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Dean and Britta (formerly of Luna) in an intimate evening celebrating the release of their latest album Back Numbers! "'Back Numbers,' is romance as whispery indie pop. Her voice is
gorgeously ethereal, his coolly dry. She's wonderful on the slowly
seductive 'Wait for Me' and Lee Hazlewood's breathy, buoyant 'You
Turned My Head Around.'" (Jon Bream, Minneapolis Star Tribune Big Gig pick 3/16/07). Special guest Michael Holland, formerly of roots-rock band Jennyanykind, contributed a track to the new album, and gets to play more of his own Harry Smith-influenced cosmic folk-bluegrass songs.
Dean Wareham was born in Wellington, New Zealand. He emigrated first to Sydney, Australia, and then to New York City on July 31, 1977, where he attended high school with Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang. Later the three became known as the Boston band Galaxie 500, who made three albums between 1987 and 1991 (currently available on the Rykodisc label). In 1992 Dean formed Luna, who went on to record seven studio albums before finally disbanding in 2005. Britta Phillips met Dean in March, 2000 when she auditioned for Luna.
They toured the world together.
Britta was the singing voice of cartoon rock-star JEM and co-starred in the silly coming-of-age movie, "Satisfaction," with Julia Roberts, Liam Neeson, Justine Bateman, Scott Coffey & Deborah Harry. She moved to London with her first band, Belltower and released an album & several EPs before signing with Atlantic records and promptly disbanding.
Dean heard some of Britta's songs, and together they made a beautiful album called L'Avventura. Their brand new album, "Back Numbers" was released on February 27th, 2007.
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