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Released: Jan 1, 2006
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"The Bird & The Bear EP" is now available at ..BandCamp.

Brooklyn Country Music Fest


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Bio:

There are a lot of us. Like thirty. We play with groups of up to twenty people, mostly just groups of seven to thirteen. We sound like an idea. Below are some descriptions of things we might remind you of while you are listening to us. Our records are good, our live show is also good - we know how to have fun.

Descriptive words: sunset through your backyard windows, the labels on good whisky bottles, potion laboratories filled with vials and strangely shaped bottles in an old book or black and white film, a street musician on some Southern Street before there was radio on a Saturday afternoon with the too hot sun, kids and everyone gathered around - singing louder than the other musicians vying for a crowd. The great depression, dustbowl, aviator sunglasses,american sedans of the 1950's european race cars of the early 1960's,fracas, anarchy and a conversation with Marcel Duchamps, a Slayer show, a Fugazi show, people dancing slow and quiet, all stories written on paper by Flann O'Brien, riding horses at sunup, the TV Show Carnivale, the TV Show Deadwood, the TV Show Twin Peaks, laughter with large groups of people, spencer tunic photographs, laughing at ones body, the fog one feels on the heels of a four day bender, too much gin without the vomiting. limes, fresh cut flowers, smoking weed, driving too fast, grade school yard fights, thinking that you're understanding what's what when the sun goes down.

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Members:

Osei Essed (Voice, Guitar, Banjo, Banjo-Mandolin) - Cicero Jones (Organ, French Horn, Rhodes, Voice) - Andrew Platt (Upright Bass) - Phil Sterk (Pedal Steel) - Mike Irwin (Trumpet) - Kevin Russell (Clarinet, Saxophone) - Jack Dawson (Fiddle) - Aaron Shafer-Haiss (Drums) and some more folks too...

General Info

  • Genre: Blues / Country / Experimental

    Location Brooklyn, New York, Un

    Profile Views: 174447

    Last Login: 9/1/2011

    Member Since 2/17/2005

    Website thewoes.bandcamp.com

    Record Label none

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    There are a lot of us. Like thirty. We play with groups of up to twenty people, mostly just groups of six to thirteen. Our sound is an idea. Below are some descriptions of things we can't help but to know when listening to music. Descriptive words: Dancing is a memory activity, electric spasm memory activity as in a dream. Somehow everyone sings a singing indistinct from a from a shout - a shout not trying to give as good as it gets, but serve as a reminder that it bursts from shared lung and lip. Images that we retain: sunset through your backyard windows and some twisted vine or tree that bloomed, vials in a worn wooden case along the wall, bottles in shapes whose utility comes into question, but not their grace, a minute scrawl on yellowed pages, a young man on some diamond lighted humid afternoon, begging with his thin guitar and sainted voice, kids and everyone gathered around - whisky burning harder than hunger. Laughing at ones body, the fog one feels on the heels of a four day bender, too much gin without the vomiting. limes, fresh cut flowers, smoking weed, driving too fast, grade school yard fights, thinking that you're understanding what's what when the sun goes down. In fact we will play music for you everywhere. We will do so as well as well can and try to do it better than that. Then we'l try to do it better at the next show. We'll make sure we sweat even if its winter.
  • Members

    Osei Essed (Voice, Guitar, Banjo, Banjo-Mandolin) - Cicero Jones (Organ, French Horn, Rhodes, Voice) - Andrew Platt (Upright Bass) - Philip Sterk (Pedal Steel) - Mike Irwin (Trumpet) - Kevin Russell (Clarinet, Saxophone) - Jack Dawson (Fiddle) - Aaron Shafer-Haiss (Drums)
  • Influences

    All things that sound.
  • Sounds Like

    The sound of several things sounding at times simultaneously, at times individually, at other times in small groups.

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