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About Me

Born out of fire and desperation, out of the need for a savior in rock music, Earth Stood Still comes hurdling out of the abyss with a sound both bound in the past and portentious of things to come. The sounds are familiar, even traditional, at first: Lisa Apatini's banshee wail and bluesy growls, Gabriel Marin's thunderous and vivid guitar, Lou Miller's apocalyptic drum grooves and Evan Burke's spine-mangling bassisms. Echoes of Soundgarden, Zeppelin, at first comforting and familiar...but then things become clearer. Songs as dense and thematically grandiose as classical music, serpentine melodies and blazing solos soaked in Middle Eastern mysticism, and an earth-shaking funk capable of taking full possession of the booty even in the midst of heartbreaking verses. Lyrics that are both intensely personal and abstractly fantastical. Humor and sorrow. Joy and rage. Forgiveness and revenge. Earth Stood Still have come for your hearts, and your minds. All we ask is that you come to rock.Join our mailing list! Email [email protected]

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Member Since: 9/23/2004
Band Website: myspace.com/earthstoodstill
Band Members: Gabriel Marin: fretted and fretless guitar Evan Burke: bass guitar Lisa Apatini: vocals Daniel Kurfirst: drums and percussion
Influences: In absolutely no kind of order: Eleven, Soundgarden, The Screaming Trees, Alice In Chains, Radiohead, 16 Horsepower/Woven Hand, Black Sabbath, The Beatles, Chopin, Debussy, Sibelius, Stravinsky, Ravel, Shostakovich, Tom Waits, John Coltrane, U. Srinivas, Ravi Shankar, Kyuss, High On Fire, Lamb Of God, Eric Dolphy, Jeff Buckley, Muse, Led Zeppelin, David Krakauer, David Lynch, Matt Darriau, Frank London, The Toadies, The Meters, Tower of Power, Jimi Hendrix, Mingus, Metallica, Megadeth, Mahavishnu, Meshuggah, Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, John Zorn, Isis, Berg, Schoenberg, Paganini, P-Funk, Pearl Jam, Motown, Morbid Angel, Yuri Yunakov, Ivo Popsov, klezmer, classical and folk music from: bulgaria turkey hungary romania iran india pakistan america greece cuba westafrica argentina china japan vietnam kurdistan afghanistan macedonia bosnia serbia tuva russia northafrica indonesia, King Crimson, The Stooges, Dave Douglas, Dave Holland, Monster Magnet, Jaco, Buckethead, Dream Theater, Firewater, Ali Akbar Khan, Ustad Sultan Khan, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, V.M. Bhatt, Hossein Alizadeh, Opeth, Porcupine Tree, Pink Floyd, Yes. Special thanks and love to The Screaming Headless Torsos, Debashish Bhattacharya, Greg Drew, Milan Nikolic and Amir Vahab for mentoring and guidance.
Sounds Like: Middle Eastern Classical Rock....If Chopin grew up in India listening to Soundgarden...
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Touring, Conviction, and Visions of the Future

Brothers and sisters, the days of bands weakly scurrying about for the approval of record labels and mass-market media have come to a close. And with the help of the only people that matter in music, ...
Posted by Earth Stood Still on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:55:00 PST

Earth Stood Still presents: The Conquering of the East Coast '07!

Hello one and all, just letting you know that Earth Stood Still, along with our comrades-in-face-melting Scribes of Fire are in the midst of planning a summer tour of the east coast! We'll be hitting ...
Posted by Earth Stood Still on Mon, 28 May 2007 12:20:00 PST

Shows, CDs, New Songs, and all kinds of good stuff

It'd be really great if we could get an old, fifties-style propaganda film made about us, and have it constantly playing. "Earth Stood Still: A band...ON THE GROW!" with super-industrious music in the...
Posted by Earth Stood Still on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:12:00 PST

NEW LIVE PICS FROM THE RAINBOW CAFE!

Thanks as always to Eugene Zarofsky for the great eye...check the pics section to see the chaos...
Posted by Earth Stood Still on Fri, 09 Mar 2007 10:24:00 PST

RECORD RELEASE PARTY MARCH 31st!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!

If only there was enough room for more exclamation points..... Earth Stood Still's long hiatus is coming to an end! We extend the deepest possible thanks to all of our old fans who've been waiting...
Posted by Earth Stood Still on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:31:00 PST

Santa Claus, Hannukah Harry, the Kwanzaabot and Earth Stood Still

Merry Everything, people of the world. Earth Stood Still is currently recovering from our four-day bout of hedonistic excess up at the North Pole, and then it's off to hang out with Jesus on New Years...
Posted by Earth Stood Still on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 12:21:00 PST

Earth Stood Still Loves You

Thank you everyone who came out to Micheline's last friday, you really made us feel like we had been missed, and it truly was a homecoming for us. Our first show in almost a year, and it was like we n...
Posted by Earth Stood Still on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 09:30:00 PST