Stiv Cantarelli – Vocals, Guitar, Harp
Rob Villa – Bass
Rolando Moon – Beats
Alberto Bazzoli – Piano and Farfisa
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Rob Villa and Stiv Cantarelli
Produced by Stiv Cantarelli
PRESSING INFORMATION
+ BLACK 12" VINYL
+ INCLUDES DOWNLOAD CARD
"It is primal, visceral and dangerous, it snarls and seethes, bullys and bruises" explained Dancing About Architecture Magazine.
Dealing with the comedown following the recording and touring of "Stiv Cantarelli and The Silent Strangers’ Banks Of The Lea", Stiv and Roberto Villa followed different paths. Roberto, he built by scratch L’Amor Mio Non Muore, an all analogue studio in his Italian hometown. Stiv, he sat in a room with an old friend, his ’72 Roland TR77 electronic drummer and a 4- rack cassette recorder, playing music, listening to Alan Vega and Lightnin’ Hopkins. Realising each had something the other could use, they got to talking…
"We wanted to recreate the same atmosphere of being in one room with all the gear and play live. So we put a 50s RCA microphone in between us and the tube amps that we used to amplify the instruments and the drum machine. That mic recorded the reverbs, the noises, the sights, the moving feet, the crackling chairs in the room. We mixed it with guitar feedback, tape delay and the organ fuzz tone. We played it back and we knew we’d nailed it."
"Barrellhouse Queen" begins with a hypnotic drum pattern which sounds like a metronome while a distorted slide guitar calls and reverb-heavy vocals answer. It builds really nicely, before the real surprise at the end, a bar piano and reverb, with feedback on the guitar. This isn’t your typical blues-rock project. "Mr.Williamson" plays up a slightly more traditional blues vibe, complete with cool organ swells closing it out. Lyrically it’s a different story. Most of the songs on the record spin tales of drinking, slumming, and general debauchery. This self titled e.p. delivers 6 songs which ricochette between cavernous blues and the dissonance, noise and atonality of the New York no-wave scene.
Release Date: 11 January 2019
