Just Strings/ Various - Just StringsThis is already the third recording of a very unusual ensemble a duo of guitar and harp. All works on this album have been composed directly for the two. Maximilian Mangold is regarded " as one of the most interesting current German guitarists" (Fono Forum 10 2003). The German Guitar Magazin "Gitarre Aktuell" calls him an "exceptional guitarist". He has won numerous prizes and awards, amongst other the International Guitar Competition in Mettmann in

Strangeworld

The Waifs reach a new benchmark of worldly electicism

a Comanche subchief is nearly lynched by a settler farmer who believes his daughter has been kidnapped

Upon the release of 'Bad Habits' the demand for the band to play live led to a formation of a new line-up of the band with Phil Chen and "Chili" Charles being replaced by Jerome Rimson (bass) and Peter Van Hooke (drums)

connective "My Kimono"to the 7-minute-plus blowouts "Stinger (Five Wigs)" and closer "Gemini Cusp

That's when they get to share the wonderful

if he succeeds in bringing out the deep inner conflicts

the first all-girl rock band in history to be signed to a major label

"vintage" sounding renditions

reflects Dunn's current state

and two tracks recorded with a larger group featuring piano and additional horns

You'll hear Link Wray's "Rumble"