Unsigned Bands: T. Griffin Coraline

T. Griffin Coraline

Brooklyn's T. Griffin Coraline is a collaboration between songwriter T. Griffin and violinist Catherine McRae. They play hushed, intense story-songs with a junk-store electronic vibe.

On their record "The Sea Won't Take Long" (shiny little) a beat from a toy sampler, a banjo, a train recorded on a cassette, looped notes from McRae's violin, and two voices harmonizing like a space-age Carter Family fuse to form the bed for Griffin's haunted songs. They call it "porch techno.” Uncut Magazine called it "a hushed collision between Vic Chesnutt, Low and Jim O'Rourke, it's wounded ambience both delicate and dense."

Live, they wrestle a small army of loopers, cheap samplers and the lowly Walkman to veer from subtle atmospherics to full-on loop-driven mayhem.

They've toured Europe, the UK and most of the US several times and collaborated with luminaries such as Patti Smith, Vic Chesnutt, Tom Verlaine, Guy Picciotto and members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

T. Griffin Coraline is currently holed up in their studio down by the Gowanus Canal working on a new record expected out in late ‘06 or early ‘07. A flurry of New York shows, a short Northwest tour, and a short European tour are planned for the fall.

Visit T. Griffin Coraline at:

http://www.shinylittlerecords.com/

http://www.myspace.com/tgriffincoraline

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