Music:
Member Since: 9/14/2005
Band Website: collapsiblethree.com
Band Members:
The band is a new venture among keyboard player Steve Mossberg, drummer Duncan
Arsenault and singer-guitarist Craig Rawding. Mossberg and Arsenault put Collapsible
Three together after their previous joint project Giraffe called it a day.
Mossberg, who is busy with a solo project, and Arsenault, who is a member of
The Curtain Society, jammed as a duo at Tammany Hall's open mike for a couple
of months before recruiting Vibrotica frontman Craig Rawding.
photo: Dickie Cummings :
The three worked on developing their improvisational chops
and figuring out ways to mix Rawding's live impressionistic vocals with samples
triggered and looped by Arsenault from his drum kit. Mossberg worked at crafting
the heady organ melodies and deep-groove bass lines, also handled via keys,
to create a framework for the more adaptable elements of the music. Mossberg
described the learning curve for the band as akin to creating a group painting.
After playing out of the limelight now for a couple of months, Collapsible
Three is ready to hit the masses.
Steve Mossberg (organ), Craig Rawding (vocals, effects), Duncan Arsenault (drums,
samples)
Influences: The Meters, BetaBand, Medeski Martin & Wood, Bjork, Benevento Russo Duo, Grant Green, DJ Shadow, Jimmy Smith, Soulive, Booker T & the MG's, N.E.R.D., Propellerheads, St. Germain, Amon Tobin, Gorillaz, Red House Painters, Mark Eitzel, The Innocence Mission, Billy Bragg, Throwing Muses, Wilco, The Curtain Society, The Deadites, Paul Simon, Giraffe, Jimmy Smith, Catherine Wheel, Elvis Costello, Cornelious, Theivery Corporation, Mono, Beth Orton, Fiona Apple, Tom Petty, Nick Drake, Don Peris, Spiritualized, AIR, Radiohead, Chapterhouse, Nick Drake, Slowdive, Los Lobos, James Brown, Dj Shadow, Propellerheads, Blur, The Sundays, Jem, Coldplay, Idaho, Hayden, Low, Swervedriver, Grant Lee Buffalo, Stereolab, Looper, Belle and Sebastian, Nada Surf, Jimmy Smith, Leonard Cohen, REM, The Shins, Kitchens of Distinction, Spinal Tap, Morcheeba, Latin Playboys, Aphex Twin, Aimee Mann, Self, Postal Service, Huck, Stevie Wonder, Soul Coughing, Teenage Fanclub, Jurassic 5, Giraffe, Jimmy Smith, Van Morrison, Blur, Sun Kil Moon, Mark Kozelek, Jim Carroll, Rachel Yamagata, Morcheeba, Massive Attack, Propellerheads, Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis, XTC, John Coltrane, Rush, Tchaikovsky, Bill Evans, Van Halen, The Beatles, Chick Corea, Elvis Costello, Rachmaninoff, Joni Mitchell, Elliott Smith, Sibelius, Medeski Martin &; Wood, Squeeze, Earth, Wind &; Fire, Iron Maiden, The Police, Steely Dan, Joe Jackson, Smokey Robinson, Stevie Wonder, Amon Tobin, RJD2, Phish, The Indigo Girls, Megadeth, Led Zeppelin, The Brecker Brothers, The Shins, Mendelssohn, Andrew Hill, McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, The Cars, Yes, Genesis, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Ozric Tentacles, Aphex Twin, Michael McDonald, Hall &; Oates, Blur, Joe Henderson, Heart, Charles Mingus, Jimmy McGriff.
Sounds Like:
Spaced-out pieces of music steeped in funk,
soul and the sort of fractured sound craft one finds on the last few Radiohead
records. The music was too huge-sounding and focused to be written off
as ambient, yet it was also fairly untethered from convention. The Collapsible
Three is now seeking its place along the area's musical spectrum, which
its members have fairly well staked out over the years. :
Type of Label: None
