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The Maladies Of Bellafontaine

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About Me


Way back in 2006 a coquettish little Welsh girl and her swarthy Spanish lover rustled up a blueprint which appeared to provide a solution to the world’s insipid musical malaise. Acoustic assistance was required and so the pair hopped atop the nearest hillside, bellowing to the heavens their request for likeminded hairy helpers. The clarion call was responded to by a quintet of tousled troubadours and The Maladies of Bellafontaine were forged.
Hark! As angelic vocals shuffle along to eggbound spanish guitar. Behold the cello, glock, synth and most cack-handed of backbeats. ”Hurrah!” cried townsfolk the world over, “finally we have a reason to de-muff our beleaguered ears.”

The Maladies of Bellafontaine reside in an old converted monastery in the celestial backwaters of Wigan, the seven members are woken at 4.30am every morning by the monks to undertake the daily routine of looking after the holy penguins and giraffes, before being flogged and then offered dry weetabix, which they have to refuse.
Cheif Monk, rev brian o'hanlananananan said of the group: I don't like these feckers, they only get up at 4.33 and they never bless the penguins in the way such deities should be addressed, saying that though, the cacaphony that they scatter the air of this monastery with is on a par with being washed with our Lady of Lourdés own tears.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/25/2006
Band Members: Rachael Pascoe - Vocals
Lorna Grundy - Cello
Gary Crawford - Guitar, Clarinet, Sitar, Bulbul Tarang
Martin Higgins - Glockenspiel, Guitar, Synth, Melodica
Stuart Aspinall - Drums
Jason Hughes - Guitar, Organ, Eno's alter ego
Jon Hodson - Bass, Omnichord, Transistor Organ

Additional Musicians:

Brian "Trumpet" Brian - Trumpet on "Face in The Clouds"

Elizabeth Atherton -Backing vocals on "Champagne"

Katy Lamb - Shakers on "Champagne"
Influences: Brigitte Bardot, Metallic Falcons, Brigitte Fontaine, Serge Gainsbourg, Francois Hardy, Bonnie Dobson, Billie Holiday, Four Tet, Bessie Smith, Sister Rosseta Tharpe, Marilyn Monroe, Josephine Foster, Nico, Velvet Underground, Syd Barret, Love, Selda, Yamasuki, Le Man, The Langley Schools Music Project, John Coltrane, Velocette, Broadcast, Six Organs of Admittance, Blind Willie Johnson, Bobby Gentry, Joanna Newsom, Alfie, Chas & Dave, Ravi Shankar, Don Cooper, Peter Walker, Nick Drake, Sany Bull, Ali Farka Toure, D.T. Suzuki, Haruki Murakami, Neu!, Bob Dylan, Jacqueline Talihb, Selda Bracon, Leadbelly, Son House, Robert Johnson, Josephine Baker, Can, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Django Reinhardt, Nursery Rhymes, The Doors, Kraftwerk, Sparks, Paul Simon
Sounds Like: Seven folky tramps transcending the gutter and zooming to Jupiter on a psych-tinged booze-fuelled bottle rocket

Type of Label: None

My Blog

The Maladies soundtrack the New York City Ballets London Tour Videos

We've very kindly been asked to provide a few tunes to help soundtrack the New York City Ballet's London Tour videos. These videos are being posted up at www.nycballet.com each day to provide fans of ...
Posted by The Maladies Of Bellafontaine on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 11:01:00 PST