(live band and recording contributers, past and present)
Nial McGaughey - Guitar
Andy Semmens - Voice
Charlie Romijn - Electric guitar, Bass guitar
Matt Williams -aka- Team Brick - Synth, Hammond organ, Effects, Accordion, Clarenet, Voice
Thomas Elgie - Drums, Harmonica
George Elgie - Guitar
Mark Ophidian - Electronics, Voice effects
Dave Greaves - Electric guitar, Acoustic guitar
Max Milton - Trumpet, Violin, Viola
Jon Attwood - Guitars
Jack Rampling - Violin
John E Vistic - Trombone
Guy Metcalffe - live Drums
Geoff Barrow - live Drums
Harry - Trumpet
FACED WITH COMPLETE FAILURE, UTTER DEFIANCE IS THE ONLY RESPONSE
Crippled Black Phoenix are currently recording two albums, they will be active during 2008.
"Crippled Black Phoenix have, in their relatively short life, generated many rumours and script, but at the heart of it all is something quite special. Drawing musical influences from an eclectic range of sounds old and new, yet standing alone in a genre that's not quite been defined.
Starting out life as Justin Greaves, then with the help of some old friends, CBP have now become a solid and active live band, whilst keep their feet firmly planted in the studio experimenting with modern and antique sounds. With a pedigree of such bands as Iron Monkey, Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine, Mogwai, Gonga, North Sea Navigator, Team Brick, Pantheist, Thought Forms and Electric Wizard, they have come up with a sound that is hard to call, some are hearing prog-folk, some hear mournful balladry, but whatever their take on it, it has certainly had the public and critics scrabbling for words, and Crippled Black Phoenix are happily oblivious to it all.
Having released the debut album "A Love of Shared Disasters" in 2007, CBP are now working on the next part of the plan. Also to keep things oiled Invada Records are to release an E.P. featuring songs that have been on the setlist for the past months of touring.
Now continuing on the "Endtime Ballads" theme, the band are ever expanding and have shown they're not afraid to stick out their neck to create some timeless, decadent and progressive music. Guitars coated with strings and piano, striking with the most emotional yet subtle sounds that could drag forever across a universe, seeming somewhat at odds with the current climate. With songs which revisit a time this modern world has forgotten, lifting the listener out of reality, or songs that just captivate sheer sadness, the impact that haunts CBP's music hooks the inner emotions, only felt with the passing of something, so close and yet so distant, the soundtrack to saying goodbye".
PRESS UK:
Emma Ransley - Empress/Invada - emma@empresspr.freeserve.co.uk
LABEL, & RELEASE INFO:
Paul Horlick - Invada - fatpaul@blueyonder.co.uk
You can also contact the band direct through this profile.
UPCOMING SHOWS
RELEASES
Full-length 78 minute album "A Love of Shared Disasters", the first in the trilogy, available from 2nd April (UK) May (US) on 2x12"Gatefold LP & Digi-pack CD. For pre-ordering and to get the limited 12"x24" screenprint poster go to the Invada shop .
Limited 10" featuring two (2) different mixes of "Sharks & Storms/Blizzard of Horned Cats" and "My enemies i fear not, but protect me from my friends".
After having a listen, I can only assume that it's only a matter of time before you get a call from Quentin Tarantino asking for one of your tracks to be on a soundtrack of his.
The sound is most interesting and long may it continue.
These new songs are just so good. I am trying to listen to them over and over each morning before my day begins so I can remember them and have them flowing through my mind all day. I am anxiously and impatiently waiting for these recordings to be released. Wendigo hurts me.
Ok, you guys are really killing me with all these incredible new tracks. I LOVE this new song. Man, release this stuff soon, I am in need. I am grateful.
