Caramel Jack is a pop, folk and experimental group based in Brighton, England and built around the songwriting and production team of Richard Scott and Joe Doveton. With a floating line up of anything up to 13 associate members, Caramel Jack has released five albums ( see below ) the latest of which entitled 1900 has just been released on World Of Furr Records in (March 2008), and features cameos from BJ Cole (pedal steel), Ashley Slater (trombone) and Bela Emerson (cello) together with a full supporting cast ( trumpet, tap-dancing, violin, air-conditioning, a rum-soaked Sea Shanty choir, saxophone, cats etc ).
Running the stylistic gauntlet from acoustic alt-country to chamber-pop to vaudeville to art-noise and cinematic instrumentals Caramel Jack continues to deliver a genre-defying body of work that is at once original yet steeped in the richness and diversity of the past 100 years of music.
The previous Caramel Jack albums are Songs From Low Story (2004) which achieved huge critical acclaim in publications like Q Magazine, Uncut and The Independent;
Seven Brides For Caramel Jack (2001) which was one of The Gilded Palace Of Sin's albums of that year, Everybody Get Shot (1999) elements of which have recently been
used in a movie and their debut The Curse Of Caramel Jack (1998).
"It's wonderful stuff - imaginative, intelligent and melodic to-boot" Q ****
"Do not readjust your set....sublime stuff" The Independent On Sunday ****
"The diversity is mind-spinning..." Uncut ****
www.carameljack.com
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www.lastfm.com/music/caramel+jack
posted by: Andy Fearn