Personnel:

• Mark Brend (lead vocals, guitar, bass, melodica, autoharp)
• Matthew Gale (computer, keyboards, bass, guitar, accordian, vocals)
• Cliff Glanfield (drums, trumpet, keyboards, vocals)

Current Job:
Putting the finishing touches to a single for release on Bad Jazz in August and an album for release on Pickled Egg in September.

Previous Employment:
Matt and Mark were both in The Palace of Light and Mabel Joy - both bands released albums on Bam-Caruso. Cliff was previously in Feral Tongue.

Achievements:

• Farina:
  • Two People (Pickled Egg 7" - Egg 19) 2000
  • 1 track on Head in the Clouds (Dreamy compilation - rem 004) 1999
  • 1 track on Fretwork 3 (Invisible Hands compilation - ihcd 9) 1997
• Mabel Joy:
  • Wish I Was (Bam-Caruso album - Kiri 111) 1993
  • Books/Catherine (Hummingbird 7" - Hum 1) 1991
• Palace of Light:
  • 2 tracks on Meanwhile Back at the Ranch..." (Bam-Caruso compilation - Marx 075) 1987
  • Beginning Here and Travelling Outwards (Bam-Caruso album - Kiri 058) 1987
  • Safer/Bitter Seal (Bam-Caruso 7" - Opra 035) 1987
  • City of Gold (Bam-Caruso 12" - Pabl 053) 1987
  • 3 tracks on The Waking Dream (Psycho compilation - Psycho 35) 1985

References:

There are probably undiscovered Amazonian tribes making music that's more commercial than this... a bittersweet moment of transient happiness. (Victoria Segal, NME)

'If she could blame him' ably demonstrates why whistling on songs should be more common nay compulsory. 'Displace' on the other hand can despatch a grown man to a weeping heap at ten paces, and I should know. (Mark Barton, Record Mart and Buyer)

It's easy to turn into an adjective monster on these occasions, so I'll stick to just a couple: unusual and moving. (Robots and Electronic Brains)

Strengths and Weaknesses:
We would like to sound like David Ackles, Tim Hardin, The Only Ones, Talk Talk, Ennio Morricone,Leonard Cohen, Ed Kuepper,The Go-Betweens, Mercury Rev, The Flaming Lips.

Contact Details:
nigelt@uk.uu.net or http://surf.to/farina

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