A junkyard band with a heart of dirt, smoke, and wires; the Curious Mystery blends Sixties-style psychedelia with American country-blues and garage experimentalism . Cool night air, slow burning heaviness, impregnation by blackberry, Captain Beefheart, late night crawlers, native fowl, dinner, river blindness; these are some of the things the Curious Mystery bides its time thinking about. They began in 2005 in Seattle where Shana Cleveland, a Midwestern daughter of Blues and Country rock musicians met Nicolas Gonzalez; an experimental instrumentalist from Texas enamored with Polvo, Morricone, and Eastern drones. Today the band features Nicolas on guitar, vocals, and homemade instruments; Shana on vocals, banjo, guitar, and autoharp; as well as Faustine B. Hudson on drums, gong, dinner bell, plastic tube, whathaveyou; and Bradford Button on the bass guitar. In 2008 they met up with Calvin Johnson and recorded an album; "Rotting Slowly", out on cd and vinyl.
Check out some reviews if you please:
Exclaim!
".......... They approach Americana like Exene Cervenka and John Doe gone walkabout in the Area 51 desert after a Cinco de Mayo piss up. Their debut for K has the wonderful slinky sloppiness that a few tequila shots will loosen from already good nights." ".... Worldly, weary and more self-possessed than expected from first-timers, the Curious Mystery are on a psychedelic journey to brighten your Mazzy Starry nights. -Eric Hill"
Seattle Weekly
"........ their heady psychedelia sounds like messy garage cacophony and country western fucking on acid......soothing my desert soul with tambourines that shake like rattlesnakes and guitars that howl like coyotes....."-Sara Brickner
LA Weekly
"The Curious Mystery ... make guitar rock with meandering structures, a fearless willingness to wander into extended instrumental passages, and at least two guitarists who like to explore the fretboard. They like to jam, basically, but not in a navel-gazing way; more like in a Television/Tom Verlaine/Richard Lloyd kind of way" -Randall Roberts
Seattle Subsonic
Metro spirit (GA)
Sound on the sound
tiny mix tapes
Portland Mercury
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