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Six Red Carpets
Genre: Rock / Alternative
From: Milan, Italy

Italian trio Six Red Carpets have taken a leaf out of the Radiohead book in releasing their debut album 'Nightmares & Lullabies' as a free download via their website. Yes that's free, gratis, without the need to part with any money! And there's not even an honesty box in which to deposit any of your virtual currency!

Whilst this was considered a bit of a risk for a band with the international profile, back catalogue and impressively large and loyal fanbase of Radiohead it's tantamount to commercial suicide for an unknown Italian band making their way in the cut throat music industry.

Unsurprisingly the bands free release has been received with a little more than a bored yawn compared to the world wide fanfare and 'new musical commercial model' hyperbole that accompanied the release of Radioheads' 'In Rainbows' .

But gradually the blogging community has started to cotton on (check out Six Red Carpets - The Dream Of Billy Kite on MP3 Hugger earlier this month), started to twig that if the best things in life are free then 'Nightmares & Lullabies' with it's late 80s alternative rock affectations recalling Smashing Pumpkins in their pomp is no exception. The band even manage to make a track that reminds this critic of 'Message in a Bottle' by The Police ('Angels' Vanity') sound like a must have addition to any music lovers collection.

Check it out at the link below what have you got to lose?

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MP3 - Six Red Carpets - Twenty Two and the Charm of Gravity
MP3 - Six Red Carpets - The Dream Of Billy Kite

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Six Red Carpets 'Nightmares & Lullabies'

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Six Red Carpets - Myspace // Website

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Six Red Carpets
I Dream Of Billy Kite

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Six Red Carpets - Nightmares + Lullabies

(J’ai décidément la cote auprès des groupes inconnus américains : après Sarah SabDAU, le groupe Six Red Carpets m’a contacté cette nuit pour diffuser dans son intégralité son album, mais comme il est bon, autant le chroniquer par la même occasion)

Que pouvons / devons-nous savoir de Six Red Carpets outre leur nationalité outre-atlantique ? Il sont plutôt du genre altruistes, puisqu’ils n’hésitent pas à proposer dans son intégralité et en très bonne qualité leur album 100% fait maison “Nightmares + Lullabies” : un des avantages de ne pas être signé - encore - sur un label. Pourtant, l’on se demande pour quelle raison cette dite signature n’a pas encore été possible, puisque tout y est : un véritable univers, un son très personnel, un album construit autour d’une histoire (ahhh les concept albums, ça manquait), un fil conducteur distillé à travers 13 titres, une voix captivante, des choeurs bien placés et qui font mouche, un ebooklet bien foutu - tout en pastel, rappelant fortement l’univers de Burton, voire la série déjantée Lenore, Cute Little dead Girl … le tout pour donc, histoire d’en remettre une couche, 0 euro.

Download Nightmares + Lullabies (105 mo)

Ce rock (voire pop, après réécoute) mélodique fait dans l’efficacité la plus totale, sans pour autant s’affranchir de subtilités prenant souvent la forme d’arpèges discrètes agrémentée d’effets flanger d’une autre époque, ou encore quelques nappes quasi effacées mais arrangées pour se fondre à la brutalité de certains riffs. Bien qu’américain, le combo sonne davantage comme un groupe britannique : il suffit d’écouter Here’s to the Nightmare ou encore Run Over Free pour s’en convaincre (seul le côté ultra gras de la guitare façon Les Paul peut trahir l’origine)

Au delà d’une très bonne surprise, Nightmares + Lullabies, réalisé, mixé et produit par Six Red Carpets (on n’est jamais aussi bien servi que par soi-même) est à écouter (en 1 traite et dans l’ordre, si possible), à découvrir, à télécharger, à diffuser, comme peut le laisser sous-entendre leur message envoyé :

It’s not a virus or crap like that ,so you shouldn’t be afraid, give us a chance to be listened by you.

Click on our website www.sixredcarpets.com to download a folder in which you’ll find the 13 tracks, the e-booklet and a short story we’ve written to introduce its concept.

You can use our .mp3 as you want, and if you think it’s a good idea you can share our music with your friends, or mailing list, or making a review of the album; you can also leave a comment on our myspace page (www.myspace.com/sixredcarpets), let us know what you think about it.

We want you to know that we’ve done everything by ourselves: we’ve produced everything of this album, we’ve recorded, we’ve mixed, we’ve mastered (… and paid for the copyright of the tracks…)…but we bet you’ll like the results of all the work we’ve done.

We don’t have any label or production yet, so we appreciate any kind of Help and Support and we’re ready to any kind of collaboration.

Take care,

Six Red Carpets

Ce qu’on pourra reprocher - peut-être ? - à Six Red Carpets ? D’abuser parfois, tels les inusables et immortels AC/DC, d’une géométrie rythmique calquée d’un titre à l’autre … www.myspace.com/sixredcarpets

Tracklist

1. The Weather Call
2. Twenty Two and the Charm of Gravity
3. Words Forgetting, Words Forgot
4. Fall Asleep
5. Here’s to the Nightmare
6. Angels Vanity
7. Run over free
8. Deep Down in Water
9. Vanilla Scent
10. I was there
11. The Dream of Billy Kite
12. Bring Me Noise
13. Asphalt Song

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Six Red Carpets Interview by Liz on Festival Previews.

http://www.festivalpreviews.com/blog/601/10-questions-an-interview-with-six-red-carpets/

Six Red Carpets - The Dream Of / Billy Kite

Six Red Carpets - The Dream Of / Billy Kite

Six Red Carpets, a Milanese 3-piece, released their debut album ‘Nightmares + Lullabies’ at the end of June. As is fast becoming the norm the album was issued free of charge for anyone with the time/inclination to download it. So Six Red Carpets were accorded no headlines or calls from important media outlets about their novel approach. Freebies are so passé these days you see, we’ve become ambivalent and somewhere along the way some important music has been lost. So you should put some time aside getting this album on your hard drive because it is a beautiful record. There are flashes of Smashing Pumpkins and early Whipping Boy throughout the 13 tracks, the production is lush and the strings when they appear illuminate the scene rather than appear like an afterthought. The most pleasing aspect of ‘Nightmares + Lullabies’ is that it sounds so vibrant and ripe with possibilities. ‘Vanilla Scent’ and ‘The Dream of / Billy Kite’ are my current favourites but there are lots more besides to enjoy. KD Six Red Carpets - The Dream Of / Billy Kite Six Red Carpets - Vanilla Scent Watch The Video More Info: Official & Myspace Free Album Download: Nightmares + Lullabies Year: 2008

Six Red Carpets: Nightmares+Lullabies

Six Red Carpets: Nightmares+Lullabies

Die van Six Red Carpets hebben het gevonden. Maak een album, en een kortverhaal dat het album inleidt, en bied dat aan. Kwestie van de mensen iets extra te geven en op te vallen in de oneindige wereld van netlogs, netlabels, en andere netreleases. Het is niet eens zo'n slecht album. Stevige rocknummers die het niveau van de tegenwoordig nogal belabberde Afrekening zouden kunnen opkrikken. Stubru zou er spijt van krijgen dat ze in het commerciële wereldje van Jim en TMF zijn gestapt. De songs doen me wat denken aan een mengeling tussen QOTSA en Soundgarden, en klinken stuk voor stuk goed. Niet slecht voor een gratis plaat. Je moet wel een pdf-reader hebben om het boekje te lezen, maar dat lijkt me standaard-bewapening voor copyleft-activisten.

SIX RED CARPETS Nightmares + lullabies Autoproduzione 2008

Prendo spunto da questa pubblicazione “sonora” per un libera riflessione su una categoria così radicale di musicisti com’è quella degli Internauti , da quel sorprendente concetto di non-luogo fisico, proprio dell’” u-topia” escatologica. Quei musicisti fuori pista che per “ necessità virtù” immettono nel virtuale il frutto della loro creatività fabbricata dentro uno spazio proprio, morsi come sono dalla frenesia di muoversi, affermarsi, di andare sempre oltre per far sentire la loro musica che nasce calda, passa attraverso files gelidi, e una volta scaricata si ricompone in tutta la carnalità da cui è partita. E per l'appunto da uno di questi download arriva il rock grigioperla di “Nightmares + Lullabies” dei milanesi Six Red Carpets; interamente cantate in inglese e presentate da un videoclip sfizioso, le 13 takes mordono la panacea dei fine anni 80, e la band non ne ha appreso soltanto la coraggiosa ricerca sonora, ma anche la solida attenzione per la forma canzone. In effetti Mills, Majlco e Leaf (i tre SRC) sembrano quasi citare – a tratti con ironia – le qualità più commerciali di quel genere, per seguire a loro volta una strada ricca di atmosfere rarefatte e melodie nascoste tra pizzichi di noise chitarristico e ritmiche efficaci, unita da un’ottima tenuta vocale che si rapporta egregiamente col resto. I milanesi stringono in pugno le sonorità della post new wave quella più creativa e meno mascarata: “ Words forgetting, words forgot - Angel’s vanity- Fall asleep” e quelle tenui sperimentazioni evanescenti di stampo Radiohead fuori catalogo :” Twenty two and the charm of gravity - I was there – Bring me noise ( fulminante nel bell’impasto di chitarra cavalcante). Il risultato è tutt’altro che contraddittorio: in queste tracce convivono due modi di intendere le sfumature del grigio, ma senza i trucchi e i merletti della coda di quegli anni; e quelle sfumature poi finiscono ad incontrarsi nel coagulo di due piccole gemme “Vanilla scent – aria ed elio in sinfonia, e Asphalt song, arpeggiato di delicatezza andante, che sa di cartazucchero sbiadita dalla malinconia”. I Six Red Carpets diffondono il loro suono vitale attraverso file da scaricare, e garantiscono che l’operazione è avulsa da tranelli e virus vari. Attenzione, nulla di più falso: una volta che avrete downloadato queste tredici tracce, il virus c’è, è quello del piacere 

Articolo di: Massimo Sannella    Del 08/10/08

Six Red Carpets - The Dream Of / Billy Kite

Six Red Carpets, a Milanese 3-piece, released their debut album ‘Nightmares + Lullabies’ at the end of June. As is fast becoming the norm the album was issued free of charge for anyone with the time/inclination to download it. So Six Red Carpets were accorded no headlines or calls from important media outlets about their novel approach. Freebies are so passé these days you see, we’ve become ambivalent and somewhere along the way some important music has been lost. So you should put some time aside getting this album on your hard drive because it is a beautiful record. There are flashes of Smashing Pumpkins and early Whipping Boy throughout the 13 tracks, the production is lush and the strings when they appear illuminate the scene rather than appear like an afterthought. The most pleasing aspect of ‘Nightmares + Lullabies’ is that it sounds so vibrant and ripe with possibilities. ‘Vanilla Scent’ and ‘The Dream of / Billy Kite’ are my current favourites but there are lots more besides to enjoy. KD

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