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About Me

Southmore folks: Brett Davidson and Eros Minichiello. Brett is a writer and musician from Texas, co-founder of the alt-rock project Astorria. Eros is a south Italian musician, composer and DJ. In addition to making Southmore music, he puted out chocolate and lounge CDs under the names Cybophonia and Centovalley. Brett and Eros live in Switzerland. They do not ski.Southmore politics: Groucho-Marxist/grass roots (with dirt clinging to the roots), and adamantly Anti-Big Anything.Southmore values:1. We don’t believe in “the environment”—we believe in places, and in the names of places, and in the people and critters inhabiting those places 2. Guitars guitars guitars guitars 3. Swamps are in every way superior to any “yard of the month” 4. Cell phones kill poetry and pollute everything, so don’t use ‘em 5. Befriending your local farmer yields good-karma crops 6. Singing the Blues lets you live deeper, longer and stronger 7. Sex and soap let you live deeper, longer and stronger than singing blues 8. Marcel Duchamp 9. Bob Pollard 10. Thoreau 11. Gary Snyder 12. Deadhead sticker 13. Nature 14. Sleep 15. Harpo 16. South

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Member Since: 02/10/2006
Band Members: Brett Davidson, Eros Minichiello
Influences: Southmore pet sounds (in quasi-alphabetical order):Adverts, Ali Farka Toure, Animals, Aphex Twin, Astor Piazzolla, Beach Boys, Beastie Boys, Beatles, Beck, Björk, Boards Of Canada, Bon Iver, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Brian Eno, Brightblack Morning Light, Broadcast 2000, Buddy Guy, Buzzcocks, Byrds, Calexico, Camper Van Beethoven, Charles Mingus, Clash, Claude Debussy, Cocteau Twins, Count Five, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cure, Curtis Mayfield, Cypress Hill, Dead Can Dance, Devendra Banhart, DJ Shadow, Don Ellis, Doors, Doves, Eat, Erik Satie, Fabrizio De André, Faust, Feelies, Felix Laband, Fleet Foxes, Finley Quaye, fIREHOSE, Four Tet, Fugazi, Gil Evans, Global Communication, Goran Bregovic, Guided By Voices, Gustav Holst, Happy Mondays, Harold Budd, House Of Love, Hüsker Dü, Isan, Ivy, Jane's Addiction, Jimi Hendrix, Jim O'Rourke, Jim White, John Barry, John Cage, John Fahey, John Lennon, Johnny Cash, Jon Hassell, José González, Josh Rouse, Joy Division, Julian Cope, Kaleidoscope, Kiln, Kinks, Kiss, Kyuss, La's, Labradford, Lalo Schifrin, Led Zeppelin, Marvin Gaye, Massive Attack, Mercury Rev, Miles Davies, Moby Grape, Mojave 3, My Bloody Valentine, Nazareth, Neil Young, Neu!, Nick Drake, Nico, Nirvana, Orb, Orbital, Os Mutantes, Phil Spector, Philip Glass, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Police, Portishead, Primitives, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Ralfe Band, REM, Robin Guthrie, Rodriguez, Roger Manning, Rolling Stones, Ry Cooder, Savage Republic, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Screaming Trees & Mark Lanegan, Simon & Garfunkel, Sly And The Family Stone, Slowdive, Smashing Pumpkins, Smiths, Sonics, Sonic Youth, Soundgarden, Stereolab, Steve Reich, Swell, Swervedriver, Takagi Masakatsu, T. Rex, Talking Heads, Talk Talk & Mark Hollis, Thin White Rope, Throwing Muses, Tim Buckley, Tinariwen, Tom Waits, Tortoise, Tycho, U2, Velvet Underground, Willie Nelson, Wire, ZZ Top, etc."
Record Label: Unsigned

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