Martin Martini and the Bone Palace Orchestra

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Without Grace 04:10 Tools
April 04:46 Tools
Dream Until you Die 03:18 Tools
Take Your Skin off and Dance 03:43 Tools
Stock Exchange 03:32 Tools
Merrily We Roll Along 04:47 Tools
Poor John 07:24 Tools
Get On The Moth 06:25 Tools
Take This Waltz 04:45 Tools
Clowns Will Eat Me 11:13 Tools
That's What It's All About 02:59 Tools
The World Is Broken 04:57 Tools
Party 'till the Petrol Runs Out 01:49 Tools
Monkey & Sardine 00:00 Tools
Dancing Up The Walls 00:00 Tools
Knife 02:46 Tools
We're All Gonna Die 04:42 Tools
Dusty Love & Bedlam 04:15 Tools
I Caught Jesus Sleeping In 09:10 Tools
Bicycles 01:37 Tools
Lonely Girl 04:28 Tools
Drank All My Money 00:00 Tools
We're All Just Monkeys 00:00 Tools
The Men Who Don't Fit In 00:00 Tools
Wildman 05:17 Tools
The Ship Is Sinking 05:17 Tools
No More 07:34 Tools
Fitzroy Fitzroy 04:49 Tools
Out of the Ground 03:26 Tools
Jesus Ain't Too Far Away 03:26 Tools
Just Monkeys 03:26 Tools
Something In The Air Tonight 03:26 Tools
Party 'till the Petrol Runs Ou 01:49 Tools
Take You Skin Off And Dance 01:49 Tools
Take Off Your Skin and Dance 03:44 Tools
Martin Martini and the Bone Palace Orchestra 03:44 Tools
Party Till The Petrol Runs Out 03:44 Tools
On the stock Exchange 03:44 Tools
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‘Categories can go hang! Martini has a winning way!’ The Evening Standard, London Martin Martini doesn’t really trust humans – he prefers animals and chess. ‘I love a game where a horse can eat a bishop. There should be more of that. I love a game where a queen takes pawn. I think all queens should take a bit of pawn. The world would be a much better place if there was just a little more pawn…” His unconventional approach to life mirrors itself in his music. Nobody explained to him that you couldn’t make an orchestra with just a few freakishly talented misfits playing clarinet, trombone, guitar, bass, drums and keys. So in defiance he formed the Bone Palace Orchestra; fusing grooves of jazz, blues, and matchless show-tunes; with good old fashioned rock’n’roll. Bur Martini is uncomfortable with being reduced to such labels: ‘If you tell people you’re gypsy rock, they expect gypsy rock.’ So Martini avoids such expectations and seeks to keep his critics guessing. Indeed, such a reductive term fails to capture the gist of music that makes you want to dance, cry, laugh and yell in equal measures. Martin Martini & The Bone Palace Orchestra’s second foray into the studio, We’re All Just Monkeys 2008, marks a progression; a real maturity and tightness in their work. Musically they have traded some of their chaos for depth but sacrificed none of their subversion. From a love story between a monkey and a sardine (Monkey and Sardine) to a song that Eddie Perfect has described as the kind of song you’d slow dance to at the wedding of a couple you just know aren’t going to make it (Knife), Martini’s music forces you to really listen rather than just let you take it in passively like a passenger. And like Goerge Orwell, the man he quotes in the liner notes of the album, he refuses to just sit down and shut up. Such an irreverent approach is bound to alienate people. But then, he never did want to waste his life being one of those men that just fitted in. When asked whether his brash, passionate, and at times obnoxious style might offend people, and whether this bothers him, he simply smiles his big serial-killer smile and says: ‘we’re all just monkeys…’ ‘There's nothing like Martin Martini out there right now - he is his own genre - and it's about time the rest of the world caught on. A truly frightening genius is at work here.’ Beat Magazine ‘Here's mongrel music - my favourite kind- from Martini and his merry misfits. Playful, angry and perverse.’ Paul Kelly ‘Fat Vaudevillian Rock n Roll….. Expect to be seduced and appalled in equal measure.’ The Age ‘The most original band of this or any era, while they could be from anytime in history one thing is certain. They are not from this dimension. 5 stars.’ Triple J Radio more info at their myspace Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.