Dreamland, by Beat Circus

Dreamland

by Beat Circus

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1.	Gyp the Blood 02:22
2.	The Ghost Of Emma Jean 04:43	buy track
3.	Hypnogogia 01:02
4.	Delirium Tremens 04:06
5.	Lucid State 01:04
6.	Death Fugue 03:11
7.	The Good Witch 00:44
8.	Dark Eyes 03:01
9.	Slavochka 04:08
10.	The Gem Saloon 03:26
11.	El Torero 01:20
12.	The Rough Riders 04:19
13.	Coney Island Creepshow 03:32
14.	Hell Gate 02:37
15.	Meet Me Tonight In Dreamland 03:07
16.	March of the Freaks 02:24

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"Beat Circus has created a singular intriguing sonic identity by filtering certain bizarre old-time American and European pre-jazz styles through a progressive contemporary fearlessness."
- Weekly Planet

"Brian Carpenter’s narrative songs evoke cabaret, Wild West saloons, circus sideshows, and Old World gypsies...but the prodigious musicianship and stylistic miscegenation is all modern; the results, refreshingly entertaining."
- All About Jazz NY

"A fantasy locale of carnival nostalgia and Victrola nightmares..."
- Philadelphia City Paper

Beat Circus was formed in 2002 by singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Brian Carpenter. Beat Circus delivers Weird American Gothic stories of children, dreams, fatherhood, revenge, redemption, and murder. Dreamland is their second album and is a uniquely fierce record of dark narrative songs and instrumental works, which is loosely based on historical events associated with turn-of-the-century New York and Coney Island. Brian leads a nine piece ensemble with a unique and exciting instrumentation.

You can hear echoes of Tom Waits, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Kurt Weill, Carla Bley, Hans Eisler, Bernard Herrman and much much more here, but what it all combines into could only come from Beat Circus!

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released January 29, 2008

Brian Carpenter - vocals, pump organ, harmonica, trumpet
Käthe Hosletter - violin, viola
Julia Kent - cello
Alec K. Redfearn - accordion, jawharp
Ronn Caswell - tuba
Curtis Hasselbring - trombone
Brandon Seabrook - tenor banjo, mandolin, slide guitar
Briggan Krauss - saxophones
Matt McLaren - drums and percussion

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