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Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
12+ albums
quirkyfolkindieindie popgeek rock
about
"We're an indie-vaudeville-conceptual-art-rock-slideshow band," says singer/songwriter Jason Trachtenburg, "We've got the market cornered. There is no band that can hold a candle to us. In that department." The Trachtenburg Family are a domestic trio (father: Jason, mother: Tina Piña & 12-year-old daughter Rachel), who play quirky indie pop songs in the key of unironic good, clean fun with one major catch: All the songs carefully rhyming lyrics come from the vintage slide collections theyve found at estate or garage sales that accompany their performances. Whats more, from their retro fashion sense to their disavowal of modern conveniences, the Trachtenburgs are a charming relic: a vintage throwback to simpler, more self-sufficient, family-oriented times just like their music. Tina Piña and Jason met at a Greenwich Village open-mic in 1989, and the pair later relocated to Seattle. They had a daughter, Rachel, and ran a dog-walking business while Jason worked Seattles open-mic circuit. When his eccentric indie pop was failing to find an audience, Tina suggested he augment his act with slide imagery. On a subsequent dog-walking trip with Rachel, she found an old slide projector at a garage sale, and a box of slides from a random family's 1959 mountain trip to Japan. One morning in 2000, Tina awoke to find Jason had spent the entire night writing a song to accompany the slide presentation (appropriately titled Mountain Trip to Japan, 1959). Six-year-old Rachel was recruited t
top songs
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Eggs
1,5262Mountain Trip to Japan, 1959
1,2343Open Everything
1,2214Fondue Friends in Switzerland
8315European Boys
7946What Will the Corporation Do?
7797Together as a System We Are Unbeatable
7698Opnad Contribution Study Committee Report, June 1977
7379Let's Not Have the Same Weight in 1978 - Let's Have More
68510Believing in You
646albums
Vintage Slide Collections From Seattle, Vol. 1
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Indie/Rock Playlist: September (2011)
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Vintage Slide Collections From Seattle, Volume 1
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Vintage Slide Collections From Seattle, Vol. I
Lost And Found
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Indie 69 August 2011
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Indie/Rock/Electro Playlist: Fall (2011)
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Counter Culture 03
Adventures In Middle America, Volume II
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Adventures In Middle America, Vol. 2
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United States of Tara Season 2 (OST)
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Vintage Slide Collection from Seattle Vol. 1