Member Since: 9/5/2006
Band Members:
FELIX ROMAN =Voice, keyboards, Programming
JOSE ROMAN =Voices, Keyboard, Programming, Drums
NICK PHANEUF =Live Guitar and sound manipulation
Influences: David Sylvian, Hector Zazou, Bugge Beseltoff, Bjork, FEIST, Air, David Byrne, Arkestra One, Matt Elliott, Perry Blake, Montgolfier Brothers, Gustavo Cerati, Soda Stereo, Massive Attack, Tori Amos, Portishead, Beth Gibbons, Radiohead, Benjamin Biolay, Queen, The Beatles, Porcupine Tree, Marillion, Yann Tiersen, Françoiz Breut, Antony and the Johnsons, Tom Waits, Tinderstick, Mercury Rev, Mars Volta, Leonard Cohen, Jeff Buckley, Duncan Sheik, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds...
Sounds Like: There is a tension in the Roman(us) mix of nature, passion, artifice and awe that allows the listener pick a new path to explore from spin to spin. There is ambience with a pulse through love songs sung in an unnatural forest that is less a place that a context. This plugged-in dreamscape invokes reverie without going dreamy. It is a sensual environment, perhaps built on the natural math of the Fibonacci numbers, peopled with lovers, trucks, and trees. The re is flesh and blood, fiber, chlorophyll in the thick of circuitry and imagination. There's a contemplative distance from the day to day that gives deeper meaning to the longing for human contact. Comparisons fail here where David Sylvian might be at home, among a fair crowd of dissimilar voices including Tim Buckley, Deep Forest, Secret Stealth, Brian Eno, Enigma, Gato Barbrieri and a towering pine.
Billy Sheehan , Malibu Arts reviews, CA
"the end result comes closer to serving as the score to a very surreal dream than an actual world music album. Think Massive Attack meets Jeff Buckley and maybe you will come close."
Manny Hernandez, BlogCritics Magazine
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"..From the opening drizzles of keyboard notes, the album evokes an illustrative haze of introspection. Each instrumental part contributes to an enveloping resonance, and lush vocals drift through the turgid stratosphere of sound."
Matt Kanner, THE WIRE, July 18th 2007
Type of Label: None