RIP
1978-1996
Matt Pfeil, our original would-have-been drummer, best friend and brother, now he flies with the great comet in the sky.
Influences
The artists we admire include: Can, Ash Ra Tempel, Mandrake Memorial, The Doors, Amon Duul I & II, Group 1850, Olivia Tremor Control, Dom, White Noise, The Red Krayola, 13th Floor Elevators, Pink Floyd, Syd Barrett, Miles Davis, Sun Ra, Nick Drake, Velvet Underground, Love, Sonic Youth, Faust, AMM, The Second Hand, Family, The Yardbirds, Ravi Shankar, King Crimson, Soft Machine, Spirit, etc.etc..
Dharma Son Collective 2005-2008
Our music has been tagged with many descriptions, among them are “Video-game music”, “Noise”, “Sound-effects”, “Incoherent”, “Non-conveying”, “Indescribable”, “Nonsense”, “Graveyard music”, etc.etc...
Well, it can be whatever you want it to be. Take it or leave it. One thing we have never been told by reviewers or listeners alike is that we lack originality. Yes, we have been stereotyped by many, but we trust that it’s only natural human reaction to be negative towards new or misunderstood sounds. We have our influences, as all artists do. We’re not too proud to admit that.
Our non-musical influences include, but are not limited to: God, Jesus, Jack Kerouac, Edgar Allan Poe, Satan, Franz Kafka (he boogies at sunset), Gregory Corso, Kenneth Patchen, Arthur Rimbaud, James Douglas Morrison (the writer), Charles Baudelaire, Antonin Artaud, the Theater of Cruelty, the 50’s Beat movement, Sylvia Plath, Danny the Tourettes Guy (RIP), cracked mirrors, candles, Hunter S. Thompson, Gonzo Journalism, freethought, cemeteries, sunsets, sunrises, adipocere, flowers, swingsets, umbrellas, Autumn, midnight, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, mental illness, coffee, tea, Hieronymus Bosch, Salvador Dali, M.C. Escher, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, cannabis, silhouettes, bicycles, hallucinations, delirium, deranging of the senses through sound, etc.etc..
oh, and Bob Fardno. (the Apartment 8 land lord) He’s the coolest, ‘cause he’s the Fard. FARDNO!!
But anyway, enough of this gay banter. Let’s get down to brass tacks here.
We came together in 2005, with the original founding line-up of Jim, Jess and John Panebianco, as well as comrade Lenny Sylvester. Since our beginnings, we have had many faces drift in and out of our collective, some of which include: Quinn Charlesworth, Garrett Busato, ‘Bob’ Swanson, Cheryl Garofalo, Arthur Garofalo, Justin Panebianco, Chad Wright, and boo. We have recorded under many varying line-ups, but the creative brainchildren of DSC are brothers Jim and John. From our humble beginnings, we have followed our own visions and intuitions, never willing to sacrifice originality for public acceptance. We may not ‘make any sense’ or ‘convey to the people uuhh’, but neither did the Velvet Underground in 1967! Use your own judgment.
D.S.C. as of February of 2008 has been officially disbanded.
Although we shall continue our musical quest furthermore...
To all our supporters (April, you’re 1), thank you!
this is Dharma Son Collective's final project, along with the album 'Harlottan', they both stand as bookend albums and the epitaph of D.S.C.
Arckangelus 2007-
Arckangelus is a free-associative sound artist who had recorded a double-disc album under Apartment 8. Records with Dharma Son Collective in June, titled 'Veterans'. Each disc over an hour in length, Arckangelus, with DSC, had recorded the album over the course of 24 hours.
Weird, demented, variant and comedic, this album contains everything from off-the-cuff free-jazz, tripped out sound-collages, spontaneous spoken word such as the track 'Mouthjazz-Freesound', to raw acoustic blues with an unconventional slant in lyricism like 'Hobo Man'.
Arckangelus is currently working on his next project with us, a conceptual and experimental album series, titled, 'JimJim's Phone Is On LSD'. Part I of this series is currently in progress.
Electric Coffee 2008-
Started in March of 2008, Electric Coffee, consisting mostly of two founding members of Dharma Son Collective, along with a small handful of drifting participants, began work on the album 'Metaphysical Symphony', which is currently still in progress.
hello=) ok send it in a message then, my day is okay so far..i have a job interview in like 2 hours[at the movies]. Anyway, you're music is awesome, it's totally different and unique & amazing,i really like it. i don't know how you do it, but it's awesome. <3 Faith.
You're welcome. Hmm..it's going fine, I suppose. I'm moving out of state soon, though, which sort of sucks, because I just found out today..
Oh, really? That's cool. Let me know when you guys finish another album or somethin'. I still haven't gotten a band together yet. Maybe I'll have better luck wherever I end up moving to. Take care.
i'm afraid i can't make it, my mom randomly decided that jeannette was to dangerous to go at night i'm sorry, but when i get a car i promise you i'll be there ^-^
Arckangelus is a free-associative sound artist who had recorded a double-disc album under Apartment 8. Records with Dharma Son Collective in June, titled 'Veterans'. Each disc over an hour in length, Arckangelus, with DSC, had recorded the album over the course of 24 hours.
