Black Fallow Deer

are voice and storyteller Mannie Boor and multi-instrumentalist Joeri Rook. Born under the influence and in the tradition of the Dutch ‘Levenslied’, (songs drenched in melancholy), and baptized as the sons of ‘Nostalgique Noir’, the long-term friends from the harbor town of Rotterdam are churning songs drawn from real life just like their lowlands predecessors Andre Hazes, Ramses Shaffy and Jacques Brel and peers like Tindersticks and Richard Hawley. Their sound equals smokey, dimly lit music halls, red velvet curtains, laid-back crooning vocals, and delay-driven Gretsch guitars. Musically translating their past into the present, specifically the romantic balladeering. Their first single, ‘It’s Raining in Rotterdam,’ tells exactly that!