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Paul Bertolino

About Me

Purchase Inner Soundtrack at:
http://www.antennafarmrecords.com/releases/ant515.htm
Paul Bertolino is a behind-the-scenes musician's musician from Berkeley, California... a short-list Bay Area session player who has done time fronting one of San Francisco's toughest garage-soul outfits The Sleaves , and is currently playing drums for major label breakout band Persephone's Bees .
Paul's debut solo effort is a gently psychedelic soft rock oddyssey-an inspired homage from a pop culture obsessive who spent an unhealthy amount of his childhood watching labels spinning on turntables. With Paul supplying most of the instrumentation and good vibes, this is the kind of record that just can't help but make new friends with every first-time listener. Infusing classic elements of Baroque, Chamber and Power Pop, each track is a timeless yet thoroughly modern example of unique rock songwriting at it's very best, and is enough to hook even the most jaded music-lover. But this album is more than just an exercise in mastery of boutique styles. This is an intimate experience, an Inner Soundtrack, if you will. Just listen to his sadly-sweet, pitch-perfect vocal sensibilities and you can forget about coming through the other side...these songs are right-on. Combine that with an ear for classic arrangements and production that acknowledges the best aspects of psychedelic pop, from Smile to Screamadelica and beyond....And both sides of your cranium will be feelin' it.
Paul draws from a well that incorporates the toughest 60s jangle-rock, the softest 70's a.m. gold, and maybe even a pinch of Radio Shack synth swagger. Almost in spite of that it's laid back, California songwriting so solid and proprietary that it refuses to be picked apart into it's base elements...try as you might. This is the stuff that will make up the Nuggets Boxes of the future, so why wait? Come feel the love.
- Paul Koehler

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/25/2005
Band Website: You have arrived
Band Members: LIVE BAND:

Pascal Garneau - guitar, vocals
Nate Alfaro - bass, vocals
Paul Bonanos - keyboards, cornet
Aaron Nudelman - drums
Paul Bertolino - vocals

Influences: The Kinks
The Who
Beatles
Monkees
Beach Boys
The Moody Blues
Bon Scott-era AC/DC
Carpenters
Bread
The Zombies
Mark Eric Malmborg (!)
The Association
Bee Gees
Redd Kross
Todd Rundgren
Laura Nyro
Carole King
Steely Dan
early Pink Floyd
Partridge Family
Sounds Like: The tracks on this page.
Record Label: Antenna Farm
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

You Just Gotta Know My Mind

I've posted a new track. This is a cover of an obscure Donovan composition, as recorded in 1967 by Dana Gillespie. My friend Adam Sullivan and I wanted to experiment with getting a more authentic 6...
Posted by on Sun, 25 May 2008 08:39:00 GMT

Blogs galore

Persephone's Bees have been on tour with the New Cars for the past month and a half. It has been a blast! Go to my personal profile, www.myspace.com/vgps, to check out photos and blogs from the trip...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 10:13:00 GMT

Can you read Italiano? Blow Up Magazine review

PSICHEDELIAPaul BertolinoInner Soundtrack * CD Antenna Farm/Goodfellas * 15t-52:26Ogni tanto arriva, un disco di questo tipo. Per i pochi che li sentirono, i Sunshine Fix, ad esempio: recupero quasi f...
Posted by on Sat, 06 May 2006 12:21:00 GMT

indieworkshop.com review

Gently wafting in from the wintry outdoors comes Paul Bertolino, a man that the summer was made for. You remember the summer, right? With its sweaty inconvenience, its uncomfortable public smells, the...
Posted by on Mon, 01 May 2006 22:05:00 GMT

AllMusic.com review

3.5 stars (out of 5) for Inner Soundtrack from AllMusic.com!Singer/songwriter Paul Bertolino fills his debut album Inner Soundtrack with retro-'60s AM pop that harks back to such icons of the genre as...
Posted by on Tue, 14 Mar 2006 22:42:00 GMT

Correction!

Turns out the record will be released on February 28, not Feb 7. See you at the record store....
Posted by on Sat, 14 Jan 2006 15:59:00 GMT

What's new...

Posted the album version of Against The Shallow. the bass was played by Nate Alfaro of the Sleaves, I played all the other stuff. Album due in January! Meanwhile, I've rejoined Persephone's Bees,...
Posted by on Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:26:00 GMT

Remember the Sleaves?

The Sleaves were reduced to a four-piece back in November and have taken a much needed break. The idea was/is to get a new guitarist but we haven't found anyone who has tickled our little fancy. Wha...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 00:00:00 GMT