Donderevo: Friendly Gods 'Good Science - Friendly Gods' album

Born with beards as a result of pre-natal exposure to EVIL SCIENCE, the members of Cambridge four-piece, Donderevo, have resolved to create exciting conceptual pop music. With a questionable degree of success they struggle to combine their love of American Indie and the broken Casio keyboards of their youth with sinister, illegal instruments of THE FUTURE.

One of Donderevo's prime objectives is to create music that machines can truly enjoy. This was first fully realised in the experimental Curiosities of the Cosmos album. Written and recorded live in 24hrs on substandard synthesizers (including the Colorado State University funded Biosynth. The lead track, Curiosities of the Skies, was played on John Peel's Radio 1 show within the week.

Trained to reproduce in SPACE, the members of Donderevo have the most powerful ejaculations of any Earth-band, yet choose selflessly to remain celibate. This reserve of potential energy is POWER-FUEL for their prolific multi-media pursuits: as fully-qualified film-makers, Internet provocateurs and inflammatory pamphleteers. The lion's share of this potent energy wad is released in their exuberant live performances. Using forbidden technology, a heightened state of arousal is illegally synthesised on stage. Troublesome instruments will be destroyed.

Donderevo have recently completed their debut studio-album, Good Science - Friendly Gods.

TRACK-BY-TRACK

Here's some kind of idea of where the songs came from...

1. Nektar iz Borovnic
The mantra that made us make the album. WE ARE BOROVNIC.

2. Distant Signal
This one was one of Ash's dreams - he thought he'd been marooned on a life-sustaining, desert planet for 10 years. Though he manged to stay alive, he went totally insane. He is convinced that it actually happened - it haunts him to this day.

3. Son of an Astronaut.
The first song that we ever wrote, in Ash's leaky attic in Sheffield. We cut up the lyrics out of National Geographics and sci-fi novels. Steve Lamacq played the demo the next week.

4. The Cassini Division
When we met Patrick Moore, we talked almost exclusively about Saturn and the supposed 'gap' in the rings discovered by Giovanni Cassini (1625-1712). Patrick was very polite and did not patronise us. He didn't like our cd.

5. Double Etheric Diagnostic.
Tim wrote this in America at the start of the summer and went straight into the studio with it. It details a recurring dream of being disintegrated in an artificial black hole for eternity. A pseudo-religious wish and a tribute to band favourites Grandaddy and Russian Futurists.

6. Jackie, what are you looking for?
A fictional tale of yearning, introspection and self-loathing. It was so cathartic to write that we realised it was probably just about us.

7. The Egg Of A Killer Bird
Originally titled 'Double-Griffon vs. Falcon' after a vivid halucination Tim experienced at the seaside in Norfolk. Ash reworked the concept and Tim re-invented the lyrics around his last visit to the U.S.

8. I Don't Doubt You
This song is not about injecting drugs. Its about feeling like your blood has turned to liquid metal? after eating drugs.

9. Tonight We Steal the Stars.
Ash looked into Tim's soul and saw David Bowie out of Labyrinth, crying. They agreed that this was the perfect ethic for writing a song...tra la la?

10. Minotaur Song
The Minotaur was a really lonely monster who scared people. Who would want to be like the poor old minotaur? Ash.

11. Woah Buddha
Barney stayed up all night cutting up a Japanese alphabet sample to create the 'japaggiator' synthesizer. We kept him up all the next night playing SSX Tricky on the Game Cube and doing gas - WOAH BUDDHA!

12. Eagles of Delaware
This one is about, on one hand, getting so angry with insects that you become a sort of bug-god and destroy them all in an insect holocaust, and on the other, being really quite happy with a meager existence, bugs and all.

13. To lisa.
A song for Lisa.

14. Hickory Slope.
Jim suggested that we might be tiny plant microbes, drifting through space, waiting to get dragged into the the gravity of a planet where we could start life. Like Seeds of the Universe. We didn't think we were, but liked the idea. Inspired musically by Cotton Mather, Low and Nabekazu Takemura.

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Donderevo: Friendly Gods - Good Science - Friendly Gods