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We found a box of vintage FAITH & DISEASE T-shirts from the INSULARIA era: I had thought these were long-gone as ALL of them sold out pretty quickly..10 years ago! They are ONLY available through the Projekt website, sizes MEDIUM and LARGE. d o w n l o a d :
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Band Bio: Faith & Disease formed in Seattle, WA. Recently the band signed with Projekt Records and have released two albums ("Beneath The Trees" and "Passport To Kumming"). F&D are the nucleus of Dara Rosenwasser and Eric Cooley, and have gone on two headlining US tours, were selected to play CMJ '99, NXNW '97 and '98, and most recently the sixth annual Convergence Festival. Their music is ambient, etheral, beautifully melancholic melodies with angelic female vocals and lush guitars, keyboards and varied instrumentation. - Faith and Disease websiteReviews: "The album opens with the bass driven "She's Got a Halo," which spotlights both Rosenwassers soothing and quietly powerful vocals and Cooleys masterful bass and guitar arrangements in a way that is at once reminiscent of classic Faith and Disease while also being evocative of the bands current foray into the world of lo-fi, scaled down, sadcore, arrangements that seem more appropriate to labels such as CMK or Kranky than Projekt. Shes Got a Halo is followed by tracks that become successively more stripped down, successively more vulnerable, and successively more beautiful" - Losing Today"All sorts of ancient machinery and wizardry are plied tonight. Nico and My Bloody Valentine by way of madrigals and Morgana Le Fey." - Ink19"Faith and Disease's slow transformation from a quietly elegant goth band to an equally quietly elegant group with a broader range has been one of darker music's better pleasures over recent years. Passage to Kunming continues that progression the first song alone, "She's Got a Halo," suggests everything from New Order's warm bass flow to the Moon Seven Times's rich rural reflections and back again. It's a perfect sign that the core duo of Dara Rosenwasser and Eric Cooley aren't content to simply replicate their past, and if the album title and graphics would seem to promise an exploration into Chinese music more than anything else, the focus here is more on other interests." -NED RAGGET, ALL MUSIC GUIDE
We have a track on the brand-new 3-CD Projekt compilation:

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Member Since: 10/7/2005
Band Website: faithanddisease.com
Band Members: *DARA ROSENWASSER - vocals + lyrics, some guitar *ERIC COOLEY - bass, guitar, production, lyrics, etc.,Greg Forschler - guitar Barry Semple - drums John Clough - keys Charlotte Sather- flute, vocals Nancy Wharton - Cello former F&Ders: Steven Knouse -guitar Joaquin Tavares- keys Bradley Faith/Haug - keys Rick Allen/Hare - drums Joshua Furman - drums
Influences: the following are bands we respect and admire: Leonard Cohen, dead can dance joy division billy holiday Rasputina interpol the doves catpower steven severin siouxsie L O W x-mal deutchland The Swans and Jarboe solo the glove the cure nick drake bauhaus the virgin suicides soundtrack by AIR neko case damien jurado opal rain parade hope sandoval and the warm invention mazzy star this mortal coil velvet underground w NICO billy holliday the swans Mark Kozelek rozz-only christian death gitane demone red house painters Slowdive Mojave 3 section 25 virgin prunes current 93 legendary pink dots skinny puppy depeche mode -beck-seachange- mira love spirals downwards cowboy junkies tarnation moby 4Ad-era xymox the walkabouts johnny cash this ascension maxine Tarnation Tim (and jeff) Buckley brian wilson um...who else?
Sounds Like: a musical collaboration of dara rosenwasser, eric cooley and many talented friends.
Record Label: projekt/IRIS/ivy/amplexus
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Eric’s music used in movie for Georgetown Film Festival

Third AnnualGeorgetown Super 8 Film Festival5790 Airport Way South Seattle, WA 6:30pm (Among MANY great 3-minute films, ALL filmed and edited with Super-8mm cameras and film, F&D's Eric Cool...
Posted by faith & disease on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 10:41:00 PST

QUINTO SOL nudging closer to actual RELEASE date

QUINTO SOL news! I finished correcting the artwork proofs ( US-JAPAN-ITALY-US) for the upcoming QUINTO SOL OLLINTONATIUHCD to be released on Italy’s SILENTES RECORDS sometime fairly soon. ...
Posted by faith & disease on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 03:04:00 PST

Recording new F&D tracks : 2007!

November 13th, 23rd, 2007 DAY 1 November 13th : F&D have regrouped with KEVIN SUGGS (who, among many other projects, engineered some tracks on Cat Power's YOU ARE FREE and co-producer of...
Posted by faith & disease on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 11:48:00 PST

PROJEKT 200 3-CD Anniversary release out soon

PROJEKT is celebrating their 200th release this month with a 3-CD box set entitled PROJEKT 200 - DISC 1 : the Early Years DISC 2: The Current Era* and DISC 3: Ambient years *F&D's "She's Got A Hal...
Posted by faith & disease on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:19:00 PST

F&D's Eric writes music for iHR commercial!

hehehehh Yep, it's true. My first-ever commercial soundtrack composition ; The Crocodile Cafe in Seattle, WA does a popular bi-month artists, crafts and designer exhibit called " i (heart) r...
Posted by faith & disease on Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:25:00 PST

Exciting new F&D-related project in the works

Exciting new F&D-related project in the works I've been in contact with Stefano at SILENTES RECORDS in Italy negotiating releasing the lost-works of former F&D keybo...
Posted by faith & disease on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 08:24:00 PST

members of F&D, Kuma, Fear of Dolls, Legion Within...

This is supposed to be a surprise but oh well: Members of FAITH & DISEASE (eric cooley-bass, greg forschler-guitar), KUMA (aaron nichols-drums), FEAR OF DOLLS (greg forschler) and LEGION...
Posted by faith & disease on Thu, 12 Oct 2006 07:50:00 PST

2 more VIDEOS added

Two more F&D related videos added from the vaults: "Memorium" acoustic performance by Eric Dara and Steve at the Surrealist magic Theatre night hosted by David Meinerdt "heroinsong" played ONCE ,...
Posted by faith & disease on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:21:00 PST

"Fortune His Sleep" video and "Yellow Dress" Live added

Two more F&D video's from the vaults are added; A live performance of "Fortune His Sleep" from THE SPUD GOODMAN SHOW (1997) and "Yellow Dress" lost footage from an "Eric and Dara" performan...
Posted by faith & disease on Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:53:00 PST

Third F&D video added - "madrigal" from the vaults 1995

Faith & Disease "Madrigal," from 1995's Fortune His Sleep CD - filmed in Seattle, Wa at the Weathered Wall - eric cooley dara rosenwasser steven knouse rick allen and joaquin tavares. Directed by ...
Posted by faith & disease on Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:17:00 PST