restavrant

Bio

RESTAVRANT

Troy Olaf Murrah and J State met at either a keg party or a football game while attending rival junior high schools in a small South Texas town called Victoria. They didn't start playing music as a band until years later after moving to Los Angeles to write the Great American Bromantic Comedy screenplay and work at a slot car race track/Cirque du Soleil respectively. Their musical collaboration began one fateful evening after "last call." An indefatigable desire to keep the good times rolling would inspire the well-intentioned abuse of a Wurlitzer organ, an empty beer box and some slide guitar that went deep into the night in the confines of a moldy Silverlake apartment . This was the first Restavrant show, played to a drunken friend who was so riveted he promptly passed out. Some of the artists that inspired this radness are Mississippi Fred Mcdowell, The Fall, Too $hort, Doo Rag, George Jones, A Tribe Called Quest, Ugly Casanova, Hank Williams, Bo Diddley, Bobby Fuller, Mel Brooks, Desmond Dekker and the Aces, The Country Teasers, The Pogues, The D.O.C., Joseph Cornell, Run D.M.C., Halle Berry, Chuck Berry, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cap n Jazz, Woody Guthrie and Cisco Houston, The Clash, Afrika Bambaata, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Mance Lipscomb, The Pharcyde and Val Kilmer.

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*Restavrant's full length album debut, "Return to the Tomb of Guiliano Medidici" was released on September 30, 2008 and is available in stores now!*

*Download*:

Itunes

eMusic

*Purchase a copy @ Narnack Records*
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*Restavrant Performance Review & Interview on Ovation TV*

*Check out some Reviews for "Returns To The Tomb of Guiliano Medidici"*:

Chicago Innerview

Have You Heard

Ink

QRO Magazine

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*Return to the Tomb of Guiliano Medidici" was named one of The Best Albums of 2008 on*:

KSCP

Amiantos

Orlando Weekly

Irt Magazine

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*Restavrant's single and music video, "Joe D" is gaining buzz throughout the online music community. Music critics describe "Joe D" as "lo-fi craziness" and a "strangely infectious sound"*:

Popdose

Side One: Track One

~Watch Restavrant's Music Video for "Joe D":

Myspace TV

~Watch Restavrant @ Warehouse Live:

Myspace TV

~Watch Restavrant @ The Little Radio Creepshow:

Myspace TV

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*Updates*:

Restavrant will be hittin' the road in early 2009.

Restavrant will be playing SxSw in Austin, TX

Restavrant has been named Emoto Music's Featured Artist.

Restavrant will be featured in a new Paper TV Segment.

Tour Dates: