Joe Gideon & The Shark
Harum Scarum

After the London-based post-rock band BIKINI ATOLL was disbanded in 2006, Joe Gideon Seifert and his younger sister Viva Seifert formed a duo JOE GIDEON & THE SHARK. Gideon played bass, guitar and sang; Viva played drums, keyboards, percussion, programmed and did some back-vocals. Released in 2009 by Bronzerat Records, “Harum Scarum” was their first full-length album, which followed two singles. Every track on the album tells a story in non-rhyming verse and in an argot drawn from the ’30-50 Beatnik surreal novels, while musically the songs are close to Swamp-Rock, Alternative Blues-n-Americana. The lyrics in an album gain as much importance as the music itself. This is an astonishing combination, somewhat in-between Nick Cave, Wovenhand and The Black Keys… especially if you dig into lyrical senses. The album turns ethereal and fleshly, innocent and cynical, sometimes dark humorous. It showcased an inspired new band with definitely original vision of Life and Humanity. Recommended.

Londoners Joe Gideon and The Shark are a brother and sister duo. He used to be in Bikini Atoll while she (Viva) drums and plays keyboards.   ...

Facts about this album:* Viva Gideon, aka The Shark, represented the UK in ribbon gymnastics in the Barcelona Olympics.* Joe Gideon & The Shark both u...

It's fitting that this brother/sister duo were invited to support Nick Cave on tour. Their bluesy, dramatic recitals are wrought through with the same...

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Not a moment too soon for the debut LP from this idiosyncratic duo. Joe Gideon and Viva ‘the Shark’, fraternally related and formerly of Bella Union a...

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Viva not only drums and plays keyboards, but sings backing vocals through a delay pedal and fills out the sound with programmed beats and sequences. W...

From the opening title track's manic organ intro with that faint whiff of The Doors about it, to the final chord on it's heart felt last track Pale Bl...

In a nutshellâ?¦Bluesy, fuzzy, wordy, comi-tragical rock-outWhat's it all aboutHarum Scarum opens with the eponymous track, a rousing, r...