The Bravest Beetle, by Karate Mountain

The Bravest Beetle

by Karate Mountain

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1.	If I Say it's Christmas then it's Christmas 06:06	buy track
2.	Howard the Cowherd 03:55	buy track
3.	Karate 04:05	buy track
4.	Courage 10:26	buy track
5.	Promise Your Life Away 05:40	buy track
6.	Kitty Carlisle 06:42	buy track
7.	From Rags to More Rags 06:39	buy track
8.	The Robin 04:28	buy track
9.	Samuel Clemens on Horseback 07:40	buy track
10.	Here's Hoping 06:37	buy track

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The Bravest Beetle is a collection of music which we hope to be as engaging and satisfying as your favorite short story. It draws inspiration from indie rock, film scores, disco, post-rock, and some of the lower-brow incarnations of jazz to bring you to the edge of dancing, shouting, crying, and kissing your neighbor on the lips.

But don't take our word for it: www.theequalground.com/indie-music-album-reviews/karate-mountain-the-bravest-beetle

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released August 2, 2013

Keith Penney: piano and stuff
Nahum Zdybel: guitar and stuff
Kellen Garcia: bass and stuff
Pete Agraan: drums and stuff
Leon LeDoux: stuff and drums

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Karate Mountain Livermore, California

Karate Mountain is one of the few indie bands with sheet music on stage. The pages are full of original yet familiar forms and melodies that are engaging in their earnestness, inspiring in their audacity, and comforting in their openness to interpretation. The players employ a fierce passion and desperate desire for connection to create the soundtrack to an imagined world within each listener. ... more

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