OUT SOON

TRACKLIST

1. Around The World

2. Tonight

3. In The Pines

4. Little Heart

5. Lackie's Men

6. Dirty Dozen

7. Back In Hell

8. Homeward Bound

9. Seasons Of God

10. I Slept Late

11. Magpie Song

DELANEY DAVIDSON

album title: "self decapitation" 

LP: VR1258  

ean-code: 7640111769606

CD: VRCD58  

EAN-CODE: 7640111769712

ENGLISH

Born in New Zealand in 1972 from that day into music either recording or Live on Stage.. a Restless Soul who travels around the world.. then landed in Bern Switzerland meet Reverend Beat-Man and Hi Contact with the Voodoo Rhythm Label and their Philosophie .. Join the Dead Brothers on tours and the two Albums Flamend Herz and Wunderkammer, now  back and All by Himself as Delaney Davidson’s One Man Ghost Orchestra Touring with  Holy Golightly (US Tour) Wolven hand and Reverend Beat-Man ( US Tour and Europe).

For this 1^st Lull Length Album he Explodet the One Man idea and invited People to Record the album.. that ist Mostly Recordet at Outside Inside Studio by MojoMatt Bordin in Montebelluna Italy , then other studios in Wisconsin, San Francisco, and Wellington, New Zealand and Lovelite Studios, Berlin Germany, with Guest Mussisians like: Dan (Woggle) Elektro , Reverend Beat-Man, Garage Kid, Fanfare Kalashnikov, E. McFadden anyway this is a Hi-Cruise into the Weird and Colourful Fantastic World of Mr Suave Delaney Davidson.  Musically he’s pretty hard to Catch .. he like to much music  that you could pin him down.. but deffenetly the Dead Brothers Years where a big influence, then R&B Blues Singer Songwriter Folk from around the world Nick Cave and and and.. 

DEUTSCH

Geboren und Aufgewachsen in Neu Seeland 1972 dan eigentlich als Musik Junkie geboren und als Rastlose Seele am Herumreisen mit seiner Girarre und Zugposaune.. dies führte ihn nach Bern in der Schweiz wo er als Koch im Cafe Kairo arbeitete und dort Reverend Beat-Man kennen lernte und die Philosophie  hinter dem Voodoo Rhythm Label dann die Dead Brothers wo er 2 Alben aufgenommen und mitgeschrieben hat, und endlose Touren, dann On the Road alleine als  Delaney Davidson’s One Man Ghost Orchestra mit Holy Golightly (US Tour) Wolven hand und  Reverend Beat-Man ( US Tour and Europe).

Für seine Erste Schallplatte und CD hatt er seine One Man band idee implodieren lassen und vile Gaäste eingeladen um ihn im studio zu unterstützen wie: Dan (Woggle) Elektro , Reverend Beat-Man, Garage Kid, Fanfare Kalashnikov, E. McFadden etc  die meisten sachen wurden im Outside Inside Studio von MojoMatt Bordin in Montebelluna Italy aufgenommen andere sachen in Wisconsin, San Francisco, ,Wellington New Zealand und Lovelite Studios in Berlin diese Scheibe ist eine riesen Arbeit und eine reise um die ganze welt wo er euch in seine wirre von Farbenfroh bis tief schwarze weltreise mitnimmt. Mr Suave Delaney Davidson ist relative schwer auf einen styl zu nageln.. es hat elemente von seine Dead Brothers Jahren drin dann viel R&B Blues Singer Songwriter Folk from around the world Nick Cave etc

 Band Info

REVILER (USA)

You don’t get much more DIY than kiwi songwriter Delaney Davidson.  When I last caught up with him in a West Bank dive last Fall he had been on the road for months, sharing a car with a travelling puppeteer, making his way around the country to play shows without the benefit of any sort of PR or publicity.  He was selling his most recent record, Self Decapitation out of a suitcase, though from the look of it he was giving away nearly as many as he sold.  Now that Decapitation is reaching its official release date (March 1^st) not much has changed.  Still no “Delaney Davidson is the next coming of god” press releases in my inbox – in fact there hasn’t been any mention of the artist at all.  Strangely enough though, I was at a Minneapolis coffee shop the other day and what did I hear being played over the PA?  None other than Delaney Davidson’s brand new material.  Perhaps it’s a testament that the young man’s word of mouth campaign has done its work.

Davidson’s sound is that of a road weary bluesman.  He’s a storyteller of murder ballads, moonlit nights on lonely roads, mysterious men and their dark deeds.  He is a poet of the darker side of human nature – much like Australian artist Nick Cave who also draws on the gothic roots of the American South for inspiration.  Decapitation is a collection of twelve new songs; each delivered in Davidson’s raspy, Dylanesque baritone.   While the material is certainly more upbeat than 2008’s melancholy Ghost Songs, Decapitation too is filled with an underlying dread.  “In the Pines” finds Davidson snarling and humming over a traditional blues tune – a terrifying ode that was inspired in part by the “nightmares of Ledbelly.” “Back in Hell” is a classic tale of murder and deceit, set to a chorus of blood curdling trombones.  “Seasons of God”is a gloomy roadhouse journey with a theological bent.

It isn’t all coarseness and depravity though – Davidson shows a sweeter side in the heartsick love ballad “Little Heart,” while both “Lackie’s Men” and “Dirty Dozen” are both rollicking slices of old-time rock n’ roll.  The former is a vintage sounding boogie swing joint, and the latter an upbeat jam inspired by a family dinner that was unknowingly accompanied by the verbose lewdness of Jelly Roll Morton (in the liner notes Davidson writes of Morton yelling out “cocksucker” and “motherfucker” over the radio during dinner – without anyone seeming to notice).   Davidson finishes off the record on a less than cheery note though – with “Bridge is Broke” a song written on a dead man’s banjo while the man’s ashes “stared at” Davidson from the banjo case.

Overall it is pretty heavy stuff – but as with the great bluesmen of old, there is enough yarn and mystery to Decapitation to keep any listener entranced for days.   Though Davidson appears to be celebrating his record release from his home country, he’s no stranger to the Twin Cities so hopefully we can expect him back soon.

– Jon Behm

GBR MAGAZINE (FR)

if u sez that blues , folk ,  music trend can 't be play by one man band ...u 're wrong ! .This guy from his new Zealand roots is able to give his soul to dig  cow-punk r 'nd roll attitude sound  " dirty dozen " ( feat . Rev . Beatman on guitar) or cool  trash-fanfare music'spirit  " around the world" . Warning !!!."

I94BAR (AUS)

Who said the only good thing to come out of New Zealand was Steinlager? Not me. Speight's is OK, too. So there's the obligatory reference out of the way to Delaney Davidson being a globetrotting Kiwi. Cue a sweeping statement that he plays some of the weirdest music you'll hear. Now we're talking. His sound wouldn't be so strange if you lived in an isolated mid-European mountain village, had Dr Frankenstein been your second cousin or you were into the undertaker hymns of the Dead Brothers, within whose ranks Davidson spent time. "Self Decapitation" is his first solo album in that's the truest sense of the word, with the principal member playing the one-man band role with cameos from occasional guests. It's an intriguing mix of funeral pyre cocktail music, a blend of horn-laden polka romps and jazz-inflected garage twang. And they're just the obvious genres. There's enough influences here to spin your head faster than Linda Blair in "The Exorcist". Crude and rude rocking' swing ("Dirty Dozen") mixes it with skiffle ("Lackie's Men") and lead-footed swamp blues (the hoary traditional "In The Pines") and it's all over the place in the strangely comforting way only an album on Voodoo Rhythm can. Label honcho Reverend Beat-Man took Delaney along on his last US tour. I'd guess that's one way of ensuring you don't get booked to play kids' theme parks. "Little Heart" is by far the most conventional song, a quiet country-ish blues with ragged backing vocal and cello. Its pigeon pair is "Homeward Bound", another blues tune with a lilting, plodding feel courtesy of drummer Dan Electro of The Woggles. Vaguely Central European allusions apart, "Self Decapitation" was recorded in Italy, Germany, New Zealand the the US of A so it's just as hard to pin it down to any one place as style. One to spin on a lazy Sunday morning.