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Dreamland

by Beat Circus

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Hypnogogia 01:02
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Lucid State 01:04
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Death Fugue 03:11
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Dark Eyes 03:01
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Slavochka 04:08
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El Torero 01:20
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Hell Gate 02:37
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about

"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!

credits

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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Cuneiform Records Washington, D.C.

Cuneiform Records is a record label releasing adventurous, boundary-bursting music by artists from around the world. They have always championed an eclectic mixture of musical styles and artists and have consistently danced at the dangerous intersection where genres meet. In doing so, they have become one of the most prominent labels of New Music.

Founded in 1984.
Based in Washington D.C.
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