Showing posts with label Cleveland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cleveland. Show all posts

Wednesday, 18 February 2015

Little Moon and Fox Killer Q&A

Your name: 
Little Moon (Katherine Berger).

Where are you from? 
Cleveland, OH.

Name of band: 
Little Moon and Fox Killer.

Who else is in your band? 
Fox Killer (Todd Berger).

How would you describe yourselves and your music? 
FoxKiller and I are midwesterners who’ve travelled and pursued living life in polarization to the status quo. Although we are reserved, and unpretentious, we feel compelled to push ourselves out of staying comfortably quiet and just want to love others with our music. We’re willing to be transparent with our art to be candid about our life’s journey.

Fox Killer and I create experimental electronic music, of which we write, perform, produce, mix, and master ourselves. Our diverse musical preferences help us blur the lines between genres. We employ a fusion of synths, acoustic modeled loops, and traditional rock instrumentation, that gives an ambient shoe-gaze rock vibe, with driving back-beats. Our music incorporates a build up of breathy vocals and densely layered musical arrangements. It’s our goal to make these songs cinematic soundscapes that feel evocative and other worldly. We've penned these songs to inspire others to explore God and all His surreal beauty.  

Who are your main influences musically? 
Some influences are: Tycho, Massive Attack, Dj Shadow, Radiohead, Múm, Aphex Twin (85-92 Album), Björk, Billy Corgan, Sonic Youth, Beck, Sigur Rós...

What do you hope to achieve in music?    
We hope to connect with people on a deeply spiritual level and create beautiful music atmospheres that are undeniably inspired. We write thoughtful lyrics that don’t drag people down into some deep-pitted depression. We also try to create unique blends of sounds that hopefully defy the stereotypes of EDM instrumentation and worship music, to disrupt the stylistic ideals often found in both genres.

What has been the highlight of your career so far, and why? 
After the debut of our “Release the Stars, pt.1” EP, a couple people have written to us, sharing how this music has affected their perception of who God is in a very beautiful way. You know, we get that everybody is in a unique and delicate place with their perceptions of faith. But the feedback we’ve heard so far is that our music unpretentiously causes one to rethink their deep held views of faith and religion. So in all seriousness, in our minds we’ve already “made it” in this musical journey… by touching even just one man's heart.  


And what’s the moment you want to forget? 
When mixing and mastering each song, we ran outside in the dead of Cleveland winter, to repeatedly preview the tracks through our car’s sound system. It’s sort of our right of passage for each song. As you can imagine, it’s no small job for the two of us to pull off each track. We meticulously worked (and froze our asses off).

If you had to pick just one of your songs to represent your music, what would it be and why?
“This Shallow Grave” is a great representation of the contemplative nature of our music. This song was written based on my personal struggle with the spirit of the fear of death. And my victory upon realizing that when Christ rose from the dead, he disempowered the spirit of death. So I now can live every moment of life empowered, in peace, and confident that it is not fear, but the gentle Spirit of God who will come to meet me at my end. 


Where can we listen to it?


Where can we find out more about your music?
TWITTER: 
https://twitter.com/LilMoonFoxKillr
FB: https://www.facebook.com/LMATFK
WEB: http://www.littlemoonandfoxkiller.com/

Anything else you’d like to say about your music that I forgot to ask? 
We’re in the process of completing our first full-length recording, and you can get more info and future tour dates at LittleMoonandFoxKiller.com

Tuesday, 10 February 2015

The Nonsense Buffer Q&A

Your name:
The Nonsense Buffer.

Where are you from?
Born in Cleveland, OH, but mostly grew up and lived in Western Oregon and on The Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.

Who else is in your band?
Collaborations with artists from all over the world, including here in the States, the UK, Greece, Canada, Portugal and France.

How would you describe yourselves and your music?
I technically consider myself a jazz musician. I do my best to thoroughly explore music, and have no genre barriers. I've been a serious musician since I turned a teenager, and have seriously studied the electric bass and voice. I just started playing the drums seriously the last couple years. I record everything on my laptop and other cheap recording equipment. I've never recorded in a major studio and have only set foot in one once.

Who are your main influences musically?
The Beatles, Stevie Wonder, Rush, Chris Cornell's Projects, Dream Theater, Swollen Members, Sublime, Devin Townsend's Projects, The Roots, '30s & '40s Vocal Jazz and '50s & '60s instrumental jazz.

What do you hope to achieve in music?
I want to end the cloning of The Mainstream Industry Mind.

What has been the highlight of your career so far, and why?
Within the last two weeks I have recorded the greatest music of my life solo.

And what’s the moment you want to forget?
When I was not able to play music for seven years.

If you had to pick just one of your songs to represent your music, what would it be and why?
My new song Suffer Hungry. It's my greatest recorded achievement.

Where can we listen to it?


Where can we find out more about your music? 

Anything else you’d like to say about your music that I forgot to ask?
I've been on the internet since 2009. I've never paid for any kind of advanced service from the sites I use. All my exposure in from personal contact with fans and fellow artists. I'm all about being independent from the mainstream, and hope to build an honest and honorable career that fits within my belief system of how the musical art should be expressed.

Friday, 4 October 2013

Petals And Thorns Q&A

Your names:
Mia and Johnny.

Where are you from?
Cleveland, Ohio USA

Name of band:
Petals And Thorns.

Who else is in your band? 
Just the two of us.

How would you describe yourselves?
We are a dissonantly melodic electronic, rock duo. Lead by the beauty of a female voice and fuelled with poetic verses of insight through introspection and observation. All the while, the music is set to the back drop of a synthetic groove with an accompanying soundscape that ranges from haunting piano tones, sine waves, and dirty crunchy guitars.

Who are your main influences musically?
Mia: Delerium, Garbage, The Doors, Tori Amos, Julee Cruise.
Johnny: Nine Inch Nails, Type O Negative, The Birthday Massacre, Switchblade Symphony, A Perfect Circle.

What do you hope to achieve in music?
We would just like to get out of Cleveland someday.

What has been the highlight of your career so far, and why?
Shooting our own DIY, self produced video, "Habitual Ritual".

And what’s the moment you want to forget?
Paying to play out of our own pocket.

If you had to pick just one of your songs to represent your music, what would it be and why?
"Habitual Ritual"; it's the catchiest. 

Where can we listen to it?
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Where can we find out more about your music? 

Anything else you’d like to say about your band/music that I forgot to ask?
We'll be opening for "Lestat", on October 12th at Peabody's.  In addition to that, we've been putting together a podcast featuring some of our musical influences, as well as promoting some of our friends. The podcast should be available in the next couple of days. :)

Sunday, 29 September 2013

Joe Moorhead Band Q&A

Your name:
Joe Moorhead.

Where are you from?
I grew up outside of Cleveland, Ohio. Most people laugh at that, as my music is all about island living. The vibe definitely comes from the years back and forth to the Virgin Islands and not Cleveland.

Name of band:
Joe Moorhead Band.

Who else is in your band? 
The band consists of four members. Myself (Acoustic Guitar, Lead Vocals), Jonny Morrow (Lead Guitar), Tyler Lovell (Bass Guitar), and Justin Banks (Drums).

How would you describe yourselves?
The whole band is very laid back. We take the music very seriously but we really don't take ourselves too seriously. No divas in this group. Most would probably describe us as modern day hippies. 

Who are your main influences musically?
People describe our music as Jack Johnson meets Sublime. As those are two artists I personally love, the bands influences range from Ali Farka Toure to Red Hot Chili Peppers. We listen to music from all over the world and are influenced by anything new or unique to us.

What do you hope to achieve in music?
I can honestly say that if we have the opportunity to still be playing music together in years to come we have achieved everything we wanted to in music. We are living our goals and dreams right now.

What has been the highlight of your career so far, and why?
The highlight of our career so far has been being able to sustain a living as musicians. As most musicians will tell you, that is a very hard task and we feel extremely lucky to have that success.

And what’s the moment you want to forget?
We had been on the road a long time traveling through Iowa to Nebraska when our van broke down. We were in the middle of nowhere. After we got towed to the nearest mechanic we found out it was going to take at least four days for parts to come in. The show was in just a few hours so we had to borrow a car from the mechanic to drive to the nearest rental car company (over 45 miles away) to then back track, unload our trailer into the rental cars, and make it to the show. I am happy to say we have never missed a show but that was a test to our mental stability and our bodies exhaustion.  

If you had to pick just one of your songs to represent your music, what would it be and why?
It would have to be the song Bad Day off our new album, Tides Are Rising. The title of the song is almost an oxymoron. Though the lyrics talk about a bad day in the islands, to me, a bad day in the islands is better then a good day anywhere else. The song is fun, not too serious, and laid back. It encompasses the essence of what this band is all about.

Where can we listen to it? 
You can see the video for the song, "Bad Day", here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XECfOUWuoV8


Where can we find out more about your music?