thebrotheregg

"We play with guitars, we play with matches, sometimes we come home with blackberry scratches!"

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    tags

    coffee, beer, fun, rad, aromatic, bliss, indie, hep, killer buzz, syd barrett, endtimes, relax, bliss, portland

    into

    classical indian devotional music, unemployment, rabbits, gardening, yodic wisdom, classical surrealism, books, vinyl, ethiopian food, windchimes

    state of mind

    mildly caffinated

    vices

    clean livin'

    favorite artists

    Neutral Milk Hotel, Why?, Lakshmi Shankar, Pran Nath, Dead can Dance, Fleetwood Mac, Yes, Dead Milkmen, Mel Torme, Rollerball, Guided by Voices, Stevie Wonder, Donovan, the Kinks, Argent, Bauhaus, Unwound, Bevis Frond.

    favorite movies

    Dazed and Confused

    favorite books

    His Dark materials, Jayne Eyre, Motel Life, Crime and Punishment
    GENRES: pop, psychedelic, garage, west coast
    LOCATION: Portland OR, US
    WEBSITE: http://www.thebrotheregg.com
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    About
     
    Thebrotheregg perform sunny music with surgical focus and the up beat feel of homegrown psychedelic pop nuggets. The band has been delivering their underground gems to fans who embrace the group with cult-like ownership for over 10 years. The band makes mountains of sound emanating bright beams of lyrical imagery and a continuous inquiry into sound and emotion, appealing to sources both earthly and otherwise.
    The latest release by the group, an eponymous ep (cd & 45rpm 12” vinyl available from the band’s own Dandelion Wine imprint) features a further evolution and refinement of the bands previous sojourns into the 'baroque rock' (Dancing Satan and Simple Love) with some new heavier material (Blueberries, Daylight and Elevators) reminiscent of late 80’s/early 90’'skate rock', and a return to some of their rootsiest material (Simpleton) since 2001’s “Billy Barty’s Brains.” It's got waltzes and run on sentence melodic lyricism and crazy excellent musicianship, so it must be thebrotheregg, but with a new found clarity and brevity un-hinted at in their previous releases.
    Thebrotheregg is the enduring brainchild of Adam Goldman who considers himself the orchestrator or perhaps coordinator of the project, keeping it alive since it's humble beginnings in the early 1990’s. Goldman’s music both sonically and lyrically demonstrate a heavy reliance upon dreams and dreamlike states, trances, hallucinations, visions, epiphanies, ecstasies, passion, speaking in tongues, UFOs, delusions, contusions, paranoia, monsters, magic spells, drunken idiocy, love, lucid rationality, plate tectonics, inventions, technology, vitamins, pollution, the opposite of pollution, morbid obsession, stunted emotional growth and arrested development, voodoo hexes, aphrodisiacs, prophecy, serendipity, irony, insomnia, bingeing, fasting, and finally: LIVING!
    Settling in Portland, Oregon in 1996, thebrotheregg took root and exploded with vast prolific offerings over the next decade. They have appeared on countless underground compilations and a wave of self-produced bizarre cassette releases. Accustomed to self-releasing their own recordings, thebrotheregg were finally “discovered” by the Bevis Frond’s Nick Saloman in 2001 who used all sorts of flowery and enthusiastic vocabulary to describe their album “Snowflake and Fingerprint Machine” as a psychedelic pop masterpiece. Soloman’s Woronzow label released “Snowflake” in England and licensed the album to Rubric Records (home of Mary Lou Lord and Gogol Bordello among others) in the states. “Snowflake and Fingerprint Machine” still remains a triumphant statement of dark psychedelic pop.
    In 2005, thebrotheregg released "Aortica Mor", a 17-song epic on Montana's Bingo Lady Records in the spirit of prolific maximalism. Not only did this release clock in at nearly 80 minutes, but it contained a Noah’s Arc of pop ideas at every volume and in every meter.
    thebrotheregg have emerged as American savant outsiders determined to achieve cult status with a voice both raw and otherworldly in attitude. Over the years, thebrotheregg have received critical praise at home and internationally for their contribution to the new wave of independent rock.



    "Thebrotheregg, Portland's reigning overlord of quirky psychedelic pop" - High Bias

    “This album won't hit you over the head...but will instead creep under your skin and stay with you for years to come.” – Baby Sue

    "The Shins' only contemporaries might be the avant-rain pop of Oregon's thebrotheregg. So, put a wreath of flowers in your hair and frolic to the auditory dream sequence of truly mind-melting pop music." - All Music Guide

    “Goldman has a very descriptive vocal styling that brings his lyrics to life and his songwriting mixes the best of psychedelic acoustic pop and modern soft nerdy indie rock like Belle and Sebastian meets Olivia tremor Control songs played by Jeff Magnum – a freakin’ difficult task to accomplish” – Music Liberation Project