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Violinist Warren Ellis, guitarist Mick Turner, and drummer Jim White are The Dirty Three - an instrumental trio considered one of the most prestigious Australian acts on the international music scene. Their music has been called lyrical, passionate, original, inspiring, and has earned them admiration and renown the world over.
Forged from a need to pay the rent in 1993 in Melbourne, Australia, in their beginnings the trio often played residences at some of Melbourne’s smaller pubs. The three members are now based in different corners of the globe, and occasionally regroup to record and tour.
The trio released their raucous debut ‘Sad & Dangerous’, and eponymous album in 1995, albums representative of a trio finding their sound. The albums that followed- ‘Horse Stories’, 1997, ‘Ocean Songs’, 1998 and ‘Whatever You Love, You Are’, 2000 offered the definitive moments of the trio’s career. ‘Cinder’, released in 2005, essentially continued musical traits developed in their previous albums and although it continues in the spirit of ‘Ocean Songs’, ‘Cinder’ differs and diverges from their previous works in that it includes new instruments and, for the first time in their career, vocals. The arrangements are generally shorter and more concise than those on their earlier albums. Perhaps most notably, instead of the usual recording live technique, they opted for the first time in their career to record in the studio individually.
The Dirty Three have toured with Beck, Sonic Youth, Pavement, Throwing Muses, Cat Power, Low, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Devendra Banhart, and many others.
Forged from a need to pay the rent in 1993 in Melbourne, Australia, in their beginnings the trio often played residences at some of Melbourne’s smaller pubs. The three members are now based in different corners of the globe, and occasionally regroup to record and tour.
The trio released their raucous debut ‘Sad & Dangerous’, and eponymous album in 1995, albums representative of a trio finding their sound. The albums that followed- ‘Horse Stories’, 1997, ‘Ocean Songs’, 1998 and ‘Whatever You Love, You Are’, 2000 offered the definitive moments of the trio’s career. ‘Cinder’, released in 2005, essentially continued musical traits developed in their previous albums and although it continues in the spirit of ‘Ocean Songs’, ‘Cinder’ differs and diverges from their previous works in that it includes new instruments and, for the first time in their career, vocals. The arrangements are generally shorter and more concise than those on their earlier albums. Perhaps most notably, instead of the usual recording live technique, they opted for the first time in their career to record in the studio individually.
The Dirty Three have toured with Beck, Sonic Youth, Pavement, Throwing Muses, Cat Power, Low, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Devendra Banhart, and many others.
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wildwonders wrote:
Love them and always will. [2]
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Willzeyt wrote:
instrumental sentimental. Love them and always will.
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apegjuapgdjagp wrote:
Only that they are going to make a new album, and they have started it.
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yu00 wrote:
My fave band of all time, always been in love with this outstanding music, never gets old to me.
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JBarracudaL wrote:
Gorgeous music.
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hollabackitsobi wrote:
HOW CAN YOU MAKE MUSIC THAT SOUNDS THIS GOOD. WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN
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Vovqa wrote:
I've discovered this band recently. And i wanna say that their music is amazing. Very touching and atmospheric sound. I really like it.
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teh_archie wrote:
anyone heard any news on the new album? warren said in an interview around january that they were releasing one this year but i havent heard anything else about it since then.
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Cortlendt wrote:
This band has best album covers evar!
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mister_roe wrote:
Anyone know where the track 'pirets' comes from? (it's on their myspace page)
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sexnapoleon wrote:
dope
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orgelblut wrote:
Night music: http://www.last.fm/music/Heroin+and+Your+Veins
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ithinkx wrote:
Dirty Three featured on the 6th ithinkx Podcast: http://ithinkxblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/ithinkx-podcast-6-strings-attached.html
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Lastfm has changed its terms of use http://blog.last.fm/2009/03/24/lastfm-radio-announcement yesterday Join http://www.last.fm/group/FREE+IS+FREE We want a fair lastfm, we want another solution without racism.
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horsiest wrote:
sad JEXY not sad sexy
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Willzeyt wrote:
I describe periods of my life as 'Before Dirty three and After Dirty three'. That's what they mean to me.
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lemmy21 wrote:
poloi kaloi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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nebstroid wrote:
wow! so beautiful!
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21
Green Man Festival 2009
Glanusk Park, Glanusk, United Kingdom
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10
Dirty Three
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, United States
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| 7 attendees
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Sep
11
ATP New York 2009 - Curated by The Flaming Lips & ATP
Kutshers Country Club, Monticello, United States
155 shouts
| 208 attendees
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