Jay Beck, Meko Freeman, Dan Gauthier, Joshua Grace, Michael Heneghan, Weegie Kealey, Brittney Lewis, John Mallinen, Sarah Mueller, Jon Olshefski, Derek Schauer, Jonny Szczesniak, Ben Volta, ?
Influences
whispersinthestorm.com.......alhaji k. frimpong, Babatunde Olatunji, cerberus shoal, kodo, mamady keita, ladysmith black mambazo, mogwai, mos def, native american sacred music, neurosis, the roots, steven r. smith, thee silver mt. zion memorial orchestra and tra la la band, tinariwen, yo la tengo
Sounds Like
sparce melodies from the droning guitarmy following the found instrument percussionary rhythm of the songs of exodus. Everybody sings.
kilimanjaro has been a slowly developing project of a couple psalters in Philadelphia since 2006. It began as an idea to provide live soundtracks for Jon O's photo essays called Whispers In the Storm about the disenfranchised in Philly, hopefully to throw parties where all our different groups of friends would get together to eat, hear stories, and rock out. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>now we're hoping to have separate mixes for the full 6min cuts of the story, and use shorter clips live accompanied by various music, video art, collaborative installation pieces, and perhaps even the presence of neo griots to help the stories be heard, and lead us to be moved and to become movers.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
play this slide show when the profile song starts.
any chance the next meeting type of thing can be an all out drum circle/jam with no one complaining about it...kind of a 'you-showed-up-and-want-to-do-this-so-let's-just-get-into-some-sort-of-a-groove-with-each-other-and-if-you-want-to-chill-and-not-do-anything-for-a-few-minutes-that's-totally-cool' type of thing? and no, i'm not kidding.
