, with Stoo and Nara

And here’s the information about their San Francisco Release Party
Pirate Cat Radio co-presents: “San Malo” CD release party!
WINSTON TONG (ex-Tuxedomoon) & LX RUDIS
THE GRAVES BROTHERS DELUXE
MARK MATOS & OS BEACHES+ original films by Winston Tong and Nara Denning

Wednesday January 20, 2010
8pm, $8, 21+
Bottom of the Hill, 1233 17th St., San Francisco, CA USA

GBDLX’s long-awaited 4th full-length album comes out next week! It’s (almost) a full-on rock opera about the village of St. Malo, Louisiana. The Asian-American experience began there in 1763 when Filipino indentured servants escaped Spanish galleons and founded the town in the remote swamps east of New Orleans. GBDLX retell the village’s isolation, struggles, and eventual destruction-by-hurricane through a post-Katrina, post-lumpia filter. Beautiful violent art by New Orleans institution Bunny Matthews graces the CD cover.

Headlining the show is legendary Tuxedomoon frontman WINSTON TONG, performing with LX RUDIS and members of the Graves Brothers Deluxe themselves! Porto Franco Records artists MARK MATOS & OS BEACHES open the show, and original films by Winston Tong and Nara Denning will punctuate the evening.

“San Malo” is brought to you by Greece’s GREEN COOKIE Records. It’s available in the USA through Super D Distribution (www.sdcd.com) and CDBaby (cdbaby.com/all/mikesurf); in Europe through Clearspot (www.clear-spot.nl), Soundflat (www.soundflat.de), and Hands & Arms (http://handsandarms.com) – and very soon through www.gravesbrothers.com …

Thank you! More info:
www.winstontong.com
www.markmatos.com
www.bottomofthehill.com
www.piratecatradio.com
www.greencookie.gr
www.gravesbrothers.com
www.myspace.com/thegravesbrothersdeluxe
www.facebook.com/pages/The-Graves-Brothers-Deluxe/195063714889

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ANTIMUSIC: http://www.antimusic.com/reviews/10/Graves_Brothers_Deluxe_-_San_Malo.shtml

Graves Brothers Deluxe – San Malo
by Gary Schwind

I first encountered Graves Brothers Deluxe a couple years ago on a split with Boxcar Satan, so I kind of knew what I was getting when the new album San Malo arrived. That being said, the band is not any easier to classify than it was at first. I know this much. If you are looking for 3-minute pop nuggets, keep looking.

The guitar on this album is rather hypnotic, particularly in the first couple tracks. Frankly, if you can think of a better word for the guitar on “I’m Fine,” I’d love to hear it. When this song is playing, it doesn’t feel so much like you are listening to it, but rather that it is washing over you. The distorted guitar and the uptempo drums seem to surround you. The band follows that with “Splinters,” one of a couple songs that features some skronking saxophone. Maybe it’s the saxophone, and maybe it’s the lyrics, or quite possibly, it’s the utter chaos, but something about this song feels a bit like beat poetry. Performed by Captain Beefheart. An even better example of that beat poetry feel is “Song for Mating Mailmen.” (And you thought no one would ever write a song for that particular group of people.) It is real easy to imagine some guy in a beret with a French cigarette hanging from his lips reciting a poem while this song plays in the background. Perhaps there is no better example of the difficult to describe quality than “Papio Papio (the Swamp Ape Again).” This is just a song with all-out blazing energy and a fair amount of discord. I doubt you have too many songs like this one on your iPod.

The thing about this band and this album is that as you go through it, you realize you’re hearing something completely different. You’ll probably also realize that you won’t really know how to explain this album to your friends. But let’s face it, that’s one of the great things about music: passing along music that is truly different and perhaps a little challenging to listen to. I mean, if everyone sounded like a Grammy winner (that is to say, bland and safe), music wouldn’t be worth exploring. Suffice it to say that if you explore music that is not easily pigeonholed or compared, this is a band and an album that you’ll want to check out.

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JERSEYBEAT:

The Graves Brothers Deluxe – San Malo (gravesbrothers.com)

Jim Testa

Not only is “San Malo” inventive, but it’s also an enjoyable throwback to bands like Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Southern Culture on the Skids, or any of those cool-as-fuck, demi-punk garagey bands. You know what I mean, like the bands who’s vinyl albums you have a hard time trying to get rid of, because you know they’ll never come up with a band as eclectic as they are.

Enthusiasm and melody are certainly not a problem here. Songs like “I’m Fine,” “Vulture Sing,” or “Noisy King of Nothing” are low-brow, compressed with high energy, and have a polite blowtorch vocals that could boil over at any minute.
When the tempo slows down on numbers like “Vulture Sing,” or “My Heart Burned Down Today,” they draw you in like a hypnotist.- Tantalizing, taunt, and tight.

The Graves Brothers Deluxe’s pull out all the stops for the neo-psychedelic, spiderwebed sound of “Noisy Kind of Nothing.” A running bass line (just about every song here), is dominate, but not forceful, and is well supported by a pulsating drum kit, marked by cymbal rolls and floor tom flourishes.
Playing with punky venom, but without pop slickness, the band’s goth-horror edge offers doses of humor, and tongue-in-cheek-truths.

Bands like The Graves Brothers Deluxe are sometimes viewed as a novelty act, but they easily avoid such trappings by remaining uniquely cool. “Song for Mating Mailmen” squashes any thought of pigeon-holing this band. Creative and fun, it’s time to turn off the TV, unplug the video games, and tune into something unique and original!

http://www.jerseybeat.com/philrainone.html

THE GRAVES BROTHERS DELUXE EUROPEAN TOUR 2010 (France, Spain, Netherlands)

• June 12, 2010 @ Stara Pekarna (Brno, Czech Republic) | MySpace
• June 17, 2010 @ L’International w/ Servo (Paris, France) | MySpace
• June 18, 2010 @ Patronaat (Haarlem, Netherlands) | Event Link | doors open @ 21:00, start @ 21:30 | w/ Ljadov (NL), Deadbeat Passenger (NL) | Gratis in ons Café
• June 19, 2010 @ Fete de la Musique (Oudon, France) | MySpace
• June 20, 2010 @ Les Combustibles (Paris, France) | MySpace
• June 23, 2010 @ La Machine a Coudre w/ Elektrolux (Marceille, France) | MySpace
• June 24, 2010 @ Up and Down (Montpellier, France) | MySpace | w/ The Project (FR)
• June 25, 2010 @ Coyote Ugly (Allicante, Spain) | MySpace
• June 26, 2010 @ La Vakeri (Valencia, Spain) | MySpace

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“SAN MALO” RECORD RELEASE PARTY (20 January 2010)

WHAT: “San Malo” record release party with Winston Tong, the Graves Brothers Deluxe, + Mark Matos & Os Beaches (a Pirate Cat Radio co-presentation)
WHERE: Bottom of the Hill, 1233 17th St., SF
WHEN: Wednesday, January 20, 2010, 9pm (doors at 8:30)
HOW MUCH: $8, 21 and over
PRESS/ INTERVIEW INQUIRIES: Stoo Odom, misterodom@gmail.com, 415-642-5724

It’s been over four years and one giant levee failure since the last full Graves Brothers Deluxe album, and they’re back with a vengeance. Produced by Geza X (Germs, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Elliott Smith) & Paul Roessler (45 Grave, the Screamers), “San Malo” is the Graves’ musical tale of the real-life fishing village of St. Malo, Louisiana, founded by escaped Filipino indentured servants in 1763 and destroyed by hurricane in 1915. As a New Orleans native and San Francisco resident, Graves frontman Stoo Odom found this story of the USA’s first Asian-American settlement particularly compelling in this post-Katrina, post-modern, post-lumpia world.

Far from lazy for the past four years, the Graves Brothers Deluxe have been busy scoring films; writing; recording; collaborating with members of Acid Mothers Temple, the Boredoms, and 60′s icons the monks; making TV appearances (most recently Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations); plus touring Japan, Mexico, and the USA in their spare time. “San Malo” will be released January 20th on Greece’s Green Cookie Records.

Headlining the bill is former Tuxedomoon frontman WINSTON TONG, performing for the first time since 2008. Winston is best known for the song “In a Manner of Speaking,” covered by (among others) Nouvelle Vague and Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore. Joining the SF cult legend onstage are guest artist LX RUDIS and members of the Graves Brothers Deluxe themselves. MARK MATOS & OS BEACHES (Porto Franco Records) open the show.

The event is brought to you by the Bay Area’s favorite radio rogues, Pirate Cat Radio.

More info:
www.gravesbrothers.com
www.myspace.com/thegravesbrothersdeluxe
www.facebook.com/pages/The-Graves-Brothers-Deluxe/195063714889?ref=mf
www.winstontong.com
www.myspace.com/markmatososbeaches
www.bottomofthehill.com
www.greencookie.gr
www.piratecatradio.com

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DEEP SOUTH TOUR 2009 | Poster

• Sep 27, 2009, 8:00 PM @ Alabama Music Box w/ Amazing Energy (455 Dauphin St., Mobile, Alabama, USA)| MySpace
• Sep 26, 2009, 9:00 PM @ Thirsty Hippo w/ Shotzy & The Fiths (Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA) | MySpace
• Sep 25, 2009, 9:00 PM @ Saturn Bar w/ The Happy Talk Band (New Orleans, Louisiana, USA) | MySpace

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• Sep 24, 2009, 10:00 PM @ The Handlebar w/ the films of  Nara Denning (Pensacola, Florida, USA) | MySpace | Poster
• Sep 12, 2009, 9:00 PM @ Caravan Lounge w/ Booty Chesterfield Trio (98 S. Almaden Ave., San Jose, California, USA)
• Sep 4, 2009, 10:00 PM  [ Mister Odom & the Odom Poles ] @ The Dark Room w/ Vagabondage, Jim Fourniadis, Seth Augustus (2263 Mission Street, between 18th and 19th, San Francisco, California, USA) | MySpace | Poster

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JAPAN TOUR 2009