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MP3 Gosta Berling - Everybody's Sweetheart
5 MP3 Songs in this album (30:51) !
Related styles: ROCK: Modern Rock, ROCK: Shoegaze
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Gosta Berling, a rock band from Oakland, California, is a collection of four relatively disparate musicians, each with their own musical vantage point and with their own musical touchstones. The band''s music is an amalgam of British post-punk and shoegaze and American indie and features a narrative lyrical style - call it melodramtic indie pop. The band takes its name from The Saga of Gosta Berling, a Swedish silent film from 1924, and one that marked the debut of Greta Garbo. The band pronounces the name, [Goh-stuh Bur-ling] with a hard ''G'' in contrast to the Swedes’ pronunciation [Yoo-stuh]. The band likes that they pronounce their name incorrectly.
Founding members Damon Anderson (vocals and guitar), Dave Goudreau aka DG (guitar), and Dave Carter aka Carter (drums) didn''t begin playing with one another with these roles so well defined. At the outset, the band roles were fluid, the song-writing process slow and at times trying, and the sound that they would eventually cultivate with their current line-up -- with Greg Dubrow on bass and backing vocals -- had not yet seen the light of day. Gosta Berling didn''t emerge from a scene - either despite of because of this, the band creates music with a universal resonance.
The debut EP, Everybody''s Sweetheart, is a collection of songs mostly inspired by Hollywood and the star machine from the turn of the 20th century onward. Ziegfeld Girl is a narrative of silent film star Olive Thomas and her drug overdose (was it a suicide?). Garden of Allah is a delicate waltz and a celebration of Alla Nazimova and the Hollywood scene of the 1920s. Nazimova, actress, producer, socialite, closet lesbian, became best known for throwing lavish parties at her home on Sunset Boulevard dubbed the Garden of Alla. Rebecca is a driving rocker with swirling guitars and tells the story of the ghost of Rebecca de Winter from the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock film of the same name as the song. So Lonely, the one song on the EP not about Hollywood or nightclub stars, is a story about breakup and shame played over a pulsing drumbeat and bubbling bassline. Berlin closes the EP, and features DG''s trademark repeating arpeggios accompanying a story about early film star Louise Brooks, her lack of acceptance in the states, and her burgeoning stardom in Germany. Everybody''s Sweetheart was recorded at John Vanderslice''s Tiny Telephone in San Francisco over four days in the summer of 2007. Tim Mooney, former drummer of American Music Club, engineered the sessions. The band mixed with Mooney at Closer Studios. The cover photo was taken by Sarah Windels.
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