The Dalliance

By the beginning of 2009, the music needed to change. After releasing their debut album “The Deep End” in 2005 and their follow-up EP in 2007 “Purge”, pop-punk trio The Brady Bastards found themselves at the end of their gigging cycle for that last release looking to expand their sound, showcase their musical ability and take their songwriting skills to the next level. After 20+ years of playing together in various projects, drummer Darrell Long and bassist/vocalist Gregry Gilroy found their missing puzzle piece with longtime friend and fellow local musician Barry Mangione. After sharing the stage with his solo band and his project Be Like Water, they found themselves combining forces in 2009 to put together a new project called The Dalliance where they would take the Brady’s DIY straightforward approach to songs and incorporate more instrumentation, textures, layers and the influences of their indie and alternative heroes past and present to craft a more feeling animal. Take Barry’s strong guitar playing, songwriting prowess and awesome vocal range. Add Darrell’s dynamic percussion ability, deep knowledge of theory, arrangement and excellent recording/engineering skills. Throw in a dash of Gregry’s heavy percussive bass plucking, harmonies, his own cigarette -trained voice and lyrics scribbled to a stained bar napkin and you get The Dalliance. Three 40-something parents, day jobbers, homeowners and pet owners blasting their huge sound through speakers big or small whether you like it or not. Exploring subjects of addiction, heartache, loss, faith and other personal experiences the scribers were going through at the time with a laptop, fancy microphones and way too many assorted adult beverages, the three members with the help of keyboardist/composer and “silent partner” Shawn Finney crafted their self-titled debut EP to give their existing fan base of past projects a sample of what they were in for. The music was dramatic, sonic and sometimes as cold and damp as the basement they recorded it in. Throughout the next two years The Dalliance offered new songs for free through their website (http://www.thedalliance.org) as a musical litmus test to not only hone their already increasing self-recording ability, but to get a feeling of what they themselves, as well as their audience, were gravitating toward. Armed now with their own recording/rehearsal studio: DisgraceLand and their newly perfected “Dalliance Sound”, The Dalliance are preparing their first full-length album for release in early 2012 to be followed by massive media and hectic performance schedule to promote their efforts. Will this be the album that helps them reach the brass ring they have been trying to grasp since they heard their first rock record on their cassette boom box? Subscribe to their website; follow their blogs and upcoming video diary to find out. Contact Information: FiGiLoMa Music info@thedalliance.org Birth Love Death • 29 May 2012