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tales of banyan

i just wanna make art

About Me

welcome, this used to be my solo project, now it's a duo. all the songs tell different parts of the same story - which will also be illustrated. me and richie play a variety of conventional instruments and household items in unconvetional ways. the music we're currently playing is not yet recorded, what you hear here is an old demo. we'll be playing shows for now, we'll be recording probly before the end of the year.

the first 8 bands on my top friends are other projects i'm either in or projects i'm playing guitar for, check them out...Hour of the Shipwreck is the "sister" project to this. both me and richie have been very involved in both and we're thinking of these bands as part of one musical effort...



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Member Since: 11/13/2007
Band Members:

it used to be me - marcel camargo. now it's also richie.

recording engineers: bram inscore and chad bloomstein.

gurus: richie kohan and barbara gruska.


Influences: friends/family, especially hour of the shipwreck, barbara, bram, benji hughes, gretchen parlato, colorforms, eagle and talon, learning music, jessica fichot, le switch. Also lord of the rings, bjork, joao gilberto, joanna newsom, grizzly bear, caetano veloso, elliott smith, john lennon, paul mccartney, the shins, radiohead, nick drake, ravel, debussy, stravinsky, renaissance music, brazilian music, pop music, folk music from different places.
Sounds Like: fantasy folk
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Guitar explosion

So my last show was an experiment, I wanted it to sound like a guitar explosion but it kinda backfired and exploded in my face...it was fun though, and thankfully I knew everyone in the audience. But ...
Posted by tales of banyan on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:51:00 PST

workshop postponed to next month

sorry i had to cancel the songwriter workshop last nite. i'm fighting a pretty bad sore throat...i'm hoping i'll b back in action 4 the show sunday...anyway, it looks as though i'll be able to do the ...
Posted by tales of banyan on Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:23:00 PST

check out my KPFK live show

So I did my first radio live show in January (2008) - awesome. I played "global village fridays with dj sergio mielniczenko" and did some of my music and some music with gretchen parlato (check her ou...
Posted by tales of banyan on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:49:00 PST

know anybody in fresno?

hey, know anybody in fresno? i'll be there this friday @ kuppajoe, i think i play @ 8pm and then right after I play again in Hour of the Shipwreck. If you know peeps tell them to come down!....
Posted by tales of banyan on Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:00:00 PST