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Odawas

Raven and the White Night Out Now!

About Me

Odawas is:Michael Tapscott - guitars, songs, mouth harps and manmade sounds Isaac Edwards - keys, atmosphere from non-manmade materials Brad Cash - engineering, technique and drumming Like watching an avalanche crushing a Bavarian cottage or a man being attacked by a lion, listening to Odawas while nestled safely in your phono-womb is an exercise in tuning into sublime frequencies from safe carriage. That huge dial has never made your hands so child-like, that cookie jar so high. Odawas skirt the cliff's edge like Jack Nietzsche hanging Christmas lights on the shark cage, Neil Young stoking the campfire in his babylon treefort, or a Jandek aria in a black armband march.Odawas' 2005 debut on Jagjaguwar, The Aether Eater, was a fiery space oddity detailing the brave, the lost, and the maligned. The journey was epic. But the obstinate darkness and disastrous side-effects of space travel are getting lost, and thus turning inward on their follow-up album Raven And The White Night. Odawas' continual pursuit of this experience leads them again and again to these dark corners where the lines between "the journey" and "the chronicler" can easily be blurred. It is here, in this amorphous abyss that Odawas nestle down and create music that bundles our struggles, rumors, egos, failures, and paranoias. Odawas allows us, the patient learners, to see a parallel universe where fear, apathy and uncertainty can lead to a natural bridge that releases us from our own abyss.

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Member Since: 10/16/2005
Band Website: odawastheband.com
Band Members: Michael Tapscott Isaac Edwards
Influences: Zelienople, Popol Vuh, Angelo Badalamenti, Eric Serra, Bernard Herrmann
Record Label: Jagjaguwar
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

new town, new times

we now find ourselves in seperate holes in chicago, trying to find jobs and a way to reinspire ourselves with a new backdrop and too many distractions..we're playing a couple shows in our new keyboard...
Posted by Odawas on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:02:00 PST

video for alleluia

i don't know who made this, but it's pretty cool, and isaac and i are quite flattered... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiPsO7RYhAM thank you... the two of us are hard at work on a magical new album a...
Posted by Odawas on Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:49:00 PST

More Animals of the Arctic released on One Little Indian

..> The very underground solo album by Odawas frontman, Michael Tapscott, under the moniker More Animals of the Arctic, "An Appendix of Whaling Terms" is about to be re-released. One Little Indian/T...
Posted by Odawas on Sat, 09 Jun 2007 06:31:00 PST

Goodbye Mr. Cash

Our longtime supporter and most recent drummer, Brad Cash, has left us for some Carolina beach home. It leaves a hole in our hearts, he's been there since the beginning when he offered to record an al...
Posted by Odawas on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:24:00 PST

Odawas Vitamin City now available for digital download

Look below and you can buy the digital copy of our Vitamin City EP recorded in 2004, our first and recently lost recordings...some say they're still our best...    
Posted by Odawas on Wed, 09 May 2007 07:27:00 PST

Plugg Songs of the week

the website plugg was nice enough to ask us for a song of the week pick, i chose a leonard cohen song. it's a pervasive record, one i couldn't even quote as a reference point or an influence on odawas...
Posted by Odawas on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 05:01:00 PST

Odawas beamed into space

Click below to listen to us play on My Old Kentucky Blog's satellite radio program, he interviewed us too, apparently we were pretty strange.   http://myoldkyhome.blogspot.com/2007/04/odawas-live...
Posted by Odawas on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:40:00 PST

Pitchfork Review

.. OdawasRaven and the White Night[Jagjaguwar; 2007]Rating: 7.9.... The Indianapolis trio Odawas have never quite been configured like a typical rock band, and as a result it seems it may have taken...
Posted by Odawas on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:25:00 PST

odawastheband.com

The website for Odawas is complete... take a look... www.odawastheband.com it includes a seperate website for Underwater Tea Party, the label run by Odawas songwriter Michael Tapscott... it also inclu...
Posted by Odawas on Wed, 28 Mar 2007 01:21:00 PST

Shivers in the Timbers

We've posted a new song, this one is called "Shivers in the Timbers" the first track off of our debut EP, "Vitamin City" which we recorded in two days sometime after new year's 2004... Some of the ori...
Posted by Odawas on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 07:35:00 PST