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  Turin Brakes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Turin Brakes are a modern folk pop duo comprising Olly Knights and Gale Paridjanian, hailing from Balham, London.
Source Records would eventually release two more EPs, The State of Things EP and Fight or Flight, prompting NME to proclaim "Turin Brakes inhabit a space which is entirely their own, fully-formed and brutally emotive...
Turin Brakes have often been compared to many of the New Acoustic Movement's bands spawned in the late 90's such as Elbow, Starsailor, and the Norwegian band Kings of Convenience, whose 2001 album entitled Quiet Is the New Loud is a helpful indicator of the band's sound.
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 Amazon.co.uk: The Optimist LP: Music: Turin Brakes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Turin Brakes is the name under which British duo Ollie Knights and Gale Paridjanian have been quietly acquiring a cult following prior to the release of this, their debut album.
Turin Brakes' instrumentation is mostly kept to an ascetic minimum, and it says much for the songs collected here that this is generally all they need.
Turin Brakes are at their best in their quiet, reflective moments: the opening track, "Feeling Oblivion", is a supremely pretty song, and "State Of Things" is an adroit summoning of the ghost of Bob Dylan circa Freewheelin'.
www.amazon.co.uk /Optimist-LP-Turin-Brakes/dp/B0000594XF   (1222 words)

  
 Turin Brakes - Music Downloads - Online
Bio: Turin Brakes is a modern folk pop duo that hails from Britain.
One of those sessions became their first release, the EP The Door, which was released on Anvil Records in 1999 and only in the U.K. Among the influences of Turin Brakes' early years were Sebadoh, Truman's Water, Prince, and the Black Crowes.
Turin Brakes has often been compared to such quietcore bands as Coldplay, Travis, and the Norwegian band the Kings of Convenience, whose 2001 album entitled Quiet Is the New Loud describes Turin Brakes well too.
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 Book Details from The Dog Scene   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Turin Brakes is one of those excellent British bands that hasn't gotten much attention in the American mainstream yet, along with the guys in South, Elbow and Mercury Rev. And after their shimmery space-folk album "Ether Song," their second, we can see that this is totally undeserved.
Old fans of Turin Brakes, like myself, will find that 'Jackinabox' has a lot more of the acoustic-pop lustre that started to creep in on tracks like 'Pain Killer', from their 2002 album, 'Ether Song'.
Turin Brakes is one of those excellent British bands that hasnand#x27;t gotten much attention in the American mainstream yet, along with the guys in South, Elbow and Mercury Rev. And after their shimmery space-folk album "Ether Song," their second, we can see that this is totally undeserved.
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 Turin Brakes
Turin Brakes are almost ready to release their new album.
Clapham based musicians Turin Brakes are to perform their hits at Canary Wharf tube station to help launch a scheme to promote legal busking on the underground.
Turin Brakes’ eagerly awaited second album, provisionally entitled Ether Song is due for release February 2003.
www.myclapham.co.uk /clapham/celebs&gossip-turin-brakes.htm   (524 words)

  
 Turin Brakes – Music at Last.fm
Turin Brakes are a modern folk pop duo comprising two friends Olly Knights and Gale Paridjanian, hailing from Balham, London, signed to the Source label.
Turin Brakes have often been compared to many of the New Acoustic Movement's bands spawned in the late 90's such as Elbow, Starsailor, I Am Kloot (who actually were a s...
Turin Brakes at The Charlotte The Charlotte Leicester
www.last.fm /music/Turin+Brakes   (440 words)

  
 Turin Brakes: Ether Song - PopMatters Music Review
Turin Brakes are Olly Knights and Gale Paridjanian, friends since their primary school days in Balham, South London.
But Turin Brakes seem to have taken it very seriously indeed, and now they are making it perfectly clear that they are trying to escape that "noose".
Hoffer couldn't be bothered to go and record the album in Britain's second-rate studios, so Turin Brakes had to go to him and record in L.A. He then had the final say as to which songs would make the cut.
popmatters.com /music/reviews/t/turinbrakes-ether.shtml   (972 words)

  
 turin brakes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
TURIN BRAKES 5 Mile (These Are The Days) -- (UK 4 track CD2 EP inc. Stone Thrown - acoustic)...
TURIN BRAKES 5 Mile (These Are The Days) -- (UK 7" limited edition b/w Self Help - acoustic)...
TURIN BRAKES 5 Mile (These Are The Days) -- (UK CD new single inc. Painkiller - acoustic version)...
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 Amazon.com: The Optimist LP: Music: Turin Brakes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Turin Brakes inhabit a space which is entirely their own, fully formed and brutally emotive.
Turin Brakes is flagged as the next thing in the British invasion on the heels of Travis, Coldplay and the like.
Turin Brakes is the duo of Olly Knights (vocals/gtrs) and Gale Paridjanian (gtrs), sprouting accoustic gtr-based songs telling tales on the walk of life.
www.amazon.com /Optimist-LP-Turin-Brakes/dp/B0000594XF   (1179 words)

  
 Turin Brakes - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
Turin Brakes found and kitted out their studio — a dream since they had first started the band — last spring.
Turin Brakes drummer Rob says that when he listens to JackInABox with his eyes shut, he imagines the band recording it while enjoying an enormous panoramic view of the PacificÂ… “And then he comes down here and we’re sitting in this dusty, weird underground bunker with a smelly drain!” laughs Paridjanian.
Turin Brakes: "Fishing for a Dream" This lovely video from the Turin Brakes has great songwriting, smooth harmonies, and melodies that get stuck in your head all day.
music.download.com /turinbrakes/3600-8605_32-100072395.html   (1255 words)

  
 Boston's Weekly Dig: Music: Turin Brakes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Turin Brakes have been waiting in the wings while Radiohead and Coldplay have dominated as your favorite dark, brooding British souls.
Now it is time for Turin Brakes to feel your pain.
Though one can’t help but draw comparisons to the aforementioned artists, Turin Brakes separate themselves from the rest with the nasal crooning of Olly Knights.
www.weeklydig.com /articles/turin_brakes   (97 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Jackinabox: Music: Turin Brakes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
But just because Turin Brakes is experimenting with rock doesn't mean that they've abandoned their past sound.
Turin Brakes seems to get a long way till their first album and i think they started to get out of depression and write songs about different things.This album contains 12 great songs and is a every penny worth item who likes urban folk pop.
Still, Turin Brakes is one of my faves and I hope to see them headline a tour in the states this year.
www.amazon.com /Jackinabox-Turin-Brakes/dp/B0009EK69C   (1711 words)

  
 Turin Brakes - Biography - AOL Music
Turin Brakes is a modern folk pop duo that hails from Britain.
Olly Knights and Gale Paridjanian were friends in elementary school and decided to try out for the cathedral choir because it would perform in front of the Queen of England, which it eventually did.
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 Splendid E-zine reviews: Turin Brakes
The Optimist LP surprised me. I'd not heard of Turin Brakes before this disc arrived in the mail, and somehow my quick perusal of its trappings went no deeper than the "Brakes" part of their name and the Astralwerks logo on the CD case.
Turin Brakes is as far from breakbeats as is physically possible (Well, there must be some species of indigenous nose fluting that's further away, but you get the idea.).
Remote from anything electronic, Turin Brakes represents a sort of acoustic, folkie renaissance.
www.splendidezine.com /reviews/jun-11-01/turin.html   (438 words)

  
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 Turin Brakes News
TALIAN JOB: Turin Brakes WHEN most bands come back from a tour of America, it's normally with grandiose plans of stadiums, backdrops and amps being turned up to 11.
With their newly released third album, Jack in a Box, Turin Brakes hope to shed the "soft" tag they received courtesy of their Mercury Prize-nominated 2001 debut, The Optimist.
Turin Brakes are ready to spring their latest album on the world this summer.
www.topix.net /who/turin-brakes?scoring=r   (258 words)

  
 ETHER SITE - A TURIN BRAKES FANSITE
Turin Brakes have announced two more dates for their tour in November 2006.
In the category "slightly related to Turin Brakes": Zach Braff's film The Last Kiss enters the top 5 in its opening weekend of best viewed films, grossing over 4.67 million (USD), which is not too high, considering the fact that the film costed 20 million.
Turin Brakes are in studio recording their 4th album.
www.turinbrakes.nl   (1266 words)

  
 Turin Brakes - PopMatters Concert Review
Overcome by frustration when the original spring date for this tour was postponed indefinitely, Jean painted, in oil with her fingers, a portrait of the Turin Brakes duo; she presented this labor of love to them earlier today, at an in-store performance, along with a fervent request for this, her favorite of their songs.
After all, as far as I have known, the appeal of Turin Brakes comes in their ability to meld perfectly into one's solitude.
The close of the first encore inspires the same reaction, and Turin Brakes come out again, to perform Jean's song and a little known (except for among this crowd, of course) B-side.
www.popmatters.com /music/concerts/t/turin-brakes-030620.shtml   (1006 words)

  
 Turin Brakes - JackInABox : album review
Come And Go Turin Brakes, the South London duo who updated Simon and Garfunkel's guitars and harmonies formula for the 21st century, now release their third studio album, JackInABox.
My first hearing of any Turin Brakes song was years ago when two girls on a radio competition phone-in covered Underdog (Save Me) - and on the basis of their rendition I bought The Optimist LP because the quality of Turin Brakes' songwriting still managed to shine through.
If anything, the lads appear to have honed their craft in the intervening years, playing to their obvious musical strengths of acoustic guitar and voice but improving their lyrics and mixing up their style a little.
www.musicomh.com /albums4/turin-brakes-3.htm   (643 words)

  
 Turin Brakes - Back With New Album, Single And Live Dates - Fishing For A Dream Video Streams
See Turin Brakes at a special secret show May / June as part of the set up for their new album.
JackInABox, the third album from Turin Brakes, will be released by Source Records on 30 th May. The album will be preceded by a single, Fishing For A Dream, released 16 th May.
Turin Brakes are Olly Knights and Gale Paridjanian.
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 Turin Brakes ‘Ether Song’
While 2001’s ‘The Optimist LP’ failed to deliver on the promise of their early EPs, Turin Brakes, sophomore album is the sound of Ollie Knights and Gale Paridjanian coming of age.
From the chiming drive of openers ‘Blue Hour’ and ‘Average Man’ to the sheer melodic exuberance of ‘Clear Blue Air’ and current single ‘Pain Killer’, these are songs that in their scale and scope are right up there with peak period U2.
No danger of that for Turin Brakes — having nimbly escaped the doomed ‘New Acoustic Movement’ last year, here Ollie and Gale bolster their twin guitars with keys, strings and some nifty blues slide.
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 Turin Brakes
Turin Brakes soon began playing full-band live shows at the Reading and Leeds festivals.
Earlier this year the boys returned with the tune-packed ‘Jack In The Box’ that displayed the more upbeat and sunny side to the Turin Brakes partnership.
The sublime ‘Fishing For A Dream’ [Dial-Up] [Broadband] trickles along perfectly and is perhaps Turin Brakes finest song to date.
www.xfm.co.uk /Article.asp?id=103797   (251 words)

  
 MattRock » Turin Brakes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Turin Brakes is a duo from England, who began playing together in elementary school.
But Turin Brakes joined a choir in elementary school that would allow them to sing before the queen of England - and they did just that.
Now I know Turin Brakes is nothing new or rare.
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 Biography and Discography - Turin Brakes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Below you will find previously reviewed links to sites containing music and band biographies for Turin Brakes along with any artist, band or singers discography.
If you need additional biography news you can also get Turin Brakes Bio Books by visiting the bookstore.Thanks for the support and email us or the other music sites directly with your questions.
First find Turin Brakes then you can find sites with an accurate discography and biography.
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 Turin Brakes : Infos, paroles, photos
Turin Brakes est à situer entre pop-rock et folk, pas loin de Travis ou du Coldplay des débuts.
Turin Brakes - The Optimist LP - Popnews
Chronique de l'album The Optimist du groupe Turin Brakes, deux anglais signés auprès du label Source.
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 Turin Brakes t-shirts and other merchandise. Turin Brakes Official T-shirts and funny t-shirts from the undead.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Turin Brakes Official T-shirts and funny t-shirts from the undead.
After many requests for Turin Brakes t-shirts and other official merchandise we have finally got our act together.
To minimise on download time we have split all of Turin Brakes's merchandise into groups, at the bottom of the page you can select individual categories or select all of the items available from Turin Brakes.
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 Turin Brakes Average Man ringtones   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
If you are interested in other Turin Brakes lyrics or Average Man lyrics in addition to Turin Brakes ringtones, we suggest that you search the databases of two web pages specializing in song lyrics, Lyrics.com, Sing365.com or in a search engine like Google, MSN, Wisenut or Yahoo.
Almost all songs by Turin Brakes as well as Average Man exist in mp3 format and as ringtones.
If you encounter problems with the setup of your mobile phone or want to check if your phone is polyhonic ringtones or mp3 enabled, or have other issues, you will find more information on the web pages of the mobile phone manufacturers Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Siemens, Motorola, or Samsung.
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 Turin Brakes: Jackinabox: Pitchfork Record Review
Turin Brakes separated themselves from similarly delicate UK bands Athlete and Travis by avoiding unvarying, schmaltzy vocals-- and on the first parts of Jackinabox that distinction holds true.
In between these two extremes, Turin Brakes throw it on cruise control.
In a sense Turin Brakes do little wrong on Jackinabox aside from the occasional gooey outbursts of gaiety.
pitchforkmedia.com /article/record_review/22705/Turin_Brakes_Jackinabox   (374 words)

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