DANTE NOU (vox and everything you hear except..) XAVIA NOU (vox, cello, piano accordian, some piano/keys)
JOINED BY Ryan Manolakis (drums), Nat Wiseman (bass). various others (strings, b. vocals,e. guitar)
'Drop' LIVE @ the Jade Monkey, 15 FEB 08 filmed by Django
Heralding from Adelaide in South Australia, this brother-sister duo are well accustomed to traveling, having lived and worked with artists, street performers and musicians all around the world.
Coming from a highly musical family; of Estonian, French and English heritage, Dante and Xavia Nou started playing and recording as children. Only in 2005 did the BrotherSister project officially begin. Making a studio of any room with some peace and quiet, they compile songs by sending files to each other across oceans and cities, layering melodic acoustic instruments over electronic beats and sounds creating an evocative mix of whimsical and sometimes bleak tale-like songs.
Having been received warmly for a sprinkling of shows in the USA and AUS, the siblings kept their heads down in 2007 to finish their anticipated second album- 'TheWunder Tales'. (”wunder”- a place where a collection of rarities and curiosities are exhibited). Following in the self produced footsteps of their debut self titled EP,'The Wunder Tales’ has remained an international effort with mastering completed in Nashville by Marc Chevalier and artwork in NYC by grammy award winning design firm- SHILO (www.shilo.tv) who are currently working on the bands second music video, ‘Still Run’.
“[sounds like] a chamber orchestra playing electronic, classical, andd folk music remixed by prefuse 73.” VENUS zine (USA) winter 2006.
“BrotherSister show much diversity from gentle guitar pop to gorgeous lullaby-like atmospherics...and experiment more than most big named acts of similar ilk” Rip It Up (AUS), February 08
Ohh, the peacock is my favourite bird. so so glamorous. I'm glad I found you! Your music is beautiful. I might see you at your show in June, Xavia, but hopefully before... x x
too right!! i play with ryan with cookie baker, so i wasn't even aware of your stuff until then, however i fricken love it!! will have to see you guys as soon as i can. awesome. jaan
Hey. I like what I hear! I also see we've got a common friend in mr Wiseman. I went to primary school with him & he played some bass on my first record. You gigging at the moment?
hope your show at the grace goes swell. sorry i'm staying in tonight. i need to watch the holes i'm burning. i feel bad. but i'm eating cous cous salad if it makes it any better. have a wonderful night. x
hey thanks for showing. i always run late to my own things. it wouldn't be very fashionable of me to show up on time. :) i got there about 8.30 there are some stand outs amongst them. the charcoal drawings. hope the show was good. see you soon. x
Thankyou for a truly great performance at the launch...We had alot of fun... Smiles worn by all...Thoroughly impressed by the record...Lovely stuff...Very well done indeed...
hmmmmm I may hack into my long abandoned band myspace and see what I can trigger on that one.. I'll letcha know (and NO I ain't telling you what that old bandspace of mine was either.. hahahahaha)
thanks for that, the photo is one that wasn't really one of my favourites but a lot of people love it so I guess ya can never tell which shots will get noticed and which ones won't.
Anyway very cool tunes, look forward to catching a gig soon.
photos, mindless rambling text, other such comical rubbish that may or may not entirely relate to your CD launch this Friday night past at Jade Monkey can be found here..
SPOZ's RANT http://spoz.blogspot.com
ENJOY! :)
(of course, I would've shown some of the shinier photos right here.. but you blocked out HTML.. gnaaarrggghh!!)
