Dilettantes - 101 Tambourines

Featuring Joel Gion of “Brian Jonestown Massacre” and Sundance Award Winner“Dig!” San Francisco, CA –Come 2007, we enter a new chapter, sans the peace signs, yet loaded on a modern-classic sound: Ladies and Gentlemen: The Dilettantes. "Here comes the tambourine, man you know what I mean." Sure that’s a simple message. Joel Gion has emerged from the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the “ Dig!” movie underground, ever-revolving train wreck, unscathed, and ready for action. Joel was always hiding up-front in the BJM press depository, pounding on the tambourine, patiently waiting for the trigger shot. Gion’s contemporary-popular vocal styling, lyrics and his gifted beat vibrations are a phoenix rising from the BJM fire. “101 Tambourines” is to be here now, to listen and feel the spoils of worldly clamors, mad vices, broken spirits and years on the indie-store prowl. The total Dilettante’s sound equals the sum of the parts. There is no “I” in team. The blend of Joel Gion’s, maximum R&B roots combined with Jefferson Parker’s natural sense for good vs. evil song composition, will fill any well-qualified ear ‘alive, with pleasure.’ “101 Tambourines” evolves with each tune. Brock Galland’s guitar driven offerings include a brilliant, lust-failed expose’, and a memo to the underground. Combine that with the astute swagger of Nick Marcantonio on bass guitar and KC Kozak on the skins, and you have a California psych, pop and roll long player. This quintet has delivered 12 songs with grassy-knoll -precision.

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