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The Bartlebees
12+ albums
tweeindie popLo-Figerman90s
about
A band that flew well under the radar during the early 90's. Just as UK Indie was defining itself and music moguls were clambering over themselves to sign up and cash in on once 'word of mouth' scenes such as Madchester no one turned an eye to the continent.There was no internet then. No Myspace. Dark days indeed. So then perhaps it was no surprise that a german old-school-pop three-piece - founded in Munich (München) Bavaria in the autumn of ´91 went completely un-noticed in the UK. Named after the well known short story Bartleby the scrivener by Herman Melville author of the famous book Moby Dick. Coming out of different musical scenes, all three shared common enthusiasm for 6Ts Pop and Beat music, like Creation, Kinks, Velvet Underground, Monks, Byrds, Pink Floyd amongst others, as well as late 7Ts early 8Ts Independent, DIY-Pop and Underground music. A pretty unique guitar-orientated pop sound emerged, but with the distinction of a Lo-Fi edge to it and melodic original tunes that were built around lyrics approaching Zen-philosophy. Someone described it as a confluence of Bobby Fuller Four and the Television Personalities, but I´d say they took it even further out. The two songs for their first 45 were recorded spontaneously in only two hours on a 4-track portastudio while rehearsing and were released in November'91. they were released on the new found Munich based Little Teddy Recordings label as a one-sided seven inch single, which is by now a piece of highly collectabl
