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AGENTS OF FUTURE

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***1998:A bunch of Jesus-loving, jalopy-gospel way-backers get together and do creative things: Shrieking, speaking, flailing, failing, storytelling, fear-quelling. In the process, songs and stories are smithed and written, friendships and families are stretched and shaken, stirred and strengthened. Genre-gender-class-past-death-defiers and town-crying demystifiers of mystery history lead these pacifistic, full-frontally ballistic missives. Best of all, on frequent occasions, we see entombed voices raisin' and we peek through the haze.***NOW:More than a DECADE together, these doors're gonna swing wiiiiide.
"Agents of Future bring the raw passionate worship like you don't get almost anywhere else. i've seen them play in clubs, at festivals, in church, in parks, and in living rooms. the element of hunger/thirst - the desperation in what they're going after in God - is undeniable." - Glen Galloway, Soul Junk
"Aaron (Strumpel) was joined by fellow Worship Circler Todd Berger along with Todd and Angie Fadel from Agents of Future for their four song set. Right from the start, Aaron’s solid songwriting abilities was complemented by Berger and Angie's instrumentation and ignited by Todd’s physical vigor that assimilated a presence on stage that would not be forgotten even after the rest of the bands played that night. Acoustic, piano, harmony, synth, trumpet, tom drum, and a unique percussion set (which included a typewriter) rounded up like a herd of pachyderm setting forth to take you on a soulful journey. And with the strength of an Elephant, you were going to be moved whether you originally wanted to or not." -RELEVANT magazine
"Agents Of Future is like a glorious and wonderful mess on stage -- crowded with cascading voices of joy. It's a left-of-center musical approach, with jam band parts, part Joe Cocker at Woodstock, and parts Worship Circle and Caedmon's Call. A great modern and unique call to worship that's effective in breaking through the crusty, dry exterior of scenester kids with the joy and brokenness of the Holy Spirit." - Doug Van Pelt, HM Magazine Editor
"The music/art/experience/worship that springs from Agents of Future's love for Portland is the kind of stuff that makes my bones shake, my heart race, and want God with more honesty and desperation then my mind can handle. Please, if there was only one band to listen to this month or even year, Agents of Future would be my pick..." - Aaron Strumpel, Enter the Worship Circle
"Agents of Future are without a doubt the most passionate performers I've seen, save Roger Clyne and Bruce Springsteen. Singing at the top of their lungs and squeezing their eyes tight, is nothing compared to the energy they harness from the Spirit, riding it up the hillside and begging for more. Their pleas of comfort, strength, and love come wrapped in small songs made larger than life with their sheer intensity. Todd Fadel can brood a melody underneath your skin and scream praises like no man I've heard before. Angie Fadel releases surge after surge of pure vocal power from their humble book of well-worn prayers. Agents of Future can strip the cool off the room and stain the floors with honesty, emotion and a darker shade of pale." - John Kerns, Minister of Music, Spirit Garage Lutheran Church, Minneapolis, MN
"Agents of Future: Intense, hard-driving, soulful innovation in a coherent husband-wife duo, joyfully synergizing new sounds and ideas in alternative rock and worship music. I absolutely love their passion for creating their varied brands of music, then delivering the goods on stage or in any venue with even more passion and soul. Their music is cutting edge, deeply engaging of heart and mind, poignant, spiritually aware and sometimes even witty, but alway LOUD and clear." - Jim Au, President, Impact Media Ministries, Portland, OR
"Agents of Future has a chaotic beauty that actually embodies the authenticity post-modern theologians and liturgi-geeks have been busy promoting, only they come by it effortlessly. Agents of Future brings you into the presence of God at an amazing volume." - Gretchen Mertes, Minister of Music, St. Matthews Lutheran Church, Renton, WA

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 26/10/2005
Band Website: http://www.soundclick.com/agentsoffuture
Band Members: READ THIS BLOG interview for a really good description of what we're about.
HERE's another blog interview that helps understanding...
AGENTS IMPLIED AND HONORARY: Deborah, Ken, Geoff, Angie, Todd, Matt Z, Ted, Abe, Crystal, Kristen, Paul B, Jessica, Dave K, Jeffrey, Anna Grace, Drew, Mick, Missi, Laura, Abbi, Kelly, Sara, Seth, Eric, Jesse, Andrew, Mimi, Christian, Gram, Paul C, Matt B, Bryan, Ron, Jerry, Garret, Pam, Joel, Jordan, Paulie, Dwavehed, Andy, Amanda, Jody M., Joshua, Olga, Tiffany, Justin, Ben, Jason, Autumn, Steve, Meg, Carmen, Zion and Miss B Now playing: Agents of Future
Here's a flyer.... and a cartoon to download (right-click, "save as"):

CLICK on SHEET music and see how to do our songs!

Influences: Spirituals and slave songs, 50's rock and roll, 60's gospel, 70's soul, 80's pop, 90's punk, 00's glitch
Sounds Like: PJ Harvey, Mates of State, Pixies, Jeff Buckley, TV on The Radio, Arcade Fire, I'm From Barcelona, The Holy Childhood, Adrian Orange and Her Band, Electrelane, A Silver Mt. Zion, Angels of Light, Polyphonic Spree, Akron/Family and Broken Social Scene
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

AGENTS OF FUTURE take a TRIP to ENGLAND? READ ON!

Boy, is something COOKING *this* summer. We're planning a trip to England. Why?Well, we got asked to share our music at a festival there called Greenbelt at the end of August. Usually about 12-15 th...
Posted by on Sat, 04 Jul 2009 22:15:00 GMT

one of the places the people of THE BRIDGE and AGENTS OF FUTURE came from.


Posted by on Sun, 14 Dec 2008 05:56:00 GMT

you wanna SHARE something, PUNK??? Well, SHARE THIS!!!!


Posted by on Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:02:00 GMT

New cool banner

oh, this is just the beginning.. you should check out SPROUTBUILDER.com RIGHT NOW!! No, I don't work for them.. - Todd
Posted by on Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:41:00 GMT

AGENTS of FUTURE call in show!! CHECK COMMENTS for NEXT TIMES!


Posted by on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 09:57:00 GMT

NEW SONG "FROM PANIC AND STATIC" and NEW SONG UPDATE THINGY!

In this reckless, reckless day and age of recklessness, there seems to be NO TIME to share new songs w/o having to set up inane recording apparatussessess. But LO! I found a way to simply post stuff...
Posted by on Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:15:00 GMT

Colossians 3:16 - an interview we did with Brent!

Here it is. Comment on it, if you'd like. Thank you.Todd and AOF
Posted by on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:11:00 GMT

How Agents of Future do things:

Here it is. Click and download to enjoy:
Posted by on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:59:00 GMT

AGENTS OF FUTURE cover YOUR SONGS!

So, I thought we'd try something fun to mix things up..You guys post a link to a song of YOURS in the COMMENTS of this blog, and we'll cover the song in our dis-armingly charming way, and post our ver...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:00:00 GMT

Hebrews 12 is pretty sweet. Todd paraphrases it.

Hebrews 12: (Todd Fadel-aphrase)Check out the photos on the mantle, those are pictures of people who died serving God. It's like they're in the stands with POM-POMs, waiting for us to take what they d...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 08:58:00 GMT