BRANDO -BIOGRAPHIE
biographie
- the headless
horseman is a preacher - lyrics

Brando débute en
1991 dans le sous-sol d'une maison de South Walnut Street à
Bloomington, dans l'Indiana, USA. Le groupe compte de nombreux intervenants.
Intervenants qui peu à peu abandonnent le projet. C'est finalement
en 1993 que Derek Richey (chants, guitare), Nathan Bryant (guitare)
et Dan Solero (percussion) constituent, ce qui reste encore, le
noyau central du groupe.
Tout en faisant de nombreuses apparitions sur scène
et en multipliant les collaborations (avec Jeb Sanner notamment,
producteur de June Panic, Secretly Canadian), le projet reste sur
une brèche jusqu'en 1997. Peu à peu une plus grande
cohésion s'installe avec la participation régulière
de Josh Seib, qui devient le premier bassiste attitré du
groupe.
En 1997, pour raisons professionnelles & familiales
le trio fondateur se sépare. Derek Richey continue ses travaux
d'écriture à un rythme soutenu. Il interprète
et enregistre ses nouvelles compositions, seul parfois, ou avec
Nathan, Dan et Josh lors de leurs passages à Bloomington.
Les collaborations se font plus rares mais gagnent en intensité.
Elles deviennent plus fructueuses.
Ces derniers enregistrements sont à l'origine
d'une compilation qui sort début 2000 sur un label indépendant
de Bloomington, Smokeylung Recording. " The Adder " contient
14 chansons sélectionnées parmi plus de 200 disponibles.
Quelques mois plus tard, un seconde compilation " Peacocks
on linen " sort chez ce même label. " Peacocks "
marque le début d'un son devenu plus "clair". Certaines
mélodies préfigurent les compositions futures du groupe.
" The Headless Horseman is a Preacher "
est le premier véritable album de Brando. Sorti au mois de
février 2001 chez Smokeylung, il marque le début d'une
vraie reconnaissance. Il bénéficia de nombreux passages
radios et attira à maintes reprises l'attention des critiques.
Véritable buffet musical " The headless
Horseman is a Preacher " se tourne vers les diverses influences
du groupe (" Don't Trifle " regarde Guided By Voices,
" Death of a Disco Dancer, revisited " salue les premiers
Bowie, " Theories of a Division " porte les accents de
Dean Wareham période Galaxie 500). Il est aussi l'occasion
pour Brando d'imprimer sa propre empreinte : mélodies douces
qui contrastent avec la voix écorchée de Derek et
l'excentricité des textes.
The Headless Horseman is a Preacher nécessite
une attention particulière. Les richesses de l'album se révèlent
à chaque nouvelle écoute.

Brando - "the headless
horseman is a preacher" - TAL-003
"The Headless Horseman is very much a messenger.
Punishing the wicked with the message of their own demise; he is
both the ghost of judgement and the Almighty's uncompromising executioner.
The Horseman is not evil, but a preacher wielding the power to condemn.
In our world, there is much wickednes to be confronted, but we have
no horseman."
1. the headless horseman is a preacher - 2. the
fight club song - 3. the seed - 4. theories of division - 5. pilot
of this ship - 6. hold me mine - 7. leaving the scene of a crime
- 8. the lazybeats - 9. when in rome - 10. the leaving of ayetch
- 11. overtime - 12. driving your point - 13. death of a disco dancer
- 14. don't trifle - 15. while we got the time - 16. fleets, flying
by me - 17. siphoning - 18. fatigue* - 19. darkheart* - 20. instantly
spaceships*
* bonus tracks for the european release only.
Brando is:
Derek Richey: vocalist, all instruments. Nathan
Bryant: guitars. Dan Solero: sometimes drums, sometimes guitar,
and electronica. Josh Seib: all instrument. Finn Swingley: some
guitars. Kenny Childers: some guitars. Jorma Whittaker: some bass
guitar, lead singer of Marmoset (Secretly Canadian). Daniel Tau:
drummer.
With occasional appearances by Pat Spurgeon and Jeremy Brantlinger.

lyrics
the fight club song
/ I've struggled with this too long but now I know which way to
go & everyone who loved me has disappeared and gone maybe this
is what was ordered but I do not recall menus and we use to make
out pre-plans and we use to travel light but when the orders became
binding well the subjects all took flight and I caught you down
and sighing but you said it was only right.
the seed /
I walked to sea on my knees took the needle from your vein yelled
and screamed in a choir desires keeps it lean keeps it down keeps
the atoms on the ground on the outside of the seed please desire
sire me intervene turn the shower into streams on the outside of
the seed and the disco queen insists to be an aggravation to the
scene keeps the atoms from flying free.
theories of division
/ painted other portraits the volume was simplified pushing me on
posture and eyelid dives when it feels like your eyes start when
it seems like we're apart when this new thing inspires me your eyes
don't desire me the theories of division make way & its inside
my range and it takes you away examples of disconnect dampen the
hidden sex its all in the balancing and more than just challenging.
pilot of this ship
/ when you came out in pigtails and you danced about the floor like
a dear hold it a while hold it a mile you hold it too long now bring
it along you love your mirros and your mountain crests & this
is your best (you're the only girl) so leave it or not (you're the
only girl) when I came I was the pilot of this ship I was the pirate
of this ship.
leaving the scene of the
crime / and it was hidden under your style the gaping
mope and soft denial quite always the senseless sigh when leaving
the room with goodbyes and footprints are marked by electric tape
murdered bodies on the landscape & leaving the scene of the
crime has never been easy before & leaving the scene of a crime
and heading to opposite shores it was obvious and bright your doorstep
waves and plans you left in the mid of the night I'm sure your demons
helped you land there are murdered bodies on the landscape.
lazybeats /
sitting on the plastic benches and old world atrophy keeping us
with all the newpapers cos' we have to be on our toes & we've
stoppedour worlds for another beat sitting on the last page that
you wanna read and I can't get you do it another old world catastrophe
you let yourself get choked up by the lazybeats & we've stopped
all our worlds for another beat.
the leaving of ayetch
/ when it feels less its all wrong had a dream that was all wrong
that i left you for breathing and I left for a season and it felt
right at the time but now you know you own it I never knew the time
at every single moment I never knew the time it was springtime in
b-town nineteen and all out and the cages were empty and it felt
right at the time...you'll never be aware of my only part.
hold me mine
/ million dollar smile and then some put that stuff in park you
would collar life, or would hon' & learn to love the dark would
you need the time where we all fall underneath you shoe in and out
of binds & then some how that nothing grew hold me mine coming
round the bend you slip by right before their eyes its coming to
an end no replies brings a new supply.
overtime
/ never thought it could stop caring always had that ideal but when
the world began to drop the cage was emptied on the spot now don't
you get the wrong idea there are thoughts of your existence no fault
of your persistence but it just don't care...you're basically overtime,
over mine I know always thought there would be someone the stage
was always set but all the linen soon caught fire and the curtains
burned to bits now don't you get - - get the wrong idea we all have
friends that we believe and it aint those who you deceive but who
you put down on their knees.
driving your point
/ you never know who is your friend unless you pick them and not
you this is the best thing to do but you want attention straight
through you're driving your point through this is what you want
to do this is the best thing to do but you want attention straight
through jackboots and things you won't choose you're driving you
point through.
death of a disco dancer (revisited)
/ death of a disco dancer oh I'd rather not get involved I never
talk to my neighbors I'd rather not get involved carry on...
don't trifle
/ don't trifle with calcium splash indeed don't trifle and all that
you pretend to need and when you are on your knees don't trifle
with the pot smoke from your nose its building down to your toes
& it seems to be intensified the dreams held up by sleepy eyes
it seems to be intensified the dreams held up by sleepy eyes don't
miss it or you'll never feel quite the same reciprocate fair game
fairly understood oh wasn't this so understood but you overdo the
druggy eyes...
and while we got the time
/ and while we got the time why don't we say our twenty words and
keep those sentences short and sweet because my attention just won't
keep don't talk about a movie or some stupid dream just quickly
tell me over and over the special things I keep, I keep.
fleets, flying by me
/ fleets flying by me its my kind of sea but not my reprieve please
turn them around and show them the town where I once was king not,
to blow them away but get them to stay my home is the place
siphoning /
you painted your nails and in order you set all the things I'd regret
you practiced your tales and in order you let all the air in degrees
& when it had failed you won't defend all the ends to your means
& the time traps your sails that would take you around all the
troubles you found you pardon yourself but it never will hold for
the things you were told just siphoning don't share secret you're
tougher than nails or your stoned like the sky & your eyes do
abide you're quiet and closed but its just a charade that has covered
your aims you commute with the best & the time traps you sails
and ignores all the gales and when it has failed sure you defend
all the ways you upend and pardon yourself but it won't ever hold
all the feelings you stole.
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