Member Since: 10/15/2005
Band Website: kolliope.com
Band Members: Michelle Taylor, Vocals, guitar, bells and toysRandolf Reimann, laptop, synth, gadgets and backing vocals
Influences: devo, burt bacharach, yellow magic orchestra, lee (sratch) perry, kraftwerk,marry poppins, tom waits, elo, husker du, neu!, tarwater,the beta band, broadcast, Bruce Haack, hot chip, disco records from our parents record collection, birds and insects from our backyard, logic system, schnieder tm, two lone swordsmen, the white noise,anti pop consortium, augustus pablo, arthur russell, air liquide, abba,brian eno, the beta band, bruce haack, the books, black dice, animal collective, beck, black flag, the black dog, bad brains, beach boys, the clash, can, calexico, cut copy, the cars, the chap, creation rebel, dub trio, dat politics, david toop, elo, fennesz, fritz ostermayer, foreigner, faust, fugazi, the evens, the go betweens, gang of four, the high llamas, hal willner, hank williams, icehouse, juana molina, jan jelinek, joy division, the klf, the knife, king tubby, lcd soundsystem, liminal lounge, lali puna, l.e.g slurp, liars, laika, laibach, the moffs, modified toy orchestra, mathew dear, mouse on mars, monolake, meat puppets, marc ribot, neu!, nick butcher, orb, portishead, psychic tv, pixies, plaid, p.i.l, q and not u, radiowaves, radian, sandoz, plastics, logic system, p-model, scanner, stereo lab, some water and sun, seals and crofts, the stranglers, static, the smiths, simon and garfunkel, stdio, suns of arqa, puss, fatty acids, slim whitman, soft cell, scritti politti, spice girls, skinny puppy, sonic youth, suicide, severed heads, swayzak, schneider tm, the sabres of paradise, two lone swordsmen, tortoise, tarwater, talking heads, tracy and the plastics, tom waits, the saints, spk, primitive calculators, ub40, ultravox, woob, wire, whitey, yellow swans, the young gods, young widows and of course the beatles.
Sounds Like: indie-pop, disco, electronica and folk all mashed up together. If Burt Bacharach channelled music from Becks astral plane where Kate Bush & Yellow Magic Orchestra sometimes sing cosmic sea-shanties on a pirate ship captained by Bruce Haack and his first mate Mary Poppins, you'd be somewhere in Kolliopes sonic field, (or in the booby hatch).
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Oracles & Glands
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Kolliope
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Record Label: Byron Bay Records MGM distribution
Type of Label: Indie