Music:
Member Since: 19/12/2005
Band Members: Sean Hagerty: electric violin, electronics, mandolin & vocals. Sean has collaborated with a number of New York and Brooklyn musicians, including the Muthawit Orchestra, Oami, Aaron Stout, Will Hanza, Zahra Hashemian, Siddharth Mehta, Julia Illowecki, Kris Kelly, and John-Flor Sisante, as well as Michael Cerveris and Duncan Sheik at the Bowery Ballroom. He also moonlights as a sound designer, having created interactive technology for a variety of shows at 3LD art and technology center and LaMama E.T.C. www.seanhagerty.com
Isaiah Singer: bass, vocals. Original guitarist for Psychic TV 3 with Genesis P-Orridge (Throbbing Gristle, Thee Majesty); guitarist with Bryin Dall's (Thee Majesty, Loretta's Doll) The Fourth Sign. Guitarist, vocalist and/or bassist in a string of bands including Dream Into Dust, Eli and The Indoor Boys, and The Seventh Word.
Patrick Soluri: drums. Award-winning composer: dramatic orchestral music for ballet, opera and film; work performed by New York City Opera and Dances Patrelle, reviewed in the New York Times, the NY Daily News and Back Stage. His work with Freedom Haters, after a 10 year hiatus from the drums, marks his return to respectability. For more info go to www.patricksoluri.com .
Ben Magnuson: electric cello, keys. Graduated from the University of Cincinnati's College Conservatory of Music. He has performed in venues as varied as NYC's Bowery Ballroom and Sin-E to San Francisco's Plush Room, and from Carnegie Hall to the Broadway stages of the New Amsterdam and the Eugene O'Neill.
Was seen last on Broadway & the US tour of "Sweeney Todd" and will be back on Broadway in "Guys & Dolls" in 2009.
Elise Frawley: electric viola. Recently graduated from the
Manhattan School of Music.
Anthony Cekay: saxophones. Anthony recently received a graduate degree in saxophone at New York's City College. He was last seen on "the island..."
Influences: Can, Morphine, Radiohead, Einsturzende Neubauten, The Velvet Underground, The Seventh Word, King Crimson, Bela Bartok, Frank Zappa
Sounds Like: Radiohead, Morphine, Can, The Velvet Underground, Dirty Three, King Crimson (c. 1973), Neu!, Frank Zappa, Led Zeppelin
Record Label: Unknown Indie
Type of Label: Indie
