Jesse Poe(vocals, guitars, other sounds), Cosimo Santi (electric guitar), Chris Leo (vocals and guitar), Samuele (bass), Viola Mattioli (cello), Jacopo Salvatori (piano) and Jonathan Pellegrinno (drums)
extended family: Michele Poulos, Curtis Fye, Darius Jones, Clarke Hedgepath, Alumni/second string: Jim Wallis & Cathy Lucas (My Sad Captains) Alex Neilson (Jandek, Richard Youngs, Telstar Ponies), Isobel Campbell (Belle & Sebastian, Gentle Waves), Laura Ann Boyd, Craig Harmon, Pat Best (Pelt, Hotel X), Phil Murphy (Them Against Them, Broken Hips, Hotel X), Jeff Krones, David Lowery (Cracker, Camper Van Beethoven, F.S.K.), Johnny Hickman (Cracker), Mic Turner (Dirty 3), Ned Oldham (Anomoanon, Palace), Ben Chasny (Six Organs of Admittance, Comets on Fire), Jessica Billey (Smog, Boxhead Ensemble), Via Nuon (Bevel, Spence, Manishevitz), Tom Brickman (Broken Hips, Hotel X), Nick Liceti, Peter Neff (Tulsa Drone), Dan Calhoun, Jim Thompson (Tulsa Drone, Bio Ritmo,GWAR), Carter Thornton (Enos Slaughter, IZITITIZ), E-yage, Paul Watson (Them Against Them, Bee & Flower, Sparklehorse), Coby Batty (Bongwater, John Zorn, F.U.G.S.), Miguel Urbiztondo (Maki, Crooked Fingers), Ayman Fanous(Burn Nix, Elliot Sharp, Tomas Ulrich, etc.), Ben Scott (Ting Ting Jahe, Crevlyn), Brian Jones(Agents of Good Roots, Brian Jones Wurlitzer Trio, Boots of Leather), Oretta Giunti, Matteo Bennici, Umberto Trivella,T.C. Deane, T.N. Roane(Vehemence Realized), Brian Freeman(Elysium on 37th), Nirmal Bajekal, Pam Edwards, Adam Meuse, and Marco Lorinni
Influences
Tim Buckley, Slap happy Humphrey, Richard Hawley, Pentangle, Portishead, Velvet Underground, Alice Coltrane, Van Morrison, John Martyn, Al Green, Alexander 'Skip' Spence, Big Star, Billie Holiday, Black Sabbth, Cat Power, Funkadelic, Chris Whitley, Neil Young, Exuma, Leonard Cohen, Fairport Convention, Fred Neil, Geechie Wiley, Nick Cave Ghost, Gram Parsons, Gillian Welch, PJ Harvey, J.J. Cale, King Crimson, Lee Hazelwood, Mojave 3, Pearls Before Swine/Tom Rapp, Radiohead, Roy Orbison, Tom Waits, Ten years After, Led Zepplin, Ry Cooder, Scud Mountain Boys, Stone Roses, Soundgarden, The Stooges, Tower Recordings, T. Rex, Mark Hollis, Tindersticks
Sounds Like
The Cult, The Church, Out Hud, Pearls Before Swine, Radiohead, Portishead, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Dirty Three, Fairport Convention, Yo La Tengo, Tim Buckley, Ghost, Chris Isaak, The Doors, Dead Can Dance, Mojave 3, Alice Coltrane, Angels of Light, Nick Drake, Mogwai, The Beatles, Spiritualized, Duncan Browne, Mark Hollis, Talk Talk, Scud Mountain Boys, Gang of Four, Calexico, Abbc, Smoke City, The Stone Roses, Love, Low, Animal Collective, Richard Hawley, Apendix Out, Slowdive, Red House Painters, Swans, Sixteen Horsepower, Ryan Adams, Ry Cooder, Sigor Ros, Reverberation, Gordon Lightfoot, Chris Lee, Jeff Buckley, Damien Rice, Leonard Cohen, Lee Hazelwood, Fred Neil, Damon & Naomi, Funkadelic, Do Make Say Think, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Fuck, Galaxie 500, Fabrizio De Andre, Flying Saucer Attack, Taj Mahal Travelers, J.J. Cale, Pink Flyod, Joe Henry, John Martyn, Lullaby for the Working Class, Mazzy Star, Migala, Movietone, Neil Halstead, Neil Young, P.G. Six, Six Organs of Admittance, Paul Giovanni, Simon Bonney, Sun Kill Moon, Telstar Ponies, Thalia Zedik, Set Fire to Flames, Molasses, Third Ear Band, This Mortal Coil, Tindersticks, Tower Recordings, The Velvet Underground, Belle & Sebastian, Vinicio Capossela, White Heaven, Cosmic Intervention, World Standard
Tanakh is a rock band now which still does lush poppy folk arrangements, in the past
Tanakh is the name for music written and improvised by a collective of musicians; music that is focused towards beauty and experimentation within structure instead of towards a particular musical genre or style. In the last six or so years this revolving collective has included a large number of musicians headed up by principle songwriter Jesse Poe. Although currently residing in Florence, Italy, Poe comes from a background of American rural music. His great-grandfather wrote country ballads and his great aunts and uncle had a live radio program broadcast out of Indiana.
Besides his work as Tanakh, Poe has a folk-pop band called Poulos, with Tanakh bassist Michele Poulos, produced/engineered for Jim White, Pelt, The Iditarod, Iris, and others, singing back up as well as playing a variety of instruments. He has also sung back up for the Anomoanon, sung back up and played electric guitar for Six Organs of Admittance, played percussion for Mick Turners Bonnevill project, played guitar and various instruments in Tiger Saw and various ethnic instruments for Koester as well as performing in other projects. Poe has also studied Karnac vocals and sitar for three years under Nirmal Bajekal, who appears on Tanakhs Villa Claustrophobia release.
Poe has done film music for short independent films including Greater than 1/2. He has worked as a producer and an engineer both in the US and overseas and has published short stories, poems, and creative non-fiction in various magazines and journals. He is currently writing for Dream magazine (CA) and Terrascope Online, and is teaching in Florence, Italy, as well as playing with Tanakh and doing solo performances.
Jesse, Italian dudes, Beware of Jon Bon Jovi cars on the European roads, but honk if you see one. Don't honk twice, cause these cars are driven by Navigay-tion partyboatpeople!
prima di un concerto in italia bisognerà aspettare gennaio.. ma perchè Firenze non lascia spazio iniziative musicali indipendenti? un saluto a "Poe"... : my english can be better..
Jesse Poe(vocals, guitars, other sounds), Cosimo Santi (electric guitar), Chris Leo (vocals and guitar), Samuele (bass), Viola Mattioli (cello), Jacopo Salvatori (piano) and Jonathan Pellegrinno (drums)
