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Sudden Ensemble
Indie / Rock / Experimental

"Sudden Ensemble"

CITY, New Jersey
United States

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   Sudden Ensemble: General Info
Member Since10/8/2005
Band Websiteapachematrix11.com
Band MembersInstrumentation: Doreen Kirchner - guitar, bass, drums, voice Wayne Garcia - guitar, drums, voice
InfluencesDaniel Johnston, Syd Barrett, Elliott Smith, Velvet Underground, Pavement, Royal Trux, The Kinks, Sonic Youth, Big Star, David Bowie, The Beatles, Dinosaur Jr., T Rex, Shangri-Las, Os Mutantes, Brian Wilson, The Basement Tapes, Ethiopiques, Shake, Rattle & Roll, The Shirelles, The Cascades, Love, The White Album, Wall of Sound, Neil Young, waterfalls, American Folk, cosmic slop, Marvin Gaye, the year 1922, Johnny Angel, Jesus and Mary Chain, "Maybe", 4AD, Paul Weller.
Sounds Likeanimals and children
Record LabelBox 13 Records
Type of LabelIndie





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Sep 13 2008 10:00P
Court Tavern New Brunswick, New Jersey

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Upon its release, legendary British DJ John Peel took a liking to Sudden Ensemble’s first album A.M. 11 and featured many of the record’s songs in his Radio One and BBC World Service shows. Now S.E. has emerged with an upbeat collection of new material. Sudden Ensemble’s brand of lo-fi rock has blossomed into something richer and more nuanced on their new release. Life In A Birdcage is a dashing soundscape that sweeps gracefully from scuzzy, straight-ahead rock and roll to melodic country and blues. Still brimming with their trademark close-knit harmonies and fuzzy, melodic guitar hooks (“Speed Trackers”, “T Street”) their second CD finds Sudden Ensemble stepping out of the garage and exploring new melodic territory in the country and blues infused “See Me Soon”, “Black Tape” and “Zero Gravity”. The band’s strength lies in its ability to explore the balance between tough and tender, high and low, and on Life In A Birdcage the blend of disparate elements creates a gritty and shimmering mix that is both striking and consistent. Sudden Ensemble have played in the U.S. and in Europe and were selected to be amongst the artists to appear at Repellent Magazine’s Music Festival at Volume in Brooklyn, NY with Excepter, Electronicat, et al.


THE NEW SUDDEN ENSEMBLE ALBUM Life In A Birdcage is out now as the premiere issue for Box 13 Records. Click on the following CD BABY link for the website to purchase the CD.

MP3's of Life In A Birdcage are also available on ITunes


Listen to the entire Life In a Birdcage and AM11 albums on LastFM here.


REVIEWS OF Life In A Birdcage:

In THE BIG TAKEOVER by Jack Rabid - It's not hard to discern why the Jersey City, NJ boy-girl duo's previous debut LP became a favorite of gold-eared legendary Brit DJ John Peel before his death: They play a corrosive yet alluring, disconcerting inversion of melodic pop. On the opening "Zero Gravity" they're like Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" had it been perverted by Velvet Underground. On "Speed Trackers", it's more Sonic Youth and The Reid Brothers heisting the focal riff of Big Star's "On The Street". They excel at noisy distorto pop ("All The Satellites", the standout "Bonfire"), but even a pop-Kinks ditty such as "See Me Soon" seems refracted through a bad-trip Bad Moon Rising/"Death Valley 69" mirror. Anti-pop-loving- pop is often highly entertaining.

At the PALEBEAR music blog:

Initial Thoughts on Sudden Ensemble’s album “Life In A Birdcage”:

1. Slightly atonal indie rock is “interesting” at 8:30am in the morning.
2. “Beautiful Shape” is a shambling beautiful shape.
3. “Combustion Blues” is an earful!
4. Robert Pollard vs. Sudden Ensemble in a barfight: not sure who would win yet.
5. I bet this album could get good airplay on KXLU.
6. I like their haircuts.

Despite the fact that I’ve been listening to more mellow stuff lately, I took a shine to this release for its sheer audacity and gritty lo fi texture. Imagine Beat Happening or Will from Imperial Teen singing over Guided By Voices or early Sebadoh (Jason’s) tracks. Some of the stuff is rather bluesy, but in a good way. You’re also going to think this is weirdness - but certain songs really remind me of Apples in Stereo. Or Sissybar. Especially that last track. I dunno why. Wait, actually that one reminds me of a Sonic Youth song. I can’t decide. My favorite song so far is the rockin’ “Bonfire” but others are just as good and, er, “challenging”. The CD definitely has moments where it veers toward the experimental. Fair warning to all. But I have to say that after the morning coffee kicked in, this was a pretty fun listen. Ah yes, that peaceful uneasy feeling….

DISCOGRAPHY: The second Sudden Ensemble record titled Life In A Birdcage has now been released on Box 13 Records.

The debut album Am11 by the group Sudden Ensemble was released on the ANGELIKA KOEHLERMANN label (founded by musician/artists Gerhard Potuznik & Tex Avery - featured in CMJ’s Local Zine profile). The record was played and championed by DJ JOHN PEEL, who surveyed numerous tracks on his Radio One and BBC WORLD SERVICE shows. It was also featured on U.S. college radio and international stations such as WYNU New York City, WCBN Ann Arbor, KWVA Eugene Oregon, KAOS 89.3FM Olympia, WA, Radio INS Denmark, Triple RRR 102.7FM International Underground Show in Australia, Martini Brothers Show Italy, and various internet radio stations. The Sudden Ensemble CD AM 11 is distributed in the United States by Forced Exposure. The influential electronic and avant-garde label Mego and Mego Direct support the release in Europe.

Click on the following link for the website to purchase the CD AM11 at FORCED EXPOSURE.

MP3's are also available for AM11 at the Yoosic website.

On the heels of the new Sudden Ensemble CD, BOX 13 RECORDS is poised to release CD's from the bands Father Murphy and Littlebrown who's own musical sensibilities along with that of Sudden Ensemble will surely make BOX 13 RECORDS a new label to watch!

SE are:
Doreen Kirchner - musician, visual artist, her artwork has appeared on Royal Trux “Radio Video” EP, and as illustrator of the Neil Hagerty comic book “Adventures of Royal Trux vol...10”,drawings included in issues 2-6 of the “The Lowbrow Reader” (edited by Jay Ruttenberg and designed by Matthew Berube).
Wayne Garcia - musician, is ex of Adrenalin OD, and a writer of the novel "The After Effects of Zero Gravity".


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Shooting Star





Jul 14 2008 8:50 AM

Great sound! Thanks for adding Shooting Star and helping to keep rock and roll history alive!
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May 31 2008 9:29 AM


PERROS

New album out now!!


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Come and listen to some tracks from the new album PERROS!


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Victor Démé





Apr 1 2008 6:49 AM

Hello Sudden Ensemble

Chapa Blues present
VICTOR DEME

After a 30-year career in Burkina Faso, the Mandingo singer finally releases his first album

Après 30 ans de carrière au Burkina Faso, le chanteur mandingue sort enfin son premier album

OUT 25th MARCH
SORTIE LE 25 MARS

ORDER HERE

COMMANDEZ ICI

Merci pour le soutient
Thanks for the support

One Love
Victor
Vanilla Dan





Mar 17 2008 7:54 AM

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ZOOSound





Mar 16 2008 4:39 AM

special thanks for adding us!

hold on to your music.

with lovely greetings and kisses from austria, zoosound
The Plastic People Of The Universe





Mar 14 2008 2:55 AM

if you are coincidently nearby:
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greetins from Antwerp
Negative Trip





Feb 6 2008 4:32 AM

saluti from italy!
matthew





Oct 27 2007 1:13 PM

i wanna be a top friend. look! there is room right there for me in the lower right coner.
Boring Machines





Aug 20 2007 10:05 AM

viva Box 13!
Eddie Cochran





Aug 11 2007 10:15 AM

Thanks!

All the Best!!




April 17, 1960 - 47 Years...

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Don't forget Me!
Eddie Cochran
RTX





Apr 30 2007 9:34 AM

RTX ON TOUR-CHK DATES HERE>

RTX





Mar 25 2007 1:56 PM

APOLOGIES IF U DON'T LIVE IN LA...RTX TOO CHEAP TO BUY THE PROPER PROGRAM FOR ME TO SERVICE ZIP CODES...SO BUY THEIR GOD DAMN RECORD SO I CAN STEP THIS MESS UP!
RTX





Feb 19 2007 10:57 AM

ALL RTX FRENZ GONNA BUY "WESTERN XTERMINATOR" LP. ON MARCH 20TH...CUZ THAT'S HOW FRIENDS DO...AND U 1 TOO
The Plastic People Of The Universe





Jan 26 2007 7:23 AM

Hey Hey, Dear Sudden Ensemble!!!
Lots of success with your music,
wish you love & inspiration!!!
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STAYER





Jan 7 2007 11:52 AM

hi!

i saw you here in italy some time ago, and it was amazing.
hope you'll come back soon.

a.
Littlebrown





Jan 2 2007 3:16 PM



Buon anno / Happy new year
by Littlebrown
ROITAN





Dec 31 2006 11:12 PM

Roitan wishes Sudden Ensemble a
Happy Year of the Boar!!!
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matthew





Dec 22 2006 10:45 AM

Oh Snap!


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selvaggi del borneo





Nov 7 2006 1:38 AM


thanx for the add!
greetings from south-italy!
ROITAN





Nov 4 2006 11:45 PM

Really happy I found you--Sudden Ensemble ROCKS. I rarely find stuff I like this much these days. Don't know if I'll be able to find your records in Japan, but sure as hell going to try!
RECTUS





Oct 9 2006 12:33 AM

hi and thanks to collect us.
We're a French band inspirate by Ruins, Zorn, Einsturzende Neubauten...
We like your works. Come and listen our music.


DE/FEC/TIVE


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Jun 6 2006 12:57 AM



Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
~Luis Bunuel
The Churchills





Apr 15 2006 8:35 PM

We love Sudden Ensemble!
Miss le Bomb





Apr 7 2006 1:14 PM

hey you two! wanted to leave a mark here too... tell me, that photo of you in volume - was that at the repellent festival by any chance? i think i'm losing my mind...
larzini





Feb 16 2006 10:53 AM

Nice show @ The Brighton. When's the next gig?
Vanilla Dan





Feb 10 2006 3:26 PM

Sudden Ensemble Rulesssss!!!! Hi Wayyyyne.
LeboviciAB84





Jan 5 2006 10:58 AM

Thanks for the add! I'm an especial fan of Medicine Head, off AM11. Keep doing the really good songs.
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