Crowmeat Bob -- Alto Sax, Bass Clarinet, Guitar, Bari Sax;
Mike Isenberg -- Drums, Keys, Guitar;
Chris Eubank -- Cello, Bass Guitar;
Joey Chorley -- Bass Guitar, Trumpet;
Brian Donohoe -- Moog, Percussion, Drums.
Influences
Eric Dolphy, Olivier Messiaen, Teddy Bunn, Sun Ra, Lonnie Johnson, Charles Parker, Captain Beefheart, Mississippi Sheiks, John Coltrane, Mulatu Astatqe, Led Zeppelin, John Zorn, Marc Ribot, Ike Turner, Slayer, The Meters, Ken Vandermark, Charley Patton, Mats Gustafsson, The Melvins, The Groundhogs, Joe Morris, Sly and the Family Stone, Otomo Yoshihide, Ornette Coleman, Sonic Youth, James "Blood" Ulmer, the Secret Museum of Mankind (Shanachie), Charles Mingus, Blue Cheer, James Chance, Anton Webern, ESP Records, Frank Gratkowski, The Stooges, Albert Ayler, Haino Keiji, John Butcher, Boris, Kaija Saariaho, Sonny Rollins, US Maple, Muddy Waters, DNA, Fela Kuti, Dexter Romweber, Can, Erik Satie, Derek Bailey, Miles Davis, Roy Smeck, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Bela Bartok, Bob Dunn, Booker T & the MGs.
Sounds Like
A '33 Oldsmobile with Sonny Sharrock under the hood.
We make instrumental music with strange intensity.
Mike Isenberg (drums/keys/guitar) and Crowmeat Bob (reeds/guitar) are our primary composers.
Our current line-up: Chris Eubank (cello/electric bass), Joey Chorley (electric bass/trumpet), and Brian Donohoe (Moog/percussion/drums).
We've got two CDR "albums": the most recent is a collection of stuff Jennifer Thomas recorded live in our little practice space ("The Martian Demos"), something of which you are probably listening to right now. Then there's the collection from a spell back with our former line-up (Phil Martelli on bass, Jon Hubbard on tenor sax, with guests Carrie Shull on english horn/oboe, Julian Sparacino on tenor sax/flute, and Peter Lamb on tenor sax) called "Solo Basura," a name suggested by our recording engineer for that session, Christopher Thurston.
Our music varies stylistically from straight chord-change jazz to heavy-metal-jazz to Ornette-like head-improv-head to obsessive krautrock rhythms to whatever else we feel like...
