Adventurous avant blues from Brisbane, Bremen Town Musician have consistently titillated and inspired audiences across the globe with their eclectic blend of spoken-word performance, texture-driven experimentation and honest, evocative songwriting. The creative vehicle of Brisbane transdisciplinary artist Marisa Allen. A journeywoman musician, poet and street performer, Allen has spent the past fifteen years exploring and refining her craft throughout Australia, the United Kingdom and Iceland via surplus of unique and surprising opportunities _x0013_ from performing as an improvising violinist for the governor of Reyjavik to releasing a book of poetry (2007_x0019_ s Fire in Your Head) . Bremen Town Musician have thus far released two records, 2005_x0019_ s Silent Arrows and 2008_x0019_ s No-one is Holding a Gun To Your Head (Songs to Run To), to considerable critical and artistic acclaim; consistently collaborating with numerous exciting and diverse artists _x0013_ from electro-acoustic folk experimentalist Anonymeye to performance poet's Shane Koyczan and Gerald Keaney and sound provocateur Joel Stern for Brisbane festival 2011 _x0013_ and receiving praise from a number of disparate cultural quarters. ABC_x0019_ s Radio National have awarded consistent airplay while publications in both the band_x0019_ s native Australia and abroad have endorsed Bremen Town Musician_x0019_ s work. The track _x0018_ Be Still Now_x0019_ was even shortlisted by QSong for their 2010 Dance/Electronic Song of the Year title. 'Marisa Allen wrings a desolate and luscious howl from her violin, easing the world into wreckage on the back of strings beautiful enough to give you hope anyway...Allen_x0019_ s swooping, howling poetics can at once filigree and soar with the assurance that nothing will be lost once they return from above." Paulie Stone, Rave Magazine "Bremen Town Musician are a three-piece experimental folk-blues freak-out." Graham Nunn, Another lost Shark blog
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