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"we can dope them up with hope and show them where it grows"

BIOGRAPHY

Darla Farmer arose from the kind of disenchantment one can only experience when living in the musical mold known as Nashville. This septet is a rousing douse of musical Discordia, who makes it their goal to sonically please, displease, and please again.

Inspired by Tom Waits, The Blood Brothers, Man Man and other musical outfits alike, their arrangements include guitar, bass, drums and vocals, topped with a blasting horn section, piano and violin. Using this instrumentation to their advantage, Darla Farmer is simultaneously tumultuous and triumphant; chaotic and organized.

Darla Farmer’s first full-length album, “Rewiring the Electric Forest,” (2008 Paper Garden Records) creates a musical mattress made of rock and roll springs, pop comfort, and industrial firmness accentuated by a pillow of psychedelic cerebral focus. Their music leads the listener to a bed of insightful melody, but not without the necessary turmoil to keep you up at night.

Whether the topic is apocalyptic or the distortion of history, the desperation of being stuck within the cogs of mechanical routine, or the plaguing sensations of dreams, Darla Farmer manages to marry word to sound in a beautifully grotesque matrimony that is both curiously endearing and frighteningly absurd.




You stream or download Darla Farmer's discography at:

http://darlafarmer.bandcamp.com/

LEVEL

professional

GENRES

Rock , World/Latin/Other

PUBLISHING COMPANY

Various, I own my own publishing

Contact

Management: Dennis Stilger
Publishing: Various.
Label: Paper Garden Records: Bryan@papergardenrecords.com
Booking: Eric Anderson
Administrative: Bryan Vaughn bryan@papergardenrecords.com

P.R.O.

ASCAP

INSTRUMENTS

b3 organ / bass / drums / electric guitar / keyboard / percussion / piano / synthesizers / tambourine / trombone / trumpet / violin / vocals

INFLUENCES

musical influences:

Tom Waits, The Beatles, Man Man, Pixies, James Brown, Built To Spill, The Zombies, Queen, David Bowie, Elliott Smith, Bryan Scary & The Shredding Tears, A Band Of Bees, The Blood Brothers, Dr. Dre, Dr. Dog, The Starlight Mints, The 5th Dimension

other influences:

The Eternal Battle of Good & Evil. The Internal Battle of Good & Evil. The Human Condition. Vanity. The Natural World. The Mechanical World. The Imaginary World. The Age of Aquarius.

I AM INTERESTED IN

in pitching songs to tv

I WRITE:

For a living

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