andrew arida - keyboards;
mark haney - double bass;
rick maddocks - vocals, guitars, miscellany;
jon wood - tenor guitar, lap steel, miscellany;
glenn d'cruze - drums
Influences
the band, luis bunuel, armless chairs, tea, miles davis, paint chips, van morrison, peruanos, pink floyd in the country, johan cruyff, william basinski, stepping outside, radiohead, the apocalypse, lyle lovett, brian eno, crispin glover, bass lines, the prisoner, flaming lips, microbreweries of british columbia, ukelins, jfd records, wurlitzers, manowar, juju
Sounds Like
"underwater gracefulness", dark undertows, sepia-tinged waltzes, "can get quite ethereal", lo-fi country explorations, rusted-out nightmares, "strikes just the right balance between atmospheric improvisation and linear song structure"
the beige's music is atmospheric, understated, wry and jazzy with off-kilter pop leanings, but sometimes not. the quintet's live shows feature broad strokes of improvisation. the beige complement most interiors.
stuff written about the debut cd "01":
"The Beige's wonderfully designed CD is home to a collection of textured, rootsy folk-pop music heavy on the ambient atmosphere...a brilliant level of depth to the recording...Ladies and gents, meet your new favourite atmospheric roots-pop band." -- Indieville.com
"A record that fuses popular and experimental forms into a coherent whole is a rare thing, and this is a record of rare beauty." -- Americana UK
"The Beige is a new musical force in Vancouver" -- Marke Andrews,
Vancouver Sun.
"A gorgeously spacious thing.... as melodic and lyrically striking as Wilco at its most incisive--and more overtly catchy." -- Ken Eisner, The Georgia Straight.
"Let’s not try too hard to categorize the Beige. We’ll just say that Maddocks writes damn good songs that allow the band to take all sorts of twists and turns through interesting corners of the sonic spectrum." --Eden Munro, Vue Weekly
"The result is a disc of literate roots-pop for urban dwellers, with
a we-get-there-when-we-do attitude that coalesces into dusty, lovely
ballads." -- Shawn Conner, Vancouver Courier.
"the beige have managed to work their mellowing magic on me. I'm finding it very difficult to shit all over them." -- the Nerve
yours is the first record i scroll to on my ipod when i need something mellow, catchy, relaxing and sing-along-able. i think if i ever get married i'd want "one for me" to be the song of my first dance.
Hey – just a reminder to listen in SUNDAY night at 7-8:30 pm CST to hear THE BEIGE on “This Great White North” an ALL CANADIAN music show from Austin, Texas It’s on 91. 7 KOOP-FM Listen here
thanks for the add, thanks for sharing your beautiful creations, with us simple humans...keep walking in beauty.. much love, plenty of respect, Carolyn Hines (Whiteshawl)
i wanted to say hi but it was past our bedtimes and we had a shake a leg right after your set and get home. we're playing at the railway club on June 26th. Hope to see you there. Hope we can play together sometime, even though our genres are different :) alyson
hey there
we are having our cd release party this sat, april 7 at the media club. free cd's at the door + guest horn section + live visuals..
hope you can make it,
adam / make the lion
