Artist description Ian is a runway model. You should have seen him strutting up and down the catwalk in his little blue sailor suit, age four. Afterwards, a swordfight with those plastic sandwich skewers. Those were the days. He decided soon after that he liked every kind of music, in the back seat of a powder blue Dodge Aspen. It was a decision that his parents greeted with some indifference. As if the choices one makes at age five are less important than the choices one makes at fifteen or fifty. Ian has lived his whole life in Massachusetts: formative years in Fall River, college in Lowell, and a brief visit to New Bedford. He has spent a good chunk of that life in economically depressed mill towns. Now living in Somerville, the Paris of the new century, Ian has quit the factory scene to cultivate his musical dream. Pop, space, high and low, weird jazz, punk teenage nostalgia, and a trail of reverb and tears somehow coalesce into the music that he makes, and the music that makes him. Lyrically, topics range from the usual pop themes of love and heartache to the less predictable territory of dream reality, the ocean, spiritual issues, and local Boston music legends. When he's not making his living counting beans, Ian is working on new musical ideas. He is sitting on a large collection of songs. More than he could fit on to this modest website. Why don't you give it a listen and tell him what you think?

Music Style "Half-awake, half-dreaming, pre-ambient noisy pop"

Musical Influences Chogyam Trungpa, Nicole Lagace

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Group Members All noises by Ian Wilson Ross

Instruments guitar bass drum machine mandolin banjo synth harmonica jaw harp hand drums cardboard tube pots and pans voices

Albums "Angie in the Ganges"(very limited edition)

Location Somerville, MA - USA

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