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Available NOW!!! The Dave Mann Collective's latest single "Everybody's Girl". Featuring two bonus tracks. The blistering and raw "Fishing" and the most requested DMC track "Reach Out" performed live as duo with Roy Martinez |
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| At long last the Endless Page album is now available in all good record stores! If you are in Perth be one of the first to purchase the album at selected stores JB Hifi City or Cannington, Mills, 78's, Beat or Planet Video and recieve a bonus ticket into a Perth launch show!! Only while the special tickets last so be quick! If you are in Broome, Kununurra or Darwin get in quick and you'll get a bonus stubby cooler to keep your beer cold while you listen to the album... |  |
| The new single Wake Up was recorded and co-produced by ARIA nominated engineer Robin Mai (Sunrise Over Sea) at Woodstock Studios. Not just a standard single release, Wake Up is a five track mini-album highlighting the first single Wake Up off the up-coming full length album Endless Page which is scheduled for release in February, 2005. |  |
| DMC’s debut self-titled EP, which was released in May 2003 earned the band appearances along side James Brown, Cat Stevens, JBT, Michael Franti, Xavier Rudd, Tex Perkins, Jeff Lang, Carus and Pete Murray with Hard Man To Talk To making the short list for JJJ’s Blues Roots and Beyond compilation. |  |
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The new long-awaited CD from the Dave Mann Collective sees the band in full flight crossing the terrain from the organic blues and roots into the more universal rock landscape. A rich, sonic journey stamped with a sustaining "classic" quality in the form of a distinct two-part suite denoted as "mind" versus "heart" songs; Broadly highlighting the rockier side versus the more balladry... Lyrically - thinking versus feeling, the harder versus the softer side.
Instantly captivating from the onset, the band charges in full steam with a couple of very "live feel" jams that give evidence to the bands reputation as a dynamic live/festival act. Into a set of melodic, hook-laden pop numbers that tributes the band's many and varied influences melded into their own style.
A natural flow into lower gear to the more introspective ballads depicts the epic journey through the experience of relationships. Sublime ambience and organic washes punctuated by heart felt crescendos of dramatic intensity characterize this soulful part of the set. Rounding off with an intimate ditty of innocent naiveté. With this album the band has documented it's natural evolution as an edgier more substantial musical entity. Dave Mann, a formidable songwriter, conjuring cathartic lyrics delivered with dynamics of strength as well as unabashed venerability... either way, he sings his heart out. At the core, is a rockin' three piece, enhanced by sometimes subtle, sometimes fully orchestrated layers of augmentation. Throughout, there is an evolved sense of musicality in the real meaning of the word. Melodic beauty and raw energy exists with spontaneous improvisation and textural sound scapes in a rich tapestry of this sonic journey. Heart Over Mind is an outstanding testament of artists in prime creative form.
Heart Over Mind - Album Review, Fasterlouder.com.au.
The anticipated second full-length album from the Dave Mann Collective hit the shelves this month, showcasing both the ability to Oz-Rock with the best of them, as well as reflect matters of heart and soul in song.
Heart Over Mind is aptly titled, for it illustrates how The Dave Mann Collective seems to approach both their lives and their art. The opening track is pure unadulterated Oz-Rock, catchy and simple, it takes you back to summer nights at the local pub, when everything was chilled and easy. It is a journey album that could easily relate to life, relationships, history, or whatever scope you wish to put it under. The difference in tone between the first and last tracks reflect the furthest extremes of head and heart.
The beginning of the album, the mind part, has a spontaneous, live feel to it. Tracks like Fishing, Everybody’s Girl and I Always Said highlight the intelligent and rational observations one makes about life and new friends. These songs contain people you have met, but they don’t intrude, and so work well when your heart strings don’t want to be touched.
The title track, Heart Over Mind is the pivot point of the album, and reflects that moment when your heart begins to make more decisions than your mind. Necessarily more personal, the second half of the album describes beauty, pain and longing, and interestingly, is more heavily-produced than the first half, almost as if to make up for the lack of rational head-influence in the songs themselves.
Musically, part two is ambient and soaring, even dipping it’s toes into some psychedelic guitar soup at times. Mann makes more use of his vocal skill, allowing moments of pure emotion to creep into his delivery, while the instruments flow around the stories he tells. Grace Emily is a particularly beautiful example of the way music can be used to reflect a state of heart. The tracks on this half of the album are predominantly in a minor key, and the heart allows the silences to remain, adding to the intensity and depth, unlike the head, which is more inclined to fill the empty spaces with babble to protect itself from introspection.
The Dave Mann Collective are touring Heart Over Mind around Australia.
Fasterlouder.com.au. May 2008.
