Innova Recordings
Pese Wicked Pings
$16.99
Details
- Composer
- VARIOUS
- Artist
- Beat Circus
- Format
- CD
- Label
- Innova Recordings
- Released
- Mar 22, 2019
- Catalog #
- INN015
- UPC
- 726708601522
About
These Wicked Things is the fourth release from the determinedly eclectic Boston-based band Beat Circus and the final installment in singer/multi-instrumentalist/composer Brian Carpenter’s “Weird American Gothic” trilogy. The record bridges a number of disparate genres including experimental music, cowpunk, post-punk, Mexican folk music, mariachi music, and “spaghetti western” and giallo film scores. These Wicked Things began after Carpenter was commissioned by the Berkeley Repertory Theater in Berkeley, California to compose music and lyrics for Dominic Orlando’s play The Barbary Coast in 2014. Based on the true crime book by Herbert Asbury, The Barbary Coast detailed the violent rise of San Francisco in the late 1800s. The play centers around Joaquin Murieta, a Mexican who went on a revenge spree after his wife was killed by miners. Two versions of “Rosita” and some incidental music from the play are included. After recording These Wicked Things with Beat Circus at the legendary Q Division Studios in Boston, Carpenter flew out to Tucson, Arizona to mix the record with esteemed producer Craig Schumacher. Carpenter worked with Schumacher previously on his singer/songwriter outing The Far End of the World. Special guests on These Wicked Things include trumpeter Jacob Valenzuela of Calexico, bass saxophonist Dana Colley of Morphine, and guitarist Stephen Ulrich of the NYC guitar noir trio Big Lazy.
Tracklist 15 tracks
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1 Murieta's Last Ride 02:58
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Murieta's Last Ride
- Duration
- 02:58
- Composer
- Brian Carpenter
- Ensemble
- Beat Circus
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2 These Wicked Things 03:43
- Track
- 2
- Title
- These Wicked Things
- Duration
- 03:43
- Composer
- Brian Carpenter
- Ensemble
- Beat Circus
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3 Bad Motel 02:25
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Bad Motel
- Duration
- 02:25
- Composer
- Brian Carpenter
- Ensemble
- Beat Circus
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4 Just a Lost, Lost Dream 03:05
- Track
- 4
- Title
- Just a Lost, Lost Dream
- Duration
- 03:05
- Composer
- Brian Carpenter
- Ensemble
- Beat Circus
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5 Crow Killer 02:34
- Track
- 5
- Title
- Crow Killer
- Duration
- 02:34
- Composer
- Brian Carpenter
- Ensemble
- Beat Circus
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6 Gone, Gone, Gone 03:26
- Track
- 6
- Title
- Gone, Gone, Gone
- Duration
- 03:26
- Composer
- Brian Carpenter
- Ensemble
- Beat Circus
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7 The Girl from the West Country 02:16
- Track
- 7
- Title
- The Girl from the West Country
- Duration
- 02:16
- Composer
- Brian Carpenter
- Ensemble
- Beat Circus
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8 Rosita (Tango) 02:16
- Track
- 8
- Title
- Rosita (Tango)
- Duration
- 02:16
- Composer
- Brian Carpenter
- Ensemble
- Beat Circus
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9 The Key 03:25
- Track
- 9
- Title
- The Key
- Duration
- 03:25
- Composer
- Brian Carpenter
- Ensemble
- Beat Circus
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10 All the Pretty Horses 02:30
- Track
- 10
- Title
- All the Pretty Horses
- Duration
- 02:30
- Composer
- Brian Carpenter, Paul Dilley, Gavin McCarthy, Andrew Stern
- Ensemble
- Beat Circus
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11 Rosita (Huapango) 04:18
- Track
- 11
- Title
- Rosita (Huapango)
- Duration
- 04:18
- Composer
- Brian Carpenter
- Ensemble
- Beat Circus
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12 Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came 01:38
- Track
- 12
- Title
- Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
- Duration
- 01:38
- Composer
- Brian Carpenter
- Ensemble
- Beat Circus
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13 The Evening Redness in the West 02:16
- Track
- 13
- Title
- The Evening Redness in the West
- Duration
- 02:16
- Composer
- Brian Carpenter
- Ensemble
- Beat Circus
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14 The Last Man (Is Anybody Out There?) 06:53
- Track
- 14
- Title
- The Last Man (Is Anybody Out There?)
- Duration
- 06:53
- Composer
- Brian Carpenter
- Ensemble
- Beat Circus
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15 Long Way Home 02:21
- Track
- 15
- Title
- Long Way Home
- Duration
- 02:21
- Composer
- Brian Carpenter, Andrew Stern
- Ensemble
- Beat Circus