Artist description characterized by extremes and the subtle. folk, found sounds, ambient, noise, composicional, avant-garde...

Music Style folk/ambient/maybe noise/maybe rock

Musical Influences neutral mlk hotel, mountain goats, strapping fieldhands, boredoms, otomo yoshihide, songs: ohia, eyvind kang, fantomas, flaming lips, mercury rev, six organs of admittance, tower recordings

Similar Artists neutral milk hotel, mountain goats, songs: ohia, boredoms, eyvind kang, strapping fieldhands, amps for christ, six organs of admittance, tower recordings

Artist History began recording between norco, ca and riverside, ca in 2000...first album recorded in both of these locales alex moved back to seattle, but came to visit 2001, at which time most of dust and white sky was recorded. sounds have been gathered locally and in such places as seattle, portland, death valley the future history: we play live when alex returns in march...more sounds are honed.

Group Members John Thill Aleksandr Ganowski + a rotating cast of locals; art, vincce, mark, and my five year old sister

Instruments keys/guitar/jawharp/throatsing/metal/foundsound/brokenpiano/slidewhistle/reassembledrecords/skippingcds/samples/things we've made including the parabolic4string,soundbugs

Albums the AUM rifle, dust & white sky

Location Riverside, CA - USA

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