horse museum members past/present/future&forever (singing through teeth & breaking living room floors):
dee addario (banjo, vox) jason aviss (trombone, french horn) sarah ayton (piano, accordion, organ, vox) jason mccrimmon (drums / percussion, dulcimer, vox) jordaan mason (guitar, singing saw, accordion, glock, banjo, noise / tapes, autoharp, percussion, vox / illiteracy) bryar gray (electric bass) cheryl ernst (alto and bass clarinets, vox) kate larson (organ, clarinet, glock, singing saw, vox) matt gordon (percussion, piano, accordion, glock, vox) simon thrasher (guitar, percussion, vox) jordan o'jordan smith (singing saw, autoharp, banjo, vox) richard laviolette (drums, vox) chris yang (upright bass) cory laktovich (cello) shaun brodie (trumpet) eric padget (trumpet) keith hamilton (singing saw) lowell sostomi (banjo, harmonica, percussion, vox)
Influences
dictionaries and books full of words, henry darger, leonard cohen, jean genet, david lynch, unmade beds, magic sounds from the hudson galaxy region past present & future (holy haunted head / guardian owl / klessa / l'hiver / red sled choir), sparkwood & 21 / the death of laura palmer, michael nyman, jackson mac low, housework, strangers, biology textbooks, whatever jailer, tom waits, living rooms, diane cluck, long greyhound bus rides, power outs, jeff mangum, bill callahan, the plague mass, gregg araki, bob flanagan / supermasochist, art terrorists everywhere, jeff burton, family portraits and old photo albums, idatel (r.i.p.), horses, jeunet & caro, brandon freels, wedding ceremonies, confusion is sex/kill yr idols, home-made museums, haircuts, nineties alternative fm radio stations, shirley collins, the films of andy warhol, friction, small towns near lakes, the moz, bruce labruce, queer theory, mental & physical illnesses, 1990, and 2012.
here's a video of us at the boat in toronto playing a song by the band klessa (featuring cheryl and kate from klessa, on clarinet and organ respectively, and keith hamilton from hamilton trading co. on saw):
semi-illiterate songs about sex and sickness and the decline of (stupid fucking) western civilization. these are sometimes sung entirely alone with only a guitar, but mostly these days they are accompanied by varying groups of instruments and singers known as the horse museum.
our album divorce lawyers i shaved my head is now available! three years in the making, the album is an epic full band recording of 14 songs that tell the story of a failed marriage between two people of confused identities and genders, complete with suicidal horses, shotguns, carnival horns, a henry darger-inspired glandolinian war, unexpected male birth, semen, haircuts, sickness, and the end of the world in 1990.
here's some stuff people have been saying:
"probably the most authentic music i've heard in ages, nasal jeff magnum-esk howlings, dizzying lyrics, the horns of jericho, a wonderful album...my ears have been pollinated this summer..."
- nocturnal weeks
"the fevered energy of the iconoclastic horse museum made me feel like i was at a group séance for the dead."
- eye weekly
"in my philistine knowledge of music, i would say that the band sounded like a cross between the epic melting pot of the arcade fire, mixed with the ambitious conceptualness of the who’s tommy, and the personal exorcism and sexual obsession of nan goldin’s photography."
- steven goetz, photographer
"that album is mind-blowing, it's absolutely brilliant... for me that is a perfect example of the sort of music i love. that just sounded live."
- the waiting room
myspace seems to be acting up, and it's not allowing us to put up paypal button links to buy it. so here are some temporary alternatives:
- send 10 + 2 shipping for canada/united states or 5 shipping for europe / elsewhere to oh_map@hotmail.com if you have paypal;
- it is available on the digital itunes store;
- order it from our distributor at this web address: http://indiepool.com/estorelayout1.asp?n=56428;
- message us and we'll figure it out?
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Thanks for the add hey guys,,,currently in top 15 n just shot my mtv music video for Dark Angel.. help me spread this widget out and add it to your profile so i can win a record deal with myspace music.. a new music flavor,,check it out..club/rock :) D'anthony Music&Love
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