Tarlton @ Box Awesome April 5th, 2008

Brett Bullion is Tarlton.

The impulse began as a kid: collecting records, playing percussion in the school band, and jamming in basements with school friends. As a teenager, Brett learned from session-drummer Matt Chamberlain’s work with Tori Amos and Fiona Apple, was mentored by Minneapolis improvisational bands Fat Kid Wednesdays and Happy Apple, wore out several copies of Autechre’s Tri Repetae, and experienced Kid A. In high school, he formed Tiki Obmar with Chris Smalley and Graham Chapman. They released several records on Miami-based electronic label Merck Records. Shortly after the disbanding of Tiki Obmar, Bullion recorded and released the Van EP under the name Tarlton.

After college came a year-long stint in Seattle. Tarlton forged The Papa Theses EP in a studio space nestled beside the Port of Seattle in the winter of 2008. Written and recorded with one drumkit and a laptop, the music is as big, expansive, and lonely as freighters leaving a Northern Pacific city by night. The title comes from a friend nicknamed “Papa,” who had advice for an overly-obsessive young producer: just sit down, set up quickly, have your tea, and play. The Papa Theses is honed meticulously and sharpened by an uncanny ear for rhythm.

Tarlton signed with Afternoon Records in the Fall of 2008 and will be releasing The Papa Theses EP in March, and is already hard at work on a follow-up LP.

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Also Opening for this night we have....

Curtis.the. Destroyer - http://curtisthedestroyer.blogspot.com/

Worm - http://web.mac.com/ptrck_swnsn/Site/index.html

Nij - http://www.myspace.com/josherman9

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