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Once described as a “Freeze-Dried Spaghetti-Western Gypsy-Blues outfit", Brown Recluse has a style that they can call theirs alone.
Some mixture of old time Delta Blues, Jewish folk rhythms and muddy western swing, Brown Recluse’s anemic blues bloodline is all
the while enriched by the necessary “rock-consciousness” of modernity, inescapably corrupting and energizing their sound.
Brown Recluse’s influences range from The Pixies, Nirvana, and Velvet Underground, to Leonard Cohen, Blind Lemon Jefferson,
and Tom Waits. The songs are varied, from raucous high-energy stomps to shady power ballads. The group plays both acoustically
and electrically, depending on the venue and situation….
Brown Recluse has played in parks, garages, barns, living rooms, BBQs, squats, cooperative natural food stores, cafés, bookshops,
beaches, BART stations, and an anarchist bistro- and rock clubs.
The Need to Historicize
Conceived in exile in a barn in the sedate hamlet of Santa Cruz, CA, Brown Recluse began to dissimulate their sounds acoustically
throughout the Bay Area and northern California- with a simple violin, guitar and voice set-up. Eventually adding both percussion
and amplification to their sound, the group spread their dark word throughout the land- expanding to become an international
conspiracy of sorts with the establishment a second home base in Lyon, France. There, the Brown Recluse musical apparatus has
performed at many exotic locations throughout 2004-5, including the infamous Grnd Zero, Kikikaikai, Eve of Grenoble, and elsewhere.
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