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Product Description:
Fast becoming a cult phenomenon in Australia, New Zealand and the UK, The Kransky Sisters are three oddball spinsters from rural Queensland. On an old 60’s reed keyboard, guitar, musical-saw, tuba, and cooking pot, these unworldly sisters offer their offbeat illuminations on what they hear on their wireless and see in the magazines. Their unusual musical act draws on naiveté, spinsterhood and the somewhat gothic existence that forms the world of three eccentric sisters. Every show throws up whole crowds of Kransky converts.
The Kransky Sisters venture out in the Morris once again from the intensely private world of their old family home in Esk, rural Queensland. Set to raise bottoms off chairs with their uniquely homespun versions of popular tunes heard on the old wireless that provides their nightly entertainment, they cover songs from Nana Mouskouri and The Carpenters, to Marvin Gaye, The SugarBabes and Pink. The combination of their strange behaviour, blinkered outlooks, superbly droll comic dialogue, and alluring, downright hilarious brand of tune, all makes for a highly entertaining brew.
This close-knit family of unlikely entertainers and their odd-ball music have warmed many hearts after their hit show "We Don’t Have Husbands" received a coveted Best-of-Festival Barry Award Nomination and won ‘The Age Critics’ Choice Award’ and the Melbourne Airport ‘Best Newcomer’ Award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2004. They have since gone on to win a swag of other awards including:
Winner Bank Of Scotland Herald Angel Award for Excellence - Edinburgh Festival 2006
Winner Best Comedy Ensemble - Australian Entertainment Mo Awards 2006
Winner Best Cabaret Ensemble - Green Room Awards 2005
The Kransky Sisters are also known from their regular television appearances on such shows as SBS's "In Siberia Tonight" with Steve Abbott, the ABC's "Spicks and Specks" with Adam Hills, the BBC series "Comedy Shuffle" and, most recently, the ABC's "The Sideshow" with Paul McDermott.
This recording of live excerpts features the enigmatic talents of Annie Lee, Christine Johnston and Michele Watt, as Mourne, Eve and Arva Kransky.
Due to the mysterious disappearance of tuba playing, Arva Kransky, who was last seen exchanging sheet music with a member of the Hornbell Military Marching Band, the Kransky Sisters have enlisted the assistance of their rarely visited, reclusive sister, Dawn Kransky (Carolyn Johns), who has taken leave of her job as trolley librarian at the Esk Hospital to be with the Kransky Sisters for their 2007 season.
"The Kransky Sisters are a well oiled comic machine. Their droll humour, deadpan expressions and morose delivery of songs by the likes of AC/DC and The Eurythmics proved to be the perfect recipe for laughter." - Sunday Times Review, Perth 2007
"A truly bizarre, and utterly funny show. The fantastic characters are not unlike a cross between the Sugababes and the Adams Family." - Edinburgh Fringe Reviews
"The success of the show lies in the precision of the music, and a narrative that lures the audience, rocking with laughter into a totally unsavoury, insular world". - The Independent, Scotland
"If Dame Edna ever retired to the Outback and procreated, the result might be something like the Kranskys." - Kate Copstick, The Scotsman
"These dour maidens are fast becoming comedic icons to stand alongside Dame Edna herself." - dB Magazine
"Like the acid fuelled imagining of Hunter S Thompson at a Country Women’s Association meeting, this unstuck comic creation is bizarre and precious... These women are the comedic equivalent of Star Trek. So complete and meticulous is their creation, you can almost imagine a future of Kransky conventions." - Helen Razer, The Age 2005
"Returning once again from their remote Queensland home, the Sisters are a frighteningly innovative trio. Armed with a tuba, ancient pink keyboard, folksy guitar and saw-violin, their renditions of tunes ranging from Pink Floyd to Jewel are effortlessly funny on their own. The Kranskys are comic creations of a disturbingly believable kind. Darkly hilarious and discomfortingly clever." - John Bailey, Beat Magazine 2005
Tracks:
1. Love You When (Kransky Theme)
2. Introduction
3. Sunrise Sunset
4. The Bakery
5. MJ Medley
6. Pix People
7. Sounds Of Silence
8. Arva's Boil
9. Sexual Healing
10. Mince
11. Nutbush
12. Overload
13. Makeup
14. Pretty Woman
15. We Will Rock You
NOTE: This CD is packaged in a cardboard sleeve, not a standard jewel case.
For more info visit the Kransky Sisters website
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Kransky Sisters - A Keepsake of Live Excerpts