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blue swerver

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About Me

we spend baffling lengths of time glueing sorrowful lyrics, shy trumpet, nimble jazz and glitchy electronica together in a refined but still slightly cut and paste manner to form a sort of Chet Baker meets Massive Attack by way of Paul Simon sound which strives forward fueled by the honesty of our intentions and a small quota of smugness which acts as an adhesive..

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Member Since: 12/5/2005
Band Members: Adam Green (vocals, guitar)
Nick Street (programming)
Ben Oliver (keys)
Robin Grey (bass)
Jules Fenton (drums)
The God Orpheus (general spiritual help and occasional tinkles on the triangle)
Influences: Paul Simon, Massive Attack, Cinematic Orchestra, Red Snapper, Ray LaMontagne, ninja tune en masse, warp records en masse, amon tobin, prefuse, nightmares on wax, chet, jimmy edgar, portishead, muddy waters, lightning hopkins, blur (think tank), the doors, gershwin, stravinsky, mozart (the remixes), joni mitchell, pan american, herbie, miles, slip, Also WU TANG CLAN..[.only joking about that last one,]
Sounds Like: 1. Chet humming over pensive chords and slick trip-glitch earnest twisty programming
Record Label: God's
Type of Label: None

My Blog

New mixes

Hey allWe have just been back up to Sandy Lodge Studio to do the (final?!) mixes for the album and I have just uploaded some of them for your listening pleasure.Thanks a tonne to 'Jon Redfern' and 'Sh...
Posted by blue swerver on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:12:00 PST

Gig at The Royal Festival Hall

We have been asked by Freeport Records to support their act Luminous Frenzy at the Purcell Room, Royal Festival Hall on wednesday 25th April 2007.Could be an excuse to put on a suit and get the folks ...
Posted by blue swerver on Mon, 19 Feb 2007 04:42:00 PST