KEVIN FRIEDMAN: Guitar.
(Lee Baby Simms, The Make-Out Scene, Imogene, Torcher, Thinner).
CHRISTOPHER DOUGLAS: Drums.
(The Make-Out Scene, Imogene, Torcher, Loudspeaker, Rhythm and Noise).
TODD CHATALAS: Bass.
(Blondage, Folk You, Hedwig And The Angry Inch, Mastering Engineer-NW Media).
TWAYN WILLIAMS: Pedal Steel Guitar.
BRENT MARTENS: Hammond B-3
Influences
Calexico, Tortoise, Friends of Dean Martinez, Ennio Morricone, John Barry, Lalo Schifrin, Blonde Redhead, John Lurie, Mithcel Froom, My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream, Sonic Youth, The Bad Seeds, Talking Heads, Yo La Tengo, Ry Cooder, Latin Playboys, Tom Waits…
Sounds Like
Noir tinged, spaghetti western rock music. Simple, gritty, subtle, soulful, sonic, eeire, spooky, pedal steel, western, eastern, experimental, instrumental, good.
The Escapists combine multiple influences and utilize the unique instrumentation of Hammond Organ, Pedal Steel Guitar, as well as traditional guitar, bass and drums to create cinematic, avant-noir, spaghetti-western rock.
We've been in tons of great bands and are all totally cool.
Featuring:
Kevin Friedman: Guitar, keyboards. (Lee Baby Simms, The Make-Out Scene, Imogene, Torcher, Thinner).
Christopher Douglas: Drums. (The Make-Out Scene, Imogene, Torcher, Crucifix, Loudspeaker, Rhythm & Noise).
Todd Chatalas: Bass. (Blondage, Folk You, Mastering Engineer; NW Media).
Twayn Williams: Pedal Steel Guitar. (Sophe Lux).
Brent Martens: Hammond Organ. (Asylum St. Spankers, Royal Motel Orchestra, Duo Royale)
Influences: Calexico, Tortoise, My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream, Sonic Youth, The Bad Seeds, Talking Heads, Yo La Tengo, Ry Cooder, Latin Playboys, Tom Waits…
Come join the celebration over the release of our new CD – Boteco!!
‘Boteco’ is an artful mixture of neo-futuristic traditional Brazilian rhythms with the right quantity of the best North American spices. It is funk and rock boiling and baking with samba, maracatu, frevo and baiao.
Put Pele and Mohammed Ali in a fictional mix machine. Now add Frank Zappa, Sergio Mendes, Tom Jobim and Roger Waters and fused in to one. What a mix eh? Bat Makumba is this fusion, multiplied by 2.
CD Release Parties: 10/31 Someday Lounge – Portland, OR 11/01 Cozmic Pizza – Eugene, OR 11/06 Moe’s Alley – Santa Cruz, CA 11/07 The Old Ironsides – Sacramento, CA 11/13 The Great American Music Hall – San Francisco, CA 11/21 Stage Door – Mount Shasta, CA 12/04 Harp Inn – Costa Mesa, CA 12/05 Santa Monica Bar & Grille – Santa Monica, CA ...more to come
