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Genre: Folk Rock / Indie / Other
Location Sydney, New South Wales, Au
Profile Views: 39962
Last Login: 9/1/2012
Member Since 5/23/2006
Website http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmRvZ3RydW1wZXQuY29tLmF1
Record Label Half a Cow
Type of Label Indie
Bio
Dog Trumpet has been the musical vehicle for the brothers with different surnames Peter O'Doherty and Reg Mombassa since the 1991 release on Regular Records of their first album 'Two Heads One Brain'. It featured the eccentric pop singles 'Made of Wood', 'I'm So Handsome' and 'Jean' and so began their incarnation as eclectic purveyors of percussive psychedelic folk, country, semi-abstract blues and lyrical pop. The brothers were original members of art school band Mental As Anything, both having contributed to Mentals albums songs such as 'Berserk Warriors', 'Egypt', 'Brain Brain', 'Apocalypso', 'Surf and Mull and Sex and Fun' and 'Psychedelic Peace Lamp'. By the end of the 1990s they left the Mentals to concentrate on Dog Trumpet and to continue their respective parallel careers as visual artists. Reg is well known for his iconic and humorous work for Mambo Graphics and as a painter and illustrator. He has been represented by Watters gallery in East Sydney for several decades. Peter shows his paintings with the nearby King Street Gallery on William. Between them they have exhibited all over Australia, in New Zealand, England and Italy. With their feet planted in both the music and art worlds they persuaded their friend, the great Sydney Pop artist Martin Sharp to do the cover art work for the release of their 1993 cover version of Cream's 'Strange Brew'. Sharp had designed posters and album covers (Disraeli Gears and Wheels of Fire) for Cream as well as posters for Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and Donovan back in the 1960s when he lived in England and contributed art work to Oz Magazine. In 1996 Dog Trumpet's second album 'Suitcase' was released on TWA Records. The band's live line up was a revolving door in these years and included John Bliss (Reels), Tony Martin (the Brucelanders), Andy Travers (Happening Thang), Mike Gubb (Dynamic Hepnotics) and Amanda Brown (Go Betweens). Then in 2002 the band released their third album (and the first) on Nic Dalton's label Half A Cow Records. This was the self titled 'Dog Trumpet' with a cover painting by Reg of him and his brother Peter from a photo taken when they were small children. By this time they were recording everything themselves at Peter's Big Brain Studio and had settled on a stable live line up of Bernie Hayes (a well respected singer songwriter in his own right with 3 albums to his name) on bass and Jess Ciampa on drums and percussion. The follow up on Half A Cow was 2007's 'Antisocial Tendencies', arguably their strongest and most cohesive album to that date with its' witty title song gaining attention from both critics, music fans and siamese cats. And so with 3 more concentrated years of songwriting and recording comes Dog Trumpet's new album 'River of Flowers'. Peppered with mandolin and dobro, it is almost like opening a family photo album and features some of Reg and Pete's most autobiographical lyrics. A little torch is switched on and off into moments of their childhoods in New Zealand and into their parents' early lives in England and Ireland.
Members
Peter O'Doherty, Reg Mombassa, Bernie Hayes and Jess Ciampa or Iain Shedden
Influences
Land scape painting, transistor radios, , suburbia, Australian women painters between WW1 and WW2, late afternoon shadows, cicadas, psychedelia, blues, greys, grass, Lara's Theme, the sky, bricks, weather boards and floating dust illuminated in shafts of light.
Sounds Like
haircuts, clacking cutlery, wheels and boots on gravel, distant dragonflies and lips chapping. May not sound like any of these but can identify with south-western Pacific folk-pop-psychedelic-electro-rock ensembles

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Bio:

Dog Trumpet has been the musical vehicle for the brothers with different surnames Peter O’Doherty and Reg Mombassa since the 1991 release on Regular Records of their first album ‘Two Heads One Brain’. It featured the eccentric pop singles ‘Made of Wood’, ‘I’m So Handsome’ and ‘Jean’ and so began their incarnation as eclectic purveyors of percussive psychedelic folk, country, semi-abstract blues and lyrical pop. The brothers were original members of art school band Mental As Anything, both having contributed to Mentals albums songs such as ‘Berserk Warriors’, ‘Egypt’, ‘Brain Brain’, ‘Apocalypso’, ‘Surf and Mull and Sex and Fun’ and ‘Psychedelic Peace Lamp’. By the end of the 1990s they left the Mentals to concentrate on Dog Trumpet and to continue their respective parallel careers as visual artists. Reg is well known for his iconic and humorous work for Mambo Graphics and as a painter and illustrator. He has been represented by Watters gallery in East Sydney for several decades. Peter shows his paintings with the nearby King Street Gallery on William. Between them they have exhibited all over Australia, in New Zealand, England and Italy. With their feet planted in both the music and art worlds they persuaded their friend, the great Sydney Pop artist Martin Sharp to do the cover art work for the release of their 1993 cover version of Cream’s ‘Strange Brew’. Sharp had designed posters and album covers (Disraeli Gears and Wheels of Fire) for Cream as well as posters for Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix and Donovan back in the 1960s when he lived in England and contributed art work to Oz Magazine. In 1996 Dog Trumpet’s second album ‘Suitcase’ was released on TWA Records. The band’s live line up was a revolving door in these years and included John Bliss (Reels), Tony Martin (the Brucelanders), Andy Travers (Happening Thang), Mike Gubb (Dynamic Hepnotics) and Amanda Brown (Go Betweens). Then in 2002 the band released their third album (and the first) on Nic Dalton’s label Half A Cow Records. This was the self titled ‘Dog Trumpet’ with a cover painting by Reg of him and his brother Peter from a photo taken when they were small children. By this time they were recording everything themselves at Peter’s Big Brain Studio and had settled on a stable live line up of Bernie Hayes (a well respected singer songwriter in his own right with 3 albums to his name) on bass and Jess Ciampa on drums and percussion. The follow up on Half A Cow was 2007’s ‘Antisocial Tendencies’, arguably their strongest and most cohesive album to that date with its’ witty title song gaining attention from both critics, music fans and siamese cats. And so with 3 more concentrated years of songwriting and recording comes Dog Trumpet’s new album ‘River of Flowers’. Peppered with mandolin and dobro, it is almost like opening a family photo album and features some of Reg and Pete's most autobiographical lyrics. A little torch is switched on and off into moments of their childhoods in New Zealand and into their parents' early lives in England and Ireland.

Member Since:

May 23, 2006

Members:

Peter O'Doherty, Reg Mombassa, Bernie Hayes, Jess Ciampa

Influences:

Land scape painting, transistor radios, , suburbia, Australian women painters between WW1 and WW2, late afternoon shadows, cicadas, psychedelia, blues, greys, grass, Lara's Theme, the sky, bricks, weather boards and floating dust illuminated in shafts of light.

Sounds Like:

haircuts, clacking cutlery, wheels and boots on gravel, distant dragonflies and lips chapping. May not sound like any of these but can identify with south-western Pacific folk-pop-psychedelic-electro-rock ensembles