Highbrow Savages, by RetroFix

Highbrow Savages

by RetroFix

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1.	Darkenblue 03:49		buy track
2.	Highbrow Savages 03:30		buy track
3.	River Of Pain 02:58	lyrics	buy track
You’re nothing more than a hole in my shoe and the rain’s getting in. You’re nothing more than someone to blame and I’m getting sick of the endless river of pain! You’re nothing more than a cheap rotten slag and I want you to go. It's just joy, then sorrow, oh it’s all much the same and I’m getting sick of the endless river of pain! If there was another way, oh I wish that I could know. I’d take you back into my arms and show you where our lives could go. But then you’d make me sick again and I’d show you where to go! I shot you a look but you shot me down but you smiled and agreed. I took you down to pleasure town, now put your clothes on and leave!
4.	Retrogroove 03:42		buy track
5.	Spooky Boogie 03:45		buy track
6.	Madman 03:41		buy track

about

There is a lot of the story of our journey so far in this our first EP, and the artwork for the case.

The picture inside was taken after our very first gig on Culture Night 2015 at Signal Arts Bray, in their garden behind the gallery space.

Jim Morrison, one of the organisers, whispered to us...
“start playing straight away when the music in the gallery stops, and I’ll close the front door to make sure they don’t get away, and I’ll send them all out to the garden.”

So thanks to Jim we had a great crowd very quickly, and then he even stood out in the road, hustling more people in to give us the best night ever to launch the band!

The collage theme comes from the banner behind us, and we carried this idea through for the cover (and for the handmade and numbered badges if you’re lucky enough to have got one!)

If there was more space we’d tell you more strange tales of the Highbrow Savages that are Retrofix, but even better, watch out for the band and catch us live!

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credits

released October 14, 2017

1. Darkenblue by C.Stephens
2. Highbrow savages by C. Stephens
3. River Of Pain by M. Monaghan
4. Retrogroove by C. Stephens
5. Spooky Boogie by C. Stephens
6. Madman poem by Kenny Doran,
music by C. Stephens

Retrofix are:-

Clare Stephens - Trombone,
Michael Monaghan - Guitar & Vocals,
Karima Dillon El Toukhy - Flute, Keyboard & Vocals,
Aran O’Grady - Tenor Sax,
Francesco Manno - Alto Sax,
Aoife Hester - Bass,
Joe Hanrahan - Drums.

Darkenblue - Sean Furey on alto saxophone + solo,
and Hoggy Bear on Drums.
Retrogroove - Dermot Jeffares on Drums.

Will Comerford - cover photo
Artwork by Clare Stephens

All tracks recorded & produced
by Michael Monaghan
at De Jam Jar Studio.
youtube.com/mickmon
facebook.com/dejamjar

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about

RetroFix Dublin, Ireland

“Yous are just a bunch of highbrow savages" was how Kenny Doran (poet and the band's first drummer) described Retrofix in our early days.

We loved this idea and took it on as our theme, given the varied musical and artistic backgrounds of the band members-jazz, rock, electronic, classical, brass band, punk, funk, swing, making for an unusual and refreshing sound & collective creative space. ... more