| Member Since | 5/23/2006 | | Band Members | Kristine Barrett (voice, piano, harmonium, violin, drums/percussion, banjo, electronics);
with
Alejandra Ortiz (voice)
Luis Maurette (drums/percussion)
Paul Scriver (bass clarinet, chanter)
Nate Wilson (voice)
Peter Fischbeck (voice)
Gene Baker (organ, voice, percussion, violin)
Eric Carlson (voice, percussion)
Tim Scott (drums/percussion, electronics, engineering)
Marielle Jakobsons (violin)
Jeff Lubow (MAX MSP; processing)
Ri Crawford (guitars) | | Influences | Hildegard Von Bingen, Sinead O'Connor, John Prine, Lightning Bolt, alan Lomax Collection: World Library of Folk and Primitive Music, Yann Tiersen Eight Ball and MJG, MF Doom, Pink Floyd (Atom Heart Mother), Soophie Nun Squad, Tem Eyos Ki, Gregg Kowalsky, Musique D'Abord: Chants de L;Eglise Milanaise (Ensemble Organum, Marcel Peres), Musique D'Abord: Chants de L'Eglise de Rome Periode Byzantine (Ensemble Organum, Marcel Peres), Musique D'Abord: Musique de la Grece Antique (Atrium Musicae de Madrid, Gregorio Paniagua), Orchestra Baobab (Pirates Choice), Bonnie Prince Billy, Lulacruza, Silver Apples, Peter Gabriel (Passion), Satie, Luis Maurette, Alejandra Ortiz, Melt Banana, Taraf de Haidouks, Bulgarian Women's Choir, Scythian art, viking ships, Minoan frescos (Thera especially), Coptic textiles, Assyrian art, mythology, clouds, hills, rivers, seas, quilts, looms, flora, fauna, old maps, jellyfish, horses, bicycles, Iowa, Caravaggio, Coppo di Marcovaldo, Giotto, Gothic architecture, domes, Charlotte Bronte, Flannery O'Connor, art in the margins of manuscripts, Tom Kalin, JRR Tolkein, Joseph Campbell, Christian Boltanski, Rothko, Rauschenberg, birds, Ireland, fossils, canoes, lilac bushes, crickets locusts and lightning bugs, fields, trains, October, apple and oak trees, Arkansas, the Buffalo River, mystics, ancient literature, Mexico, languages (etymology) | | Type of Label | Major |
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