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DEMO RECORDINGS (2007)

We've begun recording demos of new songs for the next album. We've posted a couple (Whippoorwill Time, Dust Bowl Heart) on our MySpace page. Have a listen.

DOWN WITH THE SUN (2006) Read a review

TRACK TITLE LYRICS


Brian Yatman: vocals, guitars, piano, organ, synthesiser, bass, samples, banjo, melodica, percussion, plastic hose

Hannah Croke: cello
Molly Florance: violin
Sharif Hansa: drums (1,7) , bass (7)
Gordon Wallace: mandolin

Recorded 2003 - 2006 in Bondi, Punchbowl and Erskineville
Mastered by Tim Grieg


1
Albuquerque (LISTEN)
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2
Well, oh Well (LISTEN)
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3
Lightning Bones
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4
Moonshine People (LISTEN)
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5
The Hollow Earth is Calling (LISTEN)
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6
Our Floating World
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7
Molly Machine (LISTEN)
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8
Ridiculously Happy
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9
Down With the Sun (instrumental)
 
10
Yellowstone National Park is on Fire
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11
Yowies (LISTEN)
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12
Remontado
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13
Your Magic Hour
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14
Green River Suck (instrumental)
 

Reviews

>From FasterLouder, 30/8/2006

The melodies burn and crackle like Holopaw or The Shins (listen to the chorus on The Hollow Earth Is Calling), the organic ambience like The Album Leaf or On Land-era Brian Eno. In the slow, heavy acoustic guitar, there are hints of Gary Jules. In the quiet evocation of Sydney's inner west - the album must surely mark the first reference to MacDonaldtown station in the history of music - you can hear the two Tims - Rogers and Freedman - at their lyrical best... All the elements are there for a late spring afternoon spent in bed, wearing chunky headphones, experiencing an album. Down With The Sun, like those old records, offers up another world. And it's a beautiful one.
Anton S. Trees
(read the entire review here)

>From the Sydney Morning Herald, 9/6/2006

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Some CDs are like those art exhibitions where the artist milks one idea
across 14 paintings. This is the opposite. Lost in the Woods is the
brainchild of Sydney singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Brian
Yatman, who flits between styles - including country, indie pop and
bossa nova - seemingly incoherently. But the variety is the result of
observation of the diversity of life, and the observer's musical personality
can glue it all together
John Shand

>From Nick Leach, musician 9/10/2006

Got your CD today and just had a listen. Wow, there's a lot of love in that little package. It shines on through. You should be very proud of this effort. I was driving in the country and then I floated through the sun roof and grazed my knee on the treetops as I headed for the saucepan. Very nice feeling. Thanks.


WONGAROOK: CENTRE OF THE UNIVERSE a radio play (2004)

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Cello: Hannah Croke
Violin: Molly Florance
Mandolin: Gordon Wallace
Original songs and music by Brian Yatman

Recorded 2004 in Bondi
Broadcast by Radio FBi July 2004 and July 2006


1 Act 1  
2 Act 2  

CAST
Wendy Daye: Di Caskey
Skip Henderson/Howard Slater/Rev. McKinnon
/Mrs Holmwood/Caller No. 2: Nic Caswell
Teenage girl: Kate Chandler
Shirley Henderson: Melinda Harvey
George Papodopolous: Steven Peroulis
Kevin Daye: Richard Stern
Narrator/Tim Kelso/Terry Holmwood: Brian Yatman

The year is 1986. Wongarook, a suburb shielded from TV and radio signals and, due to a clerical error, left out of the street directory, exists in a time warp. Tim,16, is bored, his life a cycle of school, church and afternoons spent in the local library leafing through old copies of National Geographic. Into his life comes Wendy, wife of the new Youth Outreach Minister, Kevin Daye. As Tim and Wendy’s friendship develops into tentative passion, a mysterious spate of graffiti crimes brings this insular and eccentric community to crisis point.

Copyright 2004 Brian Yatman

 

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