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Monday, 15 February 2010 22:53 |
 Another one that fell through the cracks, recorded in Nashville, Tennessee at 16 Ton Studios as part of the first sessions that led to the forthcoming MARAH album "Life is a Problem".
I played a borrowed "high string" guitar and one of my brother's rusty old harmonicas i found in a road case. "Waiting for a Devil" is fashioned after some "old time religion" songs that I've grown to really love (Washington Phillips, The Anglin Brothers, Blind Willie & Kate McTell). I sang this song with Christine and she played the Fender Rhodes electric piano. Johnny Pisano played the upright bass and later played electric response lines through a plate reverb. Martin played his drum kit through an old tube amp (but don't blame Marty, i made him do it).
We've "sound checked" this song a lot more times then we've ever really performed it .... whenever we did perform it however, people really seemed to respond to its old fashioned simplicity and sincerity (huh). We've found that halfway through some seriously "wordy" Rock n Roll gigs, this one can be a "quiet storm" that hits pretty hard. It's a great pleasure to officially/unofficially release it here.
This is a simple Folk/Gospel song written at a time when I was attempting to say as little as possible as a means of capturing more. It's about idle time, ever-shifting allegiance. It's about undying faith under severely tested patience. It's about trying to believe in invisible stuff.
We are making these "unreleased" recordings available to you because you deserve 'em. As music fans you've displayed the rare quality of really giving a shit about our music through the years and that means a lot to us.
Noise Trade is kindly offering you a 40 second sample here (which is sadly about 30 seconds longer then the average Americans attention span) but what we'd really love to see is you guys download the song and listen to it on your i-Pods while walking alone on a snowy, evening street. Perhaps more songs deserve such a shake down.
This song is free if you pass it along to 5 music loving friends...beyond that you are
free to make a donation to our continued efforts to bring cool music to cool people. We could really use your friendship now. So thank you very much if you do contribute.
Please spread the word, sign our mailing list, our mailing list. Much album news and tour dates comin' round the mountain.
Yours Truly,
MARAH |
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"Put 'em in the Graveyard" |
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Sunday, 25 October 2009 10:56 |
 In my short lived "pre-music" days I was a footballer. I played center for the Conshohocken Golden Bears. I weighed in at 68lbs and I sucked hard. Once we played "East Falls" on the frozen dirt field across the street from "Pat's Steaks" in South Philadelphia. I'm guessing we lost. Mostly I remember "East Falls" hitting their thigh pads and clapping their hands to the Queen "We Will Rock You" beat and chanting "Put 'em in the Graveyard ooh ah" over and over. It was terrifying.
In the past our band never played many new songs before records were "officially" released. We always felt new albums/new songs were best absorbed as complete thoughts...records had sequence and rhythm, each song made more sense propped up by its fellow jams, and as the final guitars or bagpipes rang out you could feel like you'd been on a kinda rock & roll journey. We still feel that way. But...
Considering it's been such a long time since we shared a song and dance together we wanna put this out there for y'all...something new to enjoy and discuss while we wait for the other shoe to drop. We also promise that your $contribution will not be blown in some smoky pub but will aid us greatly in bringing a lot more "unreleased" Marah music into the world this year. Think of the mix tape possibilities.
"Put 'em in the Graveyard" is not a "single" in the "Love is a Battlefield", "Shock The Monkey" kinda way, but merely a new song we are quietly and independently "making available" now due to the timely Halloweenish connotation of its title. Get it?
In 2010 we are gonna play in Syracuse and Serbia. We will spill buckets of sweat on SXSW in Texas and The Basque Country and hopefully Green Bay too. We're gonna need to work real hard but It's exciting, we're gonna do it. We're still in.
So have fun everybody and please remember to sign up for our mailing list. Much album news and tour dates comin' round the mountain.
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
Yours Truly,
David Bielanko and MARAH |
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Friday, 09 October 2009 23:51 |
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Hey Everybody, just a heads up…
Our Halloween show at Elk Creek Café + Aleworks in Millheim, Pennsylvania is going to be a full band Rock n Roll show. That makes us very excited. So excited in fact, we’d love to share our enthusiasm with anyone who plans on ‘traveling in’ for it. NYC, Philly, Pittsburgh, Japan, where you at?
The show is on Saturday October 31st ‘Halloween’, but on Friday October 30th ‘Mischief Night’ we are hosting another private Marah related affair in the area and would like to extend an invitation your way. If you’d like to know more, please email us directly at
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and we’ll do our best to accommodate you. We can also give you additional information about local B&B’s, hotels, haunted houses and corn mazes in the area.
Your friends,
MARAH 
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Welcome to the new Marah website |
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Tuesday, 06 October 2009 13:57 |
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Welcome to the new Marah website! And special thanks to our friend Dan in London for making it happen! For the first time ever, you'll be able to order Marah merchandise from our website - right now we've only got t-shirts, but we'll have more cool stuff for you real soon! Please check out MarahLandTV on YouTube, sign up to become a Marah fan on Facebook, and don't forget to join our mailing list to receive regular updates on shows and new releases! We're very excited about our Halloween show at the Elk Creek Cafe + Aleworks in Millheim, PA on Saturday October 31st. And in the lead up to that, Marah will be releasing a new single for Halloween! We'll let you know all about it in the next few days... Your friends, MARAH |
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Luna Lunera Festival 2009 |
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Thursday, 30 July 2009 19:00 |
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Hola Rockers! Marah are back in Espana next week for the Luna Lunera Festival 2009! It's a great festival in Sos del Rey Catolicos - featuring Lucinda Williams, The Jayhawks, lots of great Spanish Rock bands, and MARAH! We'll be playing on August 8th at 11pm, and the performance will be recorded for TVE and Radio3. Check here for details: www.lunalunerafestival.com Muchos Gracias! |
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