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MP3 Stellarondo - Stellarondo
8 MP3 Songs in this album (24:04) !
Related styles: Folk: Alternative Folk, Rock: Americana, Mood: Quirky
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Out of a sonic bloom of pedal steel, banjo, cello, glockenspiel, musical saw, upright bass, and vibraphone Stellarondo spills out songs about stalkers, roadside anomalies, love, and haunted hotels. Instrumentally and lyrically the group explores both the sweet and the sinister, sometimes finding that only a thin blurry line separates the two.
The band emerged in Missoula, Montana during winter 2010 when Caroline Keys, a familiar face in the Rocky Mountain and Northwest stringband community, responded to the RPM Challenge by writing and recording an album of original music during the month of February. Keys'' project quickly evolved into a full band of stalwarts from diverse corners of Missoula''s music scene, including players from Broken Valley Roadshow (Caroline Keys and Angie Biehl), Tom Catmull and the Clerics (Travis Yost and Gibson Hartwell) and Wartime Blues (Bethany Joyce).
Stellarondo''s first album was recorded by Adam Selzer at Type Foundry and Scenic Burrows in Portland, OR in September 2010. It is due to be released in February 2011.
" "Stellarondo is the sound of the new Western frontier." "
Joe Nickell - Missoulian
"lush and well-plotted."
Willamette Week
"Songs that remind me of the best of The Handsome Family."
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" "Stellarondo came all the way from Missoula to record this year''s self-titled full-length with Adam Selzer, but the record still sounds—thanks to country strumming, Western horns, sharp strings and one very mournful pedal steel—like Montana.""
Willamette Week
" "High-Lonesome meets subterranean post-apocalyptica... as soon as it is over I want to hear it all again.""
Joe Nickell - The Missoulian
"A completely lovable collection of strange tales."
Erika Fredrickson - Missoula Independent
" "...sets a scene as wide as Big Sky Country, a place full of color and mystery and no small number of oddball characters.""
Joe Nickell - The Missoulian
"Sophisticated songwriting."
Erika Fredrickson - Missoula Independent
"Throughout, Keys'' voice lays a sunny charm over it all."
Joe Nickell - The Missoulian
""What I Know," showcases a stunning country lament fortified by the exquisite yearning of Gibson Hartwell''s pedal steel."
Erika Fredrickson - Missoula Independent
"Keys takes risks that makes this album utterly endearing."
Erika Fredrickson - Missoula Independent
"A sound as wide-ranging as the list of instruments would infer."
Joe Nickell - The Missoulian
"Quirky, fearless..."
Erika Fredrickson - Missoula Independent
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