The Dandelion: Discography 2013 - 2019

      

Everything started back in 2002, in the Land Of Oz, Australia, by a neo-psychedelic band called The Dolly

Rocker Movement, formed by singer-guitarist Daniel Poulter. They managed to release three full-length albums, “Electric Sunshine” (2006), “A Purple Journey Through the Mod Machine” (2007) and “Our Days Mind the Tyme” (2009), through independent Australian record label Off the Hip before disbanding in 2013. In 2013 Bad Afro released the 7-inch Single “Your Side Of Town” which symbolized the transition from The Dolly Rocker Movement into The Dandelion.
                       

Also in 2013, The Dandelion self-released their debut album “Strange Case Of The Dandelion” and in 2014 Bad Afro records released “The Dandelion” – a mini album containing 6 songs taken from “Strange Case Of The Dandelion”. In 2015 through Strange Yonder label, the band released their 2nd album, the ethereal, magical and beloved “Seeds, Flowers and Magical Powers of The Dandelion”.

Through the recording sessions of this album, Daniel transferred all of his artistic creativity into Natalie De Silver, through this transformation, the Spirit remained worried and concerned, however, the final sounding result obtained Natalie’s ‘stamp’, musically and lyrically… In December 2018, France label Six Tonnes De Chair Records released the 7 inch Single “Every Other Day”, a precursor to their 3rd album entitled “Old Habits And New Ways Of The Dandelion”, scheduled for release on the 1st of April (2019) through Greek label Blackspin Records!
                            

At the forefront in helping propel, if not begin, the revival of 1960’s influenced psych music by coming to prominence, some 15 years ago, as the seminal neo-psych outfit, The Dolly Rocker Movement.

Natalie de Silver possesses in spades that intangible it, that certain quality, that magic variable most strive for while expressing one’s artistic ability. Is an ongoing, repetitive psych groove that will get under your skin before you even realize it. This hypnotizing and magnetizing droning beat with a Velvet Underground drive, a sexy organ in the back, a punchy guitar solo midway and Natalie De Silver‘s sensuous voice is something you’ll have on repeat for some time.
                    

These kooky Sydney musicians are the result of breeding Bowie with The Violet Femmes and giving birth in the middle of a circus. Just when I think I've pinned down their sound, they go on a wild trip into other eras, other lands, and the only thing that I'm assured of is that it will be awesomely

fun and the influence of Brian Jonestown Massacre and Marc Bolan is instantly apparent. This is one of those bands who are a lot of fun, though not to be taken too seriously as they attempt to charm the listener into their vision of cosmic pastures laced with sunlight and love. They do have the ability to shine with spellbinding style, grace, and at times elegance, with their breathy intoxicating vocal deliveries and boundless energy.
       

“Born out of magic and hopelessly romantic. A message from the fire. The flames are burning

higher and ever so brightly, softly, sweet scars & beauty, death like, so lovely. Ghosts and Gods sing Pharaoh melodies”. Natalie De Silver founder of The Dandelion describes her band. This four-piece group take 60s psych influences and ghostly sounds into modern world. We had a lovely chat with Natalie, while the flute and the organ ring out in the night…"My studio is my home and I mostly record music in my lounge room."
                 

"Sometimes I write songs in my kitchen or bedroom. I like composing songs on either guitar, organ or drums first, then I just make the rest up. I have an old cassette recorder I like to record on. However, the

next Dandelion record we’re going into a proper studio which is really exciting!. for independent artists like us who sell our own music through sites like Bandcamp or at our own shows and mange our own social media platforms it’s very personal. The Dandelion originally began as a solo recording project for Daniel Poulter (1981-2015) who recorded Strange Case of The Dandelion."
                       

The Dandelion weave an old kind of magic. Their own mix of musical spells are not unlike those

woven in the 1960’s and have seduced many believers in their brief musical career. What started as a studio project evolved into a live band led by Natalie de Silver who writes, records and produces the band’s original material. The Dandelion’s 2nd LP titled Seeds Flowers and Magical Powers of The Dandelion caught the ears of many listeners around the globe, many of whom catapulting it to their favorite album of 2015.
                      

Channeling mystical garage psych flower power vibes from the mid 60’s, Australia’s The Dandelion, are perfectly poised for a love-in, complete indie chunking California guitars, a mystical floating

eastern atmosphere, frantic folky fluting, fuzzed reverb, and a teetering structure that dances so close to the edges of parody, that at times I wondered how they hadn’t fallen into the abyss. In 2017 Natalie begun working on a third album titled “Old Habits & New Ways of The Dandelion. Last year, The Dandelion joined the Gizzfest, curated by Ozzie favorites King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard.
              

NOTES

                           

The Dandelion is a studio project and live band led by Natalie de Silver who writes, records and

produces the band’s original material. The Dandelion originally began as a solo recording project for Daniel Poulter (1981-2014) (The Dolly Rocker Movement) who recorded “Strange Case of The Dandelion”. The Dolly Rocker Movement were an Australian neo-psychedelic rock band, formed in 2002 by singer and guitarist, Daniel Poulter.
                         

Daniel Poulter and Natalie De Silver are the same person). A live band was formed in 2013 featuring

Alison Hobbes on Organ, Stella Rennex on Bass and Josh White on Drums. This line up also features in 3 recorded songs (Malkaus, Ode to Love, Spring Dance) on The Dandelion’s 2nd LP titled Seeds Flowers and Magical Powers of The Dandelion. In 2014/2015, Daniel gracefully handed over all creative duties to Natalie de Silver who can be heard subtlety coming through the album's mix and main themes.
                   

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DISCOGRAPHY

                     

Strange Case Of The Damdelion 2013
The Dandelion 2014
Seeds Flowers And Magic Powers Of The Dandelion 2015
Old Habbits & New Ways Of The Dandelion 2019

PREVIOUS BAND MEMBERS  

Rebecca Liston – Organ
Stella Rennex – Bass
Alison Hobbes – Organ
Anna Free – Organ
James Tina French – Bass

CURRENT LIVE LINE - UP

Natalie De Silver - Organ, Guitar, Vocals, Flute
Laura Murdoch – Organ Vocals Theremin
Josh White – Drums Vocals
Lauren Crew – Bass

THE DANDELION - STRANGE CASE OF THE DANDELION 2013

                    

The Dandelion, uses those same sensibilities as The Dolly Rocke Movement, , though without the

mussel, to carry on this incarnation of his vision. That best includes effortless songwriting and vintage organic music that creeps happily into your being, sounding equally as fresh today as would have in the mid 60’s … heavy on lush short hooks, fluid movements, and at times a more bluesy boogie use of his guitar, though there is still a fair amount of fuzzed out stringed instrumentation riding as an undercurrent. There's also an unexpected amount of Middle Eastern flute inspired influences that

are wholly original in their use and presentation that are lightly structured to turn off your mind and gently carry you down stream. And that all left me with a nice dreamy drifting pop laden neo-psych album where the music is drenched with patchouli smoke and half forgotten visions from so long ago.

The Dandelion – Strange Case Of The Dandelion
Label: Not On Label (The Dandelion Self-released) – none
Format: CD, Album
Country: Australia
Released: Aug 30, 2013
Genre: Rock
Style: Acoustic, Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock

TRACKS

                  

01. Strange Case Opening    2:42
02. I Turned On As You Turned Around    2:52
03. Here Comes Love    3:59
04. Leaving It Behind Blues    2:10
05. Medlar's Wisdom    1:06
06. All Seeing Eye Syndrome    2:26
07. Ships To Tarshish    3:44
08. Pleiadian Love Vibration    2:30
09. Borderline Originality Disorder    2:17
10. Paranoid Floyd In A Bliss You Can Hear    3:24
11. The Ancient System    1:58
12. Toxic Flower Power & The Ascension To Infinity    2:59
13. My Baby Cried All Night    3:44

NOTES
              

In this version are included all the six tracks of "THE DANDELION" released in 2014.

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THE DANDELION - SEEDS FLOWERS AND MAGICAL POWERS OF THE DANDELION 2015

                   

They have the ability to shine with spellbinding style, grace, and at times elegance, with their breathy intoxicating vocal deliveries and boundless energy. 2nd long player by The Dandelion.

Recorded at 3 different home studios over 12 months Seeds, Flowers and Magical Powers of The Dandelion is a collection of musical spells projecting images of galactic space travel, pagan witchcraft, love, ethereal energies and a blend of east meets west rhythms and melodies. With a sound like seeds turning into flowers they bring gifts for the Goddess of magical powers.
                      

The Dandelion – Seeds Flowers And Magical Powers Of The Dandelion
Label: Not On Label – none
Format: CD, Album, Stereo
Country: Australia
Released: Sep 15, 2015
Genre: Rock
Style: Psychedelic Rock, Indie Rock, Garage Rock

TRACKS

                       

01. I Stole The Medicine Man    3:34
02. In the Shadow Of Light    3:44
03. So What Do You Think Of Space?     3:25
04. Malkaus    3:08
05. Garden Witchcraft    3:23
06. Ode to Love    3:11
07. A Sweet Death Song    3:32
08. Goddess Yhi     3:32
09. Solar Sister Moon     2:57
10. Here & Gone     2:15
11. Daddy Long Legs     3:03
12. Spring Dance     5:12

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THE DANDELION - OLD HABBITS & NEW WAYS OF THE DANDELION 2019

                            

                     
The all new album form The Dandelion is a psych-pop astonishing concept where Natalie's music talent

beautifully unfolds...
"… I’m getting the feeling of a concept musical album, an album that is made this way in order to dress a fairy tale…This Album is so Apocalyptically Ecstatic! And Esoteric too! And Existential!...Natalie de Silver stands there… Still… Through The Looking-Glass…ONE OF THE BEST ALBUMS OF 2019".

                     

The Dandelion – Old Habbits & New Ways Of The Dandelion
Label: Blackspin Records – BSRLP05
Format: CD, Album
Country: Greece
Released: Apr 1, 2019
Genre: Rock
Style: Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock

TRACKS

              

01. Garden Of Yhi   3:25    
02. Old Habits New Ways   2:33    
03. El Poncho Rojo   2:42    
04. Beneath The Rowan Tree   2:32    
05. All I Ever   3:06    
06. Who May Have Found God?   4:35        
08. The Holy Son (What Have You Become?)   3:52    
09. Message From The Fire   2:45    
10. De Silver's Dream   2:04    
11. Deep Down In The Hollow   3:30    
12. Song For All Seasons   2:18    
13. Incognito   2:58    
14. The June Light   2:36

OLD HABBITS NEW WAYS LYRICS

                    

Falling down down down,
to the ways of the night and the underground.
Everything’s clear oh so clear,
take a good look around as the end is here.
 
Moments away, star of the day,
burn right through, me & you.
Dark may fall, upon us all,
here to stay, Milky Way.
Ruins of the past may only last,
dreams come true for me and for you.

                 

We’re spinning round and round and round,
we’re here on this earth
but bound to the ground.
Fly away away away,
we long to take flight
like the birds of the day and the bats of the night.

Tell me its true its true its true,
that there’s a life beyond this form for me and for you.
As the Gods came down from up above,
they gave us hate but may we rule with Love.

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The Dolly Rocker Movement on Urban Aspirines HERE

Kayhan Kalhor + Toumani Diabaté: The Sky Is The Same Colour Everywhere 2023 + Kayhan Kalhor & Rembrandt Frerichs Trio: It's Still Autumn 2019

 

KAYHAN KALHOR

                  

Kayhan Kalhor is an internationally acclaimed virtuoso on the kamancheh (spiked fiddle), who through his many musical collaborations has been instrumental in popularizing Persian around the

world and is a creative force in today’s music scene. His performances of traditional Persian music and multiple collaborations have attracted audiences around the globe. He has studied the music of Iran’s many regions, in particular those of Khorason and Kordestan, and has toured the world as a soloist with various ensembles and orchestras including the New York Philharmonic and the Orchestre National de Lyon.
                     

Kayhan Kalhor, from Iran, is the leading player of the kamancheh, the Persian spike fiddle. Played kneeling down, Kayhan says it’s “like riding a wild horse”. It has four strings played with a short bow.

He is co-founder of the renowned ensembles Dastan and Masters of Persian Music. Kalhor has composed works for Iran’s most renowned vocalists Mohammad Reza Shajarian and Shahram Nazeri and has also performed and recorded with Iran’s greatest instrumentalists. He has composed music for television and film and was featured on the soundtrack of Francis Ford Copolla’s Youth Without Youth in a score that he collaborated on with Osvaldo Golijov.
                 

John Adams invited him to give a solo recital at Carnegie Hall as part of his Perspectives Series and he has appeared on a double bill at Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival, sharing the program with the
Festival Orchestra performing the Mozart Requiem.

Kayhan is an original member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project for whom he continues to compose for and tour with. His compositions appear on all of the Ensemble’s albums. His most recent albums include Silent City, collaboration with Brooklyn Rider and I Will Not Stand Alone with santoor player Ali Bahrami Fard. Kayhan has been nominated for three Grammys and in 2017 was awarded a Grammy with Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (2017).

TOUMANI DIABATE

                         

Toumani Diabaté 10 August 1965 – 19 July 2024) was a Malian kora player. In addition to performing the traditional music of Mali, he was involved in cross-cultural collaborations with flamenco, blues, jazz, and other international styles of music. In 2006, the London-based newspaper

The Independent named him one of the fifty best African artists. In its obituary, The Times described him as "a bold and innovative musical visionary". Diabaté was born on 10 August 1965 in Bamako, the capital of Mali, five years after the country had gained its independence from France. He came from a long family tradition of players of the kora, a 21-string west African harp-like instrument. His father, Sidiki Diabaté, recorded the first-ever kora album, in 1970.
                    

His mother, Nene Koita, was a singer. His family's oral tradition tells of 70 generations of musicians preceding him in a patrilineal line. His cousin Sona Jobarteh was the first female professional kora

player to come from a griot family. His younger brother Mamadou Sidiki Diabaté is also a kora player. According to Diabaté, a childhood illness resulted in his losing the use of his right leg, and he walked using a crutch. He played at festivals and concert halls around the world, and worked both as a soloist and with a remarkable array of other artists, ranging from his own Symmetric Orchestra to the guitarist Ali Farka Touré, the London Symphony Orchestra, and musicians from Spain, Cuba and Brazil.
                  

His exquisite, relaxed playing mixed the ancient and modern, as he switched from pieces that dated

back hundreds of years to his own compositions that he said reflected influences ranging from other African artists to Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding and Pink Floyd. His kora work mixed bass lines with melodies and improvisation – it was as if several musicians were performing at once – and as a devout Muslim, he said: “Music was a gift to me from God, the kora was a gift to me from God.”

 

REMBRANDT FRERICHS  

                   

Rembrandt Frerichs (born 1977) is a jazz pianist and composer from the Netherlands. He leads a

few ensembles: Rembrandt Frerichs Trio and Levantasy. In his playing he is being influenced by the American jazz tradition, as well by philosophy and Arabic music. Frerichs teaches jazz piano on the conservatory of Tilburg.
             

Frerichs studied at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and the New York Conservatory for Dramatic Arts. He completed his studies in The Hague with honors. At the age of 22 he made his debut at the

North Sea Jazz Festival. Rembrandt plays in several of his own ensembles such as Rembrandt Frerich Trio, Chiaroscuro and (with Vinsent Planjer and Yoram Lachish) 'Levantasy'. He has also collaborated with Michael Brecker, the New Trombone Collective, Marnix Busstra, Michel Godard, and Hermione Deurloo. In addition to jazz, he was inspired by classical European music as well as Arabic music, for which he developed a passion during a two-year stay in Egypt.
                  

Frerichs teaches jazz piano at the Conservatory of Tilburg and has been a guest teacher at the

conservatories of Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Utrecht. He is also artistic director of various cultural events, such as the Rabo Jazz Festival (Oud-Beijerland), the Waterfront Jazz Club (Almere) and the Regentenkamer (The Hague). His debut album Self Portrait was nominated for an Edison Award In 2014, his album A Long Story Short was also nominated for this prestigious Dutch award.

KAYHAN KALHOR AND TOUMANI DABATE - THE SKY IS THE SAME COLOUR EVERYWHERE 2023

                     

The Sky Is the Same Colour Everywhere is a spiritual meditation - best listened to in one sitting - by two master musicians and culture bearers of centuries-old musical traditions sharing modes based on

Persian and Malian repertoires on kamancheh (spike fiddle) and kora (harp/lute). Kayhan Kalhor and Toumani Diabaté are both well-known soloists in their own right, but this duo recording is something special taking us on an improvisational musical journey into new landscapes. “It’s like this music was already there waiting for us,” says Toumani. “And it’s like the two of us knew each other before - in another life.”

                                     

Kayhan Kalhor And Toumani Diabaté – The Sky Is The Same Colour Everywhere
Label: Real World Records – CDRW238
Format: CD, Album, Stereo
Country: UK, Europe & US
Released: May 5, 2023
Genre: Folk, World, & Country, Ethnic
Style: African, Persian Classical

TRACKS

                        

01. Wayfarers Of The Legends    7:28
02. The Path Of No Return    15:10
03. Stay Here    2:48
04. Joyful Sun    5:34
05. I'm Speaking To You    2:22
06. Whereto    2:52
07. Anywhere That Is Not Here    3:58
08. Is Anyone There?    2:51
09. The Sky Is The Same Colour Everywhere    8:57

LINE - UP

                        

Kayhan Kalhor - Kamancha [Kamancheh] (The kamancheh (also kamānche or kamāncha) is an Iranian bowed string instrument used in Persian, Azerbaijani, Armenian, Kurdish, Georgian, Turkmen, and Uzbek music with slight variations in the structure of the instrument. The kamancheh is related to the rebab which is the historical ancestor of the kamancheh and the bowed Byzantine lyra. The strings are played with a variable-tension bow.   
Toumani Diabaté - Kora (The kora is a stringed instrument used extensively in West Africa. A kora typically has 21 strings, which are played by plucking with the fingers. It has features of the lute and harp.

NOTES

The album is divided into 9 tracks but plays as a continuous piece and is designed to be listened to in one sitting.

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REMBRANDT FRERICHS TRIO & KAYHAN KALHOR - IT'S STILL AUTUMN 2019

                 

“In Iran, you feel that they are hungry for our music. You can therefore conclude that jazz is very

relevant,” said pianist Rembrandt Frerichs  in 2018 in an interview with the magazine Jazzism. Frerichs would know because he has played abroad a lot and he even lived in Egypt for a time. The pianist met the famous Iranian kamancheh player Kayhan Kalhor (Teheran,1963) at a performance in 2013.
               

In the sound of the Iranian’s instrument (that is played da gamba), Frerichs recognized a great opportunity to add a new dimension to his own musical journey which in recent years had led him to

playing jazz on a fortepiano. Mozart used such an instrument to compose on. Bassist and violinist Tony Overwater and drummer Vinsent Planjer, with his self-designed whisper kit, have adjusted their playing to suit this new tonal ideal. The result is music with no boundaries that was recently recorded on the evocative album It’s Still Autumn.
                                      

Kayhan Kalhor, Rembrandt Frerichs, Tony Overwater, Vinsent Planjer – It’s Still Autumn
Label: Kepera Records – Kepera 74715
Format: CD, Album
Country: Netherlands
Released: Apr 5, 2019
Genre: Jazz, Folk, World, Ethnic
Style: Free Improvisation, Fusion

TRACKS
                   

DAWN           
01. Introduction    4:47
02. Dew Drops    3:48
03. Kayhan’s Chahar    8:48
04. Still    6:53
05. Offering    4:17

DUSK   
06. Introduction    8:10
07. Autumn    5:21
08. Autumn Winds    3:23
09. Long Story Short    9:20

LINE - UP

Fortepiano, Harmonium – Rembrandt Frerichs
Kamancha [Kamanche] – Kayhan Kalhor
Percussion [Whisper Kit] – Vinsent Planjer
Violone, Double Bass – Tony Overwater

NOTES

Recorded at Fattoria Musica Osnabrück, 10 - 6 November 2015.
The 'whisper kit' is an invention by Vinsent Planjer which combines percussion instruments of various cultures and epochs.

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Toumani Diabaté on Urban Aspirines HERE