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Clatter : Blinded By Vision
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Two-piece rocking melodic rhythmic mayhem: girl with bright pink hair sings her heart out and plays bass like a crazy woman; guy with blue-black hair plays drums like he has 5 arms. Who needs guitars?
Genre: Rock: Modern Rock
Release Date: 2003
Blinded By Vision Record Label: Chicken House Records
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Just Like You 3:08 $0.99
Left Out 3:26 $0.99
Still 3:23 $0.99
Center Line 3:18 $0.99
Nevsky Prospekt 3:35 $0.99
Taunted 4:10 $0.99
Starve 3:17 $0.99
Black Karma 3:54 $0.99
Choke 4:12 $0.99
Plunge 3:53 $0.99
Forgive 'n' Forget 4:22 $0.99
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Album Notes

Clatter is a two-piece rock band from central Missouri. Amy Humphrey (bass and vocals) and Joe Hayes (drums and percussion) blend rhythmic mayhem with melodic melodies to create rock music without guitars.

Their CD "Blinded By Vision" has been receiving rave reviews everywhere! Clatter toured 50,000 miles across the US and Canada to support the release, culminating in a concert in Boonville, MO that was filmed for their DVD release "Blinded in Boonville" (available at www.clatter.com). The DVD got great reviews in both "Bass Player" and "Bass Guitar" magazines.

Clatter currently is at work on a new album sheduled for release later this year.


Simon Rose, DJ at KBXR, says:

"I'm a sucker for great songs, great riffs, great tunes. You get them all on Clatter's "Blinded by Vision". Love the unconventional instrumentation as well on this record. This is a great album, one of my favorites of the year."

Here's what "Amplifier Magazine" had to say about "Blinded By Vision":

"Weary of over-hyped guitar bands like Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the White Stripes? Clatter eliminates guitar clutter altogether with a line-up consisting solely of bassist Amy Humphrey and drummer Joe Hayes. Employing a myriad of mind-altering effects most closely associated with the various permutations of very heavy metal (distortion, flange, delay) Humphrey emerges as polyrhythmic pyrotechnic by slapping, riffing and soloing in the grand tradition of Larry Graham (Sly & the Family Stone), Les Claypool (Primus) and Geezer Butler (Black Sabbath). Hayes is no slouch either, gamely grooving with tasty fills and inventive call-and-response phrasing.  . . . The standout track on this collection is "Center Line," which adheres to a simple funk motif and eventually simmers with sultry spoken-word vignettes . . . this is a fine audio library for aspiring hard-rock bassists and prog aficionados."

For more CD reviews, show reviews, live photos and more, check out our web site at www.clatter.com! And be sure to visit the Clatter forum at www.ebassist.com!

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REVIEWS

Fascinating!
author: Oliver Zahorka
Beautiful and powerful music. Amazing how two musicians can come up with such rich a texture sounding like a whole band.
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Who needs guitars?
author: Oliver Zahorka
'Nuff said. :-)
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Clatter in a math and color formula
author: Ian Perge
How to explain Clatter as a mathematical equation? Multiple layers of clean, distorted, and effected bass + blue-haired acoustic and electronic drums and percussion + pink-haired vocals = tasty goodness. The combination of Amy Humphrey's split-signal bass and vocals ranging from powerful to soft and everywhere in-between to Joe Hayes' technically dazzling acoustic drumming and triggered samples and percussion (shades of Peart indeed) make this duo sound far bigger than they've any right to be, and the fact that they also write great songs to boot is the proverbial cherry on the top of a very delicious musical cake.
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This cd really rocks
author: Steph Hagedorn
I really love this cd. I had a copy before but I carried it all over and the center of the disc cracked so I needed to buy another. The blend of the bass and drums is so perfect. I never thought a bass and drums were capable of so much incredible sounding music because usually the guitars are the focas of the band. I have bought this disc for everyone I know because I have such an appreciation for the music. It is very powerful and a very full sound.
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