Grand Salvo

 

Grand Salvo is

Paddy Mann

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Melbourne songsmith Paddy Mann creates quiet and soulful odes to broken bones and sorrowful homes, played and recorded with a beauteous aesthetic and filled with a lamenting sense of heartbreak and loss.

Mann's quiet, gently played tunes are filled with non-clichéd observationist images of the Australian environment, his yarn-spun glimpses of dried-out riverbanks and sunlight reflecting off gum leaves only used as colors on an emotional palette painting the country as an unending stretch of heartbreaking habitat, his habitués more often than not broken men seeking respite in an unforgiving land.

If that conjures up any notions of Grand Salvo being grandiose - in content, spirit, or musical delivery - you can scratch such thoughts, straight-up. In detailing such desolation - both emotional and environmental - Mann keeps things achingly simple, his songs, as rudimentary, rattling odes, often kept to the barest of bones.


Grand Salvo Mp3's


Strung Along And Dumped
(from '1642 - 1727')
Bend In The River
(from 'River Road')
 
 


Discography



     
   River Road (LP)

   Released 01/04/2002
   Pharmacy Records PR009




   Buy this album

   1642-1727 (LP)

   Released 01/11/2000
   Pharmacy Records PR005




   Buy this album

"Quite simply, a beautiful album."

- The Age EG (4 out of 5 stars)


"Played and recorded with a beauteous aesthetic and filled with a lamenting sense of heartbreak and loss. Mann keeps things achingly simple, his songs, as rudimentary, rattling odes, often kept to the barest of bones"



"Stunning - 9 out of 10"

- Juice Magazine
"There is a temper that runs throughout the album which allows the grace of (1642-1727) to gradually unfold. A rich, quiet debut from a very talented Melburnian."

- Sean Smith, InPress Magazine 29/11/2000


"The album is an affair in which simplicity is thrust to the fore like a zen-like mondo with sinful pride."

- Beat Magazine "Album of the Week" 21/01/2001


Like a faded black and white photo from past age, '1642-1727' is a veryrewarding listen that's honesty and beautiful instrumental lend much credit to Grand Salvo's frontman Paddy Mann. One of the best albums I've picked up this year. Listen to this one on a long country trip.
- www.ozmusicproject.net


Grand Salvo's (1642-1727) also achieved the much coveted "Album of the Week" in early Feb 2001 on 3RRR FM - Melbourne's largest Public Radio Station.