The Possum Wakes At Night
Preservation
FOLK
The 2nd album for rising Melbourne cult artist OLIVER MANN, who is the brother of PADDY MANN, aka GRAND SALVO. Debut album ‘Oliver Mann Sings’ garnered solid press and airplay nationally.
Oliver’s voice can shoot from a booming baritone to a soprano with an elasticity that plays into the arrangements of his songs, shaping their folkish hue into boundless realms. It’s a place to imagine drums that sound like fireworks, classic rock and classical timbres taking flight together, operatic lament couched in blues feeling and gospel jigs to light up any lounge room.
Appearing on the album are THE DIRTY THREE’s JIM WHITE, KARL SCULLIN (the man behind KES and KES BAND), harpsichord player DAVID O’BRIEN and Grand Salvo. No less than three soprano singers accompany Oliver throughout as well. |
INPRESS “Mann possesses a rich and arresting voice... the comparisons to Antony and The Johnsons will be inevitable but Mann’s variant singing styles also remind of Paul Robeson and the ghost of the beloved German pop/opera diva Klaus Nomi.”
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MP3 ALBUM |
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$16.99 |
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CD |
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$24.95 |
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