Member Since: 5/24/2008
Band Members:
ward abel - vocals, guitars, keyboards, flutes, other strings, percussions, noises
joseph hunt - vocals, saxophone, percussions, flutes, keyboards, guitar
david powell - basses, flutes, percussions, vocals, guitars, other strings, cornet
jerry stenger - guitars, percussions, vocals, fiddle, other strings, keyboards, sounds
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oluwatobi "tobi" adedayo - master of percussion (sitting in with scapeweavel at our performance at the apache cafe on 27 september in atlanta)
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randy carter, skip jennings, david north, stephen powell, steve rawls, bryan sasser, schultz (rip), & geoff scott - augmentors. muchas gracias!
the twittering machine mastered by bullmoon digital
persistence of memory mixed and mastered by ward abel of scapeweavel and steve rawls of real 2 reel studios
photo courtesy of stephen powell
all performance photos below courtesy of r. mutt
Influences:
800 east, 2001 a space odyssey, abelard, acdc, chinua achebe, john adams the composer, king sunny ade & his african beats, anna akhmatova, alcohol, woody allen, the allman brothers band, duane
allman, pedro almadovar, robert altman, ian & laurie anderson, fra angelico's the madonna of humility, apocalypse now, guillaume appollinaire, the apu trilogy, aquinas, aristotle, louis armstrong, john ashbery, atlanta, st. augustine of hippo & of florida, bach, issa bagoyogo, bamako, buju banton, amiri baraka, syd barrett, bela bartok, basho, count basie, bauhaus the school & the band, beatles, beck & jeff beck, don van vliet, beethoven,saul bellow, beowulf, alban berg, ingmar bergman, john berryman, william blake & the eternals, bernardo bertolucci, thebhundu boys, elizabeth bishop, black flag, black sabbath, black uhuru, the blind boys of alabama, alpha blondy, blood mountain, the blue rider, dietrich bonhoeffer, jorge luis borges, pierre boulez, david bowie, brahms,marlon brando, anthony braxton, henri cartier bresson, robert bresson, hermann broch, james brown, anton bruckner, roy buchanan, luis buñuel, chester arthur burnett, burningspear, william s. burroughs, kate bush, davidbyrne, cafe diem, caffiends, john cage, john cale, joseph campbell, george carlin, carrollton, elliot & jimmy carter, raymond carver, johnny cash, castillo de san marcos national monument, paul celan, cervantes, cezanne, ray charles, chaucer, chi-i, clapton, the clash, jimmy cliff, a clockwork orange, jean cocteau & twins, leonard cohen, ornette coleman, michael collins, colquitt, john coltrane, ry cooder, francis ford coppola, henry cow, crazy horse, countee cullen, cuthbert, dakar, dante, miles davis, deep purple,robert de niro, toumani diabate, charles dickens, willie dixon, the doors, dostoevsky, drugstore cowboy, ian dury, bob dylan, clint eastwood, sergei eisenstein, duke ellington, emerson lake &
palmer, emory university, brian eno, john entwistle, euripides, the fox theatre, faces & small faces, fairport convention, bryan ferry, fiji, ella fitzgerald, john ford, fort matanzas national monument, fort pulaski national monument, john fowles, freebird, frijoleros, robert fripp, fred frith, robert frost, fuller's esb, peter gabriel, marvin gaye,genesis, lowell george & little feat, georgia state university, geronimo, allen ginsberg, the gladiators, philip glass, the godfather pts 1 & 2, nikolai gogol, dexter gordon, grateful dead, lieutenant jim green, jonnygreenwood, andy griffith, guinness, lionel hampton, thich nhat hanh, from hank to hendrix, george harrison, coleman hawkins, seamus heaney, fletcher joe & horace henderson, the heptones, werner herzog, tootshibbert, joe higgs, hank hill, ras joseph hill & culture, albert hoffman, homer, john huston, langston hughes, dwight humphries, ijahman, ikiru, the isle of armstrong, joe jackson, mick jaggers, jaimoe, jim jarmusch, blind willie & linton kwesijohnson, jonesboro, chief joseph of the nez perce, janis & scott joplin, james joyce, jonesboro, kafka, henry kaiser, wassily kandinsky, john kay, emma kelly, jack kerouac, ken kesey, kevin berry's, kierkegaard, krzysztof kieślowski, king crimson, kinglear, paul klee, kraftwerk, stanley kubrick, milan kundera, akira kurosawa, fela anikulapo kuti, lagos, ronnie lane, daniel lanois, led zeppelin, johnlennon, doris lessing, little beirut, little five points, c.s. lewis, sam lightnin' hopkins, abraham lincoln, the liquid bean, hawk littlejohn, cheikh lô , london, lorca, robert lowell, witold lutoslawski, babamaal, macon, mahavishnu orchestra, naguib mahfouz, mahler, osip mandlestam, bob marley, gabriel garcia marquez, maurice martenot, mash, massive attack, curtis mayfield, mccabe & mrs miller, paul mccartney,shane mcgowan, ian mckellen, john mclaughlin, blind willie mctell, the melodians, walter f. george school of law mercer university, olivier messaien,michelangelo, toshirô mifune, john milton, charles mingus, yukio mishima, mizoguchi, paddy moloney & the chieftains, piet mondrian, thelonious monk,monteverdi, monty python, bob moog, mckinley morganfield, jim & van morrison, mutabaruka, carlos nakai, nashville the music, the movie & the city, youssou n'dour, willienelson, pablo neruda, randy newman, leonard nimoy, the neville brothers, sinead o'connor, the okefenokee swamp, babatunde olatunji, mike oldfield, yoko ono, orchestra baobab, osceola, ozu, augustus pablo& his melodian, jimmy page, panama city beach, charlie parker, alan parsons, arvo pärt, octavio paz, walker percy, lee "scratch" perry, willie lee perryman aka piano red, tom petty, pinkfloyd, robert pirsig, robert plant, pocahontas, the pogues, roman polanski, jackson pollock, ezra pound & t.s. eliot fighting in the captain's tower, richardpryor, public enemy, push radio show, radiohead, rage against the machine, bonnie rait, ran, the ramones, rashomon, satyajit ray, otis redding, lou reed, james chesley rehberg, steve reich, r.e.m., rembrandt, pierre-auguste, claude & jean renoir, keith richards, wolfgang rihm, terry riley, rilke,the rolling stones, henry & sonny rollins, mark rothko, roxy music, run dmc, andrei rublev, ivan rutledge, saint simon's island, santana, savannah, savannah fringe fest, martin scorcese,
gil scott-heron, steve seaberg, the sentient bean, seqouyah, rod serling, seven samurai, the sex pistols, shakespeare, william shatner, takashi shimura, kubrick's the shining, shostakovich, sigur rós, paul simon, nina simone,sly & robbie, bessie & patti smith, solaris, the song remains the same as the midnight movie at the stonemont theater, sonic youth, sophocles, wole soyinka, spinal tap, bruce springsteen, the staple singers, star community bar, patrick stewart, karlheinz stockhausen, stone mountain, talkingheads, andrei tarkovsky, john taverner, chief tecumseh, thc, léon theremin, richard thompson, throne of blood, tolkien, peter tosh, pete townsend, alifarka toure, the traveling wilburys, ben & maureen tucker, tull, big joe turner, tybee island, mark twain, lao-tzu, u2, ub 40, van gogh, gus van sant, ronnie and townes van zant, sarah vaughn, the velvet underground, kurt vonnegut, johnnie walker black, wagner, bunny wailer, wailingsouls, tom waits, derek walcott, billy christian walls aka guitar red, robert penn warren, j shand watson, waycross, orson welles, eudora welty, walt whitman, the who, stevie wonder, wordsworth, frank lloyd wright, yeats, yes,yevtushenko, thomyorke, neil young, frank zappa, the zen baptist church, john zorn, zz top . . .
individual projects
purchase ward's collection of poetry, jonesing for byzantium
purchase ward's newest collection of poetry, the heat of blooming, by following the instructions here
listen & watch - "my apologies" from the abel rawls hayes band cd flash on a film
purchase flash on a
film
listen & watch -
four song sampler from the upcoming abel rawls hayes band release
www.arhband.com
david in curvature
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