Joshua Chalifour, Mike Keigher, Ian Lanphier, Jessica Momb, Chris Peterson, Derek Sakakura, Sean Gardner, Andrew Ehrhardt, Juanita,
Influences
Billie Holiday, Einstürzende Neubauten, Sun Ra, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Miles Davis, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Édouard Lalo, Boredoms, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Dead Can Dance, Tom Waits, Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli, PJ Harvey, Lounge Lizards, Omoide Hatoba, Juan García Esquivel, Krzysztof Penderecki, The Birthday Party, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Dirty Three, Charlie Patton, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Nick Drake
Sounds Like
Human passion communicated in the musical enthusiasm of improvisational wind, which breaths synchronized bloody lime jewels and yawps at the sustenance fountain of melodicated post surreal recollection exposure. AKA: intoxicated people smashing junk.
UnKindness Of Ravens (UKOR) was formed in 1991 as an experiment with unconventional sound construction. While the large and often changing ensemble uses some traditional instrumentation, the bulk of its sound comes from self-constructed instruments -- often created much like its music, in surreal automatic style shifting as the course of play dictates. While it may most appropriately be grouped with Noise music or Musique concrète, the ensemble sometimes describes itself as "musical scribble." This term comes from its method of recording and composing. UnKindness Of Ravens always records its music first and composes its songs second. Michael Keigher and Joshua Chalifour treat the recordings as sound palettes for composing the albums.
