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Digital Single

by DIAMONDS OF RENO

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Seattle in a Black Dress 04:57
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Catch a Breath 02:27
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DIAMONDS OF RENO. “SEATTLE IN A BLACK DRESS | CATCH A BREATH”

One of San Francisco’s long time musical treasures, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Christian Eric Beaulieu continues down a path highly tailored to his unique vision of heavy music, still very much marching to the beat of his own Vista Lite-slamming drums.

Sept 4th sees the release of a new double-track single by his latest incarnation; Diamonds of Reno. DOR is the newest in a long line of ripping Bay Area bands and projects involving or led by Beaulieu, including the maniacal art-prog-gone-punk Alternative Tentacles recording artists Triclops! and the often long-distance created dream team project Anywhere, featuring members of Mars Volta, Melvins and Nirvana among others.

Beaulieu hasn’t shed his jagged mutant punk roots in Diamonds of Reno, but like a lot of 90s Touch and Go heavies a generation or two before (yeah, I’m talkin’ bout early Urge Overkill/Jesus Lizard/ Girls Against Boys) Diamonds of Reno manages to bring a post rock/ post punk lunacy to pummeling classic rock homage and it is warped in all the right ways… AND IT WORKS.

Seattle in a Black Dress: Let’s lay it on the table. Christian is a brilliant guitarist and hearing him layering a wall of tightly wound, snapping acoustics and electrics on top of a monster rhythm section and letting ‘er blast is a heady, old resin-scraped-from-the-bowl bong rip— sure, you get a nasty, glorious high but it stings more than a little too, and it ain’t exactly a utopian buzz. By the time the solos are flying, fast and clear, winging in and out, we’ve achieved J Mascis level wall of amps satisfaction.

Catch a Breath: On this uppity Beetle Bug bump and rattle, DOR goes backfiring through the streets on some wasted night in the 80s, with nods to Jonathan Richman, druggy college rock and impromptu parties at the rock quarry on some dark, lost small town Saturday night forever.

In a time when bay area music, culture and community is threatened from all sides and its future unknown, Beaulieu continues to roll out gems from within the underground, true to his idiosyncratic vision of rock and roll. Diamonds of Reno feels poignantly aloof to indie music
trends both local and universal, but it’s not music from out of a vacuum. It feels like a perfectly distilled expression of the music Beaulieu ‘needs’ to make.

In that way, and in a long tradition, these are quintessential San Francisco sounds.

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released March 4, 2020

CEB-Guitars, Vocals, Bass, Drums, Percussion
Magali Sanscartier-Violin
Ryan Kennedy-Keys

Produced by Phil Becker with CEB
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Phil Becker at El Studio SF, CA
2019-2020.
Cover: Headspaces
All songs written by Christian Eric Beaulieu
p ATOMICOLOR MUSIC

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ATOMICOLOR San Francisco, California

Acoustic, Rock, Electronic, Noise, Punk, Krautrock, Synths, Drums, Pedals, Congas, Poetry, Life.

Respect to Bob Kaufman.

A digital home for the creative output of SF based artist Christian Eric Beaulieu featuring current releases and selections from CEB's vault.
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