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Make-Believe Machines is Rob Ogden and Justin Norman. Rob's electronica project is available here: Pretend, Pretend
Bridging the gap between pop and orchestral music, Make-Believe Machines sprang to life in early 2007 as a collaboration between between musicians
Justin Norman (composer/bass/guitar/vocals) and Rob Ogden (composer/percussion).
Having spent four years writing and performing in the pop-rock band, Cardboard Canary,
the two had grown weary of conventional song structures and instrumentation.
Implementing layered textures of electronic and acoustic sound, they draw heavily
from late 19th century romanticism, early 20th century impressionism and minimalism,
and contemporary ambient music. Their first album, Moral Calculus, was self-released
online in September 2008 through the band’s Web site.
If that wasn't enough for you, here is a detailed history:
Summer, 2007.
Our meaty bodies emerged from the haggard womb of a half-burned crow, who was fleeing from a dwarvish attack of proportions so great they cannot be accurately reproduced in words. Having been birthed into a thicket of fairies, we were carried into the woods. There we were raised in the elven glade of Witherfelmore, which is a province of Iowa. Many blue-skinned, ale-soaked festivities followed, in addition to several nights of harp-plucking. When plenty a day of training had passed, we traveled the land as two country bards, strumming away on our collection of orchestral instruments, which were stolen from Leonard Bernstein while he was boozed up in his golden bathtub, soaking in a pool of butter. (He is a foul man, but that's an entirely different story.)
We traveled the inns of the midwest after our flight from the nether-lands (not the neiderland). We had no money, and needed to eat, so we hired a young bard named Badfrode, and his friend Blackle, who brought their musical talents to bear on our ambitions. We played, made money, got famous, and wenched, but our lives were unfulfilled. Our ways parted when Badfrode and Blackle turned to the west to pursue the tyrant gobblehoblins who terrorized the city of Euniclease.
Next, we joined forces with Knight Erik of Northrupsquire, and to this day we and he sell our precious wares. Now, we are on our own again, plotting plots for years to come and battling the undead toad wardens who have arisen from the great floods of Piltribsquire.
If you like D&D, J.R.R. Tolkien, World of Warcraft, or if you simply have no social life outside of books and the Internet, you should definitely listen to this.
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