Nitrolai von Borakski - Vocals
Brent Truex - Guitar and vocals
Bryan Ellinger - Bass and vocals
Jamie Nielsen - Keys and vocals
Ahvram Novetsky - Drums
Influences
Dick Dale, Yma Sumac, Link Wray, Southern Culture on the Skids, Henry Mancini, the Ghoul, the Reverend Horton Heat, Serge Gainsburg, the Ventures, Los Straitjackets, Don Ho, Frank Booth, Martin Denny, the Shadows, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Eddie Cochran, Los Lobos, the Sinatra Family, Tom Waits, Ed Roth, Ramsey Lewis, Devo and Glen Armstrong.
Tsars recreate a musical era that never existed. A Land That Time Passed Over where Henry Mancini and Ennio Morricone mingled with the go-go surf beatnik scene. Where Dick Dale recorded a version of “Haitian Fight Song”. A world where the influence of the exotic was not subordinated into kitsch.
Tsars have invented a musical vocabulary that draws from hipster popular culture. Surf, Tiki and exotic themes are combined with a Burroughs-esque self conscious world weariness. Elements of rock, jazz and whatever else the band has absorbed from being raised by the television set and the wolves of a lifetime of playing music come spilling back out in sometimes startling forms.
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Stella, it's all on me. I just got done laboriously convincing him to push my vocals DOWN. More louder vocalizations planned later, once my sonic powers are at their peak.
Great set at TOP the other week...! We've got Ms. Marti Brom coming to the BERKLEY FRONT this Thursday Nite -LOVE to see you there! Gonna be a FANTASTIC show... -DEL
Hello many thanks from France for the add & comment it's a real pleasure to be in the lot of your friends it's a nice day for us Long life at your and our music
