WGC Current Players or people you might see on stage:
Robert Fisher (vocals, acoustic guitar), Jason Victor ( guitars), Josh Hillman (violin, viola) Tom King (drums),Yuko Murata (keyboards, grand piano), Erik Van Loo (double and electric bass), Dennis Cronin (trumpet, accordion, vocals), Robert Lloyd (mandolin, pump organ), David Michael Curry (saw, viola, guitar, trumpet and things that dont sound like you think they will ), Esther Sprikkelman (vocals), Mary Lorson (vocals), Pete Sutton (bass guitar), Erich Groat (mandolin), Drew O'Doherty (guitars), Drew Glackin (lap steel, mandolin), Nancy Delaney (drums), Sean OBrien (guitars), Kirk Swan (guitars), Simon Alpin (guitar, mandolin), Ad Frank (keyboards), Avram Gleitsman (guitars), Charles Callelo (keyboards), Mike Dank (accordion), Peter Linanne (keyboards), Chris Eckman ( guitar, keyboards), Steve Wynn (guitar, vocals) and Linda Pitmon (drums, vocals), Jackie Leven (guitar, vocals), Chris Cacavas (accordion), Paul Tasker (guitar) Iona Macdonald (vocals), Malcolm Lindsay (piano, guitar)
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"Sombre, imperious, awash with lush orchestration, gospel choirs, and poignant songs of yearning and redemption - Pilgrim Road sounds like a magisterial career high for Robert Fisher's ever mutating collective". - Allan Jones UNCUT "Fisher has a voice that has all the gravity of a Cash, a Cohen or a Cale" Uncut "The sound is epic, florid, grandiose; the mood dark; the achievement great" Time Out "WGC are reminiscent of The Band in all their gothic pomp" Mojo “While a lot of the album has a late night, soul-searching feel, there are also choir-based tracks that have an almost ethereal, spine-tingling beauty… There are diamonds of wisdom in the gravelly voice of Willard Grant Conspiracy's Robert Fisher.” –Scotland on Sunday “Is there music that's almost too beautiful, too calm, too awe-inspiring for this world? If so, you can hear it on "Pilgrim Road", Robert Fisher's masterpiece. “
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Willard Grant Conspiracy is the musical collective that surrounds songwriter Robert Fisher. With their last five records (Regard the End, Everything's Fine, Mojave, Flying Low, and 3am Sunday At Fortune Otto's) and their brand new album Let it Roll, the band has quietly gone about putting together one of the most impressive catalogs in the alt.country / post punk-folk rock genres. The records have been met with critical acclaim and have been included in many critical best-of lists.
The band has a loose configuration that allows its members to be involved as they are available, in order to support all of their musical and life interests. But make no mistake--this is ensemble playing and a real band no matter how many participants are present. Currently based in the California desert where Robert lives, musicians from Massachusetts, Arizona, New York, London, Holland, and Japan are all part of the whole depending on who can play, when the playing begins and where the tour ends. This flexible lineup along with a dedication to improvisational playing ensures that every show is truly unique.
Willard Grant Conspiracy was formed by accident in 1995 by Robert Fisher and Paul Austin, while helping fellow band member Dana Hollowell test his new home studio. Robert and Paul had played in numerous bands from 1982 forward and had developed a writing partnership that would last until 2001. Their previous efforts had all shared a singular love of strong songs and unusual musical textures, though the end result was usually something that matched intensity with volume to purvey a more visceral musical vision. Although songs and songwriting have always been the basis of their musical focus, volume, attack and more physical elements of sound were explored in the earlier bands they had together. These bands included some of the best musicians available in their adopted home of Boston. Years of playing and recording gained them critical respect and a reputation among their peers and can be considered a direct reason why so many talented musicians pull up a chair under the WGC tent these days.
With the birth of WGC, a more delicate, varied and considered sound began to unfold than before. Using a wider collection of musicians and sounds to color the music, rather than the traditional closed ranks a standard rock format allows, a newer yet no less intense version of the songs began to emerge.
The current list of folks at one time or another considered part of the WGC roster is hovering around 30. A live show may be as diverse as Robert playing solo or having as many as 14 members, or any number in between, on stage at one time. Instruments include acoustic guitar, mandolin, pump organ, violin, cello, viola, piano, trumpet, drums, bass, accordion, electric guitar, and lap steel. The sound can be as quiet and warm as 3am on a winter's morning before the last embers in the fireplace or as soulful and boisterous as a Sunday Morning Gospel service. The songs ring out with emotions born of personal experience and observation and are simultaneously universal and personal to every listener. It's the kind of music that seems to have been here forever; brought down out of the ether and channeled through the musicians onstage pure and unadulterated. It's music that has been described as causing the spirit to soar and to make the knees go weak. It's the music of real life from real people.
Hi friends, i love your music! I come from a tiny litttle valley in Norway where the sun dont shine from october till march, but im glad and enjoys your records ;O)
Hi Robert, Here are a couple shots taken at Plush. It was so nice to meet you in Tucson and Silver Thread Trio loved singing with you. I hope we can do it again. Good luck with the rest of your shows! Love, Gabrielle ....
You have been quoted in the reviews of my record, and that makes me feel so proud! Are you coming back to Italy, preferably Genoa (do you remember?) THANK YOU
ENG: 'Demo-crazia II - Live @ Radio Radicchio' (a 7 minutes video and two .wav files recorded live during a radio show called 'Demo-crazia' + cover, wallpaper and flyer) is finally available for free by clicking on the image above...
ITA: I regimi reazionari, in combutta con le multinazionali della telefonia fissa, ci avevano provato. Ma non sarà, nè oggi nè mai, un telefono staccato ad impedire al vostro affezionato Casita Nuestra di rilasciare gratuitamente materiale sovversivo via web.
Grazie all'aiuto di un manipolo di eroi e ad una connessione concessa 'in prestito', è finalmente online (GRATIS, ripetiamolo) 'DEMO-CRAZIA II - Live at Radio Radicchio'.
Come 'Let it be' dei Beatles, che non fu solo una canzone, ma anche un album, e non fu solo un album, ma anche un film (il primo reality-show della storia o quasi), anche 'Demo-crazia II' non riguarda solo le vostre orecchie ma anche i vostri occhi.
Un video di 7 minuti circa e due tracce audio (in formato . wav) che documentano l'esibizione del vostro a 'Demo-crazia', trasmissione di Radio Radicchio dedicata agli emergenti e, soprattutto, come direbbe Francesco (che conduce insieme a Nicholas), alle interviste ai migliori emergenti in rotazione su www.radioradicchio.it.
In più: una fantastica copertina ispirata a quella di 'Ortodossia II' dei CCCP, il flyer dell'evento e un wallpaper in tema...
I heard about you thonight at a friends house, he was listening to Regard the End and I imeddiatly fall in love for your music. I do hope you can return to Porto very soon, I'll be waiting for that! Wish you all the best blessings Maria
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