Bloggers review Celestina

Various bloggers are starting to review Celestina.

To read them click HERE.

Song Of The Day 10/30

Sepiachord chooses Cult With No Name's "You Know Me Better Tan I Know Myself" for Song of the Day 10/30/08

It's an achingly beautiful piece with Blaine L. Reininger (Tuxedomoon) featured on a soulful violin lead

Nosferatu for Halloween?

Just an idea for Halloween this year: 

Rent Nosferatu (with Jackson Del Rey's score) from Netflix

Or for US residents, you can purchase the DVD HERE by October 28th, and have it shipped in time for Halloween!

Sepiachord adds "Flying Ant Day"

October 19, 2008

Sepiachord adds Cult With No Name's  "Flying Ant Day"  to their playlist

New Trakwerx Releases

Nervous Constellations isn't just a new album, it's a neo album reflecting the recording technology and topography of the times.

17 Pygmies/The 17th Pygmy stalwarts Jeff Brenneman (guitars) and Dirk Doucette (drums), both alumni of the White Glove Test, ventured out of their California homes to meet Veronica Ashe (vocals) and Tory Troutman (various), of Oklahoma-based alternative rockers whose latest band, the college favorites judyjudyjudy, expanded upon the musical etherpop terrain laid out by their previous bands, Animated Mayfly Festival and Exapno Mapcase. Somewhere, the twain did meet, and together they drove in the golden spike that is Nervous Constellations. 

Listen to audio samples and pre-order CD HERE

Hot on the heels of their 2007 debut 'Paper Wraps Rock" Trakwerx is proud to give you Cult With No Name's second helping in "Careful What You Wish For". 

On this CD, Cult With No Name takes positive delight in exploiting their influences, complete with a stunning version of The Stranglers' "Golden Brown" and some quite remarkable violin from Tuxedomoon legend Blaine L. Reininger on "You Know Me Better Than I Know Myself". And as if one violin wasn't enough, "She B.C." gives you seven guitars...all at the same time, playing identically. Now who wouldn't wish for that.

Listen to audio samples and pre-order the CD HERE.

17 Pygmies' lastest release, Celestina, drawing from influences as diverse as A Saucerful of Secrets era Pink Floyd, Space Oddity era David Bowie, This Mortal Coil as well as film composers Jerry Goldsmith and Bernard Herrmann, Celestina seamlessly welds classical film scores and '60s era psychedelia with 4AD style vocals to create a simultaneously beautiful and haunting universe. It would not be out of the question for fans to compare Celestina as a conitnuation of the 17 Pygmies signature sound that was first explored and presented on their classic 1984 release Jedda By The Sea. 

Listen to audio samples and pre-order the CD HERE

Read the short story written by Jackson Del Rey: CELESTINA STORY

OFFICIAL RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

For interview and booking requests or review copies please contact:

Meg Maryatt at Trakwerx

info@trakwerx.com

17 Pygmies play "Jenny Says" at Spaceland

Click on the title above to view the YouTube video of "Jenny Says" performed by 17 Pygmies.

August 5th
Spaceland
International Pop Overthrow

For more videos check out YouTube or our myspace page: www.myspace.com/17Pygmies

17 Pygmies return to play IPO Tuesday Aug. 5th

17th Pygmies Return for Rare Live Performance at International Pop Overthrow

WHAT: International Pop Overthrow LA
WHERE: Spaceland. 1717 Silver Lake Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026, 323-661-4380
WHEN: Tuesday, August 5, 2008 at 8:30 p.m.
COST: $8.00/21+

LOS ANGELES - International Pop Overthrow (or IPO, as its friends call
it) is a pop music festival celebrating its tenth year in Los Angeles.
There have also been IPO festivals held in Chicago, New York, Boston,
San Francisco, Vancouver, Toronto, and in Liverpool, England (at the
world-famous Cavern Club).

Each International Pop Overthrow features between 100-180 of the
world's best pop bands. The purpose of IPO is two-fold: to give every
worthy band who'd like to play their music in a festival atmosphere
the chance to do so, and to bring honest, delightful pop music the
attention it so richly deserves.

Featured at the upcoming Los Angeles IPO is the legendary post-punk
ensemble 17 Pygmies, featuring Jackson Del Rey (founding member of
influential L.A. band Savage Republic). 17 Pygmies will be performing
brand new songs for this show.

Band leader Jackson Del Rey has recently received world-wide attention
for his DVD releases featuring original soundtracks for the silent
films "Battleship Potemkin" and "Nosferatu." Recent press includes a
six-page spread in Blow Up Magazine (Italy) and a feature in Wound
Magazine (U.K.), both including in-depth interviews with Jackson where
he discusses composing film scores and returning to music making after
a 17-year hiatus. 17 Pygmies, 17 years? If we know Jackson, this is no
accident!

Of the 17 Pygmies' live show in Boston last year, Lucid Culture raved
"If it's possible for a sometimes quirky, often transcendentally
beautiful art-rock band to slay, The 17 Pygmies slayed, bringing to
mind other great, artsy jangle bands like the Church, the Byrds or
Fairport Convention. Mixing major and minor chords, verses that built
slowly to towering refrains and then subsided again, the band held the
audience spellbound. If the live show is any indication, the new album
must be amazing. This is a band you should get to know."

Sharing the IPO bill on August 5th at Spaceland are: Kristian Hoffman,
17 Pygmies, Saucy Monky, Io Perry, Aaron David Gleason and The
Holliston Stops

The 2007 releases "Ballade Of Tristram's Last Harping" and "13
Blackbirds" were well-received and left no doubt that Jackson Del Rey
is back to stay. A new experimental record "Celestina" is slated to be
released this fall.

For more 17 Pygmies and on the Trakwerx label, visit
http://www.trakwerx.blogspot.com
http://www.trakwerx.com/label.htm
http://www.myspace.com/17pygmies

For Spaceland info, visit http://clubspaceland.com

Jackson Del Rey is available for interviews, and review copies of 17
Pygmies' "Ballade of Tristram's Last Harping", "13 Blackbirds" & "Celestina" are
available upon request. Contact Meg Maryatt at Trakwerx,
info@trakwerx.com

KDNK plays The 17th Pygmy!

KDNK Cummunity Radio plays music from Ballade Of Tristram's Last Harping

Craig Silberman brings you an eclectic blend of music every other Friday night from 7-9 pm

Songs like "Just Like Brian Jones" and "Dig It! (Quentin's Theme)" have made their playlist

Tune in: 88.1 • 88.3 • 88.5 • 94.9 • 93.5 • 94.7

WESN plays "New Generation"

THE QUAKER GOES DEAF
WESN 88.1 FM Normal, IL.
6-8pm 6/13/08

17th Pygmy—New Generation—Ballade Of Tristram's Last Harping (Trakwerx)
hypnotic, psychedelic pop w/ a 60's feel a la early Pink Floyd, 13th Floor Elevators;
they released 4 albums as "17 Pygmies 1984-2007", features Jackson Del Rey, an
original member of Savage Republic, from Los Angeles

Blame It On Oil gets airplay on WFSS

Saturday, April 05, 2008

WFSS 91.9 The Planet’s Playlist 03/01/08

WFSS 91.9 NPR stream live www.wfss.org
The Planet 03/01/08 Saturday 2pm till 4pm
Host: Peggy on The Planet
Request Line: 910-672-2650
Cell: 910-494-2913

Cult With No Name - Blame It On Oil