The Grim Preachers set off to record this on a shoe string budget. Using a vintage 8 treack reel to reel recorder, some cheap mics and a lot of booze. recreating new songs like old recordings with the precision and accuracy of a blind moose. bon appetit!

16 MP3 Songs in this album (67:53) !
Related styles: Jazz: Swing/Big Band, Blues: Jazzy Blues, Spiritual

People who are interested in Michael Buble Ray Charles Tom Waits should consider this download.


Details:
Headed by Thelonious Bajcar, The Grim Preachers set off to record an album on 3 principals:

- over reharsed music dosnt sound real
- Digital Recording takes the Life out of a Song
- Beer before Liquer, never been sicker. So just stick with whiskey.

on a budget mainly composed of I.O.U's. A summer of playing at Graffiti's every tuesday night and the 3 D's of suck-sess
(diobolical drunk dirermination) they Headed into Roach mouth Records with thier new 8 track reel to reel recorder and set off to create some "new oldies".

The players:
Thelonious Bajcar
Katticus Finch
Patrick Kahn
Dennis reynolds
Patrick Grant
Sean Pinage
Victor Sherman
Conrad Rockel
Alan Mason
Mike Appostolites
Raf DelJunco
Lani Ekstron
Michal Rocha
Arjun Lombardi

Together they took the songs and gave themselves a total of 15-20 minuites to write out parts, and another 15-20 to reharse. then got straight to mabye 1 or 2 takes (tape is expensive you see). This live off the floor recording best depicted the live show setting they grew to enjoy. after many beers, scribbled horn lines and ciggerete butts. The Grim Preachers now had an album to call thier own

the Song choices were based from Thelonious vast songbook. picking some of his more ranchy tunes after one night drinking with Patrick Kahn talking about how Jazz has gone a little too close to the propper side. ranging from the enterpreturship of selling urine as a commercial product, the seriousness of some amatur players, mother nature with an STD, prison cells broken hearts and just all round good family friendly debauchary.

we hope you like what you hear, it is not meant to be rated, catagorized or raised on a pedestal of any sort. Just to be enjoyed, we had fun making it. and you should have fun listening to it.

stay tuned for the Live set, B-sides, and Bajcar's Aborted song book comming soon.
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