Jul 26, 2010, 3:34pm
Fmly
Ben and Bruno are delicate and swelling. They are simple and beautiful, forelorn and with everything. Ben and Bruno - I Have a New Friend Ben and Bruno - "100 Grim Reapers" from Karen Abad ♥s Dinosaurs. on Vimeo .
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Welcome to another Saturday where I mesh together some listening from the past week and any notable discoveries I have found. I will not disappoint folks (and if I do, please don't tell me). Starting today is the new album from the now condensed named Ben & Bruno - "BB" who have a new album out on RC Legacy. Ben and Bruno is essentially Peter Brant and he is a master of crafting quirky folk/fringe folk songs that find themselves both delicate and moving at the same time. His "higher than average" vocal style is something that always [...]
Parce que je ne désirais point attendre un potentiel nouvel album de Ben and Bruno pour le voir figurer sur le DS. Parce que je l'ai découvert sur le tard et qu'il n'est justement jamais trop tard. Parce que « 100 Grim Reapers » et « Hard History » m'avaient fait le même effet que le passage de La Faucheuse ! Avant d'oublier, avant de disparaitre... Because I couldn't wait 'till an potential new album of Ben and Bruno to see it appear on the DS. Because I've [...]
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Last week was a great show. We had Jack Littman in to play a couple songs and a small dance party took place with Jack, Danny and myself. If you heard something on the show you liked, you can find it on this playlist. I won't be on the show this week but you can check out Danny on Public Education this Sunday from 6-8pm on indie1031.com The War On Drugs - Arms Like Boulders White Denim - Mirrored and Reverse Mock Orange - Song in D What's [...]
Hopefully enjoying these three artists at the same concert at the Pink Mailbox in Santa Barbara, CA. I believe it was a Deer Tick concert, but with this much talent, who knows. {mp3} Breathe Owl Breathe - "Playing Dead" {mp3} Ben and Bruno - "Like A Firefly" {mp3} Deer Tick - "Santaria" Yes there were more songs played, a few more artists on the bill, but I picked 3 of my favourite songs from the concert available from the [...]
December is list-making season. And for us music journalists, it is a time to look back on scores of albums, reflect upon the music and recapitulate our favorites. But this year, just like the last, we took this opportunity to flip that tradition upside down, asking the artists that influenced us what influenced them. The prompt was not limited to albums that came out in 2008. Nat Baldwin Extra Life - Secular Works Kurt Weisman - Spiritual Sci-Fi The Dead Science - Villainaire Skeletons - Money [...]
Con el año a punto de finalizar, aquí estamos de nuevo para traeros lo que, en nuestra opinión, ha sido lo más destacado e interesante de esta temporada. Si antes esto ya era una tarea dificil, ahora que somos dos lo es todavía más. Aunque creo que el resultado final vale la pena. Cómo siempre una lista para curiosear, descubrir, escuchar. En definitiva lo que nos gusta de todo esto. Por que al fin y al cabo, en un año dónde al fin a la industria se le empiezan a abrir los ojos, la música demuestra volver a [...]
Grand Rapid's indie folk masters Ben and Bruno released 100 Grim Reapers in September, a group of songs based on a character named Ben, the story of his life a long while after his abduction by a religious fanatic and how Ben's relationship with his wife and two daughters are shaped by this past impression. It's delicate folk strums layered under jaw-dropping vocal swoons. You'll love it. Ben and Bruno - New Friend Song (could not possibly be more highly recommended - we're trying to quit exclamation marks) [...]
Ben and Bruno have managed to make themselves epic to me with a few lines of press. Via Parasol: "B&B is a group of songs based one character named Ben. The newest album focuses more on his life a long while after his abduction by a religious fanatic & has to do with his wife & two daughters. The album centers around those relationships & Ben's inability to shake this past impression he acquired.
Photography by Randomess Dark, minimal folk arrangements marked with the occasional banjo, slide & electric guitar, what I believe is a pump organ, and a looping male chorus combined with a lead voice that kinda reminds me of Andrew Bird and guitar plucking reminiscient of early Leonard Cohen, ben and bruno's 100 Grim Reapers lo-fi "shut-in" folk is stunning, haunting & beautiful, but not for everyone. Add the following description from their site to the above, and suddenly it all starts coming together... "ben and bruno is a group of [...]
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