Ian Cooke: voice, cello, piano Sean Merrell: drums Ian O: guitar, piano Whit Sibley: bass, voice Kelly O'Dea: violin
Influences
abba, bjork, blonde redhead, joanna newsom, queen, david bowie, radiohead, stereolab, j. s. bach, fiona apple, meredith monk, billy joel, agnes bernelle, jeff buckley, yann tiersen, rachel's, sufjan stevens, dave brubeck, neutral milk hotel, dresden dolls, cafe tacuba, peter schickele, cat stevens, nick drake, tori amos, regina spektor, muse, tosca tango orchestra, tin hat trio, erik satie, shins, rasputina, rufus wainwright, david kitay, carter burwell, carpenters, bright eyes, beatles, gershwin, beethoven
Sounds Like
"THE FALL I FELL" CD with origami packaging available at: "THE FALL I FELL" on itunes:
An excerpt from "The Fall I Fell" DVD to be released July 31st, 2009, here is "The Rot" live.
The DVD includes: The entire "The Fall I Fell" album with lyrics and photos, mixed in 5.1 DTS, DD, and Stereo. Various live performances of songs from the album plus one brand new song. A 15-minute documentary about the album. Music videos for Kursk and Vasoon. Bonus content including a sneak peek at Ian's upcoming album.
Visit twist and shout records to buy "THE FALL I FELL" in physical, beautiful, origami form.
Visit itunes to buy the album digitally.
From Spin, Sept. '08. There is a 2-page spread on 'Denver Rock City' including bits on the great BOB FERBRACHE, TWIST & SHOUT, LARIMER LOUNGE, HI-DIVE, BORN IN THE FLOOD, BELA KAROLI and many more, all written by Dave Herrera. Thanks Dave! Check it out on newsstands now!
....or here's the digital version of SPIN for free! Go to page 138-139.
BIO:
This lanky pushover makes art for your ears using his cello and voice as core instruments for songwriting. Components of his style are pulled from classical music, pop, folk, avant-garde, world music, and jazz. Cooke’s recordings also employ piano and percussion. The piano was his first instrument, which he began playing at age 5, and picked up the cello at age 11. In a live setting, he accompanies himself using a loop pedal to layer his cello. Paying special attention to innovative meter, chord progression, and melody, the Denver-based musician breeds a truly original and moving type of music. Thanks for listening.
Here are two videos from the upcoming Ian Cooke DVD!
Your musical frequencies and vibrations are sensed through my body as vortexual tremors in my heart after having travelled through my infinitely complex network of nerves, tissues, marrow, blood, and brain matter. It's as if the Source were singing and I am hearing one of it's multitudinous voices. Thanks! :)
Your voice and 'strumentation has stuck me since the first listen. I hope the wonderful musics will keep flowing, and your voice will keep ringing here often falsetto but always rich. The cello will dance along. It is a little lonely get-together listening to your music. The emotional kind but without the alcohol. I treasure it.
Ian I love you! You came on my itunes right now. It was a good moment.
I'm still working over at triple j, I'm on during the day now woohoo! No more overnights.
And I'm going on my very first tour this year. Next year I will SURELY fly to you and we'll wow the masses and someone will film it and it will go viral and get 13,000,000 hits on youtube.com
you should come see me...i'm in buenos aires, argentina until april. there's a twin bed with your name all over it, it's right next to mine. but you know, if you somehow don't find the time or the money to make it to south america, i'll hopefully be back in denver next summer.
your music is simply beautiful my friend... i hope to catch a show soon. hope the day goes by smashingly good sir and thanks for adding some good ju-ju to my musical world.... best of wishes
Ian Cooke: voice, cello, piano Sean Merrell: drums Ian O: guitar, piano Whit Sibley: bass, voice Kelly O'Dea: violin
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