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Dirty Three is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Low, John Coltrane, The Pogues, Devendra Banhart and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy. Those roots explain a lot about how Dirty Three arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Labradford, The For Carnation, A Silver Mt. Zion, Explosions in the Sky and Tarentel, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Calexico, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Low and Heligoland, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 36 connections around Dirty Three, reaching back through Low and forward to Calexico. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Dirty Three are an Australian instrumental rock band, consisting of Warren Ellis, Mick Turner and Jim White (drums), which formed in 1992. Their 1996 album Horse Stories was voted by Rolling Stone as one of the top three albums of the year. Two of their albums have peaked into the top 50 on the ARIA Albums Chart, Ocean Songs (1998) and Toward the Low Sun (2012). During their career they have spent much of their time overseas when not performing together. Turner is based in Melbourne, White lives in New York, and Ellis in Paris. Australian rock music historian Ian McFarlane described them as providing a "rumbling, dynamic sound incorporated open-ended, improvisational, electric rock ... minus the jazz-rock histrionics". In October 2010, Ocean Songs was listed in the book 100 Best Australian Albums.
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Dirty Three connections
Dirty Three grew out of Low, John Coltrane, The Pogues and Devendra Banhart, shares an orbit with Labradford, The For Carnation, A Silver Mt. Zion and Explosions in the Sky, went on to shape Calexico, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Low and Heligoland. 36 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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