Psychic Driver
by Shakes Gown
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Euro Bomber
03:25
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Dusted Pain
03:27
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Steely Dan
02:36
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You Are Not Me
04:58
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Oksana Baiul
01:17
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Copper Street
03:39
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about
In December of 2007, Chris Rolls left behind his label duties with Kimosciotic and headed to Berlin armed with an SK-1, delay pedal, SM-57, and a Tascam 4-track. After 5 weeks he emerged with a set of recordings that would become the first Shakes Gown album "Words Without Works". Somewhere between dance music and collage, crooning and pleading, the music explores the stark Berlin winter and the underbelly of addiction. It's cold, it's harsh, but you can dance to it while you're nervously waiting at the doctor's office.
What began as a forced aural exorcism has manifested into a shared psychic healing. After a cold birth in the depths of Germany, Shakes Gown began to thaw under the desert sun. An extemporaneous recording session in Tucson yielded the skeletons of the songs that would be the catalyst Psychic Driver. Making his way back to San Francisco, Chris Rolls recruited Simon Phillips to play drums. Where once there was one now there are two. With the use of antiquated synthesizers and organic percussion Shakes Gown metamorphosized from a flat-screen vision into a bio-dynamic Northern California synth-pop oddity. The group entered the studio with a cassette of synth, bass and drum parts and, with production help from Stephen Beacham, would sculpt the core songs for Psychic Driver: Eurobomber, Steely Dan, and You Are Not Me. Maybe it is unfair to point out that these songs began as tributes to the soundtrack for John Carpenter's Escape from New York, what synth toting group these days doesn't owe the man a nod. Whatever, it's an unfair world. And only once you hear how Shakes Gown IS what Peter Gabriel's Security SHOULD have been will you understand just how unfair it is.
Shakes Gown features members or Fuckwolf, le Flange du Mal, 3 Leafs, Zeigenbock Kopf, Earwicker, Curse of the Birthmark and other San Francisco musical malfunctions yet represents none of the them. Their live shows have been compared to the epileptic episodes of Joy Division blended with Depeche Mode covering Steely Dan (yep, them again) at a Pink Floyd laser light show. The description is questionable but what isn't.
What began as a forced aural exorcism has manifested into a shared psychic healing. After a cold birth in the depths of Germany, Shakes Gown began to thaw under the desert sun. An extemporaneous recording session in Tucson yielded the skeletons of the songs that would be the catalyst Psychic Driver. Making his way back to San Francisco, Chris Rolls recruited Simon Phillips to play drums. Where once there was one now there are two. With the use of antiquated synthesizers and organic percussion Shakes Gown metamorphosized from a flat-screen vision into a bio-dynamic Northern California synth-pop oddity. The group entered the studio with a cassette of synth, bass and drum parts and, with production help from Stephen Beacham, would sculpt the core songs for Psychic Driver: Eurobomber, Steely Dan, and You Are Not Me. Maybe it is unfair to point out that these songs began as tributes to the soundtrack for John Carpenter's Escape from New York, what synth toting group these days doesn't owe the man a nod. Whatever, it's an unfair world. And only once you hear how Shakes Gown IS what Peter Gabriel's Security SHOULD have been will you understand just how unfair it is.
Shakes Gown features members or Fuckwolf, le Flange du Mal, 3 Leafs, Zeigenbock Kopf, Earwicker, Curse of the Birthmark and other San Francisco musical malfunctions yet represents none of the them. Their live shows have been compared to the epileptic episodes of Joy Division blended with Depeche Mode covering Steely Dan (yep, them again) at a Pink Floyd laser light show. The description is questionable but what isn't.
credits
released June 15, 2012
Players:
Simon Phillips
Christopher Rolls
Chris Cones
Diana Hayes
David Wright
Recorded by:
Stephen Beacham
Produced by:
Stephen Beacham
& Christopher Rolls
Players:
Simon Phillips
Christopher Rolls
Chris Cones
Diana Hayes
David Wright
Recorded by:
Stephen Beacham
Produced by:
Stephen Beacham
& Christopher Rolls
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discography
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Jun 2012 -
Aug 2011 -
Aug 2011
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