Andy Garcia: Guitars, Bass, Banjo, Mandolin, Piano, Keyboards
Danny Garcia: Drums, Glockenspiel, Vocals
Joel Parker: Bass
Influences
Bob Dylan, Damien Jurado, Denison Witmer, The Innocence Mission, Neil Young, Neutral Milk Hotel, Wilco, Sufjan Stevens, Danielson, Belle and Sebastian, Camera Obscura, Stereolab, The Decemberists, Songs: Ohia, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, The Mountain Goats, Joanna Newsom, John Fahey, M. Ward, The Pixies, Low, Great Lake Swimmers, Frank Black, etc.
Sounds Like
Heartbreaking lyrics articulated to carefully-crafted pop melodies over brushed and banged drums, with banjo, glockenspiel and guitars that range from folk-style finger-picking to overdriven noise.
C.S. Lewis described a feeling he called "the northernness” as “a vision of huge, clear spaces hanging above the Atlantic in the endless twilight of northern summer; remoteness, severity…” It was a longing for something so unattainable that the desire, sadly, became an end in itself. Later in life, Lewis came to believe that this “northernness” he had experienced was a taste of something so perfect and complete that it would never be fully realized in this lifetime.
After graduating from art school at Florida State University in 2003, Ben Hofer moved home to Gainesville, Florida. Scrapping all his old paintings and songs, and now armed with a four-track cassette recorder, two guitars and two cheap microphones, he began writing songs with a focus and intensity he had never known before. Inevitably the songs began to call for other musicians, and soon the band was formed out of a crew of friends and family members. The band has gone through many changes, with members including Greg Willson of the Orlando-based band the OaKs, but the current lineup is Ben Hofer, founding member and drummer Danny Garcia, guitarist Andy Garcia (member of the band for two years), and founding member and bass player Joel Parker.
The hope is that, like Lewis’s “northernness,” these songs are not the end in themselves, but signposts on the way to something greater.
hey ben, just wanted to tell you i don't think i'm going to to far from the ville until the fall, so i approve of a summer show! -keep me posted! lol also, i have some videos to post of last time at satchels. hope all well!
thanks a lot, man. it's just been chaos down here. how was the rest of the night? i was kicking myself all the way back home.... just means we have to do it again that much sooner, don't you think?
Hey thanks for checking out my new music site. Things are going well, just finished up the semester, so only one more year left. Hopefully this summer I will get more time to record. How is DC? You doing any music at the moment?
