DAVID THOMAS AND THE TWO PALE BOYS

David Thomas vocals, melodeon
Keith Moliné guitar, electronics
Andy Diagram trumpet, electronics
From the 2pbs website (where there is tons of information)
David Thomas is the founder of the legendary Pere Ubu, a group that's exerted a huge influence on the way countless bands have approached music since 1975. Formed in 1994, the two pale boys is one of a series of projects that redefine the partnership of voice and musical instrument in pursuit of a vehicle robust, spontaneous, and parochial enough to speak with the true voice of the human experience. It is urban folk music purged of urbanity, and rooted in the geography of sound. In this group he sings and plays melodeon.
Andy Diagram (Diagram Brothers, James, The Honkies, The Spaceheads) plays trumpet through radio receivers, echo machines & delays, layering sound-on-sound cascades of electronica. Keith Moliné (They Came From The Stars I Saw Them, Infidel) manipulates multiple voices-- dynamic calamities, delicate whispers, angular rhythms-- via a midi-guitar setup.
Discography
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EREWHON (released 1996) Tracks - Obsession, Planet Of Fools, Nowheresville, Fire, Lantern, Morbid Sky, weird Cornfields, Kathleen, Highway 61 Revisited |
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MEADVILLE (released 1997) Recorded live in Paradiso (Amsterdam), the VARA Radio studio (Hilversum), the Slovensko Mladisko Gledalisce (Ljubljana), and the Festival Transmusicales, Salle Ubu (Rennes) November and December 1996 |
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MIRROR MAN (released 1999) as David Thomas and the Pale Orchestra Tracks - Mirror Man Sees Mirror Man Speaks, The Flying Dutchman of The Interstate, Montana, Ribbons On The Road, Morbid Sky, Nowheresville, Shadows On The Face, Memphis, Weird Cornfields, Lost Nation Road, Over the Moon, Bus Called Happiness, Ballad of Florida, If The Deer Blinks - recorded at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London - April 3, 1998 |
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SURF'S UP (released 2001) Runaway, Man in the Dark, Night Driving, Surf's Up, River, Ghosts, Spider In My Stew, Come Home * Green River |