Night Radio

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Member Since: 12/05/2006
Band Website: www.nightradiohq.com
Band Members: Darrell Archer: Guitars, Harmonica, Songs and Vocals. Dave Rae: Electric Guitars and Treatments, Backing Vocals. John Sandow: Piano, Keys, Organs, Atmosphere. Michael Ward: Drums. Robin Dixon: Cello, Double Bass, Banjo, Slide and More. You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM’s MySpace Profile Editor !

Influences: mmm, our collective listening....miles davis, sparklehorse, calexico, alice coltrane, keith jarrett, iron and wine, richmond fontaine, john coltrane, herbie hancock, brian eno, lucinda williams, wilco, bill frisell, egberto gismonti, lou reed, don cherry, hank williams, big joe williams, charlie parker, sonny terry, the carter family, lance miscombe, laura veirs, mississippi fred mcdowell, gillian welch, doc boggs, jan garbareck, mississippi john hurt, ornette coleman, chris whitely, john martyn, jimmie rodgers, joni mitchell, tom waits, leonard cohen, nick drake, mari boine, ashok roy, anouar brahem, paul grabowsky, charlie haden, howling wolf, laughing clowns, stereolab, arvo part, steve reich, the go betweens, ralph towner, john abercrombie, nana vasconceles, doc watson, parliament, bill laswell, firestation, ravi shankar, gram parsons, the band, bert jansch, roy harper, neil young, john fahey, paul motion, john zorn, beck sometimes, the necks, methodist hymns, leadbelly, terry riley, bob dylan, mingus, thelonius sphere monk, duke ellington and his twin from saturn: sun ra......
Sounds Like: ****ALBUM REVIEW****Night Radio, Ghost Stories ****(Independent)****There is a thread from the Australian gothic imagination that runs right through this first release by Darrell Archers Sydney-based assemblage. The band was formed in 1999, so its not surprising to find that this work comes fully formed.Perhaps its the allusions the bands biography make to sitting somewhere between the work of The Triffids and The Go Betweens, who also trawled similar territory, that provide some suitable benchmarks. Certainly Archer is a country diarist, drawing a line on another life traversed between the city and the great divide.Archers characters are the disaffected and the anonymous, operators in dark margins; the rabbit trapper who cares for nothing and none, the Tumut truck drivers on the Hume Highway, the guy who by the time he is 20 has death etched in his face. Everyone here is lost, disconnected, looking and not quite understanding how they got there. And yet it is so Australian in its realisation that you hark back to poets and novelists for reference points; the dark subliminal Banjo Paterson, Joan Lindsays unearthly Miranda, the early somewhat macabre output of Peter Carey and more recently the dark underside of Tasmania in Chloe Hooper. Ghost Stories is so much about the mythologies of our landscape, that to see this music within just a musical tradition is not to understand its full meaning.This is rare work literary, sometimes ethereal, with a voice that is almost pitted against itself to be heard. Wonderfully nuanced, strong but subtle playing from great players with carefully constructed arrangements that work to unravel the writing and support Archers sometimes difficult and fey vocal style.Stephen Byrne (Rolling Stone)