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SALT & SAMOVAR
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Swallowed A Pill
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We Will Break
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That Night
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Genre: Americana / Gospel / Psychedelic
Location BROOKLYN, US
Profile Views: 120999
Last Login: 9/27/2010
Member Since 9/21/2004
Website www.saltandsamovar.com
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Watch live performance of "Swallowed A Pill" and interview with Salt & Samovar Wednesday, February 18, on the Sundance Channel program Spectacle. .. Buy the debut Album: "Old Joy, New Joy": ..Each one-at-a-time copy comes in a hand screen-printed package with 16-page illustrated hymnal of sheet music & lyrics accompanying the songs. Buy it here for $10. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ................ .. ...... .. "Swallowed A Pill" on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic 11/8/07:.. .. .. .. .. .. .. Sundance Channel's "Discovered": .. .. .. .. .. .. "This band immediately stood out to me...I was a fan from the first song. They put on one of the best live performances we've had on Morning Becomes Eclectic this year." --Nic Harcourt .. "S&S very much yank their tunes from the topsoil of Walt Whitman's dreams, with Moltz's earthy, elegiac vocals bolstered by his bandmates' three-part harmony. A caravan of American roots music..." --The Village Voice .. "A simply tansporting sund that will have you pining for the past" --Gothamist.com .. "Passionate, intelligent, and occasionally explosive rock that felt like an unholy mix of '60's garage punk as played by a group that wrote their dissertation on Tolstoy while listening to 'Music from Big Pink'." --ADeeperShadeOfSoul.com .. "Lots of hand clapping, foot stomping, piano tinkling, lovely full-throated boy-girl vocal harmonies and even some face-melting axework from lead singer/guitarist D.S. Moltz. But the extra ingredient is love." --SongByToad.com .. "They are the scene's first honky tonk indie band. Call them indie tonk, if you will. S & S is a rip rowing, throw your hat into the air type of band. They're like The Doors or early Zepplin if they were a Alt-Country band." --MusicSnobbery.com .. "They send out their CD in a hand-typed envelope, with a hand-made case, sealed up with sealing wax, and a quirky little booklet which reminds me of a John Phillip Sousa era imprint...it’s sort of like Walt Whitman meets the Grateful Dead" --Downstreamer.com .. "Everything they played seemed to be coming from a familiar place, yet was fresh and new at the same time. It was like watching Dr. Dog cover the Allman Brothers or Bob Dylan’s cousin deciding the alt-country scenes wasn’t psychedelic enough." --UsedToBeCool.com The guitar work… the harmonizing… damn. So yeah, I highly recommend checking them out. .. .. ..Purchase a very fine handmade shirt from the band. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .......... ..Read the Village Voice review of "Old Joy, New Joy": .. .. Listen to Salt & Samovar on KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic" archived .. 11/8/07.. and ..5/16/08... -
Members
PRESENT: D. S. Moltz, Dan Mintzer, Dane Risch, Kelli Scarr, Joann Schornikow. PAST: Katerina Mattison, Fiore Tedesco III -
Influences
faith healings, family, The Second Great Awakening, Gasper River, swamp frogs at dusk, thunder, fish fries, The National Peace Jubilee of 1869, heirloom garments, E.P. Weston, Turgenev, storms, Sylvester Graham, Sufi mystics, Rick Danko, Ebeneezer Phillips' Beach, Cane Ridge, the time before Brandywine Creek. -
Sounds Like
Bo Diddley, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Exile On main Street, CSNY, The Band, Ali Farke Toure.
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Bio:
Watch live performance of "Swallowed A Pill" and interview with Salt & Samovar Wednesday, February 18, on the Sundance Channel program Spectacle.Buy the debut Album: "Old Joy, New Joy":
Each one-at-a-time copy comes in a hand screen-printed package with 16-page illustrated hymnal of sheet music & lyrics accompanying the songs. Buy it here for $10.
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"Swallowed A Pill" on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic 11/8/07:
Sundance Channel's "Discovered":
"This band immediately stood out to me...I was a fan from the first song. They put on one of the best live performances we've had on Morning Becomes Eclectic this year." --Nic Harcourt
"S&S very much yank their tunes from the topsoil of Walt Whitman's dreams, with Moltz's earthy, elegiac vocals bolstered by his bandmates' three-part harmony. A caravan of American roots music..." --The Village Voice "A simply tansporting sund that will have you pining for the past" --Gothamist.com "Passionate, intelligent, and occasionally explosive rock that felt like an unholy mix of '60's garage punk as played by a group that wrote their dissertation on Tolstoy while listening to 'Music from Big Pink'." --ADeeperShadeOfSoul.com "Lots of hand clapping, foot stomping, piano tinkling, lovely full-throated boy-girl vocal harmonies and even some face-melting axework from lead singer/guitarist D.S. Moltz. But the extra ingredient is love." --SongByToad.com"They are the scene's first honky tonk indie band. Call them indie tonk, if you will. S & S is a rip rowing, throw your hat into the air type of band. They're like The Doors or early Zepplin if they were a Alt-Country band." --MusicSnobbery.com
"They send out their CD in a hand-typed envelope, with a hand-made case, sealed up with sealing wax, and a quirky little booklet which reminds me of a John Phillip Sousa era imprint...it’s sort of like Walt Whitman meets the Grateful Dead" --Downstreamer.com "Everything they played seemed to be coming from a familiar place, yet was fresh and new at the same time. It was like watching Dr. Dog cover the Allman Brothers or Bob Dylan’s cousin deciding the alt-country scenes wasn’t psychedelic enough." --UsedToBeCool.com The guitar work… the harmonizing… damn. So yeah, I highly recommend checking them out.
Purchase a very fine handmade shirt from the band.
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Listen to Salt & Samovar on KCRW's "Morning Becomes Eclectic" archived 11/8/07 and 5/16/08.
