Member Since: 04/05/2007
Band Website: www.shawntrail.com
Band Members: DEVELOPMENT is the artist output of electro-acoustic percussionist/producer shawn trail. An ongoing and ever evolving entity, it's only retensive, intrinsic qualities are propulsive cyclical rhythm and swirling, textural melodies...at times mediative and others apocolypic- often experimental and forward thinking while holding close to organic and improvisatory
ancient systems of music that utilize these elements to unify society and seek a higher state of collective consciousness...typically accompanied by surrealistic, abstract immersive video, washing the space in saturated flickering light providing a hypnotic, trance inducing sensory experience.
shawn trail (music direction, marimba, percussion, electronics, xylosynth)
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Tyler Trotter (quad-soundsystem, synth, guitar, 303, melodica, dubs)
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LEMUR (robots)
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Tony Barba (sax, flute, electronics, percussion)
Tom Cason (bass, synth)
John Cason (sounds, video)
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Adam Scott (granular synthesis, guitar)
Phil Moffa (bass, process)
Peter Dennenberg (kraut-guitar)
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Mark Campbell (drums)
Basil Bromley (ebass)
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Noah Jarrett (upright bass)
Brook Martinez (percussion)
Dave Treut (drums)
Mike Gamble (guitar, cello)
John Savage (alto sax, flute, digeridoo)
Jesse Neumann (trumpet, electronics)
Yorel Lashley (congas, djembe, percussion)
Kevin Nathaniel Hylton (Mbira, Kalimba, Shakere)
Dende (afro-brazilian percussion, berimbau)
Rob Jost (ebass)
Tao Seeger (ebanjo)
Influences:
Sounds Like: "DEVELOPMENT...deeply grooving jazz/post rock - kind of like Jah Wobble meets Tortoise." Ben Neill
"If you were to ask me what disbanded Louisville band I wish I could’ve seen more of, I would probably answer The Children. They were, to my knowledge, one of the best instrumental reggae bands of the new millennia. They sounded like London post-punks, but layered with dubby rhythms and far-out sounds. My second choice would be Strike City, another instrumental band, but this one was emphatically a rock band: grand, abstract and occasionally cacophonous. In a just world, everybody would’ve heard of both of these groups. That explains my excitement about Development, an improvisational (and ever-changing) band that currently boasts the percussionists from Strike City and the bassist and guitarist from The Children. They play at the Pink Door on Sunday, so expect beautiful cosmic grooves. Opening the show will be “Special Treatment,†an abstract film by Jim Nastics. It features music by a member of Development, Shawn Trail." —Alan Abbott, LEO Magazine
Record Label: ISIS SOUND
Type of Label: Indie