Soft Speaker

Members
Joe Daley : Drums, Blair Douglass : Electric Bass Guitar, Paul Foreman : Guitar, Vocals, Synths/Organ, Nick Rocchio : Guitar, Vocals, Synths/Organ
About

Under duress from the USM (Unified Society of Milkmen), Joe Daley, Blair Douglass, Paul Foreman and Nick Rocchio shut down their independent milk delivery service in 1929. A smattering of unsuccessful business endeavors followed, until they discovered an undeniable chemistry blending raw fuzz guitars with lutes and clarinets. Although initially less lucrative than their previous endeavor, the band, who settled on the name Sanftsprecher (trans. “Soft Speaker”), were championed by Austria’s Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss in 1932 and subsequently enjoyed a period of massive popularity in their newly-adopted home country. The band split following Dollfuss’s assassination in 1934. Their only official recording, the 78rpm single,“I’ll Tend Your Garden,” is highly sought after by record collectors. In 2008, enthusiasts of the band purchased sheet music for a number of unrecorded Sanftsprecher songs that were discovered in Rocchio’s safe deposit box in UniCredit Bankengruppe. Operating under the guise of the Sanftsprecher moniker, the Austrian Orchestra known as Tonkünstler-Orchester Niederösterreich has been recording and releasing these pieces for public enjoyment.

Albums

Black Tea EP

2 songs

Black Tea (mp3)
Party Lights (mp3)

A Fold In Midnight / Mexican Sugar Skull (digital single)

2 songs

A Fold In Midnight (mastered - mp3)
Mexican Sugar Skull (mastered - mp3)

Jackie Robinson / Glass Table (digital single)

2 songs

01 Jackie Robinson_ A Man Of Talent _ A Man Of Courage
02 Glass Table

Blown From The Road EP

2 songs

Blown From The Road (Cian Ciaran Remix)
5:13
Blown From The Road (The Warmth Remix feat. The Archivist)
7:43

Here's To Your Deathride (digital single)

1 songs

Here's To Your Deathride
4:44

International Scheise, Dummkopf!

5 songs

International Scheiße, Dummkopf!
0:04
Little Boysenberry Boys Sings "Bring Me Gilded Prostitutes"
9:05
Pacing Underneath The Moon
4:23
Boca Raton
4:51
Youth Of America
7:51

Turkish Mindbathers

8 songs

And One For Dollfuss
2:20
Blown From The Road
7:00
Expressions (For Men)
4:58
Showdown
6:21
Greenhouse Instance
4:48
I'll Tend Your Garden
4:42
Reach Inside The Pulsing Membrane
4:33
I Had No Preconceptions
6:56

The Jockey

9 songs

Pagan Pastimes (d_rradio)
7:10
(He Wore A) Lion's Hide (Emperor Penguin)
6:08
The Great Brick Mosque & I (d_rradio)
5:11
Jeju Island (Bitchin' Bajas)
6:43
Fiend (d_rradio)
5:39
(He Wore A) Lion's Hide (Kingdom's Christian Soldiers)
7:12
Breathless (Fuxa)
4:31
P.E.P. (Live at Gallery of Carpet Recording)
6:10
Vortrobos (d_rradio)
10:23

Vortrobos

8 songs

Fiend
6:39
Forty Acres Surrounded
5:22
Vortrobos
3:22
Jeju Island
5:22
A Troubled Summer
4:21
Ask The Guild
8:05
Breathless (In The Rain)
3:11
(He Wore A) Lion's Hide
4:09

I'll Tend Your Garden

10 songs

Hawk Mountain Line
5:56
Three Beggars
9:10
The Man In The Smiling Bag
5:38
Find The Fountain
5:00
For A Handsome Price
8:37
Geronimo's Only Defense
4:53
Penny, Wait For Me
5:28
Felician Sisters Convent
3:42
Pagan Pastimes
10:01
Pagan Pastimes (d_rradio remix)
7:25

A Violent Parade (digital single)

2 songs

Grand Parade
3:16
Violently Shaking
4:13

Stranger In The Alps EP

5 songs

Tennyson Tea
2:45
I Stand To Lose My Fortune, Easy
3:13
Into The Fog
4:33
Marble Mask
4:38
Weathervane
4:05

Memoirs / Maybe Baby (digital single)

2 songs

Concerning Your Memoirs
3:09
Maybe Baby
2:33

Conditions EP

7 songs

Mercury Park
3:45
Burden You
3:51
Barbershop Quintet
4:10
Danger Red
4:06
Don't Read The Rags
4:15
Breaking Bones
3:42
The Great Brick Mosque & I (d_rradio remix)
4:03

Brick Mosque / Effects (digital single)

2 songs

The Great Brick Mosque & I
3:16
Effects Will Show Soon
4:03