Tindersticks - Distractions - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

System and Station is from Portland, OR. The band first started in 1998 in Idaho as Dave Wall, RFK Heise and Mike Rundle and then moved to Wisconsin until 2001. After that System and Station came to Portland and became RFK Heise, Palmer Cloud, Josh Vasby and Bryan Fairfield and later Levi Cecil until 2005. At that point System and Station became RFK Heise, Palmer Cloud, Adam Draper, Mark Matterey and later Ed Cugguda until 2007. Now System and Station is once again RFK Heise, Palmer Cloud, Adam Schultz and Bryan Fairfield, get all of that? The band has been on over 18 national tours. Released 8 recordings (4 eps, 4 lps). Have owned 2 very loyal Ford Club Wagons. Have had approximately 12 breakdowns (some in -20 degree weather, some strictly mental). Have torched 4 computer monitors in San Antonio. Have seen 1 man dressed as a nun defile someone in New York. Have been jumped by 1 crack head and 2 hookers in Knoxville, TN. Have stayed at the producer of the Oprah Winfrey shows home without them knowing it 1 time with Caustic Resin. Have had 1 fight with a gang of DJ's in Las Vegas Nevada. Have been in 1 Texas Jail cell. Have seen 2 dead bodies 1 in Savannah, GA and 1 in New Orleans, LO. Have been mugged by 1 gypsy in New Orleans. Have way too many stories to list on this page. Have played with everyone from Marky Ramone to Shiner, from Alex Chilton to Built to Spill, from Jeremy Enigk to Canyon, from Black Rebel Motorcycle Club to The Meat Puppets oh yeah and also Sloppy Seconds. Have met some of the most inspiring and amazing people on this planet earth who have taken us in without a second thought. They are my favorite part. Discography A Nation of Actors (Summer 2008) Protest Hill (RFK Heise)- the city echoes our hearts (2007) Here is Now (2006) In the Twilight (2005) If you Find Me Let Me Know (2003) Compiling the 7 (2001) Pictures Found in Paragraphs (2000) Pros

Three years since their last album proper, singer Stuart Staples decided Tindersticks return called for something special and No Treasure but Hope, is very much that! Rich in intuitive warmth, rich melodies and an inquisitive spirit, it s an album that casts a fresh light on Tindersticks core qualities, bathed in the glow of a band intent on rediscovering what they can do. Expanding the horizon without losing the focus, No Treasure but Hope manages to collect some of the band s most immediate work in one outsstanding album. This will be the bands twelfth record, the earliest Tindersticks being in 1991. Over the course of the band s rich history, Staples has found a voice in film composition as well. This includes a soundtrack to Claire Denis science-fiction film High Life (2019), which features vocals from actor Robert Pattinson.

On the violin Henri Vieuxtemps made his quick way from one success to the next, and Robert Schumann even compared him to Niccolo Paganini. However, the viola was his secret love, and he created some of his most beautiful compositions for it. Christian Euler and Paul Rivinius have set standards with their recordings of English viola music and works by Paul Hindemith, and their Vieuxtemps interpretations are guaranteed to delight avid viola fans- and not only them! The cantabile playing style so typical of the Franco-Belgian violin school and such an important influence on Vieuxtemps and then on his pupil Ysaye is especially effective when executed on the viola. When Christian Euler plays the beginning of the Sonata op. 35 and it's long melody lines and the standout Barcarole not only so very airily and freely but also with sonorous intensity, the result is pure listening joy. The Elegy op. 30 is perhaps the most beautiful contribution to the program. From the very beginning Paul Rivinius employs dryly speckled chords to produce an atmosphere in which the melancholy song of the viola is able to unfold in endless lament. And then at the end, when things really get down to business, what remains is astonishment at all that can be done and is done on the viola.