HORN PLAYER FROM BEATLES' 1967 SESSION GRACES NEW ALBUM
'GERONIMO!' (OCT. 14 / HIGHLINE RECORDS)
While 'Geronimo!' has earned Piney Gir comparisons to fellow
indie-poppers who draw on the 60s such as Jenny Lewis and Nellie McKay but
there's another connection to the flower-power era. French horn on Piney's
album comes from authentic 60s rock 'n' roller Tom Bennellick, who also played
brass on Beatles album 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.'
Piney discovered Tom at a country pub in Oxford, playing
covers in a local band. She recalls, "They had this hot band with all
these old session players. So I asked the brass section if they'd play on my
album and they nonchalantly said , 'Sure.' I asked if they had ever been on an
album before, and Tom replied with a knowing smirk, 'Uh yes, actually, I played
on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.'"
Though main sessions for the album took place in LA with Rob
Campanella of Brian Jonestown Massacre producing, Bennellick did his part as an
overdub from a recital hall at Oxford University in the UK in just one take.
Q Magazine called 'Geronimo!,' already out in the UK,
"exuberant, bursts with joy, divine."
A Kansas-born expat living in London, Piney has opened for
the likes of Brian Jonestown Massacre, Wanda Jackson, Erasure, and Martha
Wainwright. Her music has been featured in the TV shows Misfits (E4), Made In
Chelsea (E4), Hit & Miss (Sky TV) and Private Practice (ABC) and has been
featured in the New Singles & EPs section of the iTunes Store in the UK.
She has performed at numerous festivals, including Glastonbury, Bestival, Big
Chill, Larmer Tree, Wychwood, Cornbury, Camden Crawl and SXSW. Piney Gir is
also a former member of the all-girl, art-rock, cult-classic group The Schla La
Las and the synth-pop duo Vic Twenty.
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