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A Bitter/Sweet Overture

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Released: May 1, 2011

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A Bitter/Sweet Overture
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Act II: Beginning
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A Graveyard Slowstep
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If We Don't Hurry...
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Genre: Alternative / Garage / Jazz
Location Un
Profile Views: 30874
Last Login: 11/21/2012
Member Since 11/9/2005
Website cdbaby.com/Artist/TheFloatingOperaOrchestra
Record Label cb7 productions
Type of Label Indie
Bio
A unique mix of Texana and Croatian folk; Charles Mingus' redheaded ragtime step-child; second-line meets Thelonious Monk's younger brother, Bob Wills; a vodka swilling hillbilly with a terror of tri-tones; a forgotten group of peasants in southern France who enjoy making fun of themselves; A Tom Waits instrumental band .......... .......... .......... ..........
Members
Brandon Brown, all instruments.
Influences
water - garlic! - iron chefs - Kalinka - stomping feet - capes - maroon - action figures - Mahler - basil and catnip - port wine - the theories behind nutmeg - tumbleweed - bottle rockets - thelonious monk - bagels - the augmented 4 chord - the well-tempered clavier - Gould - airports before 9/11 - Jelly Roll - a good cheese - Troy - flashcards - frost - trains on a long haul - gypsies - libraries - Gray's papaya - the Cell Block 7 - the rite of spring - the game - the duck stamp - maps - julia child and her french recipes - boiling water - kerouac - losing it - volares - castle greyskull - roundball - confederacy of dunces - swordfish trombones - harmonica frank floyd - the thing - ANS - leit motifs - Cannon - shallots - Guy Pringle and the Miss - a love supreme - alton brown - venice - shadows - The Silver Fox - la vida dulce - the SCM - jhon khasen - fugues - kind of blue and the bitches brew - hyperventilating - sheet cake - angel food cake - cream of sorrel - kandinsky - elevators - mischief - matches - absolute numbers - vinyl - C64 - the sound of the theramin - flaky biscuits - Bernard Herrmann - colon cleansing - cheap hotels - tikka masala - Fris - Dulce de Calabaza - cat towers - T.V.'s Frank - brining - the TARDIS - Fleur de Sel - Coach MacGurke - Blak - Niacin - Lake Wobegon - Mitchell - Sessions - Kelp and seaweed - Blue Notes and Impulses - The devil in the white city - missa solemnis - the brooklyn bridge - shallots - tox reports - a bentel brief - honeypulp - knots - no beats - washboards - RC Collins - Get down, Samantha Brown - Mike Simon and the swordfish - Herbie Nichols - fisherman's blue - Joey Carter - Comedy Bang Bang - Brunetti and the canals - a rosemary elephant - Cabiria - shoulder shrug
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