Member Since: 2/9/2006
Band Website: fellaheen.com
Band Members: NEW...Check out demos for the upcoming album here
The Fellaheen collective includes
Bruce Hanson (whatever, words&music, scary white hair), Mark Orlandini (drums, cigar box guitar luthier), Joe Borthwick (upright bass, guitar, vocals, whiskey), Dan Trent (guitar, banjo, mandolin, accordion, coffee, youth), Brian Wilson (percussion, piano, famous name), Kremlin Evans (electric bass, guitar, anagrams)
Spiritual sherpa: Dennis Connors (photos, dramatic reading, road crew), Lisa Gillard (photography, dramatic reading, PR, road crew), Bill Glovin (road crew, moral support), Bill Haduch (voce basso profundo), R. Richard Hobbs (video, road crew), Will Landin (dramatic reading, road crew)
On Extended Hiatus (establishing Fellaheen's Hong Kong branch office): Ben Bair (bass, trombone, tuba, euphonium, guitar)
Past contributors: Frank Agliata (bass), Doug Frank (harmonica), David Schwab (violin)
Influences: Do it yourself, Tom Waits, Beatles, Kurt Weill, Joe Strummer, Marc Ribot, Walter Benjamin, Joe Henry, Susan Sontag, Replacements, Harry Partch, Big Star, The Minutemen, phosphenes (those flashes of lights you see when you close your eyes), synaesthesia (seeing colors whenever you hear sounds), Lester Bangs, Mad Magazine (1950s-1970s), Roberto Clemente, Jack Kerouac, John Coltrane, Jean-Paul Sartre, Barney Kessel, Vittorio De Sica, George Carlin, albert Ayler, Tenzin Gyatso, Elliott Sharp, Thomas Pynchon, Madeline Kahn, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Patti Smith, Captain Beefheart, Dante Aligheri, Wes Montgomery, Robert Frank’s photographs, The Who, Impulse Records (1950s-1960s), Kenny Burrell, Rainer Maria Rilke, The Clash, Sam Phillips, Jim Jarmusch, John Sayles’ "Matewan", "Reds", "American Splendor", "Until the End of the World", ferrets as household companions, Randy Newman, Bugs Bunny, Mott the Hoople, Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami, megaphones, insomnia, buffalo wings, red red wine, and a thousand other malcontents recorded, unrecorded, celebrated and forgotten.
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FELLAHEEN: The Excommunicate's Canzonet
It's got a good beat, and you can brood to it—particularly if you feeling like you're watching the engine of history jump the tracks...
FELLAHEEN: Busking for Karma
Rockin' hard and poppy, guitars and drums battling the forces of oppression (real and unreal), looking for salvation in all the wrong places
FELLAHEEN: Dispatches from Quarantine
Existentially, a concept album about communication, brokedown and otherwise...conceptually, an existential album about 45 minutes long
What some nice folks have said about Fellaheen:
“Fellaheen succeeds in tribal exorcisms, garage-a-delia, and sparse Americana with equal skill...great imagery alongside some soul-baring episodes, and just the right sense of humor and the macabre...â€
—Bill Holmes, Pop Culture Press
“...Armed with an uncanny (and unfair) sense of melody...living with impossible vibrancy...â€
— F5Wichita.com
“Oozes unforgettable melodies in a winning mix of contexts...â€
— Fufkin.com
"Trippy, dark, and rumbling like a lumbering monster waving a bong, [Fellaheen] will shroud you in storm clouds and blow your mind. Lou Reed would get high to this. Tim Burton would write an animated movie to go with this soundtrack. Johnny Depp would be too spooked to lend his voice to it...."
— Jennifer Layton, Indie-Music.com
"Subsonic and supreme... Fellaheen toys with your mind and leads you into realms just south of the norm..."
—Airforce Records
Record Label: EGADS Music
Type of Label: Indie