You
would not dream of hearing here's album Brooklyn Bank at your local
bank.
Perhaps you would listen to it as you study for the zillionth time
your plans to rob the place. Those grooves and basslines have a
way of entering your body, making it sway and you loosen up. The
melodies are likely to enter your head and never find an exit so
you may find yourself whistling those tunes on the way to the hold
up, in your car, window down, elbow out the window, your hand keeping
time on the steering wheel. You may be so occupied singing along
at the top of your voice that you may not see the fuel light blink
until you reach down to turn up the volume.
The fuel attendant starts nodding his head as he starts to quench
the thirst of your beat up getaway car, the album is that cool.
Meantime you are feeling good, you're smiling as you fumble through
the cassettes in your glovebox, you put the piece in your pocket
and pull out here's A Bit of Red Ep inserting it ready to play.
The attendant stops nodding and frowns disapprovingly as you stop
the music, he then accompanies you to the cash register.
As you pull out of the gas station, rubber burning, you push the
cassette into the player and here's cover version of Rocket USA
really gets your adrenalin going. It feels that good. You enter
the bank, blood pumping through your veins, heart pounding and deposit
into your account the day's takings from the gas station. At about
the same time the attendant manages to unravel the ropes that tied
him, calls the cops and puts your copy of here's Brooklyn Bank on
the stereo, hits play and his bad day immediately feels better.
Here is a musical hybrid which merges several different genres of
music into one coherent personal yet universal sound. Mixing live
instruments (drums, cello, trumpet, guitar and bass) and voice with
sampling, electronics, and sequencing, here traverses through drum
and bass, electronica, hip hop, pop, and rock, but remains firmly
rooted in the song.
here
is an Italian/American collaboration between M. Teho Teardo (Italy)
and J.F.Coleman (America).
Coleman
spent years as an integral member of the seminal New York band Cop
Shoot Cop. Apart from here, he is currently scoring numerous films
and has a solo album out under the name of PHYLR.
Teardo
is the man behind Meathead and Matera, two extremely different musical
projects.
Many
guests collaborated to the first here album: Lydia Lunch, Scott
McCloud (Girls Against Boys), Martin Atkins (Pigface), Bill Bronson
(Swans), David Ouimet (Motherhead Bug, Foetus), Jim Colarusso who
played trumpet with Elvis Presley, Carolyn HoneychildÖ
