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Brian Bordello & Occult Character - Heart To Heart

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1.
Please Remember Me Baby 02:04
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2.
Shine On 03:00
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Strange Flirtation Dance 02:07
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Purple Wall 01:42
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Talkin’ Bachman's Warbler Blues 01:58
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Pig Fucker 03:34
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A transatlantic cooperation between Brain Bordello & Occult Character

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As always, split CD's are the way, as said, it helps spread the word, build unity and keeps folk sharing. This is a 6 track tickler that has had me absorbed. I wouldn't play it every day and certainly won't be seen pogoing to any of the tracks but...it has its place in my listening world because, as you should fuckin’ well know, variety is the spice of the Fungal life. Thank you and double thanks to Metal Postcard Records!

FUNGALPUNK (UK)


Brian Bordello And Occult Character, Heart To Heart. Album Review.
Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating 8.5/10

Dancing cheek to cheek maybe fun, singing from the same spread sheet can bring some closer together but a little Heart To Heart can soothe oceans of troubled waters and build bridges where none thought were possible to erect due to geographical differences and political contrasts. A discussion is not always about thrashing out anger and a Heart To Heart takes place when there is something to build, a pleasure of human emotion in which to keep sacred or the possibility of the new found admiration to which respect is earned and encouraged.

It is in this framing of encouragement that Liverpool’s Brian Bordello and Texas’ Occult Character have joined forces to release six songs in which the fostering of talent and expression is a cross Atlantic journey of beauty, one that which is not only memorable, but also dynamic, a place of the fertile breeding ground to where strangers can sit down around the camp fire and fine commonality, a heart to heart in which a spiritual love is expressed with the divinity of the soul.

The point of experiment is to see how far you can push your limits, of those around you and to see the result as a sense of purity, of purging the stilted and the undigested into the pit and finding the occasion in which the mind is lifted. For Brian Bordello and Occult Character, the minds of expression are already, and sincerely, open, and yet the compliment to each musician is executed with progressive intent, a punk attitude embracing the exploration of furthering and developing their stance.

Taking on three of the collaborated songs each, the split responsibility serves both musicians perfectly, without reneging on the point of individuality. Across the tracks Please Remember Me Baby, Shine On, Strange Flirtation Dance, Purple Wall, Talkin Bachman’s Warbler Blues and Pig F****r, a strange heady brew of magic is drunk, savoured and studied keenly, a mind opened further, a mind surveyed and mined for all possibilities, a true capturing of the Punk Progressive attitude to which all art should be.

Brian Bordello and Occult Character in each other have found a kindred spirit, and the result is explosive.

Ian D. Hall
LIVERPOOL SOUND & VISION



Transatlantic paring release debut collaborative album.
Louder Than War’s Paul Scott-Bates reviews.........

If you’re expecting a highly polished, digitally recorded mini-album here then you’d be sorely disappointed. If what you prefer is songs from the heart, grit and pure musical freedom, then Heart To Heart is here.

Brian Bordello (The Bordellos, Idiot Blur Fanboy) joins forces with Occult Character from Dallas, Texas to bring you a lo-fi, anti-whatever, sprig of six songs that could be recorded in the kitchen, bathroom or porch. It’s brilliant.

Treading the thin line between genius and insanity, the tracks are honest and pure in a way that the music industry doesn’t allow these days. Lyrically, they are endlessly fascinating, musically they are presented warts and all with the odd mis-strummed guitar and off-key vocal.

With words and music passing each other mid Atlantic, the pairing offered each one medium whilst the other supplied the remaining. It works wonderfully, you can imagine the two of them sat outside by a campfire on a Summer evening playing and singing in an improvised way that sometimes brings results and sometimes doesn’t. The intrigue on Heart To Heart is that they are all here.

Pigfucker and Strange Flirtation Dance deserve special mention for not breaking down barriers but, being recorded before the barriers were made. This is music from the soul, from the gut, it’s often not pretty but it is genuinely compelling and guaranteed to keep you listening to the final out-of-tune note.

Heart To Heart pushes boundaries, envelopes, whatever you may want to call it and it brings a smile to the face in these bizarre times as the ‘stop’ button is pressed on the ageing cassette recorder. Stirring stuff.

LOUDER THAN WAR

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released October 10, 2020

2020 Metal Postcard
2020 Brian Bordello
2020 Occult Character

All songs written & performed by Brian Bordello & Occult Character

Artwork: Alice Kirkpatrick. Cover: All Love Issue #26,
Published by Ace Periodicals, May 1949.

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