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[[The Band]] Who are the Dead Brothers? A surrealist chanson outfit, Penny arcade singers from Bismarck , North Dakota , carny attractions at PT Barnum's or rejects from Hades? Perhaps taking a closer look at their music will shed some light on this investigation. Bluegrass clashes with Macedonian funeral marches, Jimmy Rodgers goes line dancing with Bauhaus and Swiss hillbilly folk music becomes the soundtrack to a hardboiled film noir. Confused? Good! The Dead Brothers know a secret is far more seductive than the they never let the truth get in the way of a good yarn. Which brings us to the present: Legend has it that The Brothers recently gathered in a remote Swiss mountain village and fueled by wicked wine and strong spirits, cut a disk that merges the worlds of Richard Wagner, Dashiell Hammet and Georges Brassens. It will not take long for the analysts to enter the scene and ask: Is it Jazz? Is it blues? Is it avantgarde folk? Or is it sim
