Member Since: 4/6/2005
Band Website: benonono.com
Band Members:
Influences: my gene pool, friendships, folklore, the sun, dogsville, travelling, jorge ben, burt bacharach, chopin, bob dylan, scriabin, scritti pollitti, grace jones, sade, nina simone, phillip, the jungle book, daft punk, bird flu, gotan project, ennio morricone, moloko, pomegranates, kruder and dorfmeister, the village headmaster, melancholic moods, hugh masakela, the voices in my head, caetano veloso, fela, zero 7. his dark materials, rachmaninoff, joni mitchell, suzanne vega, mitzfa the roundhouse dog, south park, gil scott heron, beck, bach, the life of pi, anything with a good melody/good lyric :)
Sounds Like: "maybe a big city, overgrown with weeds, but flowering weeds. on every corner a wrecking crew and something new and crooked going up. windows missing in every edifice like broken teeth, and a gray high sky full of ravens....prophet birds.... piles of trash and broken bottles that are strangely beautiful likes rubies and obsidian, and diamond-colored cowspit streamers in the wind.... and voting booths.... and everyone in balenciaga gowns with red corsages, a big dance palace full of music and lights and racial impurity and gender confusion. ....a place where all the gods are creole... mulatto... brown as the mouths of rivers. ..a place where finally race, taste and history are finally overcome..." -belize describes heaven in 'angels in america'
Record Label: Jos Records
Type of Label: Indie