"There were three brothers. They lived and grew up in Small Town on the east of the Country. They loved music ever since their early years, so their parents sent them to Music School. Teachers managed not to kill their passion for music. They graduated from renowned music colleges. They used to collaborate with best orchestras and conductors. They travelled around the world and performed in famous concert halls. But one day they got tired. Tired of lack of freedom, of being only tools instead of creators, tired of working with people who didn't even like music. So they decided to quit. They moved to the countryside and started to play music that they had in their hearts. It was a beginning of The Olsten Brothers Band."
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"Było sobie trzech braci. Mieszkali w Małym Miasteczku na wschodzie kraju. Od najmłodszych lat ciągnęło ich do muzyki więc rodzice wozili ich do szkoły muzycznej do oddalonego o wiele kilometrów Dużego Miasta. Nauczycielom udało się nie zabić w nich pasji do muzykowania. Odebrali gruntowne wykształcenie, pokończyli prestiżowe studia muzyczne. Przez długi czas związani byli ze światem muzyki poważnej. Jako kameraliści i symfonicy koncertowali w najlepszych salach Europy i Azji. Występowali z czołowymi orkiestrami, pod batutą wybitnych dyrygentów. Lecz przyszedł moment refleksji. Mieli dość odtwarzania, nie chcieli być niewolnikami nut i cudzych wizji. Zmęczeni dotychczasowym życiem rzucili wszystko i wrócili się na prowincję, by odnaleźć harmonię i szukać dźwięków bliskich swojej naturze, dźwięków którymi będą mogli wyrażać własne myśli i uczucia, dźwięków które sprawią im radość. Tak narodził się zespół The Olsten Brothers Band."

I am a singer/songwriter and record and produce all my own songs with garage band. I'm a work in progress and learning as I go. Thanks for listening and feel free to leave comments.

www.davidchipps.com

Beyond the uncanny is the sublime. 

My work is the culmination of fourteen years of art education in which I continuously found myself drawn to German Expressionism, Dada, and the Romantic Painter Casper David Friedrich.  The songs that I create are a fusion of styles and I owe a lot of my creative investigation based on the sounds created on early Skinny Puppy albums, Cabaret Voltaire, and The Cure's Pornography.

The album covers are an extension of the music and are popular culture isotopes that have been destroyed through the use of wave generators.

Following graduation in 2003, I found myself working in the style of Mike Kelley without really knowing who he was.  I found the uncanny negated itself too often and left me feeling hopeless.  So, my current work is in hopes of moving past the uncanny.  To live in the now and return to the sublime.

Hummingbird Cinema is an eclectic mix of jazz-tinged electronic neo-soul designed for your pleasure listening.   

One listener described the music this way: "hints of soul, jazz, R&B, electronic, some electro…. and if we’re getting creative, something like electro-soul, even a little acid jazz at times – electro-groove moonlight-jazz, sounds kinda soundtracky too...[and] electronic soul jazz or some hybrid of the three."

Thanks to the College of San Mateo for expanding my musical frontiers, and thanks for listening!

Followers of The Olsten Brothers Band