RAVEL
R&B / Country / Indie
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"Japanese Jew Boy!!!"
Kyoto-Miami, Miyagi
Japan
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| Member Since | 11/21/2005 | | Band Members | ravelstein's Lineup:
Belinda Ho - Sexy Asian Violin
Whitey Herzog - Percussion & Suitcase
Russell Mofsky -Guitar fixins,backing Vocals and fellow Jewboy Brethren
MALCOM XXX - Upright Bass and backing Vocals
Ravelstein - The Soul and the Rhythm
lisa-cello and back ups
gerry-cello and music knowledge
| | Influences | Ray Charles,John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Niel Diamond, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Johnny Cash, ELVIS, Curtis Mayfiled, Barry White,Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, Quincy Jones, Dr. Dre & Snoop Dogg, RAT BASTARD, Tom Smith(to live in shave in La), Bill Orcutt, Dan Hosker, Hank Williams ,Willie Nelson, My Bloody Valentine.............. | | Sounds Like | Kokoro Soul!!!!
| | Record Label | Organic South | | Type of Label | Indie |
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| About RAVEL |
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Imagine a man........ the youngest son of Japanese
Jewish immigrants. Ravelstein is full of jokes, one-liners, and Catskill comedian
gags which capture a distinctly first-generation Japanese Jewish American voice, wit, neuroses, manners, affectations, cultural collisions, and intellectual passions. Ravel is elegant and uproariously fragile/dysfunctional. Tender, risqué, intellectually stimulating, full of brilliant and
often wicked conversation. Ravel encompasses everything from the sublime
to the vaudevillian. Ravelstein, a declared Platonist, believes that the highest purpose
of friendship is the formation of an artistic community of potential Truth seekers who
are also searching for relationship with their souls or true halves. Ravelstein gets his erotic teachings from Aristophanes and Socrates, and his moral vision from the Bible. Therefore, he affirms His KOKORO SOUL to assume responsibility for the fact that he is a Japanese Jew still living in America and to keep on trucking into the increasing storm of his career. Ravelstein songs has been called a biographical harmony, a eulogy, a memoir, a threnody, a roman à clef, the chronicle of Love, a valediction, a Kaddish, a Zen koan, and an autoethnography.
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