Micah Rabwin (vocals, guitar, saw, keyboards) Sean Ogilvie (vocals, keyboards, guitar, accordion) Matt Berger (drums, percussion, glockenspiel) Brian Perez (keys, glockenspiel, lap steel, melodica, percussion, harmonies) Jeffery Boyd (bass, glockenspiel, cassette player)
Playing with us for our upcoming tour with Laura Gibson:
Andrew Zilar (bass, glockenspiel, cassette player)
Various tracks on "Hold This Ghost": Rachel Blumberg (drums), Matt Berger (drums) Doug Jenkins (cello), Emily Cox (violin), Victor Nash (Trumpet), Christina Fitzgerald (oboe), Jill Coykendall (clarinet), Alan Ames (pedal steel), Laura Gibson (sass), Adam Shearer (stage banter).
"Hold This Ghost" Mixed by Tucker Martine
Influences
Georges Méliès, Ennio Morricone, Lee Hazelwood, J.P. Gorin, Lee Hazelwood, Conlon Nancarrow, Arthur Russell, Polaroids, Emily Rose, Bruce Baillie, Musée Mécanique (the museum), Hildegaard von Bingen, succulents, Portland rain, Spherical Harmonics, Bernard Hermann, Alfred Hitchcock, Bond, James Bond, Jean Luc Godard, vacuum tubes, Michel Gondry, The Sherman Bros., Stan Brakhage, Wes Anderson, Rodgers & Hammerstein, AM Radio, Orville and Wilbur Wright, Lt. Thomas Selfridge, Gyorgy Ligeti, Igor Stravinsky, Maritime Culture, basements that tend to flood, Sellwood garage sales, friends, Romans, Country Songbirds, Max Fleischer:
Sounds Like
"Hold This Ghost is an album for those of us who revel in brooding postmodern novels – the kind that when finished leave you wondering whether to hold the book to your chest and sob or just stare at the ceiling and think. You’ll feel soothed, then uneasy. Romanced, then abandoned. But never, ever bored." -Soundcheck Magazine
“The sounds of Micah Rabwin and Sean Ogilvie’s voices howling so whisperingly through these warm and nuzzling folk songs is more than a tonic for weariness and dismay. It’s an opening up – with great vigor – the flaccid curtains hanging in front of the windows, on a morning when the sun has already got a good, but tolerable cook going on and the light it friendly in its blinding. But then it’s as if the light – this blinding and magnificent light – is in no hurry to reach your body, as if it’s taking its time to travel from the other side of the window. You can feel it getting closer and you just close those eyes back up and allow it to physically move across you. There’s a sound associated with that. Or at least now there’s a sound associated with that.” -Daytrotter
“A layered, delicate take on folk, meticulously arranged with an ear for atmosphere and texture, with surprises unfolding every moment” – XLR8R
“Elegant, expressive” – Washington Times
“Hypnotically compelling” – San Francisco Chronicle
"With their soft voices and crafty arrangements, the music is a sort of airy folk style, not too far from Nick Drake, but with a constantly shifting array of instruments... I really enjoy the feel of this record- it seems they captured perfectly what they do best."
-Larry Crane, Tape Op Magazine
"A smooth puree of the epically sweeping soundscapes of Pink Floyd and the catchier acid-indie sensibilities of the Flaming Lips."– LA City Beat
"An album for the ages" - Oregonian
” Few recent releases approach the textural and musically detailed devotion of Musée Mécanique's debut long-player, Hold This Ghost…masterfully assembled like a musical ship-in-a-bottle via thrift store instruments, castaway equipment, and just about anything else the band could get their hands on.” – Portland Mercury
We like backyard bonfires, new leaves, meeting new people all over the world, warm weather, ice storms, thunderstorms and making music together to bring to you. Thank you for listening. Your comments and encouragements are always appreciated. Look to your left for any upcoming shows. Enjoy.
Splice Today recently presented their first annual mix of original recordings of traditional folk music. On it you will find such talents like Phosporescent, Deer Tick, Wye Oak, These united States, Vandaveer and Headlights.
We recorded our version of Woody Guthrie's "I Ain't Got No Home" while traveling across this wide country - tracking in homes and studios of old and new friends we met along the way.
"...Musée Mécanique distinguish themselves from the throng by ignoring Americana influences and infusing their brand of intimate melancholia with lush arrangements and electronic underpinnings... haunted, ornate, wistful for the past, and not of its time
...It is that ability to viscerally effect an audience that make Musée Mécanique such a powerful, if unusual, folk force. Their shy yet florid debut is tinged with sadness, like a painted carousel sitting empty in winter, mourning for a time they-- or we-- never even knew."
- Rebecca Raber, January 22, 2009 Pitchfork Media
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Please visit the Musée Mécanique in San Francisco or go to their official website http://www.museemecaniquesf.com
OMG!! You're Changing Skins Video is a cartoon that was my favorite growing up! -does a double take- It so made me tear up! You guys are seriously amazing and I know your will do great things [heart]
Thank you so much for honoring us with your precious friendship.... We hope your morning is blessed with Love and that the adventures of your Life feel like a ride on the mystery train of Pure Joy.....Thanks again !!
I just wanted to say how much of a pleasure it was playing with all of you and Laura in Des Moines last night! You are all very lovely people sooooo have a safe rest of tour and I will let you know if I ever come to Portland :) love, trista gig
i totally would have gone tonight, except im home for the summer in bend! i hope it went well though, i told some friends who also like your music a lot to go, so maybe you saw them there. maybe you'll come to spokane again next year?
ohhhh, so by "tonight" i mean, monday night, and by "i hope it went well" i mean i hope it goes well. :) not sure why i thought last night was monday night.
thanks for the add! i missed you guys when you came up and played at whitworth u. in spokane, but youre one of my favorite bands. i think my favorite song is things that i know. i really like your instrumentation too. its inspiring for my own music :)
I've been so sad since you took Friends like Us off your playlist! I can't listen to it :( Will you please add it again? I promise to buy the cd as soon as I get paid (: I love you guys!! <3
Hello, thank you for adding me to your Myspace circle of friends. Great ensemble work on your song samples. You have a very unique sound that is very pleasurable. Have fun on your tour. -John
