Member Since: 6/10/2004
Band Website: musaics.com
Band Members:
JEREMY SOLE
-MPC/Guitar/Turntables/Rhodes/
Percussion/production/arrangement.
ocassional members of the Musaics sound system:
SHEILA GOVINDARAJAN
-Vox (Sahaja Uprockers)
REED MATHIS
-Bass (Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey)
BRIAN HAAS
-Rhodes/Melodica (Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey)
JASON SMART
-Drums, Percussion (Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey)
DAN UBICK
-Guitar, Engineer, Bass.. (Connie Price & The Keystones)
NAJITE
-Percussion (Fela Kuti)
RONNIE McQUEEN
-Bass (Steel Pulse)
TODD SIMON
-Trumpet (Antibalas,Macy Gray,Connie Price & the Keystones..)
Influences:
God in all forms and formlessness, Robert Nesta Marley, Fela Kuti, Madlib, Prefuse73, Cymande, Sly Stone, Antibalas, King Tubby, Quantic, DJ Shadow, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Wonder, Funkadelic, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Rjd2, Sa Ra Creative Partners, Roy Ayers, Ammoncontact, Babatunde Olatunji, John & Alice Coltrane, Cut Chemist, J.Boogie (and his Dubtronic Science), Up Bustle n' Out, Buck 65, Leon Parker, Common, Taj Mahal, the JBs, HiTek, Marvin Gaye, Boards of Canada, DJ Krush, Sean Layton, 5 Style/Isotope217/Tortoise, Blackalicious, Build An Ark, Amon Tobin, Cannonball Adderley, Jel, John Lee Hooker, DJ Rich Medina, Bill Withers, Lee Perry, Black Star, Lightning Hopkins, Yusef Lateef, J Dilla, Augustus Pablo, McCoy Tyner, Ernest Ranglin, Jungle Brothers, Sun Ra, Hugh Masekela, Roots Manuva, Son House, Jazzanova, Saul Williams, Lalo Schifrin, DJ Jesse DeLa Pena, Osunlade, DJ Vadim, Al Green, Thievery Corporation, John Beltran, Ticklah, Tommy Guerrero, Galt MacDermot, Derf Reklaw, A Tribe Called Quest, Kevin Sandbloom, Tony Allen, Leaves whistling through trees and blowing trash around, Garbage trucks outside of my window in the morning filtered into my dreams, the syncopation between my turn signal and the car's in front of me, patterns in nature, patterns in city energy, psychedelic heightening/dulling of senses, seemingly random arrangements, pseudo-random arrangements, dischordant sounds of Love, atonal harmonies, unidentifyable vibrations, ....
Sounds Like: pieces of a whole, juxtaposed.
Record Label: Samuri
Type of Label: Indie