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StrokeDriftwood - The VerlainesStroke (2009)
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The VerlainesThe Verlaines have been active since the early Eighties and were a seminal band in the establishment of Flying Nun Records. Based around front man, singer/songwriter Graeme Downes, the band has become highly active in recent times with albums in 2007 ("Potboiler"-Flying Nun) with this year seeing the release of "Corporate Moronic" (dunedinmusic.com and Yellow Eye records) to considerable critical acclaim. The band is currently based around Graeme and drummer Darren Stedman (who goes back as far as 1993's "Way out Where" album). The rest of the band is a collection of some fifteen different people scattered around the country who collaborate in various capacities to studio and live performance. The next album is under way as far as writing is concerned and will hopefully see the light of day in 2010. A live album lifted from four-track tape from 1986 is also in the pipeline. For Stroke, the band recorded "Driftwood" from the Nothing's 2008 album Warm Gun, arranged for rhythm section, string quartet and voice. "I chose the song "Driftwood" because poetically it moved me and it was a song I felt I could comfortably inhabit myself. We all know Chris is a bit of a died in the wool primitivist but I saw in this song the possibility to mess with the harmony a little in my own manner. Many recent email conversations with Chris happened to be about period instrument Beethoven recordings, so I did my best to Beethovenify it. It responded pretty well. If it spins your wheels check out Beethoven's late quartets." - Graeme Downes CreditsDriftwood (arranged Graeme Downes) |
