Real Music Club presents Brother Twain

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The Real Music Club Presents ..... the Triangulation of the new; Brother Twain + Gail Storm Edmunds + Jack Pout

The name Brother Twain has been rumoured and whispered about on the Brighton scene, especially fans of Clowwns, for a few years now …... the time has arrived for the Rodes brothers, Etienne and Adrien, to launch their project and release their music, described as grown-up-psych-prog-baroque POP and characterised by chord changes, Fender guitars and strings and brass arrangements.

Adrien & Étienne Rodes hail from the historic city of Versailles, France, and have been Brighton dwellers since the early 2000s. Adrien busied himself with recording under the aliases Topo Gigio and Rec.Tangle for mancunian label Melodic Records, while Étienne joined Stereolab offshoot Imitation Electric Piano (with Stereolab Simon Johns and Joe Watson) for their second album, before becoming part of legendary Brighton garage band Clowwns. More recently both participated in the live rendition of Tim Smith’s Spratleys Japs album Pony.

United by blood and an undying love for a crafty tune, they decided to join forces and armed with a long list of tracks written over the last ten years and a collection of Fender guitars, they got to work in Adrien's Brighton seafront 6m/sq studio. Drawing influences from classic pop, less classic pop, krautrock, crooners, bluegrass and film music, Adrien and Etienne love circular melodies and unexpected chords. They recorded this first album with Miles Heathfield (Clowwns, Poppycocks) writing lyrics and singing main vocals, Damo Waters (Clowwns, Tim Smith’s Spratleys Japs, Electric Soft Parade, Field Music, SLUG) on drums, while hired hands played strings and brass. Adrien and Etienne played everything else and everyone chipped in for backing vocals. The Real Music Club is proud to host their first gig!

https://brothertwain.bandcamp.com/

Gail Storm Edmunds is a pioneer of a new musical style, cleverly mixing the sound of her strong, rich, powerful yet classical voice to simple, affective acoustic guitar to create the "Hippy Soul" sound. Blending beautifully with a definite meaning in her song writing - words that make sense cut deep with a catchy upbeat positive style.

Gail is the niece of Trombone legend, the late Rico Rodriquez so she grew up heavily influenced by reggae/ soul /jazz and blues. Gail has toured all over the world busking and gigging taking in famous venues such as London's Ronnie Scotts, 100 Club, Jazz Café, 12 Bar and the Troubadour, LAs Whiskey A Go-Go, New York's The Bottom Line and Café Largo as well as venues around the world in Goa, Kathmandu, Australia, Holland and Germany. As a session musician Gail has worked with Eddie Floyd, Terence Trent D'Arby, Heidi Berry and Sacha Stone to name a few. Her first album, 'Time Is The Master' was recorded in 1999 with producer Dale Davis (bassist to the beautiful late Amy Winehouse) and Richard Anstey. A happy Motherhood arrived in 2000 and Gail's album remains unreleased, but having played a number of festivals last year she is making a comeback, releasing the EP 'This is Hippie Soul', from which the track 'Fade Away' was extracted for our own 'A Tribute to Mark Reiser – Spaceage Artist' album, available on the Real Music Club bandcamp page.

https://soundcloud.com/gail-edmunds/gail-storm-surrender/recommended

Jack Pout is a BBC Folk award nominated singer/songwriter inspired by the revivalist musicians of the 60's and 70's. Jack's music carries nuances of numerous influences such as John Martyn, Duster Bennett, Bob Dylan and Chris Smither but with an individuality that makes his music inimitably his. His honest, and often deeply personal, style of writing is married to a love for humour. His live shows are known for their friendly and conversational style with audiences and feared for his love of puns. In 2015 he released his debut EP “Baksun” and he has just followed that up with the release of 'Chrono Manual Man'. Jack continues to play shows across the UK and Europe, playing and hosting stages at numerous festivals, and is recording an album with a full band line up.

https://jackpout.bandcamp.com/

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