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Tren Brothers, Jolie Holland

Over the past ten years, Dirty Three guitarist Mick Turner has taken many forms. He's a guitarist for hire -- remember that awesome Cat Power record he did? Or his turn as The Marquis de Tren opposite our very own Bonny Billy? Plus, he paints look at the cover of the record were advertising here if you don't believe us. But mostly, Mick plays himself in solo recordings or collaborations with his Dirty Three skin basher, Jim White, where the two of them go under the moniker Tren Brothers.

Since 1997, weve happily issued Mick's distinctive brand of instrumental guitar songs on records such as TREN PHANTASMA, MARLIN ROSA and MOTH, in addition to the self-titled Tren Brothers EP so we know of where we speak. We enjoy the nocturnal and oceanic leanings of Brother Mick's compositional muse. But were not the only ones. In addition to his world-wide fanbase, Mick also numbers among his admirers other record labels and over the course of time, hes responded to their flatterings by bestowing them with a song or two for their compilation, or vinyl-only single project or limited-edition CD whatever these freaks wanted, Mick didnt care. Its just about music and art to our boy. Thing about vinyl-only/limited-edition/and compilation releases is: they dont last forever. Now that some of these releases have run their course, were here to beat the bootleggers go back to your live shows, dicks! In the meantime, weve got a proper singles compilation for a hitherto unlikely suspect Mick Turner. Its called BLUE TREES and it has some unreleased tracks and some great cover art from Mick that explains more than we ever could about the album title or the music. Its a whole new record thanks, Mick and the world is now a little bigger, sweeter and more terrifiying. Cheers!