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Was It What It Was Like? Victor Sings The Songs Of Stanley Brinks

by Viq

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Intro 01:12
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Il Fantasma 03:40
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Interlude 00:50
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Take Me 03:49
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My Stool 04:10
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Interlude II 01:25
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Orange Juice 03:26
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Without You 04:21
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about

I only know so much about the elusive Stanley Brinks: He lives in Berlin, releases a considerable number of songs each year, and regularly tours Europe's most intimate venues. I once smoked a cigarette with him in Tübingen and was too shy to start a proper conversation.
A stateless 21st-century Calypsonian, Stanley Brinks sings the blues, claps, hoots, yodels, digs, loiters, cooks and horns in, blurring the boundaries between high and low, the global and the local, grand epics and daily urban life. His aim: Sincerity. No post-whatever gibberish in this omniscient storyteller. Brinks coaxes folk music out of its heyday, anchors it in the present and leads it to the future, tirelessly rehashing its mechanisms and codes. Peacefully, song by song (or at least in the thousand or so that I have collected), he writes the refined manifesto of his own tinkered avant-garde, letting us hope that one still can be an artist/bricoleur in our time.
If there's a method to Brinks' madness, it would be one of disobedience and humility. Speak your heart, says Lord Stanislas (one of his numerous avatars), resist. Make art, make love. See, and do. Read, but not too much.
And take another for the road.

credits

released January 6, 2015

All songs by Stanley Brinks (with The Wave Pictures on 5, 8 & 13; with The Kaniks on 7), except "I Am Free, Single And Disengaged" (Rufus Callender). Intro and interludes are short texts by Stan read by Francesca Whitlum-Cooper and Alex Manthei. Evan Laflamme plays the soprano saxophone on tracks 9, 13 & 15. Recorded live by Damien Combier at Fran and Alex's apartment in Paris on the 26th of November, 2014. Artwork by Winona Linn.

You can and should support Stanley Brinks by buying his music and attending his shows: stanleybrinks.bandcamp.com

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Viq Paris, France

Congolese rumba dork. I like forklifts and abandoned loos.

I also do music with Flora Hibberd:

flora-hibberd.bandcamp.com

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