"DON'T TRY" - CHARLES BUKOWSKI. PARKBENCH is Danish born, sometime London exile, Californian resident and ex-Spanish, Nigerian, Norweigan and Minnesotan local gipsy-boy songwriter DJ, promoter and real life poetical word scribbler, rolled into a lanky 35-year old immigrant spiritual anti-corps emigre, post-Viking, cerebrally coitus'd can-of-wordaged, manu-tau tempered, plain clothes drifting pale rider Copenhagen dago unnative rereformed hoodoo lighter thief honkey monk MARTIN THOMAS WISSENBERG
Debut release: "Versus Blackout" (2008); upcoming release: "WanderWorld" (2011). Order it simply by dropping me an email (scarygotchaclub@gmail.com); or to Jane Glitre from Spitz Records (press@spitz.co.uk). Otherwise it is available in the usual places - HMV, Amazon.com, Itunes, etc; but then not as cheap. Live I often play with FRANCK ALBA (from erstwhile 4AD outfit Piano Magic); CHE ALBRIGHTON (Audioporn, Bikini Atoll, Lynch Rider Lulu) on drums and DAVID 'Starman' VILLANUEVA (from Santiago, Chile, and also from a spiritual place very near my own, I think) on everything from guitars, bass, percussion and harp. Our music is described as "darkly sophisticated slabs of lonesomeness" (Bella Todd - TIME OUT). Other press quotes: "Initial impression is a lofi acoustica take on Super Furry Animals: A very Gryff Rhys type vocal, so you can also mention Gorky's for sure. Musically very low key and moody a la some of Nick Drake's work, or Nick Cave for that matter. "Folkambient" they call it. Leonard Cohen rears his head on 'Tomb of the Unknown'…via Lambchop…but this is very fine work…pedal steel, slide, haunting vocalsall good. - (BUGBEAR MUSIC).
