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Trilobite

New record 'Silver Skin' available 8/5/08

About Me

1st album at CDBABY, iTUNES, Miles of Music, snocap, http://payplay.fm/trilobitemusic ***** CONTACT email, [email protected] ************************************************************ ************************************************************ ******************************************** BIO [more in Hanx interview blog]: MARK RAY LEWIS was raised on Highway 61 across from the Huck Finn Shopping Center in Hannibal MO, and in his 20's he was working as a landscaper in New Mexico when Stanford U. offered him a monthly stipend to do nothing but sit around and write fiction, BUT soon enough, he returned to Albuquerque and fell in with a dark cabal of hopped up musicians including: JASON ASPESLET a rhythm-smith who started playing perididdles in the 4th grade; MARK WEAVER, the city's Go-to Low-brass man; DARRELL SPARKS a muli-instrumentalist who grew up among Volk Music royalty in West Texas (there's speculation that he may have pushed baby Jessica into the well); and MICHELLE COLLINS whose palliative harmonies would be a silver blessing to any writer's song. Trilobite's self-titled first album was released in 2006 and 2nd album "Silver Skin" shall be released this summer. ************************************************************ ************************************************************ **************************************** Some ATTA-BOYS:"...thin and ethereal, this is music that floats inside your head, dreamy and mildly disturbing." Duke Dali, CROOKED RAIN (UK) *****"The breeze and ease in the group's songs support all your dreamiest fantasies about the desert Southwest; this is nice, nice stuff." -- TIME OUT NEW YORK, May 24, 2007 ***** "This album contains a little pamphlet titled 'Songbook' tucked into its packaging, which contains the lyrics for the songs but actually works as a small book of poetry. The stories in the songs are touching, but the music is chilling..." -- Anthony Bowman, THE LOUISVILLE ECCENTRIC OBSERVER ***** "...a record that intrigues and entertains from beginning to end." -- AMERICANA-UK.COM *****"The back story for this enchanting debut is all about words... Yet ultimately it's the music that lingers-- a parched, creaky take on rustic verities done up in pump organ, pedal steel, tuba, cello, banjo, and piano. It's a burbling, oompahing wheeze that seems to be groaning, even the gauzy he-she harmonies, with the rest of creation." -- Bill Friskics-Warren, NO DEPRESSION****** "...the songs are sturdy enough to weather random attacks of trombone and mandolin..." -- Monica Kendrick, CHICAGO READER *****"Don’t try to listen to this disc to keep yourself awake on a long drive..." Larissa Parson, WWW.MAELSTROM.NU (ezine covering death black, doom, grind, and thrash metal) ***** "Band to Watch", STEREOGUM*************************************************** ************************************************************ **************************************************** AS HEARD ON ... KCRW Santa Monica (DJ Nic Harcourt) BBC Radio 2 London (DJ Bob Harris), WPRB Princeton NJ (Rob and Harlan: We Built This City on Rock and Roll), Maiden City FM Ireland (DJ Desi Fisher), Pandora (internet radio), Paste Magazine Culture Club Podcast (6.12.07), greenclothesmusic.com, WWW.HANX.NET, AM Revolution Boulder (lots of great DJs there), WPKN Fairfield, CT (DJ Jim Motavelli) KDHX St. Louis (DJ Rene Saller), 105.7 Landslide The Netherlands (DJ Michael van Bruggen), 91.7 Austin TX (DJ Kate Lipinski) AmericanaOK Edinburgh (Tom Fahey), Radio Voce Spazio, Alessandria , Italy (DJ Massimo Ferro "Highway 61" radio show), Songs from the Ark, United Kingdom (DJ Del Day), 103.3 KUMD Duluth MN, 91.1 KLSU Baton Rough LA, KFJC Palo Alto, WFMU Jersey City, SCAD Radio Savannah GA, www.twangnation.com, U. in Missoula... not least KUNM Albuquerque (Tuesday night's are nice-- Home of Happy Feet 7-10, and Music to Soothe the Savage Beast 10-1); muruch.blogspot.com/2007/02/trilobite.html ************************************************************ ************************************************************ *********************************************

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/5/2005
Band Website: cdbaby.com/cd/trilobitemusic
Band Members: Jason Aspeslet {percussion} Michelle Collins {vox, Th, keys} Mark Ray Lewis {vocal, guitar} Darrell Sparks {bass, harmony}
Influences: Scorsese (Mean Streets, Raging Bull), and an album called "Nebraska" ***** The strange concept of the 3-in-1 Godhead, Lou Reed's Moe-Tucker-muse, Gudrun Osvifsdottir, Cologne Karneval 1989, Leonard Cohen, Ledward Ka'apana, Morrissey, thee ***** referring mostly to Harry Smith, Dylan say volk music "is based on myths and the Bible and plague and famine and all kinds of things like that which are nothing but mystery and you can see it in all the songs….All these songs about roses growing out of people’s brains and lovers who are really geese and swans that turn into angels…and seven years of this and eight years of that and it’s all really something that nobody can touch.... (the songs) are not going to die.”
Record Label: Eigenhyme
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Hanx interviews

Mark Ray Lewis interviewed by Wim Boluijt from www.Hanx.net in early November 2007. Online it is only in Netherlandish, so here's the original English. The songs referred to are from the first Trilob...
Posted by Trilobite on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:51:00 PST