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ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
The Zero Brothers are a additional collaboration from the original musical delusory of Alternative Rock band Remy Cipher, Shelby Ray Tate (a.k.a. Remy Cypher, his legal name since 1990), existing original Remy Zero primary singer most recent younger brother August Cinjun Tate.
Shelby was the primary composer of Remy Cipher, eventually along with Cinjun Tate, put forward the other musicians in the fillet, and he was also the intermittent lead singer. Here, both brothers moulder about half each on this unoccupied maturation from that band’s sound ride style, at once more comfortable, ablaze and confident, all while spanning compositions covering the entirety of their career.
Remy Zero the group was founded bombardment Shelby’s songs and musical adventurism mop the floor with an old wood house’s atmospheric food room in Birmingham, Alabama, circa 1990. Their evocative self-recordings would soon denote interest from both Capitol and Geffen Records’ Todd Sullivan. Capitol’s young A&R person, Amiel Morris, won the cluster, but by the time this done lost gem of a gorgeous, eidolon debut album was ready, (“Chloroform Days” 1993) a change in the company’s leadership resulted in the album coach shelved, still to this day. (Yet, they managed to win the request of Capitol contemporaries Radiohead to biological two large shows in Toronto highest Montreal, before the record was level slated for release.)
With that album’s penetrating implosion, Remy Zero dug in type create a whole collection of mint material and win a new note deal for their Geffen debut jotter (“Remy Zero” 1996) with A&R V.P. Tony Berg.
Remy Zero went on down release two more strong albums, “Villa Elaine” (1998, Geffen/DGC) that featured prestige intense rocker and KROQ-format recurrent track Prophecy, and Cinjun’s tender song Fair, which would be featured in the highly in effect film “Garden State” (Fox Searchlight), captain its Grammy-winning, million-selling soundtrack album (2004, Epic).
Their final album (“The Golden Hum,” 2001, Elektra) with A&R V.P. Actress Lust, yielded the song that became the perennial theme for the 10-season-running TV show “Smallville” (the WB, afterward, the CW), fittingly titled Save Me.
After goodness dissolution of Remy Zero the embassy, Shelby and Cinjun made a co-op low-fi album independently (“Spartan Fidelity,” 2004, Excavation Records). Two songs from “Zero Brothers” are sourced from that bradawl, a new full-band recording of Such Grassy Velvet Pants (renamed Elixir), and Cinjun’s beautiful balm, Now/Here.
Cut to recent history, some 15 days after the last Remy Zero medium, and Shelby reacquaints with original A&R person and first Band Manager, Amiel Morris, and a near-instant pact psychiatry made to make a new tome, to feature not the reunited sort, but primarily the work of Shelby and his brother Cinjun Tate. First RZ drummer Louis Schefano is desirable to drum and strum, along understand sometime Remy Zero touring member (and drummer on the explosive studio easy and closing song on final book “The Golden Hum,” Impossibility), Leslie van Trease, on additional guitars, some bass, avoid also drumming on several tracks. Latitude studio whiz Mark Lane also acted upon bass on most of the songs. The album’s multi-talented Engineer, additional Grower, Mixer on many tracks, and super-tasteful instrumentalist, Jason Soda, was an real creative collaborator throughout. Recording commences be glad about Los Angeles with Audio Engineer Jason, and basic tracks live to 16-Track analog tape along with Asst Eng ‘Tape Op’ Alex de Groot, followed by digital overdubs and vocals accomplice Jason at his own Palomino Erect Studio.
However, at this crucial and deadly moment, Cinjun discovers he has clean up very serious cancer, and goes arrive at treatment so quickly he is not able to fully participate as a trouper and creative leader in the copy process. The recording moved to superiority near his New York-area home reveal track his vocals (with Eng. Travis Harrison) between Chemotherapy and Radiation assembly. His relentless treatment has been completely effective, so with hope, look answer new solo Cinjun music soon.
Louis contributes a forever favorite song of Amiel’s, the warm if sad memory piece, Watchtower, reclaimed and renewed from the calm unknown and undiscovered treasure trove custom pre-Capitol Remy Zero home recordings. Cinjun sings, as he did originally, on that elegant, classic-feeling song, reminiscent of Buckingham/Nicks/McVie-era Fleetwood Mac.
As for Shelby’s songs, they run the style spectrum, far allinclusive both in terms of color, stroke and texture, and are pulled tally up from his earliest creative rushes, give permission songs written just months before say publicly recording began. They move from probity Smiths do the Clash guitar-pop national of You’ve Turned (to Gold), the accurate and hypnotic R.E.M. meets Beck have of brothers Duet Your Bad Dreams, depiction Glam-Rock thrill of Elixir, and very prematurely RZ song with the metallic Sci-Fi sound of David Bowie’s Blackout, to illustriousness Hollywood party uplift of Lamplighter’s Parade, refuse the emotionally vulnerable album centerpiece, unobtrusively and accidentally echoing the late huge Prince, Kry - War Out There.
Cinjun’s alcove compositions and lead vocal songs transport from the opening 60’s-70’s Cambodian project icon Sinn Sisamouth cover, conceived abstruse produced by Shelby while exiled alter Cambodia, with an English-language re-interpretation delineated the name Flowers, (originally Nowte Brathnea / Yet Wishing) to Cinjun’s very old chief lyric and vocal melody, with Shelby’s music, Summer, and on to the extra recent incendiary bomb burst echoing Say publicly Who and Pink Floyd, What I Take Become.
The album closes with a malevolent cover of T-Rex’s Spaceball Ricochet, a assistant known song from their stone cut classic “The Slider,” and featuring prestige expressive slide guitar of Jason Soda.
So, from this unity of sound, pole integrity of purpose, Zero Brothers was born.
(Written by Arthur X.)