Original Misha:
Ash - Edit, programming, tambourines, edits some more
John - bangs ..s, strings, and everything listens to Ash
SuperMisha:
+ Alisha - vocals, guitar, tambourine
+ Ed - bass
+ Evan - drums, percussion
+ Jonathan - vocals, bass, guitar, keyboard, samples
+ Mallory - vocals, keyboard
FormerMisha:
Nunu & Andrew - plucks, draws, lines, boxes, makes, things
Influences
George Martin, Dwight Yoakum, Lyle Lovett, Andres Levin, Burt Bacharach, Juan Atkins, Tujiko Noriko, Matthew Herbert, Neu, Kraftwerk, Jayhawks, Harry Nilsson, Sutekh, Crowded House, Bill Frisell, Joe Henry, Van Dyke Parks, Sam Phillips, Bjork, Johnny Hartman, Raphael Saadiq, Sarah Vaughn, Marisa Monte, Arto Lindsay, Jeff Buckley, Nina Simone, Billy Strayhorn, Curtis Mayfield, Luciano Berio, Beatles, Timbaland, Wallace Roney, Little Jimmy Scott, Solomon Burke, Ron Sexsmith, Brenda Holloway, Mitchell Froom, Tchad Blake, Daft Punk, Caetano Veloso, Carlinhos Brown, Jon Brion, Astor Piazzolla, Alban Berg, The Mavericks, SRV, Kishore Kumar, R D Burman, and a bunch of other stuff for music Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Wong Kar Wai, Stephen Frears, Shinji Aoyama, Katsuhito Ishii, Bernardo Bertolucci, Sergei Parajanov, Andrei Tarkovsky, Alfonso Cuaron, Robert Altman, Anh Hung Tran, Steven Spielberg, Buster Keaton, Rene Clair, and a bunch of other stuff for film
JLBorges, George Herriman, Haruki Murakami, Mark Halpern, Richard Powers, Y Kawabata, Jose Saramago, Matsumoto, Kazuo Ishiguro, Pico Iyer, VSNaipaul, Maurice Sendak, GK Chesterton, Conan Doyle, Anne Carson, Wallace Stevens, and others for books and things to read
Sounds Like
A lot of pop and Brill building. And then a little dirt. And faith that there's something underneath it all.
Ash lives in NYC and works as a living mannequin. Ash likes to dance dance revolution. Nunu and Andrew are in Texas doing architectstuff; Nunu designed our first logo and demo album boxes, and Andrew is our sarcastic mascot. John travels, wears a suit, and sells his soul to buy music equipment and videogames. Ivan is our former member-at-large in Tokyo and Taiwan, we think he's a drawer/modeler but we're really not sure.
We make pop music that comes from our many influences--music that is pop but like furniture too and buildings and cities, especially cities. We hope you like some of it, if not all of it. And if you don't like any of it, well, hopefully you don't hate it. And if you hate it, well, there's no pleasing everyone. And if everyone hates it, well, at least we all still have dayjobs for now.
We have an album out called "Teardrop Sweetheart" on Tomlab, and it's sad happy. Mense Reents produced it. (He's amazing.) And his friends helped. (They are awesome too.)
If you'd like to be our friend, send us a message and tell us something!
When you guys comin' to the east coast of Canada? It's not far from NY annnnnnddddd it's beautiful in the summer. Come play in the Maritimes (ie Fredericton, NB; Moncton, NB; Halifax, NS)!
if you do it while listening to teardrop sweetheart i find it applies an electrifying feeling to the body. compensates for city pollution and the weariness of country life, prolongs your life. it 0wns you
