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Soft Speaker : Jackie Robinson / Glass Table

klang klang klang // rock :: blues :: punk :: folk :: acoustic

Re-recording of a Merrell Fankhauser & HMS Bounty tune. Recorded in Little Hartley/Surry Hills 2014. Mastered by Owen Penglis. 

Driving Sideways - HMS Bounty Sails Again 2014 Version

`CRYSTAL BONES ` is the new single by The Balcony Stars  download from BANDCAMP http://thebalconystars.bandcamp.com/track/crystal-bones

THE BALCONY STARS - CRYSTAL BONES

02 Glass Table

01 Jackie Robinson  A Man Of Talent   A Man Of Courage

"Crazy For You" from Scars on 45's  full-length 'Safety In Numbers' Get the album now:
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My House

The new Soft Speaker album, Øvrevoll Racecourse, is available now for download via Bandcamp using the pay-what-you-want model. Pay nothing if you're dough-low, pay something is you just cashed in your scratch-offs. Technically, we're not in it for the money.

https://softspeaker.bandcamp.com/album/vrevoll-racecourse  

released 08 October 2014

Engineered and mixed by Cooper Crain at Minbal (Chicago, IL)
Mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering (Chicago, IL)
Design by Metasis Media (Chicago, IL)

Track 1 contains a sample taken from a 1957 radio interview with Peakaboo, of Peakaboo & His Boys, conducted by Stanley Forsythe Codine and is used courtesy of The Semisynthetic Archiv.

Track 4 contains a sample taken from the short film, "Give Us Your Goddamn Money" (public domain).

Cooper Crain plays the Korg Delta synthesizer on Track 11.

Front and back cover images used courtesy of the Norsk Folkemuseum. 

Rhubarb, Leroy, Jefferson & Jenkins

The new Soft Speaker album, Øvrevoll Racecourse, is available now for download via Bandcamp using the pay-what-you-want model. Pay nothing if you're dough-low, pay something is you just cashed in your scratch-offs. Technically, we're not in it for the money.

softspeaker.bandcamp.com/album/vrevoll-racecourse

released 08 October 2014

Engineered and mixed by Cooper Crain at Minbal (Chicago, IL)
Mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering (Chicago, IL)
Design by Metasis Media (Chicago, IL)

Track 1 contains a sample taken from a 1957 radio interview with Peakaboo, of Peakaboo & His Boys, conducted by Stanley Forsythe Codine and is used courtesy of The Semisynthetic Archiv.

Track 4 contains a sample taken from the short film, "Give Us Your Goddamn Money" (public domain).

Cooper Crain plays the Korg Delta synthesizer on Track 11.

Front and back cover images used courtesy of the Norsk Folkemuseum.


Key Lime Pie

Into the Wild

into the wild

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Evil Friends http://smarturl.it/evilfriends 
Now Available Everywhere 
Produced by Danger Mouse 

Purple Yellow Red and Blue

Evil Friends

Modern Jesus

Biography
THE ORIGINAL SANFTSPRECHER

Under duress from the USM (Unified Society of Milkmen), Joseph Daley, Blair Douglass, Paul Foreman and Nicholas Rocchio shut down their independent milk delivery service in 1929. A smattering of unsuccessful endeavors followed, until they discovered an undeniable chemistry blending finger-picked guitars with lutes and clarinets. Although initially less lucrative than the milk business, the quartet, who settled on the name Sanftsprecher (trans. “Soft Speaker”), were championed by Austria’s Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in 1932 and subsequently enjoyed a period of massive popularity in their newly-adopted home country. The band split following Dollfuss’s assassination in 1934. Their only official recording, the 78rpm single,“I’ll Tend Your Garden,” is highly sought after by record collectors. In 2008, enthusiasts of the band purchased sheet music for a number of unrecorded Sanftsprecher songs that were discovered in Rocchio’s safe deposit box in UniCredit Bankengruppe. Austria’s Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich has been recording interpretations of these songs and releasing them for the public’s listening pleasure. Separately, a ramshackle group of Chicago-based musicians has taken it upon themselves to perform and record these songs in a strikingly rudimentary manner with crude electric instruments, much to the dismay of purist fans who prefer the orchestral versions.

DOLLFUSS WRITES VORTROBOS

Prior to accepting the office of Chancellor of Austria, Englebert Dollfuss was a soldier with the Austro-Hungarian army, fighting on the Alpine Front in WWI. Although he was highly decorated and well-regarded, his time in the battlefield had a significant effect on his psyche. It did not help that his diminutive stature was the source of great amusement for his peers, who referred to him as "The Jockey." He grew insular and took to writing lengthy works of fiction, featuring eerie parallel realities inhabited by characters who were obviously based on himself. Although his writing skills were limited, the stories were detailed and engaging. These pieces of fiction inspired a large batch of songs written by Sanftsprecher between 1932 and 1933. It is believed that the members of Sanftsprecher were among a very small audience with whom Dolfuss shared the stories. The present-day Soft Speaker (Chicago) recorded a selection of these songs and has released them as this album, Vortrobos, which borrows it's title from one of Dolfuss's works. The cover art was created by Chicago-based painter, Jason Brammer, and is the artist’s interpretation of one of Dollfuss’s parallel realities.

Description
"The group mines the rich vein uncovered by the melodic adventurousness of pre-Dark Side of the Moon Pink Floyd and Neil Young's mid-'70s crunch." - Chicagoist

01 Jackie Robinson A Man Of Talent A Man Of Courage

SOFT SPEAKER