Last live incarnation: Carl, Toph, Bob, Dr. Zodiac, Si, Matt
Influences
All that we touch, hear and see I suppose.
Honourable mentions to:
Nick Cave, Tom Waits, The Beach Boys, Portishead, The Smiths, The Handsome Family, Elvis Costello, Talk Talk and Mark Hollis, Leonard Cohen, Teenage Fanclub and Robyn Hitchcock.
Sounds Like
"The purpose of the artist is to create the work - not judge it' - Tom Robinson.
Formed in 2002 by Carl Chamberlain, eden (and the lower case 'e' is intentional) was a labour of love for Carl and his fellow members, who were all not only experienced musicians, but were also friends of many years standing. This was a chance to do something different and to go out on a wire with little or no pandering to commercial viability: it came from the heart and there was no compromising with regard to the fact that many of the songs were dark or challenging. Nonetheless, there remains a strong undercurrent of humanity, and even a thread of dark humour.
'Beautiful', 'Wishing you Down' and 'Temporary Thing' are from the 2003 album 'Beautiful' and 'Sad About Us' was one of the later eden songs. The version presented here features the lovely and talented Julie Staines and the wonderous Si Genaro on harmonica.
Although the band are not currently performing live, Carl is still writing and recording and there may be at least a new album in the offing and the prospect of of some live performances is the not-too-distant future.
'Beautiful ... stands as a fine example of the rejuvinating powers of creativity....captures a mature alt-rock sound on the edge of danger and despair..' (Nick Churchill)
‘These are songs that have come from deep inside the soul, like cigarette smoke in still air – very mature, very adult and very, very good…lyrical and thoughtful songwriting… and I can now state they sound superb live’
(Ian Peterson – Live Wire April 2002)
Hi guys, thanks for being my friend (I was getting worried there) and for your lovely comment about my photo. It's amazing what you can do with technology these days!!! Ha Ha.
Long time no see - Are you stil in BM? I miss the people @ smiths. George Harrison said: "All things must pass" And that..s very much right. But I..d loved to come back to visit and hang out.
Great sounding bands you have. I..m amazed by your singing .. Great voice.
Here's a poster thingy advertising a gig-type wostit where we'll be playing some songtunes. If you click it it'll take you to out websitey doo-dah. Ain't this internet thing good, eh?
Good evening Carl, indeed I hope it is for you! Thank you for plus-ing me!Looking forward to hearing more about your musical activities in the furure. Best wishes to you and the band, greetings from Austria! :o)
The Genaro Project would like to wish you a funkadelic Christmas and a groove-tastic New Year!
Hope you have a lovely time. A massive thanks to everyone that came to our gigs, bought our ickle badges, said nice things to us, and were generally supportive. It means a lot to us.
2006 has been a pretty cool year for the G Proj, but 2007 is gonna be awesome. We can feel it in our waters.
Hi y'all
how's it going?
If you're not doing anything this Thurs 7th from 8:30, we are at Jazzy's on the Quay - Poole, with Rob Koral-guitar and a great rhythm section doing the Bluesy Jazz thing. Hope to see you.
bfn Zoë
p.s. any sitters inners all welcome
