Nervous Breakthroughs (featuring Peccadillo), by The Universal Thump (Greta Gertler Gold)

Nervous Breakthroughs (featuring Peccadillo)

by The Universal Thump (Greta Gertler Gold)

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1.	Away 03:32	buy track
2.	Happy Again 02:45	buy track
3.	I'm Not a Lizard (featuring Barney McAll) 03:55	buy track
4.	Little Bird (featuring Lara Goodridge) 03:17	buy track
5.	Highest Story 02:55	buy track
6.	The Hot Bulgar 03:11	buy track
7.	Julian 04:02	buy track
8.	Leaving You 02:39	buy track
9.	Moving Backwards 04:03	buy track
10.	Football Song 03:43	buy track
11.	Charlie #3 03:45	buy track

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"Nervous Breakthroughs" is the second album recorded by Peccadillo, the Sydney-based chamber pop band formed by Greta Gertler; the major outlet for her early songwriting and performance. The basic tracks of the album were recorded by legendary engineer Michael Stavrou (Stevie Wonder, Elton John, The Pretenders) at Paradise Studios, Sydney in 1998. In early 2004, Greta completed the tracking
with Damian Press (The Fragments, Expatriate) and mixed the album in New York with Noah Simon (Neil Finn, Suzanne Vega) at Jarvis Studios.

The album features an all-Australian line-up of musicians. It features Greta's version of "Charlie # 3" which she co-wrote with Tim Freedman (The Whitlams) and which appeared on their breakthrough ARIA award winning album, "Eternal Nightcap".

"A spacious voice and a welcome weakness for lushly
orchestrated 70's-era singer-songwriter pop"
- The New Yorker

"Once in a while a voice comes along that makes you
sit up and take notice"
- Headliner Magazine, Radio City Music Hall (NYC)

"Like Christine McVie joined at the hip with Rufus
Wainwright"
- Bernard Zuel, Sydney Morning Herald

"Gertler occupies a place not dissimilar to Lisa
Miller, though with the country inflections repaced by
piano-bar lustiness"
- FilmInk Magazine, Australia

"There's a touch of Katie Noonan in Gertler when she
hits those wispy, ethereal higher notes"
- Sunday Telegraph, Sydney

"Greta presents both a sense of innocence in her voice
and maturity in her songwriting"
- City Hub, Sydney

Peccadillo is a wood and string concoction that fuses
classical, pop and jazz sensibilities. It emerged as
one of the more critically-acclaimed Australian acts
from the mid-90s piano-based pop movement (comparable
artists include Rufus Wainwright, Penguin Café
Orchestra, Belle & Sebastian and Melanie Oxley/Chris
Abrahams). "Nervous Breakthroughs" captures the
five-piece band at its peak, occasionally enlarged by
woodwinds, electric guitar and percussion.

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released January 1, 2004

Piano, vocals - Greta Gertler
Violin, vocals - Lara Goodridge
Guitar, vocals - Joy Howard
Cello - Peter Hollo

Guest Musicians:
Barney McAll - vocals
Jonathan Zwartz - double bass
Aaron Flower - Guitar
John Hibbard - Trombone
Martin Cohen - Flute
Tony Buchen - guitar ('Away')
(and more to be added soon!)

Recorded by Mike Stavrou (1998) and Damian Press (2004). Mixed by Noah Simon (Jarvis Studios). Mastered by Dave McNair. Album Artwork by Nick Forte.

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Greta is a composer, lyricist, performer, and producer who writes songs with a "peculiar and exciting alchemy of accessible but avant-garde pop." - Elizabeth Nelson, NPR. Greta and her husband, producer/ drummer, Adam Gold, lead orchestral pop band The Universal Thump. Greta and playwright Hilary Bell are currently adapting 'Picnic At Hanging Rock' as a musical. ... more

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