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'sounds like Herman Dune when they were charmingly naïve and elegantly simple, a rock'n'roll strum with an easy rhythm, anthemic chorus and some memorable lyrics' Sounds XP
'This is nerve-jangling, hard-surfaced, soft-centred funny, shot through with sadness. The new Lost Boys, the Unlikliest Lads.' Rock n Reel
'The Wave Pictures'classy post-punkish bite is a great foil to Brinks'whimsy on these unhinged, loose-limbed story songs. Sometimes gin makes you win as much as sin.' NME
Berlin'is yet another anthemic Brinks sing-along. Its airy ambivalence celebrates both the freedom and the ensuing pressures of his beloved adoptive hometown. It's the second single taken from My Ass'. Stanley Brinks is joined by The Wave Pictures for their new record My Ass', the follow up to last year's Gin', and their fourth album together.
After Gin'Brinks wasted no time in taking The Wave Pictures straight back to the studio, bright and early, the morning after the final show of their tour, to ensure they lost none of the fire still burning in their hearts from the final night's drinks. Three playful days and twelve loose, jazzy, tracks later, with Brinks making salubrious use of his new penny-whistle and the assembled studio choir of friends hanging out, embraced into the recordings, he had his camel, My Ass'.
Stanley Brinks was part of three piece indie-rock band, Herman Düne. After several albums and Peel sessions and after a decade of touring Europe, mostly with American songwriters such as Jeffrey Lewis, Calvin Johnson and early Arcade Fire he settled in Berlin. The early carnival music of Trinidad became a passion, and in the early 21st century he became the unquestioned master of European calypso.
Under this moniker he has recorded more than 100 albums, collaborated with the New York Antifolk scene on several occasions, recorded and toured with traditional Norwegian musicians, and played a lot with The Wave Pictures. -
Stanley Brinks is joined by The Wave Pictures for their third album together; their first since 2010's Another One Just Like That'. Recorded entirely live in the studio, without headphones or overdubs, and with a good deal of improvisation, Gin'is a modern-sounding, in a way avant-garde, old school recording of text-driven songs.Visit product page →
The Wave Pictures didn't get a chance to learn the songs before the session, Stan having forgotten to put a stamp on the demo tape he'd sent them from Berlin. To anyone familiar with Stanley Brinks' huge discography - more than 100 albums - Gin'might sound considerably more raw and less sophisticated than some of his previous recordings. However this body of work remains rich in jazzy sounds and original structures, the songs looser and full of playfulness, the lyrics encapsulating their essence. And it goes without saying that Gin - the drink - was the inspiration for the album; while writing, and while recording.
Gin'was recorded at Soup Studio, London, by Simon Trought and Giles Barrett, one sunny day in May 2013. A few months before, when Stan was at the studio playing guitar and sax on The Wave Pictures' City Forgiveness', they recorded one of his songs - Maybe I Will See You Again', now the B-side of the Orange Juice'45 - just for fun. Giles Barrett, who was engineering, suggested a whole album, and he made it happen. Stanley Brinks began performing officially as André Herman Düne in 1999, sharing lead vocals, guitar playing and songwriting with his brother David in the band Herman Düne for a number of years.
They released several albums and toured extensively in UK, gaining and owing a lot to great support from John Peel. He has used many monikers for various side-projects, but since leaving Herman Düne in 2006, he has been known solely as Stanley Brinks. Born in Paris, Stan has been living between New York, San Francisco, Malta and Berlin for about a decade, always on the move. He has recorded more than 100 albums, collaborated with the New York Antifolk scene on several occasions, recorded and toured with traditional Norwegian musicians, and played a lot with The Wave Pictures. The Wave Pictures are David Tattersall, Franic Rozycki and Jonny 'Huddersfield' Helm. Formed in 1998 when Franic and David lived in a village called Wymeswold, the band played with several drummers until Jonny became a permanent member in 2003 replacing Hugh J Noble. In the beginning the band learned to play together by covering Jonathan Richman songs but soon David was writing lots of original material.
They have since released 5 studio albums to critical acclaim and played numerous sessions on BBC 6 Music, Radio 1 and Xfm. The interest generated by these recordings has enabled The Wave Pictures to play shows all over the world with artists including Jeffrey Lewis, Darren Hayman, Stanley Brinks, Freschard and Herman Dune. From the dusky romantic feel of opener One Minute Of Darkness'to the love song, encompassing nautical metaphors, which is the last track Not To Kiss You', the album takes in the night, love & passion, Krishna, the modern way of life, exploration and moving on; all echoed brilliantly in the rich and varied musical interweave - by turns a jam, a calypso, some indie rock, a groovy mantra, a little voodoo rhythm and some good old regular country.
All topped off with the Stanley Brinks endearing signature command of naïvely rhymed, overenunciated English. He touches the language in a way which really, no native speaker could get away with.Gin'is quite simply a beautiful, though-provoking, uncomplicated album.
Tracklisting:
Side A:
1. One Minute Of Darkness
2. I Wanted You
3. Time For Me
4. Spinola Bay
5. Blues About Krishna's Latest Avatar
Side B:
1. Max In The Elevator
2. Light And Slow
3. Parking Lots
4. No Goodbyes
5. Not To Kiss You -
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"...rich in a variety of sounds and original structures." Loud & Quiet
Stanley Brinks is joined by The Wave Pictures for their new record My Ass', the follow up to last year's Gin', and their fourth album together. After Gin'Brinks wasted no time in taking The Wave Pictures straight back to the studio, bright and early, the morning after the final show of their tour, to ensure they lost none of the fire still burning in their hearts from the final night's drinks.
Three playful days and twelve loose, jazzy, tracks later, with Brinks making salubrious use of his new penny-whistle and the assembled studio choir of friends hanging out, embraced into the recordings, he had his camel, My Ass'. My Ass'is an album born out of Brinks'life on the road, life as an outsider. It is a celebration of new drinking companions, in new bars, in new towns, every night.
The memories of loved ones left at home, of places you can smoke inside and drink warm beer through the night. The shows that you wish could last forever. That island in the sun that keeps bringing you back Wakefield', the first single has a jazzy flowing bass driving a day in the life of Brinks on tour: a sense of togetherness, a touch of sax and the knowledge that love will act as a shield against all evil. Berlin'is yet another anthemic Brinks sing-along. Its airy ambivalence celebrates both the freedom and the ensuing pressures of his beloved adoptive hometown. Stanley Brinks was born in Paris, France, in 1973.
He studied a bit of biology and worked as a nurse for a while. Half Swedish, half Moroccan, strongly inclined to travel the world, he soon began spending most of his life on the road and developed a strong relationship with New York. By the late 90s he'd become a full time singersongwriter - André Herman Düne - as part of three piece indie-rock band, Herman Düne. Several albums and Peel sessions later and after a decade of touring Europe, mostly with American songwriters such as Jeffrey Lewis, Calvin Johnson and early Arcade Fire he settled in Berlin.
The early carnival music of Trinidad became a passion, and in the early 21st century he became the unquestioned master of European calypso, changing his name to Stanley Brinks. Under this moniker he has recorded more than 100 albums, collaborated with the New York Antifolk scene on several occasions, recorded and toured with traditional Norwegian musicians, and played a lot with The Wave Pictures. The Wave Pictures are David Tattersall, Franic Rozycki and Jonny Huddersfield'Helm. Formed in 1998 when Franic and David lived in a village called Wymeswold, the band played with several drummers until Jonny became a permanent member in 2003 replacing Hugh J Noble. In the beginning the band learned to play together by covering Jonathan Richman songs but soon David was writing lots of original material.
They have since released six studio albums to critical acclaim and played numerous sessions on BBC 6 Music, Radio 1 and Xfm. Interest generated from these recordings has enabled The Wave Pictures to play shows all over the world with artists including Jeffrey Lewis, Darren Hayman, Stanley Brinks, Freschard and Herman Düne.
"...an interesting and occasionally excellent collection." Drowned In Sound
"....lo-fi delight, with cutesy low-key ballads and pop classics.." - The Line Of Best FitTracklisting:
Side A:
1. My Camel
2. Brighton
3. Fire To My Mind
4. Berlin
5. Love Me Too
6. Run Along
Side B:
1. Think About You
2. Goodbye My Love
3. Wakefield
4. With My Chin
5. Back To My Island In The Sun
6. Balluta Bay
