ARTIST: Ester Drang
TITLE: Rocinate
LABEL: Jade Tree
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 213kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 46min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-01-24
RIP DATE: 2005-12-20
Track List
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01. Come Back Alive 5:29
02. Valencia's Dying Dream 4:10
03. Grave Mistake 3:59
04. Hooker With a Heart of Gold 4:32
05. Great Expectations 5:23
06. Everyone is a Victim 4:04
07. Smoke and Air 4:10
08. Caledonia 3:53
09. White Lies 6:29
10. Proustian Moments 4:05
Release Notes:
The Story
Though considered by many to be a relatively new act, Ester Drang has spent the
last eight years droning away in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, playing their elegant
and arty songs to a dedicated but rather modest following. Convinced it would
be a travesty to let these engaging symphonies go unnoticed, Jade Tree signed
the band in early 2003, providing a home for their swinging-door guitar lines,
hollowed out drum beats and synth-covered yearnings, while allowing the group
to deliver their visions with Technicolor radiance. These days the Drang seem
to tight-rope walk along the same musical heights as heady experimentalists
like Spiritualized, the Sea and Cake or even their neighbors and occasional
collaborators the Flaming Lips. But there is of course more here than easy
compartmentalizing, and as these four friends from the Bible Belt continue
their Quixote-like search for a niche of their own, they do so proving that
musical transcendence can lead you anywhere. Even Oklahoma.
Related Artists that are not on Jade Tree
Pedro The Lion, Sufjan Stevens
http://www.jadetree.com/bands/artist/ester_drang