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Stranger In The Alps (EP)

by Soft Speaker

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Tennyson Tea 02:42
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Into The Fog 04:29
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Marble Mask 04:35
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Weathervane 04:02

about

Under duress from the USM (Unified Society of Milkmen), Joe Daley, Blair Douglass, Paul Foreman and Nick Rocchio shut down their independent milk delivery service in 1929. A smattering of unsuccessful business endeavors followed, until they discovered an undeniable chemistry blending raw fuzz guitars with lutes and clarinets. Although initially less lucrative than the milk delivery service, the band, who settled on the name Sanftsprecher (trans. “Soft Speaker”), were championed by Austria’s Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in 1932 and subsequently enjoyed a period of massive popularity in their newly-adopted home country. The band split following Dollfuss’s assassination in 1934. Their only official recording, the 78rpm single,“I’ll Tend Your Garden,” is highly sought after by record collectors. In 2008, enthusiasts of the band purchased sheet music for a number of unrecorded Sanftsprecher songs that were discovered in Rocchio’s safe deposit box in UniCredit Bankengruppe. Five of these songs have been recorded by the Austrian Orchestra, The Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich, and will be released in early 2010.

credits

released February 26, 2010

Joe Daley: Drums, Percussion
Blair Douglass: Bass Guitar, Theremin
Paul Foreman: Guitar, Voice, Synthesizer
Nick Rocchio: Guitar, Voice, Organ

All songs written by Paul Foreman and Nick Rocchio

Drums and bass recorded and engineered by Mike Lust at Phantom Manor Recording (Chicago, IL)

All additional tracking engineered by Joe Daley at Low Orbit – Kinzie Annex

Mixed by TW Walsh

Mastered by Carl Saff at Saff Mastering (Chicago, IL)

Management: Darren Olsen

Design: Modularlab

Booking: contact@softspeaker.com

www.softspeaker.com

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Soft Speaker Chicago, Illinois

...Separately, a ramshackle group of Chicago-based musicians has taken it upon themselves to perform and record these songs in a strikingly rudimentary manner with crude electric instruments, much to the dismay of purist fans who prefer the orchestral versions... ... more

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