| Member Since | 3/15/2006 | | Band Members | Rob Barber - drums.
Lorin Halsall - double-bass, theremin, strange machines, projections, voices in the air.
George Harris - harmonica, horn.
Jerry Hope - words, flugelhorn, guitar, things.
Arsey Rob - machine-spirit translator, alternative universe electrical interactivity.
Walt Shaw - frankensteinian percussion.
AND IN FORMER TIMES...
Alice - tapdancing.
AnneMarie Bird - voice, flute, guitar, drums.
Andy Jarvis - cornet, piano.
Daniel Robertson - trombone.
Jon Samsworth - guitar, horn, voices in the head, films, projections.
Chris of the Trees - guitar, tenor sax.
Andrew Wilson - Spanish guitar, tenor sax, whizzy thing, bat. | | Influences | Captain Beefheart, The Fall, Soft Machine, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Can, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Sun Ra, Do Make Say Think, King Crimson, Tom Waits, Angelo Badalamenti, Jefferson Airplane, Duke Ellington Orchestra, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Luigi Russolo, Oliver Postgate, Bram Stoker, HG Wells, Michael Moorcock, Ivor Cutler, Jack Micheline, Pete Brown, Dada, Keith Roberts, Dylan Thomas. | | Sounds Like | “…like the house band of a Victorian asylum in a David Lynch movie. Visually and sonically stunning, the Dust Collectors stroll the line between genius and insanity.” Dusted.
“The Dust Collectors are a mix of The Cinematic Orchestra and Red Snapper, with a mad Victorian reciting his dark-assed poetry over the top. Just amazing. Kind of like Broadcast too in many ways.” Knom music | | Type of Label | None |
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