Marah release 'Life Is A Problem' album
By bandweblogs on Apr 22, 2010 in Albums, Bands, Music News, New Releases | Tags: Marah
"We realize our music is a folked up mess of American Rock n Roll."
'Life Is A Problem', the new album by Marah - released June 22, 2010 on Valley Farm Songs - is an organic, introspective collection of raw and beautiful rock songs that finds the band in an entirely new realm from the garage rock of their past.
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The album was written and produced as the duo of Dave Bielanko and longtime band member/ collaborator Christine Smith, marking the first time Bielanko did not record with his brother and lifelong musical cohort, Serge.
In his own words, Dave describes the new album: "We set out to make a revealing, ugly, honest independent record. Take the nylon stocking off the lens and film ourselves at our best and worst." The album will be released through Marah's new label Valley Farm Songs.
Dave and Christine recorded and mixed most of the album themselves in a spooky old farmhouse in the middle of Pennsylvania Amish Country. They built a studio and acquired hand-me-down microphones and recording equipment, and gathered up whatever instruments they could find: flea market drums, a trash picked bass, a cheap fiddle, Serge's collection of rusting harmonicas, banjos, a free church piano, etc.
The album finds the band exploring new sounds and unique, unorthodox arrangements. As Dave describes it, "Valley Farm Song" is "equal parts Grandpa Jones, Led Zeppelin and Biggie Smalls", and one can hear influences of traditional American music as well as Celtic punk.
The title track "Life Is A Problem" was inspired by an obscure, religious country blues recording by Sister Ola Mae Terrell, though the song itself is more ramshackle rock than it is gospel.
Marah will begin full band touring in the spring. More details to be announced soon.
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