Back Porchestra - Voices In My Head (Genre Whiplash) - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

The CD version of this album made the Top 100 Albums of 2022 list at Alt. Country Specialty Chart. It's original and vintage Roots Rock, Americana, Country Blues, Cajun and Western Swing with rich acoustic tones... a compact Shelter-in-Place-inspired outfit befitting the newfound minimalism of the times... back to the basics... Formed in the locked-down summer of 2020, they have conducted many shows along the West Coast as well as a recent foray into the Big-Pink-style living room facilities of Globe Records. The band draws from new originals as well as reworked vintage classics by Hank Williams, Taj Mahal, Dan Hicks, Big Bill Broonzy, Bob Wills, Bobby Charles. Back pOrchEstra is Tim Eschliman (Etta James, Commander Cody, New Copasetics) vocals & resonator guuitar, Bowen Brown (John Lee Hooker, Tommy Castro, Rhythmtown-Jive) drums, Candy Girard (Delaney Bramlet, Tanya Tucker, Clint Black and with Jerry Garcia) on violin, Beau Bradbury (Beaullieu) (California Honeydrops, Gator Beat) bass

We're stoked to welcome Émile Sornin's solo project Forever Pavot to the BMM roster with this retro-sounding original motion picture soundtrack for the French-Canadian movie Babysitter, directed by Monia Chokri, out now in French theaters. Émile Sornin is a relentless explorer of genres and influences, from experimental chanson to psychedelic pop, from music video director to instrument tester (Le Bon Coin Forever documentary). This composer, multi-instrumentalist from La Rochelle had first demonstrated the importance of revisiting 70's psychedelia in his debut album Rhapsode, released in 2014 on Born Bad Records. After his collaboration on Charlotte Gainsbourg's album Rest, Émile Sornin is back again at the machines, from which he extracts surprising sounds. His interest for 70's film soundtracks, jazz and progressive rock marks his 2017 production, La Pantoufle a mix of influences ranging from Jacques Tati's psychedelic touch to Vladimir Cosma, François de Roubaix or Jean-Claude Vannier. In 2019, Émile lands on the BMM Records catalog with his Inchpunk-jazzInch duo project La Récré with Isaac Delusion's drummer Cédric Laban, and signs for a trilogy of EPs of which two were already released and highly acclaimed. With several short films to his credit, Émile digs his way into cinema by composing the original soundtrack for 2020 film de Nos Frères Blessés directed by Hélier Cisterne. He is now back with a new soundtrack for French-Canadian motion picture Babysitter directed by Monia Chokri.

West Coast American roots outfit with rich acoustic tones, Back Porchestra, continues it's foray into fresh yet retro genre-blending and genre-bending with a broad range of original Indie Rock and the American Roots styles that inspired it country blues, Zydeco, roots rock, Tex Mex, rockabilly, Singer-Songwriter, Motown, New Orleans and even Brazilian featuring the stellar SF Bay Areas Tim Eschliman (Etta James, Commander Cody & His Western Airmen, Jess Colin Young, The Christmas Jug Band, The Blues Project) on vocals & resonator guitar, Bowen Brown (John Lee Hooker, Tommy Castro, Rhythmtown-Jive) on drums, Candy Girard (Delaney Bramlet, Tanya Tucker, Clint Black, Jerry Garcia) on violin, Beau Beaullieu (California Honeydrops, Gator Beat) on bass, Gary Potterton (NRPS, Texas Chainsaw) on guitar and dobro plus speial guest Kathy Kennedy (Big Bang Beat, Smokey Robinson) on vocals, Vicki Randle (The Tonight show band under Jay Leno) on percussion, Austin deLone on piano, Mingo Lewis Jr (Vinyl) on percussion, and other Christmas Jug Band personnel Ken