Line #6 Music/EntertainmentForTheBraindead


1	[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eftb_5301.png]]
2	[[caption-width-right:350:[[http://vimeo.com/8625502 "Yes, yes. My favourite best friend has five strings and a beautiful voice."]]]]
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4	Entertainment for the Braindead is the stage name of Julia Kotowski, an independent musician from Cologne, Germany. She plays folk music, some of it lo-fi ThreeChordsAndTheTruth music, and some of it more ornate stuff featuring guitar, ukelele, recorder, concertina, and vocal harmonies--Julia refers to it all by the joking title "acoustic dilettante post-something".
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6	All her music has been released under a Creative Commons license. As a result, between [[http://eftb.eu/ the fan-run site]], [[http://eftb.bandcamp.com/ Bandcamp]], [[http://www.aaahh-records.net/entertainment-for-the-braindead/ Aaahh-records]], [[http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Entertainment_for_the_Braindead/ the Free Music Archive]], and [[http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Julia+Kotowski%22 the Internet Archive]], all the music (with the exception of ''SUN'') can be downloaded for free.
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8	Discography:
9	* ''Hypersomnia'' (2007)
10	* ''Hydrophobia'' (2008)
11	* ''Raw Timber'' EP (2009)
12	* ''Seven (+1)'' EP (2009)
13	* ''Cross Mountain'' EP (2010) Released under her instrumental side project, The Smallest Bones.
14	* ''Roadkill'' (2010)
15	* ''Trivialities'' EP (2010)
16	* ''Berlin Kitchen Sessions'' (2011)
17	* ''Postcard #1 - Songs for the Apocalypse'' EP (2012)
18	* ''Postcard #2 - Songs for the Homesick'' EP (2012)
19	* ''Postcard #3 - Songs for the Breathless'' EP (2012)
20	* ''Postcard #4 - Songs for a Soft Heart'' EP (2012)
21	* ''Postcard #5 - Songs for the Sleepless'' EP (2013)
22	* ''Songs for the Sleepless // Mountain Session'' (2013)
23	* ''Postcard #6 - Deconstruction Site'' EP (2013)
24	* ''Postcard #7 - Songs from the Dust'' EP (2013)
25	* ''SUN'' (2017)
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28	!!Provides examples of:
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30	* AllLowercaseLetters: The usual stylization of the band name.
31	* BookEnds:
32	** ''Roadkill'' begins with "Sirens #1" and ends with "Sirens #2".
33	** ''Berlin Kitchen Sessions'' begins and ends with brief field recordings, named "Enter" and "Leave".
34	* EverythingIsAnInstrument: Household objects like salt shakers, kitchen utensils, and drawers get pressed into service as percussion.
35	* {{Hikikomori}}: In "Resolution", the speaker has to promise to "leave the house at least once a day". By the end of "Relapse", the speaker "[doesn't] plan on leaving the house this year / if by then you need me, you'll find me here".
36	* IAmTheBand: With a few exceptions, such as the ocean drum played by Magpie Malcolm on "The Earth", all the instruments and all the vocals are done by Julia.
37	* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming:
38	** The titles of all the songs on ''Hypersomnia'' end with a period.
39	** Every song title on ''Trivialities'' starts with "A" or "An".
40	** Every song on ''Berlin Kitchen Sessions'' is given a subtitle listing where it was recorded.
41	** All of the ''Postcard'' [=EPs=] are titled "Songs For..." except for ''Postcard #6: Deconstruction Site''.
42	* {{Instrumentals}}: From fully composed songs like both "Sirens" and the majority of ''Postcard #1'', to field recordings like "The View From My Room".
43	* {{Minimalism}}: On ''Roadkill'', Julia uses a banjo as her sole instrument. However, she averts ThreeChordsAndTheTruth here by overdubbing and coaxing an entire band's worth of sound out of that instrument.
44	%% * SelfBackingVocalist
45	* SpokenWordInMusic: "Prologue" off of ''Hydrophobia" opens with a spoken monologue before other monologues start playing over it, until none of the words can be made out anymore.
46	* ThreeChordsAndTheTruth: ''Raw Timber'' is a collection of simple guitar songs, recorded in the middle of a forest. ''Berlin Kitchen Sessions'' was similar, just recorded in friends' kitchens.

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