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Booklet
Diary Of A Drifter
The latest record from Electro Rock group, Spiral Anne, is 'Booklet' - a journey through a diverse soundscape of rock and roll, folk and electronic music. Features many guests including vocalist JTIB from Synthetic Summer. Half the tracks are instrumental jam sessions, true to Spiral Anne's form, while the other half are carefully crafted vocal productions. Bookended by different versions of their hit 'Love The Rain', this album is a great starting place to exploring Spiral Anne.
from the release: Booklet
This is the opening track to their latest full length release.
Biography & History
Spiral Anne Biography
The story of Spiral Anne begins in the winter during a severe rain storm in Seattle. Keyboardist and electronics enthusiast, Dave Flowers, was looking for a roommate when a mutual friend introduced him to Patrick MacKinnon, a local rock and roll guitarist with almost celebrity status in Seattle. The two were as different as night and day, but became fast friends.
Living together proved to be worthy as they started collaborating on music almost daily, recording their jam sessions and song ideas in Dave's project studio, the Flower Pot. Before long, they had accumulated enough songs for an EP and begin passing them out to friends. Eventually, they realized that their different styles lent to an interesting combination and they decided to take their recording a bit more seriously. Their first full-length debut, 'Junkbox', plays like a story broken into three acts. Mixed with instrumental sections, the album's raw, rock and roll edge mixed with the careful editing and carefully constructed electronic elements makes for quite a ride! They followed this release with 'Trickbox', a collection of dance mixes based on the Junkbox album.
Thier followup album, 'Booklet', has a brilliant line-up of new electro-rock songs and jams featuring many guest artists, including a song sung by JT, lead singer of the electro-pop group Synthetic Summer, a special jam session track featuring Zane Williams from The Consul, and the incredible drumming of Tommy Cook on several tracks. 'Booklet' has a nice mixture of polished, produced tracks (like 'Love The Rain', the first single) interspersed with loose, organic jam sessions. A remix album featuring alternate versions is also available.
Spiral Anne are local to Seattle and has become a side project, as they are often working on multiple projects outside of the band.
Genre: Electro Rock and Blues.
Influences: Classic Rock, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, The Beatles, The Stones, Stray Cats, Kiss
Living together proved to be worthy as they started collaborating on music almost daily, recording their jam sessions and song ideas in Dave's project studio, the Flower Pot. Before long, they had accumulated enough songs for an EP and begin passing them out to friends. Eventually, they realized that their different styles lent to an interesting combination and they decided to take their recording a bit more seriously. Their first full-length debut, 'Junkbox', plays like a story broken into three acts. Mixed with instrumental sections, the album's raw, rock and roll edge mixed with the careful editing and carefully constructed electronic elements makes for quite a ride! They followed this release with 'Trickbox', a collection of dance mixes based on the Junkbox album.
Thier followup album, 'Booklet', has a brilliant line-up of new electro-rock songs and jams featuring many guest artists, including a song sung by JT, lead singer of the electro-pop group Synthetic Summer, a special jam session track featuring Zane Williams from The Consul, and the incredible drumming of Tommy Cook on several tracks. 'Booklet' has a nice mixture of polished, produced tracks (like 'Love The Rain', the first single) interspersed with loose, organic jam sessions. A remix album featuring alternate versions is also available.
Spiral Anne are local to Seattle and has become a side project, as they are often working on multiple projects outside of the band.
Genre: Electro Rock and Blues.
Influences: Classic Rock, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, The Beatles, The Stones, Stray Cats, Kiss