Jon Mueller: drums, percussion
Chris Rosenau: guitar
Dan Spack: baritone guitar
Jim Schoenecker: analog synthesizer, electronics
Thomas Wincek: Fender Rhodes piano, guitar, electronics
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Chris Rosenau and Jon Mueller's long time band collections of colonies of bees has reconstituted itself as a powerhouse live group, adding members, layers, and volume to help articulate a dynamic attack of sonic maximalism.... Click Here for full Bio...Their new album is called "Birds", and is out now on the record label Radium; an imprint of Table of the Elements records.Press For Bees, and "Birds":
"mesmerizing
-Pitchfork Media (04.07.08)
"wonderfully pattern-obsessed
-NY Times (03.16.08)
"a flight of airy resonances and Reichian flutters ... a gorgeous ... unfurling, that rolls up and down into a few anti-climaxes until its final triumphant climb
-Brandon Stosuy, Stereogum (01.14.08)
"They don’t need vocals or traditional song structures to make interesting, engaging and energetic music.
-Muzzle of Bees (01.12.08)
"The music, as grandiose and expansive as any take on indie's vast pallate, is ... another solid album in a long line of bands making pop feel epic once more.
-Electronic Voice Phenomenon (01.15.08)
"the first perfect sound of 2008.
-Collective Common (01.18.08)
"Evidence if it were needed of the power of music.
-Mp3 Hugger (01.16.08)
"majestic passages appear as if they were lifted from clouds, with guitars that swarm and proclamate, build, and explode monstrous holes in the dark with their light.
-Parasites & Sycophants (01.18.08)
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Collections of Colonies of Bees's Friend Space (Top 12)
Hi guys, hope you're all good. D'you remember me writing to you at the beginning of the year asking if you and Bon Iver/Justin had plans to collaborate with a record and how amazing i thought it could be & whatever? You replied to me saying you were in the middle of finishing an album right now - stay tuned.
Well i just read an article on Pitchfork with the details for it. =D Must say, that name, Volcano Choir, sounds pretty genius & absolutely perfect for what i imagine the sound to be like. Really cannot wait for this record!
The first volume of Wisconsin Sickness is here, ready to infect the world with our own special brand of Wisconsin psychosis. This compilation of underground Wisconsin bands features music from:
Put Her In The Trunk, The Killer Dolphin With Rabies, Meth Tooth, [the] Commuter Exit, Fall Out Fracture, Diemertus, Time To Kill, Burial Ritual, Failed The Fire Drill, A Pale Ghost, Dear Astronaut, Festerfuck, and Corpse Donor.
Thanks for the friendship. Brotzmann 2009 USA Tour begins this week. Seattle, Houston, Austin, Grinnell, Chicago, Milwaukee, Lexington, Detroit, Philadelphia, DC, New Haven, Baltimore, NYC
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