JUSTIN MOYNIHAN:piano, keyboards, voice, saxaflute, accordion.
JOHN HERON: percussion
BRANDON BEAVER: guitar, voice
JOHN PETTIT: bass, trumpet
JESSE MOYNIHAN: guitar, violin, voice
ANDREW CICCONE: clarinet, bass clarinet
Influences
Viktor Schauberger. Manly P Hall. Rudolph Steiner. Holographic Universe. Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Sounds Like
"The album arrives at the post-Animal Collective juncture in the indie-rock timeline, when eclecticism, experimentation, goofy aliases, fuzzy beards, funny outfits, and Brian Wilson worship have largely supplanted angular haircuts, garage-rock roots, and musical minimalism. A number of artists have lately assimilated the former aesthetic and applied it to loosey-goosey hippie jams and free-form freakouts, but this Philly sextet doesn't mess around. They are dyed-in-the-wool art-rockers (dare we even say straight-up prog-rockers, without offending some post-punk purist's delicate sensibilities?) who have obviously soaked up the lessons of British avant-rockers Henry Cow, American classical composer Charles Ives, and yes, Brian Wilson's legendary art-pop suite Smile, well before Panda Bear made it cool to do so."
VIDEO FOR WOODSONG PT. 1 directed / animated by Toby Stretch: tobystretch.com Go to his site for the high res version!
LIVE @ Danger Danger Gallery 2/23/08 - Video by Andrew Gilligan.
Kim Vermillion: Hurts Like Hell Make a Rising: Woodsong Part Two Jo Gabriel: God Grant She Lye Still Princeton: Eminent Victorians Desar: Club Monbijou Sterilize Stereo: Give It a Rest Festival: Return Mojo Nixon & Skid Roper: This Land is Your Land Ascension of The Watchers: Moonshine The Other Flesh: (Bring Down the) Summer Rain Fields Of The Nephilim: Harmonica Man Demonika and the Darklings: New Year's Rain Fern Knight: Synge's Choir Scarlet Room: The Machine Paul Mercer: The Hidden Key Slim Cessna's Auto Club: An Introduction to the Power of Faith: Braces Christian Williams: The Trail Juan Prophet Organization: Factory The Flaming Stars: Eat Your Heart Out DeVotchKa: El Zopilote Mojado Curtis Eller's American Circus: Sugar for the Horses The Filthy Whores: Bite the Red Rose Boomtown Rats: I Don't Like Mondays Fire on Fire: Amnesia Thunder in the Valley: Three Fishermen
oh my goodness the new cd is still rockin'. i don't think it'll stop rockin' any time soon... but because of it i haven't listened to my other make a rising cd. but now you guys have a music video!!! does that mean you'll have a dvd???? i love you guys so much you don't know how glad i was to be able to see your entire set. it meant the world to me. my dad (who was waiting to pick up our gear) was pissed!!!! but now we're cool. word. i will be there in november at the rotunda!!!! no shows until then???? whatev do yr thang. also the clarinet/drum guy is awesome!!!!
