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“So damn good it descends on the surface of these eardrums like a meteor from Krypton. My first hearing of this one convinced me that it was a record that couldn’t be heard either often or loud enough … Their music – drawn from traditional Arabic, Indian and Mississippi influences, is intensely hypnotic and ecstatically exciting … If you’ve been yearning to hear something undeniably ancient yet thrillingly new, played by people as if their lives depended on it, then step right up.”   - Steve Hunt in fRoots

[brownwork]

tak:til is a new sub-label of Glitterbeat Records and they are releasing Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock in Europe, including the first release on CD.  April 7, 2017.  Next European dates to be announced soon...

[brownwork]

“Cummins Falls”, with Carey Balch on floor tom, is 75 Dollar Bill’s track on the Top of the World CD that comes with Songlines issue #128 (June 2017).  “Ask yourself when you last came across an album that sounded unlike anything you’ve heard before: this is a groundbreaking record.”      - Nigel Williamson

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Previously released in more low-key fashion last year but now reissued more widely - primarily for UK/European audiences - this latest album from 75 Dollar Bill finds art-rock veteran Rick Brown and comrade Che Chen joined by an expanded cast of collaborators for a raw yet epic statement.

[brownwork]

Wood/Metal/Plastic/Rock by 75 Dollar Bill. World wigs out. Record Collector is the world's leading authority on rare and collectable records

“Album closer I’m Not Trying To Wake Up proceeds to serve up a hypnotic 15-minute sax-and-guitar swirl, trumpets signifying a call to arms halfway through as the tempo picks up and hints at a storm that never quite breaks.“

[brownwork]

Before Wood/Metal/Plastic/Pattern/Rhythm/Rock, and even before Wooden Bag, we put some music out ourselves on cassettes (and a CDr!).  Bandcamp has been a great way for us to get this stuff out there and allow people to hear us free - and purchase the music and the tapes.  Here’s a song we like a lot but which hasn’t gotten many plays (and which we haven’t played much live, either).  From our 2nd tape “Olives in the Ears”.  Title is a tip of the hat to our friend-band, the great Horse Lords and a reference to the year of release , a “horse year” - like that of Che’s birth.

Listen/purchase: A Horse Year by 75 Dollar Bill

[brownwork]

“... soulful, ferocious and raw. “  Thank you!

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WMPPRR is Wood / Metal / Plastic / Pattern / Rhythm / Rock

75 Dollar Bill’s new album Wood / Metal / Plastic / Pattern / Rhythm / Rock to be released June 2, 2016 on Thin Wrist Recordings. Pre-order WMPPRR from the label here.