Artist: FRANKLIN DELANO
Release: LIKE A SMOKING GUN IN FRONT OF ME
Label: FILE-13records/Madcap Collective records
Date: 2005
Catalog No: MDCP24

Recorded in August 04 at Alpha Earthbase by Giacomo Fiorenza and Francesco Donadello. Mixed in September 04 at Clava Studios by Brian Deck. Produced by Brian Deck.

TRACKLIST:

1. Call It A Day
2. Please Remember Me
3. Sounds Like rain
4. Bus Stop
5. Matter Of Time
6. We Don't Care
7. Travel In Space
8. Me And My Dreams
9. All Your Body Broken Clues
10. Your Perfect Skin Line

Here Franklin Delano has created a new and exciting view on American folk music. Textures blur with noise and haunting doubled voices emerge from a marsh of drones and reiterative guitars. On a solid foundation of drums and double bass is where improvisation explodes, lapsteel howls, and dueling male and female voices twist with interpretations of English words. Call it "the dark side of post folk," call it whatever... Their Italian perspective is unique in its way of transforming spaced out blues into coherence. The band pushes improvisation into beautiful folk songs with their take on American folk/blues music derived from the other side of the Ocean.

Paolo Iocca - vocals, guitars
Marcella Riccardi - guitars, vocals, lapsteel
Stefano Pilia - upright bass, bass, drones
Vittoria Burattini - drums
Jim Becker - violin, guitar, piano
Ben Massarella - percussions
Tim Rutili - piano, guitar, organ, synth
Francesco Donadello - vibraphone
Brian Deck - treatments