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THE DEAD BROTHERS STORY The Dead Brother's roots fetch far in musical history. They started digging their graves in 1998. Punk rock and country blues are part of their DNA. So are the stage antics of Cab Calloway, Kurt Weill's Three penny opera and the european folklore instrumental excellency. 7 Full lenght Albums where Released on Voodoo Rhythm Records ,and countless Coopertaions with TV And Movie (BBC Documentry (The Genious of Madame Curie - 2013) and theatre (Theater Basel: 3 Penny Opera) etc. Alain Croubalian the Head of the Dead Surrounded many influential musicians around him from the Swiss Underground and Folkloristic Music Scene for ages (Landstrichmusig, Patent Ochsner, Echo, d'Giigemaa), others have a foot in theater, comedy, cinema and Vaudeville (Stadt Theater Hannover, les Trois Suisses, 9 Volt Nelly) some are orchestra directors and some italo crooners, Alain Croubalian Started his Music Career in the early 80’s with the band Les Maniacs (Stop itBaby records) in 1998 the had enough from electric music and formed the Dead Brothers the one and only Funeral Real Heavy Metal band (they had um to 5 Tubas in the band) .. and all acoustic instruments they Created the weirdest mix of Folklore and Modern Music ever came out of Switzerland
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With deep Respect and Love we will live with the Death of our beautiful Brother Alain .. deep condolence to the Family the Dead Brothers and his Fans all over this Globe R.I.P. my good ole Cowboy Fantôme Death is everywhere, Death is forever, that's why we should embrace Death, just like Life itself, if you're afraid of Death, you're already Dead, Alain Croubalian
----------------------- Foundet 1989 around the Singer and Wild Man Alain Croubalian, the MANIACS, early Swiss Punk and Pierre Omer more or less what_s left of a symphony orchestra after their car crashed today. some heavy metal wind instruments (Tubas, trombones and bass saxophone) a megaphone and a top hat, a nasty french accordion and some sweet lap steel country , they called themselves the Only Real Heavy Metal Band sometimes they had up to 9 Tubas on Stage doing a Bo Diddley Beat Bringing rock_n_roll back to Europe by exploring the musical roots that led to it_s birth or what would the european music that led to rock_n_roll, sound like today? They make Satie rhyme with Birthday Party, and the Saints singing Besame Mucho. They_re a macabre rock_n_roll party and an old fashioned wedding at the same time. Need your sense of humour when they stage gruesome deaths singing Hank Williams and Jimmie Rodgers. Poison Ivy of the Cramps wrote they liked their rendering of Human Fly. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and Tom Waits loved their records. Thomas Wydler of the Bad Seeds says their Tod Von Basel penned in the 16th century sounds pretty nasty. Toured tons with Bob Log III and England with T-Model Ford the tale dragger from Greenville, and they know personally the Reverend Beat-man himself. They are fans of The Kift, famous dutch surrealist jazz family. The Dead Brothers sing blues tunes out of ancient Europe (Totentanz) and famous cajun-core french swingh from Bombay. They_ve been called _the best funeral orchestra along with tubas and electric guitar_ and _the most bizarre act to have appeared in Europe_. Felt at home in Russia, but go as much as possible to the swiss mountains. Some say they are paradoxal. Difficult to get along with. Try good food.
They started staging a travelling doctor selling some potion from table to table, storming cafis with the well-named Cirque Electrique. They wrote a musical about ...death played on a boat during the swiss national exhibition in 2002, _Day of the Dead_ featured Eleni Mandell, DJ Khan, Reverend Beatman and the whole dead family.
After _Dead Music for Dead Poeple_ and _Day of the Dead_, the third Dead Brothers_ record is the soundtrack to the movie _Flammend_ Herz_ , which is about old german men covered with tattoos. It was recorded in the backstage of theaters in Switzerland, and an old swiss-german radio station. In Theater too, they got hired to sing songs about death in plays directed by Meret Matter at the Schauspielhaus in Zurich, then under Christoph Marthaler_s direction. Look forward to play Brecht and Weil_s Four Penny Opera at the Basler Opera under the direction of Lars Ole Warburg. You can hire us for circus acts, and bar-mitsvah_s, with the dead brothers every concert turns out to be a surprise. Some hate it. But again, they do funerals, not birthday parties.
in 2010 a New Dead Brothers Area Begun, Changing into a DEATH FUNERAL STRING ORCHESTRA , with only Strings, the Band Turned into wild open again after several Member changes and Still Do what they do best Weird Necromantic Wild and Bizarre Java jazz Blues Oriental Exotica
many mussisians involved in the Dead Brothers so far such as: Pierre Omer , Jean-Philippe Geiser, Fred Schmutz ,Denis Schuler, Dlaney Davidson, Christoph Gantert, Barbara Bagnoud, Olli Franz, Julien Israelian, Zoe Capon ,Axel Jansen, Holger Stehen, Resli Burri (padent ochsner), Jean-Jacques Pedretti, Alain Porchet, Yves Massy, Marcel Salesse, Morback, Matthias Lincke, Alain Meyer ,DJ Scratchy (the clash), magot Flück ( zeno tornado) Stefan Baumann , Patrick Kessler, Balts Dead Nill (Stiller Haas)
LINE UP : Dead Alain Croubalian: vox, guitars, tenor banjo and piano Dead Jane Mumford: pauke, toms, broken stuff and shakers Dead Andrea Kirchhofer: violin Dead Dide Marfurt: emmentaler halszither, cornemuse suisse et guitare électrique Dead Matthias Lincke: violin, mandoline and choir direction Dead Tobi Zwyer: tuba and accordion Dead Leon Schaetti: helicon et cornet à piston de poche Dead Sandro Tajouri: pauke, bendir and kleine trommel Dead Resli Burri: harmonium portable, positif, wurlitzer, piano droit et choir direction Dead Bertrand Siffert : piano droit on Baron Samedi Dead Rodolphe Burger: Gainsbarre voice on Papillons Noirs
THE DEAD BROTHERS - day of the dead
TRACKLIST
1. Walzer 2. Closer to you 3. Esclavo Triste 4. The angel of death 5. Plaisir d'amour 6. pout the bottle back on the table 7. Human Fly 8. Entre chien et Loup 9. Goldbrunbrunnen Platz 10. La Paloma 11.der Tod von Basel 12. Things you hide 13. St.James Infirmary Blues 14. How deep is the water?
THE DEAD BROTHERS 'day of the dead' LP: VR1212 EAN-CODE: 7640111760184 CD: VRCD12 EAN-CODE: 7640111768166
The one and only funeral orchestra along with Tuba and Top Hat, Banjo and Drums and guitar, 1 jear after the first release (dead music for dead people VR1205/VRCD05,Voodoo Rhythm records) and Touring Europe up and down and apearing is such festivals as : Dour, Roskilde, Jazz Festival Montreux and doing several funerals... here they are back from the grave with another Wax and CD Smash hit, even more mixed up stuff songs about the dead in general about going to die and about suicida and lost love lots of French java stuff Cajun Polka Blues Country and and and.. and here the amazing Funeral Tuba overdose version of the Cramps hit 'Human Fly !!!!!!! BUY AND DIE !!!!!!!!!
1. Drunkards Walk 2. Death Blues 3. The Story it's Always the Same 4. The Power a Secret Holds 5. Bela Lugosi's Dead 6. Tic Tac 7. Drunkards Dream 8. I am all I got 9. Langenthal 10. Exotic Odyssey 11. Policeman 12. Teenage Kicks 13. How Deep is the Water
THE DEAD BROTHERS '5th sin-phonie' LP: VR1261 EAN-CODE: 7640111769798 CD: VRCD61 EAN-CODE: 7640111769743
1998 the Dead Brothers started in Geneva Switzerland a Whole New Music Area. They mixed Gipsy Music with Blues Rock’n’Roll and Delinquent Jazz. They called themselves the Only Real Heavy Metal Band, sometimes they had up to 9 tubas on stage doing a Bo Diddley Beat. Now after 18 years and 4 full length albums, tours around the globe ( with T-Model Ford, Bob Log III, Reverend Beat-Man), appearances in operas, personal tsunami changes, movie soundtracks, they opening the door to another area of the weird necromantic wild and bizarre world from Dead Alain Croubalian and his one and only Death Blues Funeral String Orchestra. A lot of the tracks where recorded in a barn in the Swiss mountains. The songs are mostly originals incl. the amazing “Death Blues” and “The power a secret holds”, except Undertones punk rock hymn “Teenage Kicks” and the Bauhaus necro new wave classic “Bella Lugosi’s Dead”. New as well is the song writing aspect. Most of the the lyrics are co. written by Marc A. Littler (Mr. Slowboat Films) so be WELCOME TO THE DARKSIDE and to the Obscure Cabinet of the AMAZING DEAD BROTHERS
TRACKLIST 1. Le Sifflet des Mineurs 2. Les Papillons Noirs 3. Everything's Dead 4. Ghost Train 5. Angst 6. Pretty Polly 7. Zeirly 8. Did We Fail? 9. Mean Blue Spirits 10. Angela 11. Baron Samedi 12. Marie Mouri 13. Es isch kei Soelige Stamme
THE DEAD BROTHERS 'angst' Format CD: VRCD106 (barcode: 7640148982719) Format LP: VR12106 (barcode: 7640148982764) Release Date: FEB.02.2018 CD: COMES IN DOUBLE GATEFOLD COVER INCL 12 SIDED BOOKLET 12" LP: + FREE CD + PRINTED INNERSLEEVE
THE EDGE OF TIME PSYCHO MUSIC-NOIR FOLK FROM SWITZERLAND PLAYING SERGE GAINSBURG AND OTHER DARK TRACKS
THE RECORD We are standing at the edge of the end of times. The catastrophy is imminent. La peur est partout. Fear (Angst) is Everywhere. The Dead Brothers hid in the Vosges mountains (Saintes Marie aux Mines) to take the puls of our time. They tuned into Serge Gainsbourg's Papillons Noirs with Rodolphe Burger and echoed traditional swiss yodels from the middle ages. With texts penned by the late Robert Walser and underground cineaste Marcus Aurelius Littler they tell in ANGST, 13 stories of joy and misery and about the difficulty of being human in these troubled times. Hundreds of notes by violins and tubas, banjos and wurlitzers, Cisters from Emmental and swiss bagpipes, a positif from the the vosgian mountains, acid guitars doing calypso and Voodoo choirs chanting along mould together in this new masterpiece by the legendary Dead Brothers. Who would of thought that the puzzle of european folklores that the Dead Brothers have put back together would draw the more sombre route that rock'n'roll took hidden in the alps. Mixed by engineer Excellence Bertrand Siffert (The Young Gods, Yello) it's the Dead Brothers 7th album for the bernese label Voodoo rhythm.
BIOGRAFIE The Dead Brother's roots fetch far in musical history. They started digging their graves in 1998. Punk rock and country blues are part of their DNA. So are the stage antics of Cab Calloway, Kurt Weill's Three penny opera and the european folklore instrumental excellency. 7 Full lenght Albums where Released on Voodoo Rhythm Records ,and countless Coopertaions with TV And Movie (BBC Documentry (The Genious of Madame Curie - 2013) and theatre (Theater Basel: 3 Penny Opera) etc. Alain Croubalian the Head of the Dead Surrounded many influential musicians around him from the Swiss Underground and Folkloristic Music Scene for ages (Landstrichmusig, Patent Ochsner, Echo, d'Giigemaa), others have a foot in theater, comedy, cinema and Vaudeville (Stadt Theater Hannover, les Trois Suisses, 9 Volt Nelly) some are orchestra directors and some italo crooners, Alain Croubalian Started his Music Career in the early 80’s with the band Les Maniacs (Stop itBaby records) in 1998 the had enough from electric music and formed the Dead Brothers the one and only Funeral Real Heavy Metal band (they had um to 5 Tubas in the band) .. and all acoustic instruments they Created the weirdest mix of Folklore and Modern Music ever came out of Switzerland
TRACKLIST 1. BLACK MOOSE 2. THERE'S ALWAYS SOMEONE THAT YOU OWE 3. DARK NIGHT 4. GOOD LUCK 5. I'M SO LONESOME I COULD CRY 6. BLACK TRAIN 7. ST DYMPHNA 8. LA MAUVAISE RÉPUTATION 9. HEART OF STONE 10. FEMME FATALE 11. SO WARS, SO ISTS UND SO WIRDS BLEIBEN 12. SHIP OF FOOLS 13. APPENZELLER TANZ
THE DEAD BROTHERS 'black moose' LP: VR1285 EAN-CODE: 7640148980449 CD: VRCD85 EAN-CODE: 7640148980524 MC: VRMC85 EAN-CODE: 7640148982207
ENGLISH After the Foundation in 1989 and the Commercial Breakthrough with 'WUNDERKAMMER' (2006) and a dramatic Change in 2010 (5th SIN-PHONIE) with the probably world Darkest and most Deadly Funeral String Orchestra the World has seen , the DEAD BROTHERS ,around Puppet Master of Disaster and Nr1 Swiss-Armenian Madman Alain Croubalian took another Step into the Unexpected Wonderland of Exotica Dark Country Folk and Deadly Strings with some rotten Back pipes and Recorded at the Famous OUTSIDE INSIDE STUDIOS in Italy a Album that takes you into the World of the BLACK MOOSE , a mystical Creature that has been there before the dawn of man a Creature that has witnessed the demise of millenia of civilizations and that is perhaps the driving force behind our perpetual fall into the proverbial dark night of the soul. a trueblues clash with Swiss psycho folklore and medieval troubadours high on ayahuasca. Black Moose is a romantic record - romantic in the darkest sense possible, a record that sheds new light on the ancient notion that all beauty emerges out of pain. Where does Friedrich Nietzsche meet central American revolutionaries and criminal bards drinking pisco sours made of kerosene with the devil himself
1. dead brothers stomp 2. I've always know 3. farmer boy 4. besame mucho 5. roger 6. she collects postcards 7. banjo villa... 8. I'm crying 9. hora 10. allons aux paquis 11. somewhere between... 12. buy it 13. good time religion 14. orally 15. ramblin man
THE DEAD BROTHERS ,Dead Music for Dead People' LP: VR1205 ( EAN CODE : 7640111760245) CD: VRCD05 (EAN CODE: 7640111767206)
one of the most bizarre and acts out of Switzerland, they are actually a funeral orchestra !!! they do the Dirty Blues the Cajun Polka, and do a freak show live on stage, on this their 1st record they play Hank Williams 'ramblin man' with Tuba!! as well the animals classic: I'm crying... and lots of their own songs what is a ultra Crazy Mixture of Low Down Tuba Rock'n'roll, Gipsy polka Blues Trash French Cabaret and finest Django Reinhard Jazz.. and on top western and Country.... But the best thing on this record is that they give a damn about proper Hi Fidelity recordings and wend Back to the Roots with the recordings.. and recorded the Whole Album with only ONE MIKE !!! don't be scared now.. it's not sounding like shit or Trash..it's all here and they are perfect mussisans and how they did it..the whole album has a fantastic Near Warm Charme anyway if you or your one of your friend should die call up those guys... they play together with T-Model Ford, the blues explosion.. better buy this record now!!
TRACKLIST 1. Sifflet des mines 2. 500 Horses 3. Whalebone 4. Diamond Mind 5. Born to Die 6. I Wrote a Book 7. Down Here Where I Am 8. The Laws of Man aka Ode to a Deserter 9. Up To The Gate 10. Fare Thee Well 11. Amara terra 12. Wayfaring Stranger
THE DEAD BROTHERS 'Death is Forever' Format LP+DL: VR12124 (EAN:7640148983181) Format CD:VRCD124 (EAN: 7640148983235) Date of Release: OCT 13.2023 CD: Comes in double Gatefold cover incl. 12 sided Booklet 12" LP: + Free Download Card + Printed Inlay
Death is everywhere. Death is forever, that’s why we should embrace death just like life itself. “If you’re afraid of death, you’re already dead” Alain Croubalian (1964-2021)
Alain Croubalian (1964-2021) passed away shortly after the recording of this album. With his music he takes us on his last journey. For many years he has recorded and performed incomparable songs with his fellow musicians. We as a label were extremely lucky to be able to work with such great musicians and to gain their trust. Together with them we have been able to release some of the best Swiss recordings since 1999. Regarding the recordings, Alain passed away before mixing the songs, which he created in close collaboration with his poet partner Marc Littler. The original song material was selected, partially edited and mixed by Bertrand Siffert together with Resli Burri. This last wonderful CD by the Dead Brothers is now available and the cover was designed by Luc Navette. "Wayfaring Stranger" was the last song the Dead Brothers ever recorded and was placed at the end of the album at the request of the bereaved, which was not originally intended. The Dead Brothers started out as a funeral chapel and have now grown into one. In the course of their work they have inspired many musicians and bands worldwide (The Dresden Dolls, Gogol Bordello etc) Solong Brothers
