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Fans (1) View all RECENT BLOG ENTRIES More entries »		ALBUMS & SONGS The Jockey March 14, 2012 View 9 tracks » # Title   1 Pagan Pastimes (d_rradio remix) [ Play ] 2 (He Wore A) Lion's Hide (Emperor Penguin remix) [ Play ] 3 The Great Brick Mosque & I (d_rradio remix) [ Play ] 4 Jeju Island (Bitchin' Bajas remix) [ Play ] 5 Fiend (d_rradio remix) [ Play ] 6 (He Wore A) Lion's Hide (Kingdom's Christian Soldiers remix) [ Play ] 7 Breathless (Fuxa remix) [ Play ] 8 P.E.P. (Live @ Gallery of Carpet Recording) [ Play ] 9 Vortrobos (d_rradio remix) [ Play ] Vortrobos November 4, 2011 View 8 tracks » # Title   1 Fiend [ Play ] 2 Forty Acres Surrounded [ Play ] 3 Jeju Island [ Play ] 4 Vortrobos [ Play ] 5 A Troubled Summer [ Play ] 6 Ask The Guild [ Play ] 7 Breathless (In The Rain) [ Play ] 8 (He Wore A) Lion's Hide [ Play ] I'll Tend Your Garden April 19, 2011 View 10 tracks » # Title   1 Hawk Mountain Line [ Play ] 2 Three Beggars [ Play ] 3 The Man In The Smiling Bag [ Play ] 4 Find The Fountain [ Play ] 5 For A Handsome Price [ Play ] 6 Geronimo's Only Defense [ Play ] 7 Penny, Wait For Me [ Play ] 8 Felician Sisters Convent [ Play ] 9 Pagan Pastimes [ Play ] 10 Pagan Pastimes (radio edit) [ Play ] A Violent Parade (digital single) July 10, 2010 View 2 tracks » # Title   1 Violently Shaking [ Play ] 2 Grand Parade [ Play ] Memoirs / Maybe Baby (digital single) September 15, 2009 View 2 tracks » # Title   1 Concerning Your Memoirs [ Play ] 2 Maybe Baby (Buddy Holly Cover) [ Play ] Brick Mosque / Effects (digital single) April 5, 2009 View 2 tracks » # Title   1 The Great Brick Mosque & I [ Play ] 2 Effects Will Show Soon [ Play ] BIOGRAPHY Under duress from the USM (Unified Society of Milkmen), Joseph Daley, Blair Douglass, Paul Foreman and Nicholas Rocchio shut down their independent milk delivery service in 1929. A smattering of unsuccessful business endeavors followed, until they discovered an undeniable chemistry blending fuzz guitars with lutes and clarinets. Although initially less lucrative than the milk business, the band, who settled on the name Sanftsprecher (trans. “Soft Speaker”), were championed by Austria’s Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in 1932 and subsequently enjoyed a period of massive popularity in their newly-adopted home country. The band split following Dollfuss’s assassination in 1934. Their only official recording, the 78rpm single,“I’ll Tend Your Garden,” is highly sought after by record collectors. In 2008, enthusiasts of the band purchased sheet music for a number of unrecorded Sanftsprecher songs that were discovered in Rocchio’s safe deposit box in UniCredit Bankengruppe. Austria’s Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich has been recording interpretations of these songs and releasing them for the public’s listening pleasure. A quartet of Chicago-based musicians has also taken it upon themselves to perform these songs live in a more rudimentary manner with crude electric instruments, much to the dismay of purist fans who prefer the orchestral versions. WALL You can post your comments on Soft Speaker's wall. Create your IDR Account or if you already have an account you may Login with your IDR account. Soft Speaker has no wall posts. You can be the first!

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