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TESS PARKS and ANTON NEWCOMBE – ” German Tangerine “

Posted: May 1, 2015 in MUSIC
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Tess Parks & Anton Newcombe 'I Declare Nothing'

Born in Berlin in early 2014 and nurtured over the following summer, ‘I Declare Nothing’ is the spine-tingling collaboration between Tess Parks and Anton Newcombe (Brian Jonestown Massacre), due for release on Anton’s A Recordings label on 29th June.

The duo, who co-wrote and co-played on the album, they are touring across Europe this year.

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Tess Parks – A native of Toronto, Tess Parks moved to London, England at the age of seventeen where she briefly studied photography before deciding to focus on music. Tess made an impression on industry legend Alan McGee, founder of Creation Records, albeit the timing of their meeting could hardly have been less ideal; McGee was no longer involved in music and Tess was due to move back to Toronto. After moving back to her hometown in 2012, Tess formed a band on the advice of McGee and less than a year after their meeting, he returned to music with his new label, 359 Music.

Tess became one of his first signings and released her debut record ‘Blood Hot’ in November 2013 to excellent reviews. One reviewer described her as “Patti Smith on Quaaludes”. Others have mentioned her “gauzy psychedelic sound” and “smouldering voice”. Alan McGee himself said: “She’s only 24 and is already an amazing songwriter… she just doesn’t quite know she is yet … her most beautiful quality is her lack of ego. Tess is an amazing lady”.

Anton Newcombe -is the leader of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, who returned last May with their 14th full-length album ‘Revelation’ to critical acclaim. It is the first album that was fully recorded and produced at Anton Newcombe’s recording studio in Berlin and was released on his record label A Recordings. It was supported by a successful European tour.

Named in tribute to the legendary Rolling Stones guitarist and his influence in introducing Eastern culture and music into the world of Western rock & roll, Brian Jonestown Massacre formed in San Francisco, California in 1990.

Two dozen band members later and numerous “ups and downs” (some have been famously sensationalized in the media), the one thing that has always remained consistent for this psychedelic collective, is front man Mr. Anton Alfred Newcombe.

LP Tracklisting
Side A:
1. Wehmut
2. Cocaine Cat
3. Peace Defrost
4. German Tangerine
5. Gone

Side B:
6. October 2nd
7. Mama
8. Voyage de L’ame
9. Meliorist
10. Friendlies

ANTON NEWCOMBE and TESS PARKS – ” Talkin About The Weather ” and ” Cocaine Cat “

Posted: March 11, 2015 in MUSIC
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Work in progress: 6/3/15 Berlin songwriter Anton Newcombe  and Tess Parks, In what’s been a quietly kept open secret for quite some time now, Brian Jonestown Massacre auteur Anton Newcombe has been working in Berlin with Toronto indie chanteuse Tess Parks for about a year now, sketching out slices of austere, almost baroque beauty without any of the fanfare of a BJM project. The duo, recording with engineer Fabien Leseure, have produced a handful of tracks for an album tentatively slated to be called “I Declare Nothing,”

which at this point is still considered a ‘work in progress.’ The latest song leaked out of the studio is this stately beauty that suggests the sad, dissolute grandeur of Crime & the City Solution as fronted by Nico. Everything we’ve heard from these sessions boasts a similar wrecked elegance, sincerely hopes the album finds its release some time this year. We tend to like it when our hearts are battered with a certain type of melancholia that brings to mind Nikki Sudden come back to life, and anyway, we’re all keen to pencil the album into our end-of-year lists.

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