Musicians who played on/contributed to studio material:
Todd Bryanton: Multi-layered vocals on 'KarmaZone'
Todd has his own music site @: SutureselfDon Modderman: Various wind instruments on Saskavanserai
Don also plays in Crofters Revenge
Influences
HawkWind, CAN, King Crimson, Soft Machine, Ozric Tentacles, TOOL, Grateful Dead, Phish, Nag Champa Incense, Tabla Beat Science, British style pickled onions, Jimi Hendrix, Thai Curry, the phases of the moon, soft grey mornings, Dr. Who, the deep blue sea, the curve of a woman's hip ...
Sounds Like
That other band I used ta play in:zOmAa - Who can best be described by this inimitable quote courtesy of Steve'The Hat' Jeske:
"hashish hashish is how i remember it....oh, it was a lurvly nite, William Burroughs stoned, Kerouac serving me bebop, and Ginsberg and I comparing styling products for our hair....and the sounds of a hawk, on some wind, making all well and good in the universe...
if you ever put out a zomaa disc with a cover and band info and such, i'll let you use the above words as liner notes!.....
space is the place
steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevo"
zOmAa is on indefinite hiatus, but you can check out some of our tunes: I'm playing bass on 'Roma Raga (Live)' - recorded @ FLATLANDS MUSIC FESTIVAL 2003, and 'The Hidden Path', and guitar- rhythm & lead on 'Katepwe Saaidi'.
AND! Back by popular demand, the video for: click to play>>Holy Groove "...Ravi Shankar meets the Allman Brothers (in a dark alley on a moonless night...sort of)"
CoelacanthDance's track - 'KarmaZone' is now available as a FREE download - as part of the 'Reverbnation Sponsored Songs Program'. ALL you have to do is just download it for FREE
License this music for commercial use through Pump Audio
CoelacanthDance on Progressive Rock Hall of Fame's first Compilation CD - 'Soundscapes Volume 1'
CoelacanthDance's track - 'KarmaZone', from debut CD - 'Sonic Excursions and Audio Spasms' has been selected for inclusion on Progressive Rock Hall of Fame's first Compilation CD - 'Soundscapes Volume 1'.
"The oceans are more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time."
- H.P. Lovecraft
Or to put it another way:
"Come explore the deep blue sonic sea and beyond with the strawberry cumin jam band named after everyone's favourite semi-extinct primeval fish - CoelacanthDance (Pronounced: SEAL-a-kanth Dance). We all come from the sea, some of us are adapting to life on land better than others, but all can agree that dancing is the best way to adapt! So, come shake your tail fin, grow some gills, then head back to the ocean, smiling and spicily satiated."
About the Music of CoelacanthDance:
The music of CoelacanthDance started as a one person project composed, played - on guitar, bass, keyboards and drum programming, and recorded by Steve McDonnell at his home studio 'Crying Fish Studios', and released as an independent CD titled: 'Sonic Excursions and Audio Spasms' in 2007.
Shortly after the release of that CD the full band version of CoelacanthDance was (spawned) and although the band plays - and expands - on the original compositions on the CD, the music has evolved and morphed into a kinetic, energized jam band.
To best represent what CoelacanthDance is now, the 1st five audio tracks on the music player are all LIVE, recorded at a gig at Bushwakker Brew Pub in Regina, Saskatchewan, June 24, 2009 (warts & all!) on this amazing little unit - a ZOOM H2, which is about the size of a cell phone, sitting on a table in front of the stage. These tracks are exactly as recorded - NO overdubs!
