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Misha

Last night we pwned, then we r0x0r'ed, then pwned.

About Me

We are from everywhere. And nowhere! This is us:
Ash lives in NYC and works as a living mannequin. Ash likes to dance dance revolution. Nunu and Andrew are in Texas doing architectstuff; Nunu designed our first logo and demo album boxes, and Andrew is our sarcastic mascot. John travels, wears a suit, and sells his soul to buy music equipment and videogames. Ivan is our former member-at-large in Tokyo and Taiwan, we think he's a drawer/modeler but we're really not sure.We make pop music that comes from our many influences--music that is pop but like furniture too and buildings and cities, especially cities. We hope you like some of it, if not all of it. And if you don't like any of it, well, hopefully you don't hate it. And if you hate it, well, there's no pleasing everyone. And if everyone hates it, well, at least we all still have dayjobs for now. We have an album out called "Teardrop Sweetheart" on Tomlab, and it's sad happy. Mense Reents produced it. (He's amazing.) And his friends helped. (They are awesome too.)
Our album came out on 6/19 in the States! Woohoo! And you can click on the picture below if you'd like to get it in the US:
If you'd like to be our friend, send us a message and tell us something!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/22/2005
Band Members: Original Misha: Ash - Edit, programming, tambourines, edits some more John - bangs ..s, strings, and everything listens to AshSuperMisha: + Alisha - vocals, guitar, tambourine + Ed - bass + Evan - drums, percussion + Jonathan - vocals, bass, guitar, keyboard, samples + Mallory - vocals, keyboardFormerMisha: Nunu & Andrew - plucks, draws, lines, boxes, makes, things
Influences: George Martin, Dwight Yoakum, Lyle Lovett, Andres Levin, Burt Bacharach, Juan Atkins, Tujiko Noriko, Matthew Herbert, Neu, Kraftwerk, Jayhawks, Harry Nilsson, Sutekh, Crowded House, Bill Frisell, Joe Henry, Van Dyke Parks, Sam Phillips, Bjork, Johnny Hartman, Raphael Saadiq, Sarah Vaughn, Marisa Monte, Arto Lindsay, Jeff Buckley, Nina Simone, Billy Strayhorn, Curtis Mayfield, Luciano Berio, Beatles, Timbaland, Wallace Roney, Little Jimmy Scott, Solomon Burke, Ron Sexsmith, Brenda Holloway, Mitchell Froom, Tchad Blake, Daft Punk, Caetano Veloso, Carlinhos Brown, Jon Brion, Astor Piazzolla, Alban Berg, The Mavericks, SRV, Kishore Kumar, R D Burman, and a bunch of other stuff for music Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Wong Kar Wai, Stephen Frears, Shinji Aoyama, Katsuhito Ishii, Bernardo Bertolucci, Sergei Parajanov, Andrei Tarkovsky, Alfonso Cuaron, Robert Altman, Anh Hung Tran, Steven Spielberg, Buster Keaton, Rene Clair, and a bunch of other stuff for film JLBorges, George Herriman, Haruki Murakami, Mark Halpern, Richard Powers, Y Kawabata, Jose Saramago, Matsumoto, Kazuo Ishiguro, Pico Iyer, VSNaipaul, Maurice Sendak, GK Chesterton, Conan Doyle, Anne Carson, Wallace Stevens, and others for books and things to read
Sounds Like: A lot of pop and Brill building. And then a little dirt. And faith that there's something underneath it all.
Record Label: Tomlab
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The algorithm resolves to us

We were in Texas last night and went into a formerly independent bookstore called Bookstop, once a 50's movie theater, now gutted internally and replaced with a Borders 'n Nobles.  But that's not...
Posted by Misha on Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:18:00 PST

Things we things we

Ah, summer is busy! Look for Ash in a couple of ads coming up! And looks for us in fried chicken houses across America. From Dinastia China to Bon Chon, we love our fried chicken. Ahem. Anyhoo, t...
Posted by Misha on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:50:00 PST

More stuff we like: part 3

Ah the joys of spring.  Rain, sun, hot, cold, more rain, and then some.  It gives us a lot of time to listen to our records, when we're not GTA/IronMan/Harold/Kumar/MarioKarting.  So th...
Posted by Misha on Wed, 07 May 2008 09:01:00 PST

More stuff we like

Mixing and recording continues--last night, we tried some songs out with actual bass and drums. Awesome! So, what have we been listening to now?1. Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale - A great chamber thea...
Posted by Misha on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:39:00 PST

things like we

Hello! As we’re getting our next record started, we’re enjoying the process of just relaxing our brains and enjoying media without thinking/filtering too much. So, a little more of thing...
Posted by Misha on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:23:00 PST

hello lovelies/M&M conference

We rocked! We played! We saw faces! Smiles! Nodding heads. Hello darlings, just a quick note since we haven’t posted in ages! So our live band is coming together! Still a little too much ...
Posted by Misha on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 11:00:00 PST

Playing-doh! (Happy Chinese New Year soon!)

So why the long paws, you ask. Well, no reason, 'cept we been busy! And it's winter. And now we's back together in NYC, hellyeah! So what's been going on? In reverse chronological order, Ash has...
Posted by Misha on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:39:00 PST

Happy Holidays! (We saw Aimee Mann last night)

Hello dear friends,Thanks for the very nice letters and notes! We thought, since it's nearing the holidays, we'd say hello again, and wish everyone a good holiday, or at least better days ahead, whil...
Posted by Misha on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 09:30:00 PST

Happy Thanksgiving!

Dearest Misha-friends,For those of us in the States, we hope you are having a Happy Thanksgiving weekend!  For our friends around the world, we hope you are enjoying the change of seasons--thanks...
Posted by Misha on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 08:46:00 PST

Driving driving driving, RAWHIDE!

We went on a roadtrip this past long weekend in Texas--it was fantastic. Most non-Texans think this means driving to Austin to bask in the glow of cool, granola hipsters hangin' in the nexus between ...
Posted by Misha on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:16:00 PST