Combining the unique minds of Stanley Brinks with members from Bergen Mandolinband and I Was a King - "Jamaica Inn" is an spectacular combination of precious musical talent.
Recorded in a lighthouse outside the small town of Egersund, this is the timeless soundtrack for the Lowland Wood of folk and antifolk.
This record is relaesed by our dear friends of Hype City recordings in Norway. www.hypecity.no
Combining the unique minds of Stanley Brinks with members from Bergen Mandolinband and I Was a King - "Jamaica Inn" is an spectacular combination of precious musical talent.
Recorded in a lighthouse outside the small town of Egersund, this is the timeless soundtrack for the Lowland Wood of folk and antifolk.
This record is relaesed by our dear friends of Hype City recordings in Norway. www.hypecity.no
"I stayed at the Pacific for a week. It felt like two at least. My room was so bare i was surprised someone had cared to put a bed in it. Nicely located on the fourth floor too, with a neat little linoleum stairway that led straight to the corridor at the end of which i could get to my door after only two left turns. But no fuss, and no shady business as far as i could tell. The guests watched television, they fall asleep to television, most of them simply never switched it off. Even when you heard groans and screams, you had to assume some post-war movie was on. If ever any utterance actually came from a three-dimensional human being, it was usually a child crying, or a man snoring, or on lucky days a woman who'd seen a mouse. "
All Songs written and sung by Stanley Brinks
Clarinets, sax, guitar, bass and percussions by Stanley Brinks
Sticks, snare drum and shac-shac by Léo Bear Creek
Claps & Vocals by Clémence Freschard, Mary-Salomé, Billy Jet Pilot, Howard Hughes, Leo Bear Creek and Ben Lupus.
Harmony on Give it all to me by Mary-Salomé.
Tongue clicks and claps by Clémence, Julie, Alex, Léo and Pierre.
Recorded and mixed by Stanley Brinks in July 2010 in Berlin
<a href="http://stanleybrinks.bandcamp.com/album/hoots" _fcksavedurl="http://stanleybrinks.bandcamp.com/album/hoots">Good old me by Stanley Brinks</a>
1. Good old me 03:55
2. Give me a reason 04:32
3. I didn't know 04:21
4. Run your run 03:18
5. What a fool 04:47
6. Then came the man 03:07
7. Kate 05:33
8. Where have you been 03:28
9. Three Years 06:23
10. One goodbye 04:48
Vocals and instruments by Stanley Brinks
Drums by Jan Nikolaus Junker.
Backing Vocals by the Wave Pictures.
released 01 January 2010
All songs written, played and recorded by Stanley Brinks.
Lead vocal recorded by Kemo.
Berlin 2009 - c & p Radbab records
1 Hi, Jane
2 Things Ain't What They Used To Be
3 End Of The World
4 Keep Your Head High
5 Blues About The Size Of Someone Else's Heart
6 Kiss Me Too
7 39 Winks
8 It's The Road
9 Why The Martians Are Gone
10 All The Love That Was Left
Stanley Brinks: main voice, guitar (right) Dave Tattersall: guitar (left) Franic Rozycki: bass guitar Jonny Helm: drums
All songs by Stanley Brinks.
Recorded and mixed by Kemo in Berlin in early June 2008.
<a href="http://stanleybrinks.bandcamp.com/album/horns-in" _fcksavedurl="http://stanleybrinks.bandcamp.com/album/horns-in">It must be me by Stanley Brinks</a>
1. It must be me 04:31
2. Butt to butt 03:01
3. You're only kidding yourself 03:26
4. Tell me to stay 03:47
5. Forget about the world outside 05:54
6. Another land 05:41
7. People on the train 04:08
8. All the fruits 04:36
9. My enemy is you 03:46
10. Midnight espresso 05:27
All songs written, played and recorded by Stanley Brinks in 2008-2009
Guest vocalists : BP (Butt to Butt), Diane Cluck (Tell Me To Stay), Ish Marquez (All The Fruits, Midnight Espresso), Daniel Bernstein (Butt to Butt, Another Land, People On The Train)
released 01 January 2009
Recorded by Stanley Brinks in 2008-2009
<a href="http://stanleybrinks.bandcamp.com/album/sings-the-blues" _fcksavedurl="http://stanleybrinks.bandcamp.com/album/sings-the-blues">Without You by Stanley Brinks</a>
1 Without You
2 You Are Not Where You Are
3 That Lonesome Feeling
4 Frog Feathers
5 You Must Have Someone On Your Mind
6 WIll You Love Me More
7 If I Die I Die
8 Closer To Me
9 Blues About Getting Out Of Here
10 Priceless Find
released 03 August 2008
All songs written, played and recorded by Stanley Brinks in August 2008.
Backing vocals by Jack and Jeff Lewis
www.byrecords.com
1 Hi, Jane
2 Things Ain't What They Used To Be
3 End Of The World
4 Keep Your Head High
5 Blues About The Size Of Someone Else's Heart
6 Kiss Me Too
7 39 Winks
8 It's The Road
9 Why The Martians Are Gone
10 All The Love That Was Left
Stanley Brinks: main voice, guitar (right) Dave Tattersall: guitar (left) Franic Rozycki: bass guitar Jonny Helm: drums
All songs by Stanley Brinks.
Recorded and mixed by Kemo in Berlin in early June 2008.
<a href="http://stanleybrinks.bandcamp.com/album/bit" _fcksavedurl="http://stanleybrinks.bandcamp.com/album/bit">Real life by Stanley Brinks</a>
01 Real Life
02 Poppy Seed
03 Clean Slate
04 Oh Dorothy
05 Speak To Me
06 Do It For Me
07 That's Not Me
08 Dreamboat
09 Titanic
10 Out Of The Jar
All songs and sounds by Stanley Brinks.
Recorded and mixed by Kemo in February 2008.
01 Stanley Brinks
02 Idle Eyes
03 Lord Stanley's War Song
04 New Hampshire
05 My Experience With Truth
06 I Owe You
07 Song Of Hassan
08 Pease Pottage
09 Woman Of The Day
10 I'll Be With You
01 Stanley Brinks
02 Idle Eyes
03 Lord Stanley's War Song
04 New Hampshire
05 My Experience With Truth
06 I Owe You
07 Song Of Hassan
08 Pease Pottage
09 Woman Of The Day
10 I'll Be With You
<a href="http://stanleybrinks.bandcamp.com/album/cooks" _fcksavedurl="http://stanleybrinks.bandcamp.com/album/cooks">Silly old days by Stanley Brinks</a>
01 Silly Old Days
02 Rich Country Education
03 Don't Leave Me
04 Six On The Clock
05 Halfway Home
06 Travelling People
07 Beer In The Fridge
08 Tomato Juice
09 Stupidest Summer
10 French Leave
<a href="http://stanleybrinks.bandcamp.com/album/bops-a-zap" _fcksavedurl="http://stanleybrinks.bandcamp.com/album/bops-a-zap">Evil element by Stanley Brinks</a>
01 Evil Element
02 Time Change
03 When All Is Said And Done
04 Love Doesn't Die Of Old Age
05 Ghosts Like Me
06 Pumpkin
07 One Revolution Of The Moon
08 City Of Do
09 You Have To Have Someone
10 My Stool
All songs written, sung, played by Stanley Brinks.
Backing vocals on City of Do by the Wave Pictures.
Recorded by Stanley Brinks at Dresdner Studio.
Mixed by Stanley Brinks and Kemo in December 2006
<a href="http://stanleybrinks.bandcamp.com/album/loiters" _fcksavedurl="http://stanleybrinks.bandcamp.com/album/loiters">In the garden by Stanley Brinks</a>
01 In The Garden
02 First Desire Then Deserve
03 Your Sacrifice
04 All You Can Take
05 I Stood In The Doorway
06 Things Moving
07 Taking The Life Out Of This Town
08 Birds In The Wind
09 Just My Luck
10 It's Not Like I'm Sleeping Tonigh
All songs written, sung and played by Stanley Brinks.
Featuring the Wave Pictures on Just my Luck.
Recorded and mixed by Stanley Brinks and Kemo in January 2007
December 2006. Herman Düne release their Giant album on a major label and are all set to play some large venues when suddenly André leaves the band. He moves to Berlin where, at his own pace and with no outside pressures, he starts to record new material under the name Stanley Brinks.
But this more personal approach to music started many years ago for
Stanley/André, when in paralllel with his musical output with Herman Düne, he played solo gigs under his real name, or using the acronym AHD or even under one of a host of pseudonyms he'd taken (Ben Dope, Ben Haschish, Klaus Bong, John Trawling, John Andreas, Lord Stanislas...).
Stanley/André has always been rather reticent when it comes to engaging with technology, the internet or the music business. In complete autonomy, he produces around 4 albums a year, on his own label, Radical Baboon. This solitary approach has never precluded him achieving worldwide recognition, since in the past he's often toured his work around Europe, the UK and the United states to an appreciative audience.
By following this path, Stanley has managed to transform his ambitions to create music on a more personal scale into a veritable way of life: simple recordings that require little in the way of technical logistics, intimate live shows in small venues or even private appartments... a bohemian life of creativity and travel.
His first album under the name Stanley Brinks, Dank U, was included in
Inrocks top 50 best albms of 2008. And more recently, Stanley Brinks and the Wave Picture also elicited a strong critical response in the media. These are the only two albums which are officially distributed. All his other material is available either here, or at any concert Stanley plays.
Since 2011 plays with "the Kaniks", a norvegian band who's line up (banjo, mandoline, double bass, violin, trombone) fit perfectly with the amazing songwriting of Stanley Brinks. (Jamaica Inn, Aligator Twilight, Hafna Xita)
Videos
Stanley Brinks with Bergen Mandolinband
Grand Kjelleren, Egersund, NOR
La Vieja - 24 may 2009. Théâtre de l'L. Bruxelles.
Giant - 24 may 2009. Théâtre de l'L. Bruxelles.
Beer In The Fridge - 24 may 2009. Théâtre de l'L. Bruxelles.
Out of the jar - 24 may 2009. Théâtre de l'L. Bruxelles.
That lonesome feeling - 24 may 2009. Théâtre de l'L. Bruxelles.