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Pigeon Force

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Released: Jan 1, 2010

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Pigeon Force
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No Spark, No Fire
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Bhabha
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Cloud Collision
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Cobra Movement
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General Info

Genre: Experimental / Rock
Location OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma, Un
Profile Views: 206001
Last Login: 3/17/2012
Member Since 2/27/2006
Website www.thenonband.com
Record Label None
Type of Label Unsigned
Bio
The Non is a dynamic, experimental, instrumental rock band from Oklahoma City that engages audiences with intricate musicianship, high energy, and ethereal soundscapes. Drawing sonic cues from disparate influences such as Radiohead, Octopus Project and Grizzly Bear, The Non incorporates chaotic, dissonant guitars against sweeping, intricate melodies complemented with tight, syncopated grooves by drums and bass. John Estus of NewsOK describes The Non as "one of the state's top creative entities of any kind." Following up the success of their debut album, "Paper City" (2007), The Non recently released their sophomore album "Tadaima" with two consecutive sold-out shows. Their new album is a compositional shape-shifter that merges loud and chaotic elements with soothingly transcendent motifs. EarsMadeReady described Tadaima's sound as "spacious and full, given to eruptive bursts of shimmering layers of washed out guitar lines." After selling out OKC Resound where they played with a 15-piece orchestra, The Non played to a fully packed Sooner Theater--over 550 people--as a headliner at this year's Norman Music Festival with a 25-piece orchestra. The uproar of fans unable to attend helped cause Oklahoma newspapers such as such Norman's OU Daily and Stillwater's O'Colly to call The Non "Most Likely To Succeed" and "Oklahoma's most important band," respectively. The Non recently completed a summer tour of the midwest and west coast in promotion of their new record. The band can be contacted via email at thenonband@hotmail.com, and more information is available at www.facebook.com/thenonband, www.twitter.com/thenonband and www.thenonband.com.
Members
Tom Bishop, Mack Hawkins, Wil Norton, Zach Zeller
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Rock, Experimental, Instrumental "Oklahoma's most important band." -Nathan Poppe, OSU "On" "The Non's orchestrated melodies are made for music festivals." -Josha Boydston, The Oklahoma Daily "a schizophrenic display of adept instrument manipulation, intriguing song writing, and a penchant for ripping bass lines... consistently powerful. Tadaima has the potential to please not just post-rock fans, but jam band fans, 90's alt rock fans, reggae fans, opera fans, and so on. It is truly a sign of quality." -Greg Norte, TheSilentBallet.com "I began to feel myself transported. Around halfway through, I had tears in my eyes. Never before have I experienced a performance as powerful as this . . . If you can accept a description laden with such blatantly religious undertones, this performance seemed to literally open up the space between Heaven and Earth." -EarsMadeReady .. .. "The hallmarks of the mid-'90s instrumental genre live on with Tadaima, the self-released sophomore offering from Oklahoma City's the Non: elastic song structures, shimmering textures, angular crescendos and hopped-up rhythmic adventures. If Chicago forbearer Tortoise is the tortoise, this band is the hare." -The Gambit, New Orleans, LA

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.. The Non is a dynamic, experimental, instrumental rock band from Oklahoma City that engages audiences with intricate musicianship, high energy, and ethereal soundscapes. Drawing sonic cues from disparate influences such as Radiohead, Octopus Project and Grizzly Bear, The Non incorporates chaotic, dissonant guitars against sweeping, intricate melodies complemented with tight, syncopated grooves by drums and bass. John Estus of NewsOK describes The Non as "one of the state's top creative entities of any kind."

Following up the success of their debut album, "Paper City" (2007), The Non recently released their sophomore album "Tadaima" with two consecutive sold-out shows. Their new album is a compositional shape-shifter that merges loud and chaotic elements with soothingly transcendent motifs. EarsMadeReady described Tadaima's sound as "spacious and full, given to eruptive bursts of shimmering layers of washed out guitar lines." After selling out OKC Resound where they played with a 15-piece orchestra, The Non played to a fully packed Sooner Theater--over 550 people--as a headliner at this year's Norman Music Festival with a 25-piece orchestra. The uproar of fans unable to attend helped cause Oklahoma newspapers such as such Norman's OU Daily and Stillwater's O'Colly to call The Non "Most Likely To Succeed" and "Oklahoma's most important band," respectively.

The Non recently completed a summer tour of the midwest and west coast in promotion of their new record. The band can be contacted via email at thenonband@hotmail.com, and more information is available at www.facebook.com/thenonband, www.twitter.com/thenonband and www.thenonband.com.

The Non + Cloud Collision Orchestra at Norman Music Festival:

The Non playing "Pigeon Force" at the "Tadaima" CD Release Party:

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"Tadaima" - Released January 2010