Music:
Member Since: 12/10/2005
Band Website: brokenriverprophet.com
Band Members: The elder servants of the Oracle of Allston are: Deborah Warfield, Eric Provonsil, Dennis Noble, Martin Rex and Adam Brilla.
Other members of the sacred order:
The Rex brothers three (Lockgroove/Charlene)
Justin Keough (Swiss Army, Tom Thumb)
Valerie Forgione (Mistle Thrush/Van Elk)
Sasha Mirsky (Harvard)
Michael Hutcherson (BlastZone/Tiny Amps/the Space Walrus)
Bill Dwyer (Poison Slower Downer)
Drew Chase
Jeff MacIsaac (Aveo/Rabbit Ears)
Animal Hospital Kevin
Cowgirl Elana
Brad of the 'Nac
Dave Doom (Compass/Lockgroove)
Andy Santospago (Vinyl Skyway/Blind King)
Mrs. Flarson (Specific Heats/Nice and Easy's)
Dave Lamb (Brown Bird)
Taro Hatanaka (Victory at Sea/Mogstar)
Matt Klain (Mistle Thrush)
Ken Michaels (Van Elk and as himself)
Orrin Anderson (Syrup USA)
Sofa
Daddy Ian (Charlene/Barge Recordings)
Matt Mirande (Charlene)
Some other kind folks popped in from time to time to help out too.
Influences: Artemis, Delphi, Osiris, kitties, penguins, nice warm cups of tea, coffee, chai, fresh baked cookies, flea markets, cupcakes, dowsing, alchemy, Jung, Ovid, Homer, Virgil, the Civil War, airships, dodge grand caravans, penguins, tarot, astrology, watching as hype, fashion and substance abuse devour those around us.
Michael's amp pile, fender bandmaster and showman cabs, bedrock amps, fenders, rickenbackers, epiphones, gibsons, electro harmonix, wah pedals, fuzzboxes, phasers, delay, and assorted recorded music from far and wide (such as but not limited to the following):
13th Floor Elevators, Acetone, Acid Mothers Temple, Bardo Pond, Beach Boys, Beatles, Bedhead, Blondie, Byrds, Carter Family, Circus Lupus, Cure, Dambuilders, Dead Low Tide, Dinosaur (Jr.), Dirt Merchants, Erics Trip, Flying Saucer Attack, Fugazi, Fu Manchu, Gastr del sol, Gram Parsons, Helium, Jesus & Marychain, Jesus Lizard, Loop, Louvin Brothers, Lush, Mingus, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neutral Milk Hotel, Olivia Tremor Control, Ornette Coleman, Buck Owens, Polvo, Red Red Meat, Redd Kross, Ride, Rodan, Rolling Stones, Doug Sahm, Simply Saucer, Skullflower, Sleep, Spacemen 3, Spectrum, Spiritualized, Stereolab, Sun City Girls, Superchunk, Swervedriver, Swirlies, Syd, Tom Petty (& the Heartbreakers), Tortoise, Ernest Tubbs, Tullycraft, Unwound, Uzeda, Versus, Tom Waits, Wingtip Sloat, X-Ray Specs, The Zombies, John Zorn
Sounds Like: lovers turned to doves ascending through the eye of the storm.
"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." -Franz Kafka
"Psychedelic country rockers"-The Boston Globe
"Allston's most freewheelin' purveyors of overmedicated Americana."-The Weekly Dig
The music of The Broken River Prophet incorporates (among other things) mandolin, 12-string, lap steel, boy/girl vocals, and a vast archive of effects pedals to summon elements of old timey loss, pastoral
harmonies, hypnotic drones and cataclysmic fuzz-tones.
"Broken River Prophet saved the night. These guys look like if you saw them on the street, you would think they worked in a comic-book store. Then they melted our faces with their high voltage rock. I mean awesome. They looked and sounded like if Kevin Shields rocked out like J. Mascis."-xMILKx
Record Label: if you offer enough cupcakes we could be on yours
Type of Label: None
