Member Since: 02/07/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/gloomfolk
Band Members: none.
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Sounds Like:
"Opium-den float rock." ~ The New York Post
"Bruno delivers lullaby-esque ventures into misty graveyards." ~ Freddy's Backroom
"raw, emotional, and deeply cathartic acoustic songs, seemingly wrenched from the deepest, darkest corners a guitar can go whilst being plucked and strummed this gently. Mike's voice truly transcends the barrier between 'barely there' and absolutely destructive." ~ He of the House
"I might have met Mike Bruno in a dream. Maybe as a man playing guitar atop a dead cliff over some distant sea. Hooded and cloaked perhaps and fiddling with some screeching musical instruments at a far off market while the passerbys nodded along in both wonder and apathy. This was what ran riot in my head every time I listened to songs like “Fallen Kings†and “Black Horses.†He closed his eyes and scrunched up his face at each take. At instances, I felt a bit like an outsider watching him lament a story in his sleep. The combination of his tale-weaving lyrics, the fast and dark tones of his guitar, and the howling glasses of his musician partner very much mesmerized me enough to imagine I was hearing some legend, some fantasy, some secret life of the characters in his songs. Certainly, during the session, he made the shadows in the attic of the Bishop House alive with his dark melodies. So much that in the end, when all was done and he smiled and laughed a normal stranger’s smile and laugh, I felt as if I had just woken up." ~ Pollifax
"Mike’s music is so powerful because of its dynamic nature, simultaneously and seamlessly going back and forth between comfort and creepy.Take for instance his vocal styling. At one moment they are fragile and ethereal like a ceramic dove. Then switching to haunting, even a bit menacing as if sung in a whisper from the darkest corner of the attic….perhaps seeping out of a haunted gramophone.The same goes for his guitar abilities. Delicately plucked chords can soothe one minute and become the pounding hooves of the 3 horsemen heralding the end of times the next. It’s equal parts baroque and black metal." ~ GREENSHOELACE.COM
"Il y a parfois des rencontres dans l’immensité de la Toile qui vous bouleversent, vous retournent… Mike Bruno est de celles-ci. Une rage intérieure qu’il vaut mieux apprendre à canaliser… Laisser s’épancher avec délicatesse, comme si le loup tapi en chacun de nous, n’attendait qu’à sortir, à hurler, le moment venu. Pour éviter le piège tendu, je peux que vous recommander de vous précipiter sur l’achat de « The Sad Sisters« … Et de retourner en forêt, à sa lisière. Jusqu’à la prochaine fois… la prochaine proie…
There are some meetings in the infinity space of the Web, that deeply move you, that make you reel like after a shock… Mike Bruno is one of those. An inner rage that you’d better learn to channel… Let it flow with delicacy, as if the wolf, inside of each of us, was only waiting to go out, to howl when the moment comes. To avoid this trap, I can only recommend to hurry and buy « The Sad Sisters« … And then go back to the woods, to the edge. Until the next time… the next prey…" ~ Delicious Scopitone
Record Label: looking to put out a vinyl, please contact me