Father Murphy (It, Venice – Boring Machines / Aagoo)

Les Rhinocéros (Us, Washington D.C. -Tzadik Records)

LINKS:

http://www.myspace.com/reverendmurphy

http://fathermurphy.blogspot.com/

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Father-Murphy/140754102641108

http://www.facebook.com/LesRhinoceros

http://lesrhino.bandcamp.com/

MUSIC:

Les Rhinoceros – Johnway

http://seekharborbooking.com/music/LR_Johnway.mp3

(full album for stream at http://lesrhino.bandcamp.com/)

Father Murphy – We Were Colonist

http://seekharborbooking.com/music/FM_wwc.mp3

Father Murphy – In Their Graves

http://seekharborbooking.com/music/FM_itg.mp3

Les Rhinocerós: “Hailing from the Washington, DC area, the young band Les Rhinocéros delivers a crazy world in sound, blending aspects of rock, world music, noise, ambient and jazz. The trio of teenagers was formed in 2008 while the players were still in high school, and has developed since then into an intense and wildly imaginative group that takes music to its extremes. Emotional, minimalistic, intense and grooving, this is music that goes beyond imagination to the edges of sanity. The group continues their sonic experiments by adding unusual instruments into the traditional rock band setting.” – Tzadik

Father Murphy: “Think of Gnostic masses, kabbalistic chanting, chiming little bells, tinny Gregorian-like drones played on toy-keyboards and the subtle but inescapable influence of 70’s Italian horror rock acts like Jacula and soundtrack masters Goblin and Ennio Morricone, and you will have some of the ingredients that make Father Murphy’s music. Add a good deal of lunacy and enough humour to keep the gloom away (just because you cannot take yourself that seriously) and the album is here, in all its strangely beguiling simplicity: an uneasy, compelling, furiously heretic yet sandblasted in Catholicism little album that could come only out of Italy.”