Jon Mueller: drums, percussion
Chris Rosenau: guitar
Dan Spack: baritone guitar
Jim Schoenecker: analog synthesizer, electronics
Thomas Wincek: Fender Rhodes piano, electronics
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Chris Rosenau and Jon Mueller's long time band collections of colonies of bees has reconstituted itself as a powerhouse live group, adding members, layers, and volume to help articulate a dynamic attack of sonic maximalism.... Click Here for full Bio...Their new album is called "Birds", and is out now on the record label Radium; an imprint of Table of the Elements records.Press For Bees, and "Birds":
"mesmerizing
-Pitchfork Media (04.07.08)
"wonderfully pattern-obsessed
-NY Times (03.16.08)
"a flight of airy resonances and Reichian flutters ... a gorgeous ... unfurling, that rolls up and down into a few anti-climaxes until its final triumphant climb
-Brandon Stosuy, Stereogum (01.14.08)
"They don’t need vocals or traditional song structures to make interesting, engaging and energetic music.
-Muzzle of Bees (01.12.08)
"The music, as grandiose and expansive as any take on indie's vast pallate, is ... another solid album in a long line of bands making pop feel epic once more.
-Electronic Voice Phenomenon (01.15.08)
"the first perfect sound of 2008.
-Collective Common (01.18.08)
"Evidence if it were needed of the power of music.
-Mp3 Hugger (01.16.08)
"majestic passages appear as if they were lifted from clouds, with guitars that swarm and proclamate, build, and explode monstrous holes in the dark with their light.
-Parasites & Sycophants (01.18.08)
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the latest issue of Manual Dexterity Music Zine is finished. stop by and download a copy. paper copies will be available soon. thanks again for doing the interview.
hey, it was nice meeting you guys last weekend! hope you don't mind that I recorded and posted a song from the turf club show. really really happy that I did, an amazingly beautiful performance!
