Cockaigne- medieval legend- " a land of idleness and luxury" .
Record label/imprint primarily for the work of Australian musicians Dave Graney and Clare Moore.
Dave Graney and Clare Moore.
Moodists -Coral Snakes - mistLY
Dave Graney and Clare Moore - songwriters - musicians - performers and film and tv composers.
There'll be a lunchtime CD Launch for LETS GET TIGHT at Basement Discs in Block Place Melbourne Friday May 26th. It will be a full band show for Dave Graney and the mistLY
A clip from the recent first part of the LETS GET TIGHT TOUR. As well as shows with the Coral Snakes in Sydney and Newcastle, Dave Graney and Clare Moore played a string of shows in regional NSW with Georgio "the dove" Valentino and Patrizia F from Luxembourg. The last date was in Candelo and, leading up to it, they played early one morning at the ABC in Bega and it was filmed.
There will be further dates scheduled soon. Plans are afoot for a visit to Europe in September and Dave Graney has delivered a second memoir to Affirm Press for publication later in 2017.
2017 album from Dave Graney and Clare Moore. CD and
digital release.
It’s Time to get close to some Graney and Moore
music.
Recorded from Feb 2016
to March 2017. Concentrating on
writing, recording and releasing a digital single every month.
Recorded and mixed at
their studio in the hills of Melbourne, the Ponderosa.
Dave Graney sings, plays electric and acoustic guitars, bass and some keys.
Clare Moore plays drums, percussion, keys, vibes and marimba and also sings.
Guests include mistLY bass
player Stu Thomas on trumpet and backing vocals, Matt Walker on harmonica, Will
Hindmarsh and Emily Jarrett from Go Go Sapien on backing vocals.
Drifting Donna Reed is based on a 2007 track recorded by Dave
Graney and the mistLY called I Like To Be
Haunted and features Stu Thomas on bass, Stuart Perera on guitar and Mark
Fitzgibbon on keys. Georgio “the dove” Valentino plays guitar on I’m Never Off.
All tracks recorded,
mixed and produced by Dave Graney and Clare Moore.
Remastered for CD
release for people who prefer physical musical artefacts.
Cover art by Tony
Mahony who has worked with Graney and Moore since Lure Of The Tropics in 1992.
Available via PAYPAL.
Dave Graney and Clare
Moore played in the Moodists in the
80s and then Dave Graney and the Coral
Snakes and now Dave Graney and the
mistLY.
This is roughly the or
25th or 26th stand alone physical album from Graney and
Moore. Not counting compilations (three), film soundtrack albums (two) and
digital only albums (five).
Last physical album
from Dave Graney was Fearful Wiggings in 2014. Last album from Clare Moore was
The Dames in 2015.
In the meantime they
released two digital albums of 90’s demos (Night
Of the Wolverine and Songwriter Demos and Once I loved the Torn Ocean’s Roar – 90’s Demos Volume Two), a live
digital album (Play mistLY For Me)
and also three albums as members of Harry Howard and the NDE.
In 2017 they are
playing shows as Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes, Dave Graney and the mistLY
and Dave Graney
and Clare Moore.
Lizottes in Newcastle March 31st. SydneyApril 1st - the Basement Melbourne - saturday June 3rd - Memo Music Hall
Dave Graney and Clare Moore NSW dates w/ special guests
from Brussels/Miami Georgio "the Dove"
Valentino and Patrizia.
Sunday 2nd April(2.30pm
- 5.30pm TBC)- Dangar Island Bowling Club NSW Tuesday 4th April
(6pm - 9pm) Georgio only @ The Bearded Tit
- Thursday 6th April
- Oxley Wine Bar
Cowra Friday 7th April
- Bowral Bowling Club Saturday 8th April
- Gearin Hotel,
Katoomba Sunday 9th April
- Smiths Canberra Wednesday 12th April –
Candelo Café
Sunday April 16th – CD
Launch party gig 5pm at the Tote in Melbourne w/ Wam and Daz, Dave Graney and the mistLY ,
Twinkledigitz and Georgio “the dove” Valentino.
Friday May 26th Lunchtime INSTORE performance at Basement Discs Block Place Melbourne
"Starts with jazz guitar chords and vocals. Then Drum Machine, Vibes, Marimba and electric guitar.
Over stimulation. Modern life is demanding. Filling a dude with images and feels, emotions dragged and pulled out, demanded.
Follow up to Be Sad For Me and coming from a similar direction. This
time worrying about "normalization" of images of violence and sex and
the immediate, thrilling power they have. How they are described as
"raunchy". Kind of cute. Gaddafi on youtube getting hunted and hacked
and kicked by a mob. Starving children in third world countries. Can you
unsee such things? How long do "raunchy" things stay plain old raunchy?
Do they get stale or do you? How long do they stay? Stay "raunchy"?
What happens to you?What do you do with it? What does it do to you?"
"For me the work of Dave Graney and Clare Moore
is the musical equivalent of reading Samuel Beckett, Thomas Pynchon,
John Cowper Powys etc - a lengthy note on this thinking will follow in
the next few days - pending that here's some aural stimulation ----" Bob Osborne- Salford...
This is roughly the or
25th or 26th stand alone physical album from Graney and
Moore. Not counting compilations (three), film soundtrack albums (two) and
digital only albums (five).
All
the digital tracks from the last twelve months remastered for CD
release. Sequenced in the exact order they appeared for digital
download.
I'm A Good Hater
This Is the Deadest Place I've Ever Died In I Been Trendy
Drifting Donna Reed
Are You Out Of Your Mind? (Get Back In)
You Need a Kleek, Klook Rupert's Pet's Grave
Matey, From On High
Let's Kick This Mob Out I Ain't Hi Vis
I Need To Be Hot
Be Sad For Me
How Long Does The Raunch?
I'm Never Off
Available at all these forthcoming shows and at a few select shops.
4:08 Starts with jazz guitar chords and vocals. Then Drum Machine, Vibes, Marimba
and electric guitar. A whole lot of questions? How Long Does the Raunch Stop In One?
"Over stimulation. Modern life is demanding. Filling a dude with images and
feels, emotions dragged and pulled out, demanded. Follow up to Be Sad For Me
and coming from a similar direction. This time worrying about
"normalization" of images of violence and sex and the immediate,
thrilling power they have. How they are described as "raunchy". Kind
of cute. Gaddafi on youtube getting hunted and hacked and kicked by a mob.
Starving children in third world countries. Can you unsee such things? How long
do "raunchy" things stay plain old raunchy? Do they get stale or do
you? How long do they stay? Stay "raunchy"? What happens to you?What
do you do with it? What does it do to you?"
This track shows how far Graney and Moore have taken their mad R&B licks. Certainly, few other Australian acts, whether their contemporaries or the generations following, are anywhere near this sort of territory. the command of the studio, the sounds, the chordings, voices and the lyrics and the whole character of the things they are creating. This is the thirteenth monthly digital release since February 2016.
There is a page devoted to the releases here. Dave Graney and Clare Moore will be going out on the road in March-April to play shows firstly with dave Graney and the Coral Snakes and then a run of shows as a duo with Euro friends Georgio "the dove" Valentino and Patrizia F.
BE SAD FOR ME is a 2:38 packet of sound. A rare breakthrough of the three minute barrier for Dave Graney. The writer and singer is asking the listener - or passerby- to feel sad INSTEAD OF HIM doing it. In his place. Not to be sad for the singer himself. He is "outsourcing his tears".
Be Sad For Me!
I’m outsourcing my tears
cryin’ it forward
Here’s a minor chord
strum it!
they will come
tears of a stadium
tears for streaming
here - have some of mine
help yourself!
you can cry for me
I’m all choked up
but I don’t have much time
Be sad For Me
I’ll owe you big time
Be Sad For Me!
I’m outsourcing my tears
credits
released February 24, 2017
Recorded and mixed at the Ponderosa by Dave Graney and Clare Moore January 2017.
Dave Graney-guitars, bass, vocal.
Clare Moore - drums, vibes, marimba, vocals
Matt Walker - harmonica
Live dates are set for well into the first half of 2017 in many variations.
Upcoming
shows Dave Graney And the mistLY
Friday Feb 10th 2017
Appearing with VICTORIANA GAYE who are launching their new album
Caravan Club - Melbourne
Harry Howard and the NDE
Flying Saucer Club Feb 17th
Dave Graney And the mistLY - New Zealand
Feb 22nd Aotea Square concert Auckland
I Need To be Hot is the January release for Dave Graney and Clare Moore.
This is the first for 2017 and follows a release more or less every month since February 2016. Most have been credited to Dave Graney and Clare Moore as they have been studio creations cooked up by those two rather than formal recording sessions with their band the mistLY.
A clip has been posted to Youtube. Camera work on Dave Graney by Will Hindmarsh and other footage shot at Glenelg Beach in South Australia in December 2016 by Dave Graney.
LYRICS
I need to be hot
sorry to be so cold
I need to be hot
you know
ttsssssssss!
I'm not talkin' about trendy
I'm not talkin' about cool
I can't afford to be cool
I need to be hot
hot
hot
you know
hot
tttsssss!
I need to be hot
get out of my way
What is my way?
toward the sun
not just the light
the fire!
I need to be hot
I need to be hot
I'm not talkin' about trendy
I'm not talkin' about cool
I can't afford to be cool
Releases are planned to continue on a monthly schedule for the forseeable future. (The Ponderosa studio was hit by a deluge of rain in late December but damage to computers, gear and archival drives has been minimal).
Dave Graney And the mistLY
Friday Feb 10th 2017
Appearing with VICTORIANA GAYE who are launching their new album
Caravan Club - Melbourne
Harry Howard and the NDE
Flying Saucer Club Feb 17th
Dave Graney And the mistLY
Feb 22nd Aotea Square concert Auckland Feb 23rd , Golden Dawn, Auckland
January 2017 has seen Dave Graney and Clare Moore involved in the BOWIE IN BERLIN series of shows - musical director Mick Harvey - around Australiaand also coping with a recent flodding of their Ponderosa Studio. All is detailed here in Dave Graney's blog.
We are here to talk about the January digital release I NEED TO BE HOT.
Dave Graney leads it in with hs new 24' ultra short scale bass , Clare Moore on drums and electric guitars again by Dave Graney. A sly and soulful groover of a song. The chorus building and building. Very economical with the words. A BIG chorus.
Hot vs COOL. Two polarities long worried at in popular music.
Louis Armstrong and Django Reinhardt were HOT.
Miles Davis was there at the birth of the COOL. Chet Bakerwas there. Charlie Parker had both.
Drugs helped. Elvis and Little Richard were HOT. Scott Walker COOL.
Money helps with cool. You don't worry with cash or a long credit line from home. Money from Home. COOL.
People respect cool. Gregory Isaacs, the COOL RULER. He did it with style and ganga.
Slick Rick. COOL. LL COOL J - invariably HOT! Rakim - you know it!
James Brown? Definitely hot. Curtis Mayfield COOL. Fridgelike!
Drugs? Paradoxically, Ice seems to make people hot.
Jim Morrison -cool . Rob Tyner - hot.
Television? Hell and Verlaine - the COOLEST!
Flippping the coin, Dave Graney decided he needs to be hot.
I guess it's the heat from outside he's talking about. The track itself is COOL. (He's on a Birdseye Kick!)
Dave Graney And the mistLY
Friday Feb 10th 2017
Appearing with VICTORIANA GAYE who are launching their new album
Caravan Club - Melbourne
Harry Howard and the NDE
Flying Saucer Club Feb 17th
Dave Graney And the mistLY
Feb 22nd Aotea Square concert Auckland Feb 23rd , Golden Dawn, Auckland
