"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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
Décembre 2006. Alors que Herman Düne sort l'album Giant sur une major et s'apprête à jouer dans de grandes salles, André quitte le groupe. Il s'installe à Berlin où il enregistre, tranquillement, sans pression, des disques sous le nom de Stanley Brinks.
Une façon de faire qui était déjà la sienne quand il menait parallèlement à son engagement dans le groupe, une activité musicale en solo sous son propre nom, sous les initiales AHD ou encore sous un tas de pseudonymes (Ben Dope, Ben Haschish, Klaus Bong, John Trawling, John Andreas, Lord Stanislas...).
Stanley/André est plutôt rétif à la technologie, au web, au business. Il produit environ 4 albums par an en totale autarcie, sur son propre label, Radical Baboon. Cela n'empêche pas une certaine reconnaissance internationale, déjà assez ancienne puisque l'artiste a souvent tourné en Europe, au Royaume-Uni, aux Etats-Unis...
Il perpétue ainsi la concrétisation de son envie de vivre la musique à une échelle humaine : des enregistrements demandant une logistique simple, des concerts dans des petites salles, voire même des appartements privés. Aventure, bohème et voyages.
Malgré cette façon de faire aux antipodes des règles tacites de l'époque, André rencontre depuis longtemps une certaine reconnaissance, un certain succès. Dank U, son premier album sous le patronyme Stanley Brinks a ainsi été classé par les Inrocks dans leur liste des 50 meilleurs albums de l'année 2008. Plus récemment, Stanley Brinks & the Wave Pictures a lui aussi suscité un grand enthousiasme médiatique. Ce sont ses seuls albums officiellement distribués. Tous les autres sont vendus ici même, ou lors des nombreux concerts que livre l'artiste.
Depuis début 2011 Stanley Brinks est accompagné par les Kaniks, groupe Norvégien au line-up inédit: Contrebasse, violon, mandoline banjo et trombone. (Cfr les albums 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.
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