Music:
Member Since: 05/09/2005
Band Website: www.ramelanmusic.com
Band Members: Matt Rondeau - acoustic bass guitar, vocals, lion's bells, griffin's claws, world tree seeds, horn of hell
Loren Leventer - violin of chaos
Tony Parra - drum of the dead, drum of life, 100 hands of percussion
Influences: Primus, Morphine, Wolf Parade, Neutral Milk Hotel, Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah!, Afro-Funk from Lagos Nigeria, Hugo Masters Chinese Anthology, Dancing to the Flute: Classical Indian Music, Buddhist chanting, Global Bagpipes, Planet Squeezebox, Tinariwen, Sufi music, Latcho Drom, Albanian music, Beatles, Bad Religion, The Who, The Decemberists, Velvet Underground, The Doors, Tripping Daisy, Tiger Army, Misfits, Operation Ivy, Modest Mouse, Pink Floyd, Pixies, The Clash, Led Zeppelin, Marcy Playground, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, Flogging Molly, The Postal Service, Gomez, Jefferson Airplane, TV On the Radio, Iron and Wine, Devendra Banhart, Badly Drawn Boy, The Faint, The Flaming Lips, The Black Keys, The White Stripes, Beck, Cake, Joanna Newsom, The Fiery Furnaces, The Arcade Fire, Mike Doughty, Franz Ferdinand, Weezer, Castanets, The Strokes, The Streets, The New Pornographers, Interpol, Woven Hand, The Cure, The Smiths, Billy Joel, Scissor Sisters, Sleep Station, Rancid, Bouncing Souls, Ramones, Offspring, Green Day, Pennywise, Sex Pistols, Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards, The Transplants, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Tom Waits, Eels, The Mars Volta, Spoon, Fiona Apple, Built To Spill, Caesars, Rilo Kiley, The Libertines, Gruff Rhys, Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, Muse, Marah, DNTEL, 311, Les Savvy Fav, Animal Collective, Sublime, Kings of Leon, Bright Eyes, Tori Amos, The Killers, Stellastarr, Broken Social Scene, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Shins, Death Cab For Cutie, Oasis, Reel Big Fish, They Might Be Giants, Meat Puppets, Nirvana, The Cooper Temple Clause, Rage Against the Machine, The Wu-Tang Clan, Matisyahu, A Tribe Called Quest, Cypress Hill, Tool, Stone Temple Pilots, Pearl Jam, Guns N' Roses, Jimmie's Chicken Shack, Dropkick Murphys, Andrew Bird, Leonard Cohen, The Rapture, Delays, West Indian Girl, Echo and the Bunnymen, Gnarls Barkley, Andrew Bird, Goodshirt, Minuit, Ai Phoenix, The Essex Green, Rooney, Belle and Sebastian, Billy Bragg, Sigur Ros, Grandaddy, Of Montreal, Magnetic Fields, Gorillaz, Blur, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, Buddy Holly, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Otis Redding, Muddy Waters, James Brown, Janis Joplin, Tracy Chapman, The Mamas and the Papas, Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead, Doobie Brothers, Almond Brothers, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Neil Young, Eric Clapton, Michael Jackson, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig von Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Bedrich Smetana, Frederic Chopin, Johann Pachelbel, world music from the Met, a hundred other bands, all of my open mikers, subway performers and countless others that I have heard through my life, if even once
Sounds Like: Your ears will tell you better than my words
Type of Label: Unsigned
