Kalyani (www.myspace.com/Kalyanisings) on guitar, vocals, percussion, flute, and keyboard.
Ryan Murphy (www.myspace.com/murftown) ..board, vocals, claranet, melodica, percussion, and guitar.
Random Pandas (TBA) on bass and other stuff.
YOU (yes, YOU!!!) on background vocals, miscellaneous percussion, random instrumentation, and love vibrations!!!!
影響
Love, Freedom, Osho, Salvia, Steely Dan, fractal geometry, Bob Dylan, Jesus Christ, Mingus, Bob Marley, animals everywhere (even the Human ones), Thelonius Monk, being present, Babylon, brownies, Big Brother and the Holding Company, meditation, Ani Difranco, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, Athuai Rush, chocolate, Kimya Dawson, contemplation, Floetry, the magic in the mundane, the Beatles, Mary Jane, Pink Floyd, our kids, our families, our friends, LIFE LIFE LIFE LIFE LIFE LIFE LIFE LIFE LIFE LIFE
Once upon a time, there were two panda bears named Ryan and Kalyani. Although they were happy for the most part, they seemed to always be searching for that special bliss (ananda) that comes from creating just the right sound with just the right people in just the right moment.
As they grew, each panda looked for musical ananda in his (or her) own special way. Ryan went to music school, but then he learned that we don't need no education, so instead, he wrote songs about polar bears and dolphins and girls waking up. Kalyani joined Corporate Babylon, but secretly wrote soothing songs about love and life and longing in her spare time.
Each panda, separately and with gusto, dreamt of starting a cool band (as pandas are wont to do). Sadly, our heros couldn't find a single other animal who was ready, willing, and able to let go of their inhibitions and jam themselves into total musical mayhem---brightly, brightly, and with beauty. So they wrote their little lonely songs and recorded their little solo albums and led happy, partially fulfilled lives.
Then one day, Ryan stumbled over Kalyani at an ecstatic dance. As they tumbled into a big pile of love, limbs, and musical instruments, they could sense (with their special Panda senses) that ananda was just around the corner. It wasn't long before musical Panda-monium ensued.
The Ananda Pandas amassed tons of fun and fulfillment by jamming in houses, cars, buses, at Barton Springs, in the street, at Body Choir, in coffee shops, and in all sorts of mad and eclectic places around Austin, Texas. Then, our heros began to look ouside of Austin, for those special venues that would allow them to share their Ananda-Panda-monium with the masses, and then...
TAKE OVER the WORLD! To be continued...
