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Aptly named after a French mathematician, the Mandelbrots are a sum of the efforts of four musicians resulting in a unique cross-section of their individual musical personalities. With members coming from diverse musical backgrounds in country, progressive rock, folk, jazz, and bluegrass, the result is a sound that conveys adventurous composition with harmonically-rich acoustic sensibility in a lively rhythmic landscape. Their odd-meter diversions and down-home promenades frame songs reflecting the infinite complexity of the human condition. The Mandebrots debut album You Are All Perceivers represents the year-long recording efforts of guitarist/vocalist Joe Burchett (formerly of Fire the Saddle, also currently of the Town Criers), drummer Gabe Stone (Gladstone, Veeger), bassist Andrew Barnes (The Free Estate, The Wet & Sandy Boys), and pedal steel wizard Ian Thomas (John Mann, Satchel s Pawn Shop). Perceivers is a kaleidoscope of aforementioned tonal colors in twelve songs that span the opening mechanically-inspired Machines to Well, Whiteside , the roller-coaster tribute to rocket scientist/occultist John Whiteside Parsons. In between come such tracks as the samba-tinged The Window and The Shadow (featuring Burchett s long-time musical cohort Mick Sullivan on banjo) and The Staple Factory , a ballad heavily textured by the drones of the pedal steel and biting rhythmic interludes.