Artist description An informant lively calling himself the enthusiasm of winds breathing (a natural spy.) The rubber scrap that declares its wayside potential amidst playground brawling; a bloody nose the sustenance fountain eternal. The confusion of love a mother bestows on child, mate, or gown. Grounds are the approach of uneasiness and nothing is better but their exploration, and then only in explosives! We yawp in unrestrained license to express sound, and leave remorse behind. See a child's scribble: liberated movements of color, textures--the emissions of feeling, which may or may not be in immediate surety. Harmonics of subconscious and conscious. Where is sound found? Where is the aural equivalent of scribble? We frequently hear collage, yes--where the pieced placement of others' works form new wonders; but collage often lacks the earthy, human passion so adeptly communicated in music. Music respires surprise, excitement, melancholy, and ambiance for our space. We tune to that space--we provoke it in a communion of sound, founded in the moment of improvisation.

Music Style Experimental

Artist History UnKindness Of Ravens (aka: UKOR) is parallel to a pack of wolves or flock of seagulls. The original act of UKOR was to gather as many people as were willing (or that we could coerce), as many instruments or things that could be used to make sound, into a very small space, include as many substances as possible, and start making noise. Music even; if it happened - the distinction however, was not part of the conceptual vocabulary. Recording sessions typically last for hours. However, our ensemble's duration of greater than ten years has given us time to hone our concept. UKOR recordings include the sounds of many individually-crafted and unique instruments, some recurring on different albums, some not; recordings also include traditional instruments and modern devices but never include material sampled from non-band created sources. UKOR's music has no samples and is not collage. Our creation--musical scribble, is a blend of the excitement, astonishment, and groove in improvisition with our method of composition, which we prefer to call "exposition."

Group Members Mike Keigher, Derek Sakakura, Sean Gardner, Ian Lanphier, Andrew Ehrhardt, Jessica Momb, Miguel Keir, and Joshua Chalifour

Instruments aluminum, ashtray, bass, bongos, bottle-o-itchagen, cake pan, chopsticks (wood and metal), coins, cruncharoundaphone, criscolastic, beat poetry, skin, drums, duct tape, panhandle, didgeridoo, dietocussion, guitar (electric and acoustic), harmonica, kazoo, UKOR natural beat algorithm, metal scraps, spirit of Juanita, pitchilbocks, Roland JV-30, coffee drum, spoons, violin, voices, bottlecap cardboard gourd rattle, water bottles, flute, whistle, glass.

Albums Caves and Tropics (1999), Panasonic Songbird (2002), Junebug (2003)

Location Montréal, QC - Canada

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