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Press Release for Farmers Market. Surfin USSR.

From out of bluegrass swamps with a banjo on its knee, striding over Cossack steppe to haunting Bulgarian Pipes, Tablas tethered to its heels beating time-to-tread over the plains of Hindu Kush, ears attuned to hoar-frosted fiddles and sonorous ice-rimed accordions echoing between Norwegian peaks as it jerks like a puppet on strings of celestial harp and Balkan lute, darting between saxophone bolts of melodic lightning buffeted by clarinet zephyrs blown from Romany lips, guitars poking from the hybrid minstrel´s back like spines as it lopes along unfamiliar trails to the next gig...

...the musical forge - Farmers Market - present their fourth and most innovative album to date entitled Surfin´USSR. An eclectic gumbo of disparate influences gathered from opposite ends of the global village fused together in tight compositions creating the unique blend of a sound rarefied in the studio and vibrantly replicated in concert. 

The Farmers Market collective view this production as being of a therapeutic nature; a banishing of ghosts from a traumatic cold war past in Norway, hitched to the North Atlantic Treaty whilst bordering a belligerent Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Trapped between the "Devil and the Deep Blue Sea" so to speak, a split-personality of cultural-identity-schizophrenia ensued - betwixt bipolar extremes of American Dreams and Soviet Utopias. Capitalist schemes and Marxist myopias...

It was to bridge this abyss of yawning, that creative endeavours focused manifestly on an EastWest dynamic, in order to distil harmonious euphony from the memory of shrill propaganda and invasion hysteria. Demons thus exorcised dance away the heartache to a musical palliative... hopefully healing historical histrionics along the way.

According to their shrinks this medicinal excursion has resulted in a temporary remedial diagnosis for their acute personality-disorders. A clean bill of health for which Farmers Market would like to express their sincere appreciation and extend cordial greetings to former cell-mates and asylum-sweepers at the Holding Facility for Delusional Troubadours and Paranoid Minorities - Keep Ridin´ The Wave Comrades!

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Presseskriv fra Farmers Market. Surfin USSR.

Farmers Market  er ute med et eklektisk monster av et fonogram på det sambandsstatsbaserte selskapet Ipecac!!
Verket har fått navnet "Surfin´USSR" og er bandet´s første album på 8 år!
Plata kan beskrives som en sildrende kilde av finslipte hybride uttrykk og innfall med et felles utgangspunkt;
"Frihet under ansvar (med forbehold om ansvarsløshet)"! Her finnes bl.a sigøynersurf, bollywood-country, tyrkisk metall, dissonant polyfon kvinneglam, forsoffen maskulin gjespesang, sekkepipepop, balkanbluegrass og twangstrøyegitar i truede taktarter.

Med denne utgivelsen setter bandet en ny standard for oppheving tyngdekraft i musikk, samtidig som den er et lystbetont oppgjør med musikalske skapskjeletter bandmedlemmene har slitt med fra barnsben av!

Farmers Market har som vanlig med en rekke prominente gjester, bl.a den bulgarske stats kvinnekor,  en av Indias råeste tablaspiller, felespillere fra Fræna samt kremen av nordbulgarske undergrunnssigøynermusikere fra Donaudeltaets skrå bredder!!