dave graney - "night of the wolverine demos/early 90s songwriter demos " - digital only release 2015

Seven songs recorded in 1991 on a 4 track cassette that eventually ended up on the album, Night Of The Wolverine, which was recorded in a weekend late in 1992.
The other songs were recorded around the same time. Dave Graney felt hollowed out after the failure to geet the album I Was The Hunter and I Was The Prey out. (Recorded in London with the original Coral Snakes in 1990. It eventually came out in 1992 on Fire Records in the UK).
The idea of gathering another head of steam or bunch of songs as strong as that seemed impossible and Dave thought his future lay in being a songwriter for other artists.The last four of these songs were intended to be sung by a female. "I walked with a Saint" and "I'm gonna live my life" which was eventually covered by Lisa Miller.
"Somewhere in the world" was recorded by Tex Perkins for his debut solo album, "Far be it from me" in 1996.

Story behind the songs and about the times at Dave Graneys blog "You Were Deep Inside That Thought".  

credits

released August 28, 2015

Dave Graney, acoustic guitar and vocals. Clare Moore , vibes on "I'm gonna live my life". Matt Heydon , keys on "Mogambo" "I walked with a saint" and "thats the way it's gonna be".
Mostly recorded on a 4 track cassette recorder at live sound engineer Ted Hamilton's house in Richmond, Victoria.

Cover image is a shot taken by Tony Mahony at his East St Kilda flat around the time the Night Of The Wolverine album cover was shot. 

The seven Night Of The Wolverine songs are available with the actual album at itunes. 

"play mistLY for me" - digital only release by dave graney and the mistLY

Available at itunes

"play mistLY for me" is a collection of live recordings from shows over the last few years. Shows in Adelaide, Newcastle, Katoomba and Melbourne. Featuring different instrumentation and approaches to songs. Recorded on a hard disc recorder sitting in the rooms where we played. No direct feeds from a desk or mics on any instruments, just a stereo track from somewhere in the ROOM. No overdubs attempted. It’s all here just as it happened.

credits

released February 23, 2015

14 tracks

ALL feature dave graney on electric or acoustic guitar, clare moore on drums, percussion or keys and vocals and Stu thomas on bass and baritone guitar and vocals.

1-8 , 10 and 13 w/ stuart perera on electric guitar
5-8 and 13 w/ mark Fitzgibbon on acoustic piano
9,11 and 12 graney, moore and thomas trio only

MASTERED IN MELBOURNE BY GREG WADLEY 

 

 

Track Listing
you wanna be there but you don’t wanna travel 4:15
This song was first recorded in 1990 on “lure of the tropics” – a live performance cd- and then in the studio for the album of the same name released in 1994. We were playing this in a different instrumental style on this 2014 tour. No drums, just guitars and keys. The lyric strongly relates to “everything was legendary with Robert” which we were playing on the same dates.
I will have always been here before 6:04
This segues from “you wanna be there…” but we took this song from a later date in the tour. There were some loud audience members talking on the Adelaide version. Song originally recorded for HASHISH and LIQUR in 2005. I played bass and guitar on e original. Lyric inspired by a Roky Erikson song, “I have been here before”. Also by a friend of my nephew who once shushed me by holding up his hand ( with back to me) and saying “cease-mortal!”
you wanna be loved – 4:32
More of an electric guitar work out from a show in Adelaide in 2013. Stuart Pereras lyrical playing is quite amazing here, as is the power of Clare Moore and Stu Thomas on the drums and bass. A song originally from the album “you wanna be there but you don’t wanna travel, released in 1994.
the stars, baby the stars 5:47
Details as above. Played in this sequence at the show. Song also originally appeared on the 1994 album, “you wanna be there but you don’t wanna travel”.
we don’t belong to anybody 4:58
A song recorded for “rock’n’roll is where I hide”, an album of re-recorded 90s songs we did for Liberation in 2011. This was the only “new” song on that disc. Here it is played in the Council Chambers at Sth Melbourne Town Hall. Featuring the mistLY with the addition of Mark Fitzgibbon on acoustic piano. Again, nothing really mic’d up and played at a very low volume level. The song was intended as a “story of the band” type tune to play at show. “Hi-this is who we are”
are we goin too fast for love? 4:04
From the Sth Melbourne Town Hall shows. We did four nights there in early 2011. Song originally recorded for “heroic Blues” in 2001.
I’m not afraid to be heavy 4:09
From Sth Melbourne Town Hall. Originally recorded for “the soft and sexy sound” album of 1995.
midnight to dawn 3:57
From the Sth Melbourne Town Hall shows. We did four nights- one night there was only 5 people in attendance. One of the best nights,of course. Originally recorded for “the brother who lived” in 2003.
mt gambier night 5:10
From a trio show at the Hotel Gearin in Katoomba December 2014.
Dave Graney on guitar, Clare Moore on drums and Stu Thomas on baritone guitar. Song originally appeared on “you’ve been in my mind” from 2012.
twixt this world and the next 4:11
From the Wheatsheaf Hotel in Adelaide 2013. Electric band recording. The full mistLY on board. Graney, Moore, Perera and Thomas. Song originally released in 1998 on “the Dave Graney Show” cd for Festival. On that album it was all instruments by Graney and Moore. Here the song is blown up full and funky by Stu Thomas’s bass and Pereras guitar.
twilight of a villain 5:04
From a trio show at the Hotel Gearin in Katoomba December 2014.
Dave Graney on guitar, Clare Moore on keys and Stu Thomas on baritone guitar. Song originally appeared on “the brother who lived” from 2003.
Apollo 69 4:52 n
Recorded at the Royal Exchange in Newcastle December 2014.
Dave Graney on guitar, Clare Moore on drums and Stu Thomas on baritone guitar. Song originally released on “the soft’n’sexy sound” in 1995.
field record me 5:59
From the Sth Melbourne Town Hall shows. Graney, Moore, Perera and Thomas with Mark Fitzgibbon on piano. Song originally appeared on “you’ve been in my mind” in 2012.
the brother who lived 5:35
From the Hotel Gearin in Katoomba December 2014.
Dave Graney on guitar, Clare Moore on keys and Stu Thomas on baritone guitar. Song originally appeared on “the brother who lived” from 2003.  

pre order FEARFUL WIGGINGS - 3 extra tracks for $13.99

FEARFUL WIGGINGS is out May 2nd.

itunes version will contain three extra exclusive tracks. If you pre-order it it will cost only $13.99.


Click here to pre-order the album

An album preview show will be at the Workers Club in Melbourne May 2nd.

Tour dates nationally in June, July and August.

now at Bandcamp - POINT BLANK- digital only album release of the "narrative show" first performed in 2006.

The first of the dave graney "narrative shows".

A story about a performer finding and walking onto the stage, fighting many heroic battles. All songs written by Dave Graney from various albums recorded in the 90s

Recorded at the Butterfly Club, Sth Melbourne in 2006.
Two mics in the room.
Mark Fitzgibbon on a stand up piano.
Clare Moore on vibes, percussion and backing vocals.
Dave Graney telling the story and singing the songs into the room. No microphone.

Show was done again at the Butterfly Club in 2007, then in Adelaide at the Cabaret festival (successive years) and then in Sydney at the Opera House Studio.

The album is available as two complete files. Roughly 13 songs. Would have been one long file but that was too large for BandCamp.

http://davegraney1.bandcamp.com/album/point-blank

credits

released 11 October 2013 

dave graney - story and singing

mark fitzgibbon - standup piano

clare moore- vibes,percussion and singing

(The photos above are from the 2008 Sydney Opera House studio shows. the recording is from the much smaller Butterfly Club in 2006. 40 people in the room. No microphones except for those recording the room itself.)

PART ONE

Intro
Speak to my medium.....tight spot
I’m a comander....louder, moore brightly lit
lt colonel cavalry....stil a big performance
I don’t know you exist
land of the giants....Dave picks up guitar from piano? .....quieter...reflective
the brother who lived....bigger performance

PART TWO
aristocratic jive...Dave sits on stool at front of stage, spotlit
no pockets in jumpsuit.... jumping around...brighter
my schtick weighs a ton.....spot lit again -singing to his little doll/figurine
there he goes with his eye out..... a very gothic song bring lights down in the spoken intro as Dave talks and writes in a pad
I held the cool breeze... a long tail out with speaking in this song
rackin up some zeds....Dave pretty much duets with Clare on this
the devil drives... a long tense intro as Dave sets the suspense for the end of the show....

now at bandcamp - SUPERMODIFIED- 16 track monster remixx-restring-replay-remaster-set from 2010

SUPERMODIFIED.
http://davegraney1.bandcamp.com/album/supermodified-2010-re-recording-remix-album

Available now at Bandcamp. This great set of remixes. Also vocals redone , guitars re played and re-recorded. All remixed and remastered. Songs from "Heroic Blues" (2001) and "the brother who lived" (2003) .

Available as a $15 digital download or $29 download with physical cd. 

https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/supermodified/id386828892




http://davegraney1.bandcamp.com/album/supermodified-2010-re-recording-remix-album 


It’s a remix/remaster/replayed compilation.
There are ten tracks from “the brother who lived”, 4 tracks from “heroic blues” and 4 previously unreleased songs that were all recorded at either of those sessions. “Its like a souped up hot rodded version of the original songs, with some extra tracks that got lost along the way. We put the songs up on the blocks and re-tuned them, re-sang them, re-strung them , put more drums and percussion and vocals and keys and remixed all of them. Inserted ,bussed , sent, returned, compressed , buzzed, eq’d and coloured all the reverbs and delays and remastered it at the end. Its a new thing. “
Standout tracks are Tracks 1 and 2 “the brother who lived” and “all our friends were stars” which were originally recorded with Greg Walker from Machine Translations, track 8, “are we goin’ too fast for love?” and track 11 “midnight to dawn”.
It’s a pop collection with a sleek, dark and sinister , kinda Roxy thread running through it. An album for the times.

players involved
Dave Graney, electric and acoustic guitar, bass and organ.
Clare Moore, drums, perdussion,vocals, organ.
Stu Perera, electric guitar.

Adele Pickvance,bass on tracks 3-5,7-8,10-11,113,16-17
Bill Miller, guitar on tracks 3-7,9,11,13

mastered by Greg Wadley
Cover illustration by Tony Mahony.

Track Listing
the brother who lived


all our friends were stars


like a millionaire
a boy named epic
the royal troll
clingin’ to the coast
I am your humble servant
are we goin’ too fast for love?
I’m seein’ demons
anchors aweigh



midnight to dawn




twilight of a villain
I ain’t natural
she looked at me from out of her eyes
my old gloves
while you dream,I live
I don’t know anything
commercial street east (starry) 


https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/supermodified/id386828892

Recorded between 2001 aand 2004
Engineer for most sessions Adam Rhodes.
Remixed at the Ponderosa March- June 2010 by Dave gGaney and Clare Moore
Produced by Dave Graney and Clare Moore. 

now at bandcamp - dave graney - KNOCK YOURSELF OUT!-classic filthy r&b / rock'n'roll solo set from dave graney (2009)

KNOCK YOURSELF OUT. Only album so far credited solely to dave graney. Continues the lyrical fire from WE WUZ CURIOUS.
Autobiographical vein still rich. Now available from Bandcamp  as a digital copy or a physical cd as well as immediate digital download.

http://davegraney1.bandcamp.com/album/dave-graney-knock-yourself-out



“Knock yourself out” is the new album from Dave Graney. its a solo album though longtime collaborator Clare Moore was very much involved in the recording , writing and arranging of many tracks. It follows the jazz r”n”b masterwork of 2008 “we wuz curious” which was credited to their collective “The Lurid Yellow Mist”.
The title is another boxing allusion . ( “we wuz robbed!” - “Knock yourself out!”) In Dave Graneys way of speaking, its an invitiation to “go your hardest!” Its a positive lick. “Knock yourself out”.C’mon!
Its not a guy with an acoustic guitar and its a very feisty and upbeat set. Dave wants it to be called an “electro boogie” album as it has a kind of keyboard driven wonk sound in some parts.
Dave Graney’s music is not generic. Its not rootsy or pop but it kind of is as well.
Its Dave Graney music. He started to write songs in the post punk period when mythology and ideology and self expression and mythology were all screwed up and meeting head on. Everybody wrote songs about their own situation then, standing outside the disco, about to walk in.
Hes always up to something but American music has always been an inspiration and his own drama as an Australian artist and musician has thrilled him as well.
So here he is again, album number twenty something, standing outside the disco, about to walk in, “Knock yourself out!”

https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/knock-yourself-out/id314559779

I call this record a filthy r’n’b set or an electro boogie album. Its a solo album but its not a guy with an acoustic guitar. I play most of the instruments except for the drums which Clare Moore takes care of, either her trusty vintage Gretsch kit which she has had since the Moodists days or she took the sounds from her keyboard and arranged them as she saw fit. I wrote all the lyrics and music except for three which Clare either set up for me or worked on with me. Stu Thomas plays amazing bass on two songs and sings on others and Stu Perera plays lead guitar licks on three. I play electric guitar, bass and keys on all the others. I recorded and mixed it at our studio, the Ponderosa.

The title track , “knock yourself out” , started when Plutonic asked me to drop a cameo on his last album. I dropped the whole lyric for him. It didn’t fit his idea so he left it with me. While I was away on a rare solo tour Clare set it to this rhythm track. Voila!
Like a lot of the songs it has some lyrical blues licks which I took in early in my life and they stayed with me. I keep saying “ as a concept- incredible! But I’m a reality!” Its something I remember Morris Day from the Time ( Princes rival in Purple Rain”) saying to an interviewer once. It stuck with me....

“It was then or never” is a groove that came out of nowhere. Its a retrospective kind of song. From high up in the air. We had the track going already and then Stu Thomas really lifted it with his amazing bass line and sound.

“honky tonk rope a dope” is , like the title track, another boxing allusion. Muhammad Ali played the “rope a dope” on George Foreman in Zaire in 1974. He fell back on the ropes and allowed George to punch him for ten rounds. Eventually George punched himself out. i mean he had no more punches to throw. Ali then turned on him. Its a “Honky Tonk rope a dope” when I’m playing in the clubs is what I’m asserting.
“Bodysnatcher Blues” is a one note boogie I’ve been working on for a few years. The note is E7. I always liked those fifties sci fi flicks with their commie pinko terror undertones.
Clare Moore cooked the music up for “Dylan the indie fake” while I was away on a rare solo tour. I fit the words to it in one take. I use a vocoder on my vocals and an octaver and a fuzz on my guitar. I like fakes. Real things are often overrated. More fake in a way too. In the music field anyway. LIke I say in the song, I like the fakes. My favourite parts of this song are musical.


“I need my guitar” is me on guitar, keys and bass and Care on drums. Stu Perera does the spindly lead notes. Its one of my songs for the players. Its the most recent song and I wrote it in a time of great anguish.

“Sellout!” is another track that Clare Moore cooked up for me. She started from an acoustic guitar groove I’d laid down. Stu Thomas dropped in that amazing propulsive bass.

“Throwin one into the world” is basically that filthy r’n’b I was talkin’ about. I play the bass and the rhythm guitar and the organ and Stu Perera plays all the great r’n’b licks. Clare Moore played and edited the drums and percussion. The song ends with me throwin out more of those old lyrical blues licks, Little red roosters and growin so ugly and shootin lions etc. Its a song about being a man.
“So easy” is a countrypolitan kind of groove.I tried to make the vocal sound like a movie voice over. In general , I mix the voice up high so tehres no lyric sheet on teh album. Ifigure if you need one of them the voice sn't loud enough.

“I dont wanna go bush” is more atonal country blues with latin discords pushing it along the very edges of a tune.I was rememberinga visit to the country when i was a kid.
“Oakleigh Bowie Blues” is just that. the Oakleigh Bowies” were a gang of sharpies I think I heard about sometime. Maybe I dreamt it? The song concerns a tough guy down on his very last bit of luck.

“2068 babe” is an expanded version of a song of mine put out by a UK label in 2008. It needed more guitars and organ and vocals and a drum beat so i added them all. I play everything. Its almost eight minutes long and is a rumination along a certain period of time. It was “68” before, a time of great power shifts and conflict that I liked the ring of , so I have launched it into the future , “2068 babe”.

credits

music by dave graney and clare moore with bass by stu thomas on several tracks and guitar by stuart perera on some as well. Mostly dave graney on guitars and bass and clare moore on drums, percussion and keys.

https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/knock-yourself-out/id314559779

now at Bandcamp - We Wuz Curious - digital album only - 2008 CLASSIC from dave graney and the mistLY

Now available at Bandcamp. $15 fora  digital download. First album to really capture the mistLY with Stu Thomas and Stuart Perera blazing that cool funk. Jazz master Mark Fitzgibbon on keys.

A great album from a real creative peak.



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you had to be drunk
I come from the clouds
lets kill god again
junk time
I like to be haunted
only passin' through
I'm in the future now

bring me my liar
I was a country boy
punk dies
I needed someone to find me
crime and underwear

After the sprawling, spiralling, duelling double disc that was "Hashish and Liquor" , Dave Graney and Clare Moore took to the road with a minimalist , lyrical trio and recorded "Keepin it Unreal".
Finding themselves starving for a groove and a beat, they jumped into a state of mind to produce the greatest album of their career, "We wuz curious". They wanted upbeat r&b grooves. R&B as in the chords and the licks and the beats. The flattened fives and the blue notes. All tricked up for a night OUT.
They had started to play with pianist Mark Fitzgibbon on Hashish and Liquor and wanted to work more with him in a collective situation. Stu Perera on guitar had joined forces with them in 1998 as a 19 year old, straight from college, and they wanted to get his jazz stylings on the tracks as well. Stu Thomas on the bass and vocals wuld pull it all together.

They woodshedded the tracks for two months at the Yarraville Mouth organ Band Hall in West Melbourne, working out all the parts. They arranged it all and were DOWN ON IT. They wanted to make a recording and BEAT THE DIGITAL ENNUI by forcing a SITUATION! A SENSE OF OCCASION! They went into Sing Sing South in September 2007 with their old school engineer Adam Rhodes. He hung so many mics around the drums room and the amps that it was gonna be impossible for any sound to escape unrecorded. they laid down 8 tracks in a day/ Everything, vocals, guitars, drums and backing vocals. It was like a jazz session.

Then Dave graney and Clare Moore took the hard drive back to their Ponderosa studio and mixed it over a month or so. It was finished by November 2007.

“We wuz curious” is , lyrically , probably the most autobiographical work by Dave Graney with 5 of the songs starting with the perpendicular pronoun “I”. It is also very much a “band” album with each player of the Lurid Yellow Mist collective contributing music for a song .
Within the songs, looking outwards , you could say in one place that its a
jazz/r&b album, elsewhere its pumping electro , over there “yacht rock” , elsewhere, wailing post punk. Lets call it a pop album.

https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/we-wuz-curious-feat.-dave/id293320067
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2013 reflection... From Hashish and Liquor (via Keepin' it unreal) to this. It was a real rejuvenating period and I was full of artistic ambition and excitement. Coming from the band I guess. Stu Perera really stepping out and having Stu Thomas in the band. Then adding Mark Fitzgibbons' amazing chops. I love this album. All my favourite records that we've made start from "the devil drives" in 1997. That and "the dave graney show" in 1998 were also real artistic high points although I was in a much darker, beseiged, clossed off frame of mind then. I was like a punchy boxer.
By the time of "we wuz curious" I was in a much happier place. Playing a lot more guitar got me back into performing music in a different way. I love the r&b feels and the twin guitars and amazing keys on this album.

Fave lyric ... "douglas was in bed with a young girl / mary walked into the room
he said "who are you goin to believe? me or your eyes?"
he lit a cigarette and stared / the girl got dressed and left / comforted his wife made his bed and waked out himself
are you fuckin with me?"

credits

Dave Graney, electric and acoustic guitar, bass and organ.
Clare Moore, drums, perdussion,vocals, organ.
Stu D aka Stuart Thomas, bass, vocals.
Stu Perera, electric guitar.
Mark Fitzgibbon, piano.

bvs on "junk time" by Jane Dust and Elizabeth McCarthy.
mastered by Greg Wadley
Cover illustration by Tony Mahony.

Recorded September 2007 at Sing Sing South.
Engineer Adam Rhodes.
Mixed at the Ponderosa October-November 2007 by Dave graney and Clare Moore
Produced by Dave Graney and Clare Moore.

https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/we-wuz-curious-feat.-dave/id293320067