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MP3 Fellaheen - Death & Frolic
13 MP3 Songs in this album (54:30) !
Related styles: Rock: Americana, Folk: Alternative Folk, Mood: Brooding
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Fellaheen’s DEATH & FROLIC is a unified, serio-comic meditation on mortality, insanity, love, hate, loss, karma, dogs, particle physics, and the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction. No foolin’…
Q: What’s “Fellaheen” mean? A: It’s an Arabic term for peasant farmers. Philosophically (or so said Oswald Spengler), “fellaheen” refers to the great mass of people who adapt and survive from one civilization to the next without becoming part of any, thus remaining separate from the great movements of history.
Q: What’s the band sound like? A lyrical mix of sit-down alt rock ’n’ roll, scratchy blues, and downbeat jazz, informed with a murky existential wit.
Q: Uh, right. What’s the band sound like? A: OK. Let’s say: comparable to the likes of — and influenced by — Tom Waits, the Velvet Underground, Kurt Weill, and Howlin'' Wolf. More deeply-rooted influences include Beggar’s Banquet-era Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Captain Beefheart, Barney Kessel, Randy Newman, Leonard Cohen, and Mose Allison. The lyrical approach is borne out of a head space created in part by the works of Walter Benjamin, Susan Sontag, Cornel West, Mad Magazine, Roberto Clemente, Jack Kerouac, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Carlin, John Coltrane, Tenzin Gyatso, Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Pynchon, Madeline Kahn, Paul Auster, Bugs Bunny, Haruki Murakami, insomnia, moderately-priced red wine, and Dante Aligheri, along with the movies of Vittorio De Sica, Jim Jarmusch, John Sayles, and Wim Wenders.
Q: Seriously? A: Yep…but please feel free to arrive at your own conclusions.
Q: What makes your music unique? A: A close listen to Fellaheen’s music reveals each of the individual songs to be microscopically-observed, self-contained little movie-songs, whose imagery plays cinematically in your head as the sparse and well-constructed tunes reverberate in your ears. They come across as novel, simultaneously old-and-new, and increasingly revelatory under repeated listenings. And the ability to write something like the previous two sentences without laughing too much.
Q: Who writes the songs? A: Bruce Hanson, a grizzled 40-something-year-old musician born in Chicago and raised in New Jersey. He specializes in writing slightly off-kilter original songs about dogs, particle physics, shady characters, love ’n’ hate, and works of art in the age of mechanical reproduction.
Q: So who''s in the band? A: Joining Hanson in Fellaheen are Joe Borthwick (upright bass, vocals); Dan Trent (lead guitar); Kerry Watson (drums); and Mark Orlandini (drums). Also contributing to DEATH & FROLIC are Ben Bair (soprano trombone), Matt Clauhs (saxophones), Kismet Henderson (vocals), Dave Keyes (piano & accordion), Chris Loxley (cello), and Dallas Vietty (accordion). The album was co-produced by Bruce Hanson and Quinn Waters.
Q: What are the band’s goals? A: For you to listen to our music, maybe get a few songs in some movies, and world peace.
REVIEWS:
"You just gotta admire the ambition, ingenuity and imagination at work.... [Fellaheen] skillfully blends elements of moody jazz, gritty blues, and melodic alternative rock into a fresh, compelling and harmonic synthesis. The cool, raspy vocals likewise hit the soulful spot. Ditto the quirky, yet incisive lyrics. Arrangements are appropriately brooding and mellow. Best of all, there''s a hypnotic smoky atmosphere evident throughout which adds immensely to the overall sonic richness of this excellent and inspired oddball project."
—Joe Wawyrnizak, Jersey Beat Magazine
"Trippy, dark, and rumbling like a clumsily approaching lumbering monster waving a bong, [Fellaheen] will shroud you in storm clouds and blow your mind. Lou Reed would get high to this. Tim Burton would write an animated movie to go with this soundtrack. Johnny Depp would be too spooked to lend his voice to it.... immersing yourself in this darkly swirling (and highly intellectual and literate) music is not a bad way to channel your darker energies. Hypnotic and psychedelic, equal parts Monty Python and Captain Beefheart..."
—Jennifer Layton, https://www.tradebit.com
"Slimy, brutal and greasy can be great compliments when you''re talking about raw sounding music, and Fellaheen is all of that and more. Bruce Hanson has a cigarette-scored vocal reminiscent of Paul Westerberg, and ... succeeds in tribal exorcisms, garage psychedelia, and sparse Americana with equal skill. Great imagery alongside some soul-baring episodes, with just the right sense of humor and the macabre."
—Bill Holmes, Pop Culture Press
"Armed with an uncanny (and unfair) sense of melody, Bruce Hanson and Fellaheen weave a diverse array of elements into a final product that is seamless, fresh, [and] living with impossible vibrancy."
—Jedd Beaudoin, f5wichita
"[Fellaheen] just oozes simple and unforgettable melodies and places them in a winning mix of contexts, [giving] the tracks a tossed-off decadence."
—Mike Bennett, Fufkin
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