Save Your Breath, by The Brass Bed

Save Your Breath

by The Brass Bed

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Prior to his debut 2004 solo album, Stu Thomas released his own music as The Brass Bed, a band built around a rhythm section and a brass section. BB began to release stuff from 1997, starting with the "Low Key" EP. They played from 1997 until 2007 with a fluid lineup of talented folks.

1. COMPLEX WORLD
2. BUTANE
3. NO REST 4 THE WICKED
4. SAVE YOUR BREATH
5. MONKEYFACE
6. TRUTHBENDER
7. IRONY
8. COMBINATION
9. PENDULUM
10. LONG BLUE SHADOWS
11. THAT'S THE LAW
12. SCHOOLYARD BULLY
13. NO VACANCY
14. CALL FROM DETROIT
15. NITESPOT
16. SPIN CYCLE

"Save Your Breath" of 2001 was The Brass Bed's first full-length album, and it travels a myriad of styles. From funfair to funereal to funked-up, to mad loops to nighthawk blues-ness, and beyond. Stu was averse to pigeon-holing, and instead embraced and created musical hybrids. His band was 100% on the same page and there is really nothing like this ever on record. Corduroy Records took a shine to the band, and released the album.

in late '90's Melbourne, a number of bands started playing with brass elements, but The Brass Bed were definitely the first, out-punking everyone by pig-headedly rockin' out, MINUS GUITAR! Some punters scratched their heads, some were repelled, some lapped it up... The Brass Bed forged on blindly. They didn't have anything to lose, and if anything, non-acceptance drove them to more experimental highs. This album lassoes only a few of the kaleidoscopic roads they took in their existence.

Most of the album was recorded at Atlantis Studios (when they were located in Hawthorn, Melbourne, Australia).

8 was a 4-track recording from 1993, all parts played by Stu.
13 was a 4-track recording from 1994 (-ish).

For more see the archived website:
www.oocities.org/thebrassbed/

credits

released January 4, 2001

Stu Thomas - lead vocal, lead bass, slide bass, rhythm bass, trumpets, muted horn, harmonised horns, synth, record scratching, didgeridoo, Hammond organ, BV's, double-whistle, slide whistle, dulcimer, answering machine, fuzz guitar, tympani, drums on 8, delay loops, shitbox guitar, music boxes.

Tatiana Pajo - trombone
Tim Hilton - trombone
Cam McAllister - trumpet, BV's on 6
Delaney Davidson - drums 1, 2, 3, 6, 10, 12, 13, accordion on 12, BV's on 6, synth 5, 9
Rhys Braddock - drums on 5, 7, 9, bass on 10, percussion
Brian May - trumpet on 2, 3
Kim Salmon - electric guitar on 5 & 15
Dave Evans - accordion on 12
Gina Robertson - BV's on 6
Tom Carlyon - voice on 14, metal bangs on 7, piano on 15
The Irony Maidens - on 7 - Anna Burley, Emilie Martin, Astrid Munday, Viv Schwartz, Victory Day

Recorded live + o'dubs mostly @ Atlantis Studios Mar-Jul 2000
Produced by Stu T with Dave McCluney (mixer / engineer)
Edits & mastering - Michael Hepworth
Art - Stu T w/- Del D
Layout - Craig Williamson
Good photos by Liz Reed (others by others)
Thanx all guests & gatecrashers & Bedfellows (& Berlin Lemmi Schwarz - invisible clarinet)
Scratchings on 5 from 'Sketches of Spain' by Miles Davis

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The Stu Thomas Paradox Melbourne, Australia

Stu Thomas is a sinner-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist-producer extraordinaire who has played all over this planet. He's formed & fronted many musical units, including The Stu Thomas Paradox, Stu & The Celestials, The Brass Bed, Crumpet and Organism. He's also bass-player to the stars (Kim Salmon & The Surrealists, Dave Graney). Lives & loves in music-town Melbourne, Australia. ... more

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