Take a ride into the life of Thomas Alva Edison

by Buddy & The Huddle

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1.	Announcement N°1 01:31	info	buy track
2.	Edison N°1 01:56	info	buy track
3.	Port Huron, Detroit & back 04:54	info	buy track
4.	72 hours 05:34	info	buy track
5.	72 hours gone 04:20	info	buy track
6.	Little postcards 04:59	info	buy track
7.	Edison N°3 02:05	info	buy track
8.	Bright lights big city 05:06	info	buy track
9.	Santa Claus lives in your phonograph 03:01	info	buy track
10.	Announcement N°2 01:19	info	buy track
11.	The wizard of Menlo Park 02:35	info	buy track
12.	Being deaf 03:33	info	buy track
13.	They call it Black Maria 02:43	info	buy track
14.	Carmencita 03:24	info	buy track
15.	Fluxus Indians 05:18	info	buy track
16.	The kiss 04:35	info	buy track
17.	Edison N°2 01:37	info	buy track
18.	Announcement N°3 01:19	info	buy track
19.	You put my strength in a box 03:21	info	buy track
20.	The big fire 02:45	info	buy track
21.	Roberta & Dorello 04:49	info	buy track
22.	Electric chair 02:38	info	buy track
23.	Edison N°4 02:10	info	buy track

about

Those of you who are not Germans should not stop reading this. The fact that this album was recorded by two south German social workers and their local musician friends should not put you off.

Because this is special. A trip.

And we invite you to join us on that trip: „Roll up, rooooooll up, Ladies and Gentlemen, step right in and see the amazing life of the world’smost famous inventor Thomas Alva Edison ...“

A few years ago Buddy & The Huddle recorded a debut album that was inspired by Cormac McCarthy´s gothic novel “Suttree”, which the British Uncut magazine called: “The result sounds like a cross between early Captain Beefheart and Ry Cooder´s evocative soundtrack to Paris, Texas.” Next was the “Short Stories...” album which showcased the expressive pipes of singer Andrea Bibel.

Never shy of big concepts Roland Kopp and Michael Ströll (who are Buddy & The Huddle) wanted to record an album about the genius, famous inventor and weird human being Thomas Alva Edison. Again travelled (they visited Knoxville for “Suttree” vibes) to the USA to check out original places, the Edison museum, to gather inspiration and to start recording at the Knitting Factory Studios in New York.

”Take A Ride Into The Life Of Thomas Alva Edison” consists of 23 songs, fragments, ideas, soundscapes – ranging from the Lambchop-ian “Little Postcards” (about the invention of the telegraph) to -style instrumentals, from powerhouse R`n´B in “Bright Lights Big City” (about illuminating New York with his lightbulbs) to downright noisy interludes. They sound like The Shadows on bad acid, like a Motown band with acoustic instruments, like Tom Waits fronting a Lounge Orchestra, they combine all kinds of different styles of American There is a lot happening within these 76 minutes and you will be surprised more than once. Guaranteed!

The CD comes with a beautiful 12-page booklet explaining the different phases in Edison´s lives right up to the invention of the electric chair. Also available as well-packaged double-vinyl!

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released January 1, 2000

Recorded at Knitting Factory/NYC by Rob McCabe and at Blue Beat Recording Neumarkt/Bavaria by Michael Ströll.
Mixed and mastered at Powerstation, Cadolzburg by Lothar Schrems, Michael Ströll and Roland Kopp

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Buddy & The Huddle Nürnberg, Germany

Buddy & The Huddle basically is a 2-piece band and a cast of revolving characters based in the South of
Germany. Their debut album “Suttree” was a soundtrack for a movie that never happened and their work “Take A Ride Into The Life Of Thomas Alva Edison” ended up being a project involving over 30 musicians and putting the life of the genius inventor and weird human being to music. ... more

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