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Crimson House Blues
12+ albums
bluesAlt-countrysouth africanbluegrasshard blues
about
Crimson House is grassroots, soul lifting, foot-stomping, heart moving audio candy, built on a brotherhood that will outlive the timelessness of music they create. This band of brothers deliver a show that gets any audience on their feet and singing along even if they never knew the song. Crimson House was founded in Namibia in 2010 by Arno Van Zyl & Riaan Smit Their mission was to find within themselves a sound that would give them the feeling of bliss they sought in their music. They recruited Christoph de Chevonnes Vrugt on drums and Jacques Jansen Van Rensburg on bass. This rhythm section was completely different from other blues bands as they were more familiar with punk and metal. The music then took a direction no-one saw coming. It went from blues, to bluegrass western punk with a Tom Waits/Joe cocker styled vocals soaked in gypsy undertones. This unique factor and a relentless gig schedule moulded them into a live musical act that could not be contained. After coming together they wrote an albums worth of songs that would become “smoke, dust & Whiskey’ The Album received rave reviews from media and radio though it was recorded in their friend Alan Simmonds lounge with nothing but some borrowed microphones, a PC with Cubase and whole lot of determination. Though having it mastered by Cape town top mastering engineer Simon “Fuzzy’ Ratcliffe’ (LARK) at sound & motion studios definitely helped The single from the album “Breaking down low’ became a college radio hit and t
