Six years
ago my wife and I had separate music shows on local Community Radio. One of the programme features of my wife’s
show was local unsigned bands. One of
those bands was once Marry Another. One
of their tracks was/is the wonderful A Vignette.
Marry
Another are a 6 piece, folk(ish) band from Bury making rather good tunes. They’re still together now. Recording and playing live with a new album
scheduled for release early 2013 (watch this space). You really should check them out.
Marry
Another’s bass player, Carl Chapman, likes to dabble in the experimental a
little. His two EPs, Homemade Mash and
Speeches are, as the former would indicate, mash-ups of several well known (and
even more lesser known) songs creating very listenable tracks. No, it’s nothing new, but, it is done very
very well and worth a listen. I’ve
picked up on a few great tracks that I’d never heard before. I’m always caught in awe at this type of
thing as to me it shows great insight and vision and originality. Check out Revolution and Changes With Miss
Jackson’s Band in particular at over 20 and 15 minutes respectively, the later
with the sample of the Outkast ‘nearly hit’ acknowledging said lady.
The real
party-stopper though is the album, Welcome To My World. Thanks for the invite Carl, but, I don’t
really want to go there! It’s sometimes scary,
it’s sometimes weird – I love it! It’s a
home-made album, quite literally, with the initial tracks recorded on mini-disc
and tape. Playing everything on the
album, TBC has created something rather wonderful.
Whether it
be the raw guitar work on Vomit (apparently named so as it made his friend do
the same after listening to it), or, the melodic acoustic guitar on Suited And
Booted, you can’t help but raise an eyebrow and force a smile. “This song is like no other, I wrote it on my
brother”. I rest my case.
Whale
(Boss) is quite captivating – strange keyboards from start to end, and,
Straight Jacket Inferno is perfect summer music with its quite superb guitar
work whisking you away to some sun-drenched Mediterranean island.
Up For 17
Hours is just frantic and mad.
Repetitive to the point of insanity, it makes you want to run outside
and howl at the moon. It embeds itself
it your head and won’t set itself free.
Circles Are Jealous (Bass Groove) with its Teddybear’s Picnic styled bass line and
Tubular Bells type guitar has freestyle to an art.
Many would
say that Welcome To My World is just some bloke messing about in his bedroom,
and, to some degree they might be right.
But, beneath the surface is actually the same bloke doing something
rather nice and entertaining away from the possible constraints of the main
band. Oh, and just look at that album
cover – bloody marvellous!
Follow Carl on Twitter here. Check out The
Bastard Child and download the album and two EPs FOC here – you can take them free or give a little
something - “Spread The Love”.
Published on Louder Than War 28/12/12 - http://louderthanwar.com/new-artist-of-the-day-the-bastard-child/
Published on Louder Than War 28/12/12 - http://louderthanwar.com/new-artist-of-the-day-the-bastard-child/
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