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Del Rey
12+ albums
post-rockinstrumentalmath rockbrazilianpost rock
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Del Rey is: 1. an American post-rock band from Chicago 2. an American blues and jazz guitarist 3. a Brazilian cover band from Recife 1. Eben English: guitar, bassVI, keyboards, drums, programming Chris Cowgill: bass, bassVI, keyboards Damien Burke: guitar, bassVI, bass, keyboards Michael Johnson: drums, keyboards, programming Their sites are: http://www.dlry.net/ http://myspace.com/delrey http://www.mypalgodrecords.com/ del rey was born in 1997 in the attic of a three-flat in Chicago's Ukrainian Village. Drawing on diverse backgrounds of Oberlin art-rock, Peoria punk, Scottish pipe drumming, and backwoods-Maine hallucinogenica (a highly combustible mixture of narcotics and electronics), musicians Damien Burke, Chris Cowgill, Eben English, and Michael Johnson forged a swirling din of pounding, hypnotic rhythms, dusky-yet-heroic harmony, and snaking, angular melodies. That is, until they were booted from the apartment by ungrateful neighbors. Fortunately, more friendly confines were soon found, and the rock has since continued unabated. In '99, the band released a four-song EP, dlry, on their own Dirigible Recordings imprint, which displayed a newborn taking its first breaths, determined to create its own distinct identity. A debut LP, Speak It Not Aloud (My Pal God, 2001), found them molding a vocabulary of sonic lyricism and rhythmic textuality into concise, coherent compositions. On the subsequent Darkness & Distance LP (My Pal God, 2003), this lexicon coalesced into d
