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Tarantella Fall
7+ albums
irish
about
Formed in late 2009, the band's line up includes Chris Kinsella on vocals and guitar, Neville Foster on drums, Graham Keogh on bass and Ronan O’Donovan on guitar and harmonica. The Tarantella part of the name was first heard by the band in the Tom Waits song Tango Till They’re Sore from the album “Rain Dogs”. It is also a type of music and dance originating from Italy. The supposedly curative or symptomatic 'tarantella' was danced solo by a supposed victim of a tarantula bite. The dance was agitated in character, lasted for hours or even up to days, and featured the same characteristic music. 'Fall' came from a poem called Tarantella written by Hillaire Belloc in which the last line refers to a waterfall - “No sound, but the boom of the far waterfall like doom”. The band made their live debut in January and will spend the year promoting and touring the album in venues and festivals throughout Ireland. “Abandoned Road”, is a set of loosely themed songs that could have been written for a speculative noir B-picture set in the American heartland. The album was recorded in the last half of 2010, under the production stewardship of Dave "Skippy" Christophers in his Karma Korner studio in Dublin. The 13 songs tell the fictional story from various parts of the life of John W, his dark past and how he became the person he was. Musically it veers from Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, hitting R.E.M. and Radiohead and lots more in between. At the core of their sound though is good old-
