Raky Sastri,
Josh Arnoudse,
Gideon Irving
(with Heather Christian and Julia Read)
Etkilendikleri
those things you thought you'd forgotten, you did forget, you remembered, you reforgot, you reremembered, forgetting you'd forgotten, and forgot anew, forgetting you'd remembered!
No Eye Contact was born as the private recording project of singer/multi-instrumentalist Raky Sastri.
After moving to New York ten winters ago and gigging consistently as a drummer in several bands, Sastri began recording songs under the moniker in 2004, releasing one EP.
Over the years the project grew, in fits and starts, until it could no longer be contained by bedrooms, cassettes, and laptop computers. Now a trio (and occasional quintet), the group released its full-length debut “You and Me and Other Fables” in June of 2009 and began hauling its strange menagerie of half-broken folk instruments and cheap distortion pedals to music halls, campuses, and environmental education centers across the Northeastern United States.
hey brother dear ~ miss you, love you, see you sometime, i should be coming to new york in mid-may. & i'm playing '2 Shot' at a solo gig this thursday, & how do you feel about Jaggery covering 'pivot & swivel'? love, mali
check us out, YOU CAN DOWNLOAD OUR MUSIC FOR FREE @ www.coffeebreakjams.com & hear podcasts. T.N.C’s also full time members of Blue Man Group Band. We’re down for sharing gigs too, email if you’re interested
The Lionheart from Relix Magazine sample
“Time bends and you blast past planets, stars, solar systems, to arrive in a thrilling, exotic place you’ve never been before. The New Cartographers take you on the same kind of wild ride, exploring brave new musical worlds and bending concepts like looping and melody to their own virtuosic ways. McSurely and drummer Michael Petrucci map out fresh territory, using rock improvisation and textural sonics to define a terrain rich in sweeping beauty, daring in scope, and bristling with creative energy. Recording in Roslindale, Massachusetts’ Big Big Studios with an analog tape machine, vintage plate and spring reverbs, a sampler, and a handful of stomp boxes, they create what McSurely playfully calls “retro sounds of the future. ” – Ted Drozdowski (review excerpt)
raky: i guess i missed your performance last weekend? i'm sorry i didn't know about it, i would have loved to come! what is going on in your life? brianne
hey raky! beautiful new images, what a great surprise! i knew you'd come around to the myspace world one of these days ... miss you, & can't wait to see you one of these months. i got your stuff safely to lexington.
