The Turkish Delights, with Me & Mountains and Toads & Mice
Where: Blind Bob’s, 430 E. Fifth St., Dayton
When: 10 p.m. Saturday, July 10
Cost: $5
More info: (937) 938-6405 or www.blindbobs.com
Artist info: www.myspace.com/thethetheturkishdelights
Unlike a lot of bands focused on one sound, The Turkish Delights cover a lot of sonic terrain. As revealed on the trio’s intoxicating new CD, “...Ahem!,” the winner of the 2009 Dayton Band Playoffs can veer effortlessly from organ-driven garage rockers to gypsy-esque folk numbers to rollicking indie pop numbers without missing a beat. And it all works thanks to an adventurous streak tempered by a strong sense of melody and indelible hooks.
Joshua Brothers (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Andy Paxton (drums) and Stephen Tankersley (bass, guitar) sat down recently at The Boston Stoker on Second Street to discuss “...Ahem!” and the CD release show at Blind Bob’s on Saturday, July 10.
Q: There’s a higher fidelity on these recordings than your self-recorded demos. What did you do differently this time?
Paxton said: “We got a few more mikes. When we did the demo it was pretty much one mike.”
Tankersley: “We’re definitely learning about recording as we go. I think you can tell a huge difference between this and the demo. We’re not really going for anything extremely crisp and clean, but we’re pretty good at coming up with this kind of lo-fi local music.”
Q: Why did you choose Blind Bob’s for the release show?
Brothers: “(Owner) Bob (Mendenhall) and his wife, Lisa, have always been really supportive of us. They said they couldn’t wait to have our CD in their jukebox and that they always play our demo in their car. They’ve been real supportive and Blind Bob’s has a great draw on its own. If we bring a big crowd too, then it should be a good show.”
Q: What’s happening after the release show?
Paxton: “More recording.”
Brothers: “We’ve already started recording tracks for the next album. We love to record. It’s really fun and well feel that basically our job as a band is to record and play live.”
Tankersley: “We’re doing a lot of things at once. We’re trying to send out the album and trying to write new music, record new music and practice new music, on top of the things we have to do in our daily lives.”
Brothers: “We don’t think this album is going to make us. It’s a big step for us but we still need to continually move forward. We want to improve on the quality of the next recording as well as the songwriting quality. This is as good as we could do at that time but it’s not as good as we can do period.”
Contact contributing arts and music writer Don Thrasher at donaldthrasher8@aol.com.
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