Live Band!
Steve Dunleavy - Saxaphone
Jon Briggs - Bass
The Attic Bat - Drums
Influences
The Flaming Lips, The Rustic Overtones, The Strokes, Apollo Sunshine, The Moldy Peaches, Mates of State, The Cardigans, Radiohead, Donovan, Os Mutantes, Nirvana, Gruvis Malt, Dinosaur Jr, The Jackson 5, The Beach Boys, Daniel Johnston, The Shaggs, Nick Drake, The Butthole Surfers, John Frusciante, The Velvet Underground, Beck, Flo Rida.
Sounds Like
Nostalgic evenings and note book art pieces done in crayon AND paint.
"Katy" by Murkadee, directed by John Herman, shot in Tokyo, Japan and Newmarket, NH
Buy our new album Eppology here!
For booking information E-Mail kennethhope@comcast.net
We absolutely adore all of you.
Buy our cds at CD Baby or message us for details on how to mail order it straight from us.
It is also available at select Bull Moose for a reduced price, so get out there and get it!
Imagine a young boy and a young girl meeting each other in a small town’s elementary school, a bout of name calling sparks an instant dislike between the two and friction that would not cool for years afterward. Fast forward to the present day, and you have Murkadee: the most eclectic indie pop rock band in the center of the universe; Epping, New Hampshire. DeLaine Bennett (vocals and clarinet) and Joseph K Murphy (guitar, vocals, keyboards) may not have always liked each other, but the effects of a small town
environment combined with their special relationship built on a mutual fascination with sound has inspired an intimate blend of raw emotion and calculated musical arrangement. Murkádee is real people, creating quirky pop for the human heart.
Following a 2 year stint with the saxophone driven rock band Pink Lemonade, Murphy and Bennett sought to record a textural genre-crossing album without having to rely on musicians with different goals. After 3 months of intense experimentation and endless schoolyard plugging, Chain Jing Mines was released. Featuring 13 very odd tracks of melodic hooks tangled in tense, effect ridden arrangements, Chain Jing Mines wowed the community. The eyes of local artists began to open…
Murkadee soon started work on their next album, From A Spectral View. This more focused disc showed immense growth in sound production, performance, and song writing. With the help of several guest musicians including drummer, guitarist and singer Patrick Boutwell (of Providence, Rhode Island’s The Brother Kite) and multi instrumentalist Jon Briggs (Chewy, Chris Merenda) Murphy and Bennett sculpted a unique, honest sound. Tracks like Vodka and Alert show a rougher edge to their unbearable pop, while Pillow pushes the imagination into a mighty wall of sound.
The future has no boundaries for the duo. Between playing shows around the New England area and producing their own weekly web talk show: “Show and Tell with Amos Clapp” Murphy and Bennett are constantly busy dreaming up new ways to entertain their audience. Expect the unexpected with Murkadee.
"Palindromic rhythms blended sweetly with sugary female vocals, clarinet, and instruments that seem like they were found in a children’s playground comprise this compelling opus called “From a Spectral View”. Speaking of playgrounds and children, “Pillow” is a song sung from the viewpoint of a kid’s imagination. Quirky indie pop that skips off the bleak arrangements and topics that many groups are awash in. Intriguing music from New Hampshire that has you scratching your head as you nod it along to the beat." -Smother Magazine, Editor's Pick
"I haven't heard sincerity like this since (Athens, GA band) Neutral
Milk Hotel. For the first time in a long time, there is a band that
deserves to be heard. I seriously love Murkádee."- John Herman, News
Writer for Pitchfork Media
"...The band's sophomore effort, they play sprawling, sometimes epic, ramshackle pop full of genuine quirks...I give them big ups for being true originals..." - Copacetic Zine (http://www.copacetic-zine.com)
“Murkadee takes sound and distorts it in ways that is undeniably bizarre, but aesthetically pleasing as well"From a Spectral View" is a musical circus fit for family consumption, with plenty of melodic hooks surrounded by stellar instrumentation that assuredly will take more than a few listens to get your head around.”- Chris Hislop, Spotlight Entertainment
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Murkádee’s LAST show is MAY 29th's Friend Space (Top 12)
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Sorry I missed last night's online thing; had a gig, but I'm glad it was a success. Got your CD's. You'll be getting airplay at WSCA. eXtreme helen WSCA 106.1 FM Portsmouth, NH
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