*DARA ROSENWASSER - vocals + lyrics, some guitar
*ERIC COOLEY - bass, guitar, production, lyrics, etc.,
>Greg Forschler - guitar
Barry Semple - drums
John Clough - keys
Charlotte Sather- flute, vocals
Nancy Wharton - Cello
>>former F&Ders:
Steven Knouse -guitar
Joaquin Tavares- keys
Bradley Faith/Haug - keys
Rick Allen/Hare - drums
Joshua Furman - drums
Influences
the following are bands we respect and admire: Leonard Cohen, dead can dance joy division billy holiday Rasputina interpol the doves catpower steven severin siouxsie L O W x-mal deutchland The Swans and Jarboe solo the glove the cure nick drake bauhaus the virgin suicides soundtrack by AIR neko case damien jurado opal rain parade hope sandoval and the warm invention mazzy star this mortal coil velvet underground w NICO billy holliday the swans Mark Kozelek rozz-only christian death gitane demone red house painters Slowdive Mojave 3 section 25 virgin prunes current 93 legendary pink dots skinny puppy depeche mode -beck-seachange- mira love spirals downwards cowboy junkies tarnation moby 4Ad-era xymox the walkabouts johnny cash this ascension maxine Tarnation Tim (and jeff) Buckley brian wilson um...who else?
Sounds Like
a musical collaboration of dara rosenwasser, eric cooley and many talented friends.
We found a box of vintage FAITH & DISEASE T-shirts from the INSULARIA era: I had thought these were long-gone as ALL of them sold out pretty quickly..10 years ago! They are ONLY available through the Projekt website, sizes MEDIUM and LARGE.
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Band Bio:
Faith & Disease formed in Seattle, WA. Recently the band signed with Projekt Records and have released two albums ("Beneath The Trees" and "Passport To Kumming"). F&D are the nucleus of Dara Rosenwasser and Eric Cooley, and have gone on two headlining US tours, were selected to play CMJ '99, NXNW '97 and '98, and most recently the sixth annual Convergence Festival. Their music is ambient, etheral, beautifully melancholic melodies with angelic female vocals and lush guitars, keyboards and varied instrumentation. - Faith and Disease website
Reviews:
"The album opens with the bass driven "She's Got a Halo," which spotlights both Rosenwassers soothing and quietly powerful vocals and Cooleys masterful bass and guitar arrangements in a way that is at once reminiscent of classic Faith and Disease while also being evocative of the bands current foray into the world of lo-fi, scaled down, sadcore, arrangements that seem more appropriate to labels such as CMK or Kranky than Projekt. Shes Got a Halo is followed by tracks that become successively more stripped down, successively more vulnerable, and successively more beautiful" - Losing Today
"All sorts of ancient machinery and wizardry are plied tonight. Nico and My Bloody Valentine by way of madrigals and Morgana Le Fey." - Ink19
"Faith and Disease's slow transformation from a quietly elegant goth band to an equally quietly elegant group with a broader range has been one of darker music's better pleasures over recent years. Passage to Kunming continues that progression the first song alone, "She's Got a Halo," suggests everything from New Order's warm bass flow to the Moon Seven Times's rich rural reflections and back again. It's a perfect sign that the core duo of Dara Rosenwasser and Eric Cooley aren't content to simply replicate their past, and if the album title and graphics would seem to promise an exploration into Chinese music more than anything else, the focus here is more on other interests." -NED RAGGET, ALL MUSIC GUIDE
We have a track on the brand-new 3-CD Projekt compilation:
Just a reminder to check out Versailles this month on tour. We are traveling to Phoenix 19th (Paisley Violin), Albuquerque 20th at (Black Market Goods), Little Rock the 23rd at (Circa 76), Joplin the 24th at (Blackthorn Pizza and Pub), Austin the 26 at (Elysium), and New Orleans the 27th at (Hi Ho Lounge).
Thank you for adding me! I was delighted when I found a darkwave band from Seattle! I was beginning to think that we Seattleites are only capable of grunge and indie rock :-P
Hello from Finland! It's a name-dropping FRENZY!!! I just released my new cd featuring Alejandro Escovedo, Mark Lanegan, Steve Berlin (los lobos), Chris and Carla from the Walkabouts, Peter Case, Scott McCaughey (YFF, REM)and Jim Roth (built to spill). CD has liner notes by Biographer Charles R. Cross (BackStreets-Springsteen...Heavier than Heaven-Cobain...Roomful of Mirrors-Hendrix...etc. Also I have finally put "Passing Thru" on my site as well for you to hear...this is the one with Eddie Vedder, Victoria Williams, and Carla Torgerson trading verses with me...it has not been availablé for a long time, and I also have it on i-tunes, etunes, amazon and rhapsody. Okay...I hope you are doing well!
Hey there, Eric and co.! My spookalicious HOLIDAY CD is available for purchase meow (I mean, "now")! Give the gift of ether and screams this Solstice or XXXmas~* And a very Meowy Catmas to you >^..^< Serena
