| Member Since | 5/18/2007 | | Band Website | http://www.olscratchrecordings.com/ | | Band Members | Scot Solida: vocals, synthesizers in various states of decay. Sound design and sampling. Various acoustic instruments, Hammond organ, Theremin, ancient rhythm generators, vintage sequencers, tape machines and patch cables, treatments, spaces and war surplus test equipment. Lyrics and arrangements, mixing and production.
Har: 6- and 12-string guitars, Chapman Stick, fretted and fretless 4-string bass, 8-string bass, eBow, guitar and bass treatments and guitar solos good enough to be utterly out of fashion.
Guests:
Ant Graham: occasional acoustic guitar and vocals.
Wayne Cunningham: drums on "Beyond Belief" and "Surviving the Fanatics.
vurt: additional soundscapery.
Mike Weeks: additonal aural antics.
Purchase Christus and the Cosmonaughts records and CDs here: Beta-lactam Ring Records. | | Influences | David Nichols, Virgin Prunes, Eno, Badfinger, Bill Nelson, Click Click, Tim Blake, Heldon, Magazine, Roxy Music, Throbbing Gristle, Beaver and Krause, Tones on Tail, Delia Derbyshire, Tonto's Expanding Headband, Morton Subotnick, The Tear Garden, Tangerine Dream, 801, Love and Rockets, Univers Zero, Pink Floyd, Gil Melle, Eyeless in Gaza, Chris and Cosey (Carter/Tutti), United States of America (the 60s band!), Legendary Pink Dots, Electric Light Orchestra, Ric Ocasek, Steve Roach, Severed Heads, Gong, Tuxedomoon, Louis and Bebe Barron, Mother Mallard, Current 93, Pink Floyd, Nurse With Wound, The Cassandra Complex, King Crimson, Gary Numan, Genesis, Billy Currie, Ilhan Mimaroglu, Camel, The Cars, Tom Blackwood, Alien Sex Fiend, Alan Parsons, James Ray and the Performance, Robyn Hitchcock, Wendy Carlos, Greg Hawkes, Incredible String Band, Aphrodite's Child, Silver Apples, Phil Manzanera, Cluster, Amon Duul II, Ashra Tempel, Colin Newman, The Neon Judgement, Klaus Schulze, Navigator, Peter Gabriel, Fad Gadget, Andy Pickford, IQ, Wakeman, YMO, ELP, Factrix, The Beatles, Be-Bop Deluxe, Leonard Rosenman, Wire, Bo Hansson, House of Love, Suicide, Hawkwind, Sisterhood, T-Rex, John Paul Jones, Zon Vern Pyles. | | Sounds Like | Post-apocalyptic psychedelic art rock. Sort of. Look, if you can reconcile the above list of influences, then you have already found what I have been seeking lo these many years. | | Record Label | Beta-lactam Ring Records | | Type of Label | Indie |
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