CD: BM08C
RELEASED: 2009
LABEL: Echozone

01. Pristine
02. Watercolours
03. Isolation
04. Blue
05. Goodbye Wildlife
06. Raise Your Flags
07. Slowdown
08. Sacre Coeur
09. Miss America
10. On A Trip To Elsewhere
11. Silver Cross River
12. Lazy Moon

The Dead Guitars are an amalgamation of exhilarating downbeats, saturated electro-acoustic guitar work, and vocals that reflect an incisiveness and emotional intelligence. The band came to life in 2003when Pete Brough, one of the founder-members of German band 12 Drummers Drumming, and Ralf Aussem, guitarist from the original 12DD cast and mastermind behind the succesful band Sun, joined forces with vocalist Carlo van Putten and collectively gave life to Dead Guitars. In addition to being a principle writer and lead vocalist with German wavers The Convent, Carlo van Putten, also had a flourishing partnership with the late Adrian Borland, mastermind behind the British cult band The Sound, under the name White Rose Transmission and has worked with various others over the course of the years, including Marty Wilson Piper of The Church and Mark Burgess of The Chameleons. In 2007 the Dead Guitars's debut album "Airplanes" was released. The band's music is the resurrection of authentic pop, the reincarnation of sweeping, melancholic ballads, the renaissance of the ?wall of sound?, those filigree, towering guitar riffs that make Ralf Aussem such an exceptional guitarist, and the surreal way his licks blend with clear song structures, shattering the listening habits of the pop genre. By the end of October 2008, the new album "Flags" saw it's pre-release with two shows in Germany and the Netherlands. Mission members Wayne Hussey & Mark Gemini Thwaite have appeared on several tracks of this new album which is finally available in Holland & Germany, the release is followed up by a short tour later this year.