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[Note: the following should be read aloud, in your best Carl Sagan impression]
. . . and over time, clouds, at the gentle encouragement of the wind, twist and contort into new shapes, unexpected forms, each gust and breath an experiment in creation; yet every new alignment, though unrecognizable from the last, is still a cloud, the same collective of water participating in the long process of constant change, never resisting the guiding hand that moves it along the continuum of time . . .
. . . which is to say . . .
Ashley Brier, Zachary Fouchard, Mike Rifkin and Jon Rifkin are Mothers of the Lower East Side. The primary objective of this band is the exploration of the possibilities of the shared creation of music, in whatever form they choose to take. As of the beginning of the spring of 2008, their efforts are manifesting themselves as an odd synthesis that may at times appear similar to folk-rock or psychedelic folk .
Their hiking staffs on this particular vision trip are guitars of various string denominations, drums and sundries, organ and piano, with generous help form the delay pedal (a real trouper). The map was drawn in part by Fairport Convention and Pentangle (the old and wise) and by Espers and Jesse Sykes (the young and no less wise). It’s a fine map and true, but Mothers of the Lower East Side also loves detours.
The music is the starting point and the path. There is no destination other than the beginning of the next adventure. A journal of their experiences on this trip, to take the form of a full-length recorded rock album, will come soon . . .
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