Big Lazy
Rock-noir garage chamber music
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Big Lazy is an instrumental trio from New York City. "The Big Apple's Creme de la Creme" according to The Village Voice. "The elegantly gritty trio plays stunningly beautiful music that evokes everything from trucker's romps to the haunting film scores of Bernard Hermann", says The New Yorker.
Simultaneously dark and pastoral, gothic and modern, their music dwells in the unmistakable landscape of gritty yet gracefully crafted American music where twangy guitar-noir raunchiness collides with lush melodies, conjuring images of everything from big-sky country to seedy backrooms.
"They're virtuosic." says the dean of American rock critics Robert Christgau. "They're doing it all without uttering a word."
Comparisons have been made to Tom Waits, Sparklehorse, Calexico, Tortoise and The Dirty Three. References have been made to noir, spaghetti western, Lynch and Tarentino soundtracks, "crime jazz" and burlesque, but these are all vague directions scribbled on napkins on a map-less journey. Big Lazy's organic and uncontrived music remains beyond category.
EXCERPTED LICENSING HISTORY:
Television: Bored To Death
Producer: HBO
Uses: The Confidence Man from Postcards From X
Just Plain Scared, Skinless Boneless and and Princess Nicotine from Big Lazy and more!
Film: Down To You
Producer: Miramax Films
Use: Junction City from Amnesia
Commercial: Commonwealth Bank of Australia (for UK)
Agency: BBDO
Use: Crooked from Big Lazy
Television: Homicide: Life OnThe Streets
Producer: NBC Television
Uses: All songs from Amnesia in several episodes and the band appeared in an episode.
Links:
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Big Lazy's music is available from Amazon, Rhapsody and iTunes
