Dog Trumpet have completed their fourth album 'Antisocial Tendencies. With patient attention to detail over four and a half years of song writing and recording, the brothers (with different surnames) Peter O'Doherty and Reg Mombassa have crafted an indelible follow-up to 2002's eponymous Dog Trumpet release. There are 12 new songs, 6 each from Reg and Pete plus a cover of the World War Two hit 'Lili Marlene' made famous by Marlene Deitrich. Recorded by Peter at his Big Brain Studio in Sydney on a vintage 16 track reel to reel tape recorder the brothers sing and play all guitars, bass, harp and keyboards with embellishment from stellar guest musicians on cello, drums and percussion, flute, trumpet, trombone, saxophone, tuba double bass and harmonica.
The live line up has Reg and Pete on guitars, Bernie Hayes on bass and backing vocals, Jess Ciampa (sometimes Hamish Stuart) on drums and backing vocals plus guest harmonica from Peter Mitchell. Bernie Hayes is a respected singer songwriter in his own right with his third album 'Homebody" newly released. Bernie also sings lead vocal and plays 12 string acoustic guitar on the Antisocial Tendencies track 'Bloomsbury Birds', Peter's homage to the English writer Virginia Woolf and her association with the literary and artistic world of the pre-war Bloomsbury group. The title track itself, Reg's distinctive call to arms Antisocial Tendencies has anti-establishment lyrics and hypnotic guitar figures striking a chord for fellow fringe dwellers, iconoclasts and artists of all stripes.
Most of the songs had their basic arrangements ironed out with acoustic guitars around Pete and Reg's respective kitchen tables. The recording process would then begin with drums first or merely acoustics and vocals. Drums and percussion were sometimes added later as were the other instruments in a casual sort of ad hoc assembly of sounds. Some of the tunes found their way to final mixes rapidly. Others were tinkered with over months, sometimes even years as the layering process proceeded. With late additions of cello and flute the album has been mixed and mastered and is now released on Half a Cow Records.
TRACKS:
1. Once Too Often
2. Antisocial Tendencies
3. Shadows
4. Reading Comics
5. Bloomsbury Birds
6. Lord and Lady Pumpkin
7. Impossible to Find
8. Demon Paradise
9. Two Blue Birds
10. Some Time
11. The Curse of the Walking Dead
12. The Universe Goes On Forever
13. Lili Marlene
Guest Musicians:
Bernie Hayes - lead vocal (track 5)
Jess Ciampa - drums and percussion (tracks 1,2,10,12,13)
Andy Travers - drums and percussion (3,7,9,11)
Hamish Stuart - drums and percussion (8)
Heather Stratfold - cello (4,5)
Dale Barlow - flute and tenor saxophone (2,5)
James Greening - trombone, tuba and pocket trumpet (8,12)
Jonathan Zwartz - double bass (5)
Peter Mitchell - harmonica (10)
Otis O'Doherty - trumpet (1)
Jane Lindsay, Lisa Spence - backing vocals (8)
