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The Band for Disease Control and Prevention - Undergrowth

from BT charity album 2015 (in support of World Cancer Research Fund) by The Sounds of Strangers

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lyrics

"Move on Monk’s pepper, filthy Friday
Rise again Juniper, filthy Friday
Let’s panic, I’ve had it, a rhubarb absinthe
Mind, body spirit end of rainbows are absent
Medussa saves torn out organs in graves
Blood encrusted constrictions, tangled
Venomous shades

Golden rain tree pips, blister cap and mushroom
What’s a rat’s feast is a starling’s poison
The wrong convulsions with dead man’s fingers
Good willow and dock leaf after mistletoe kiss stingers

The waning moon, where are you hiding
It’s time to quit rose quartz guiding’s
It’s growing, gut feelings sink into oblivion
Pure guilt replaced by elusive submissions
Scouring for scraps, nuts, berries and crushed all
My big passion hides his light under a bushel

A thorn, it’s gonna hurt
Tea’s bitter astringent gets out the dirt
Daffodil falls on the lily pad
It’s the best sweet nectar that I’ve ever had

If you never feared any failure
I’ll call that psychopathic behaviour
The quiet hedgerow of an early spring
It’s the best lush leaves that I’m hiding in"

credits

from BT charity album 2015 (in support of World Cancer Research Fund), released May 5, 2015
You Tube : www.youtube.com/watch?v=O96WsOtQ5bg
Facebook : www.facebook.com/TheBandForDiseaseControlAndPrevention
Twitter : twitter.com/tbfdcap
Sound Cloud : soundcloud.com/bigbadriff
thebandfordiseasecontrolandprevention.bandcamp.com

Just two people are responsible for making the calculated racket that is The Band for Disease Control and Prevention. Marcia Mackman and Antony Bircham are The Band for Disease Control and Prevention.
Antony Bircham ex-member of the influential, alt-industrial, sonic terrorist outfit Drill, and Marcia Mackman one time dancer and occasional play write have formed a partnership that challenges the listener both musically and lyrically.
Antony: “I stole her from my best friend’s band – it was a necessary sacrifice. She was singing all these old punk covers, but I realised that presented with the correct musical material, important lyrical ideas would flow.”
Marica: “He said, ‘You can do better than this’ I reached inside myself and explored the darkest corners.”
This is a project formed out of the frustration of hearing far too many bands that reach for the clichéd chorus, key change, middle 8 or guitar solo when they have quite clearly run out of ideas. The Band for Disease Control and Prevention have created a sound and, ignored the ubiquitous verse/chorus/verse formula and instead choose a free-flowing, antagonistic narrative tethered by drone and feedback driven; distorted, criss-crossing guitars.
These two are personally responsible for everything you hear by The Band for Disease Control and Prevention. Every detail is vital and thought through intensely. Every sound, note, word, sample and noise matters for The Band for Disease Control and Prevention. Tied together, the music drives the challenging lyrical content and the challenging lyrical content inspires the music.
Antony: “I had an aural vision in my head of the sounds I wanted to make. I’ve heard so many people tell me who I should and shouldn’t be listening to, when In fact all I needed was to concentrate on the noise inside my head, figure out how to make it and get it down on tape.”
Marcia: “Writing crap is easy, anybody can do that, pick a subject that’s difficult, and write about that, draw on your personal experiences no matter how painful, throw away everything that you can improve on, what is left no matter the pain is the best.”
Antony: “We are influenced by everything, the good and the bad. The good we dissect and figure out why it is good, the bad we vow never to sound like. ”
Marcia: “The obvious way to go if you want to be different is to just be so left field that no-one is interested, and lyrically be deliberately controversial which is a cliché so boring that it makes you want to scream.”
Searching for the vital combination of talent and ideas, potential members were thrown to the wayside and musically ideas were dropped without sentimentality.
Even the cover of their eponymous debut album, released on the bands own label, is provocative and thought provoking hinting at many underlying problematic and occasional taboo issues.

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The Sounds of Strangers UK

We are a group of BT musicians who have come together (initially as strangers) to create an album of different music from our bands or solo acts to raise money for charity. Our first album is in support of the World Cancer Research Fund UK.
We wanted to contribute our 'sounds' for the album - responding to an S.O.S. appeal from Phil Brunkard who kicked off the project.
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