Duke Garwood plays with long time collaborator Paul May on percussion and Dylan Bates on violin.

“Visionary, challenging, anything but casual listening, it takes the blues to a new place” – Maverick

“Reared on a sonic diet of blues and classical, Garwood doubles as occasional clarinettist with the Archie Bronson Outfit, but in his own right makes wracked country-blues albums..It's a sound which prizes mood, depth and authenticity over sophisticated surfaces, with the erratic, apparently off-tune guitar, splashy, shuffling drums and sundry squawking horns recalling Tom Waits, while the bricolage of metallic percussion and avant-twang guitar flourishes owes a clear debt to Captain Beefheart.” – The Independent

Duke Garwood is the sometime collaborator of Archie Bronson Outfit (he plays clarinet with the Domino three-piece).

Duke Garwood’s first paid musical job was back in the late 8o’s playing guitar on The Orbs seminal “Perpetual Dawn” taken from they’re debut album co-produced by Youth. Nearly twenty years and many musical wanderings later Duke Garwood is about to release an album on Youths new label Butterfly Recordings. You could say that some sort of cycle is completed.

Garwood’s 1st album “Holy Week” came out to great critical acclaim last year. Q magazine described it as “making Will Oldham sound like Engelbert Humperdinck!” His follow up “Emerald Palace” was recorded in a log cabin on the wooded slopes of Box Hill over 2 scorching days and nights in the mid-summer of 2005. Garwood and his long time drummer/percussionist-Paul May laid down some 40 tracks of which 18 were finally chosen for his new release.

LINKS
http://www.myspace.com/dukegarwood

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http://www.myspace.com/ladywoodsman

San Moritzz

LINKS
http://www.myspace.com/sanmoritzz

Fred Lyenn Jacques
Belgian Songsmith Fred Lyenn Jacques’s recent album featured guest appearances by Marc Ribot, Jolie Holland, Ches Smith, Indigo Street, Sam Amidon, Joel Hamilton, Shahzad Ismaily, Doug Wieselman. These are not calculated, manufactured songs but raw emotion and passion which is expressed differently each concert, depending on his mood and surroundings. The music is pure and instinctive. Lyenn’s repertoire of sounds and instruments is extensive: his musical aides include a baritone guitar, Irish bouzouki, an organ bass pedal not to mention an impressive vocal range.

LINKS
http://www.myspace.com/lyennbrussels
http://www.myspace.com/lyennbrussels
http://lyenn.net/