Matt Berger (drums, percussion)
Brian Perez (keys, glockenspiel, lap steel, percussion)
Jeffery Boyd (bass)
Various tracks on "Hold This Ghost": Rachel Blumberg (drums), Mr. Fantastic (saw), Doug Jenkins (cello), Emily Cox (violin), Victor Nash (Trumpet), Christina Fitzgerald (oboe), Jill Coykendall (clarinet), Alan Ames (pedal steel), Laura Gibson (sass), Adam Shearer (stage banter).
Record Mixed by Tucker Martine
Influences
Leonard Cohen, Georges Méliès, Ennio Morricone, Lee Hazelwood, J.P. Gorin, Lee Hazelwood, Conlon Nancarrow, Arthur Russell, Polaroids, Emily Rose, Musée Mécanique (the museum), Hildegaard von Bingen, succulents, Portland rain, Spherical Harmonics, Bernard Hermann, Alfred Hitchcock, Bond, James Bond, Jean Luc Godard, vacuum tubes, Michel Gondry, The Sherman Bros., Wes Anderson, Rodgers & Hammerstein, AM Radio, Orville and Wilbur Wright, Lt. Thomas Selfridge, Gyorgy Ligeti, Igor Stravinsky, Maritime Culture, basements that tend to flood, Sellwood garage sales, friends, Romans, Country Songbirds,...
Sounds Like
tiny hands brandishing wooden mallets against an impossibly complex machine of wood and metal and wire which makes a sort of music that is mechanically organic.
We would like to invite you to visit a very inspiring place in San Francisco full of fascinating automata and antique novelties which has inspired our name, the Zelinsky Collection at Musée Mécanique. If you are in the Bay Area, stop by and take a look. It's free to get in and we personally guarantee you, too, will be amazed and inspired.
(We are not affiliated with the museum in any way.)
Currently we are preparing the release of our first full length album, "Hold This Ghost". The tentative release date is September 30th 2008, following which we will be embarking on another U.S. tour.
"Musee Mecanique’s songs revel in the mysterious, never fully articulating the memories or myths on which they are based. The end result is a collection of beautiful anachronisms, grounded in no particular time. It’s atmospheric, music-box folk that unearths only a pinhole view into other worlds — worlds that glow restlessly with an irreconcilable modernity that’s, well, perfectly unsettling." -Willamette Week
I don't know how many "plays" you normally get each day, of your tunes...but I wonder how many today I'm literally responsible for. I've been listening to yours almost all day as I've edited photos...starting at the top, and then just restarting them when they get through....I don't think I shall ever tire of these amazing melodies, the music and the phenomenal voices... Thanks!
i am so so so sad i missed you last night. i am in bed sick and it sucks a big wad of donkey dinosaur eggs. but i want to see you all soon in some way soon, musically and otherwise! lots of bbqs this summer. LOTS. and musical collaborations. i can smell it in the air....mmmm......xoxoxo, rachel
thanks again for the use of your sofa the other night. good seeing you all so bright-eyed and bushy-tailed after your tour. lets do freedom toast again sometime!
Hey what's up Micha?? How are you doing? How is the band doing? When's the next time you and Matt are going to come and hang out with us?? I hope your band is doing well. Hope to hear back from you soon.
