Member Since: 04/03/2006
Band Website: www.myspace.com/vanaspace, [email protected]
Band Members: Messrs. Pepe Belmonte, Robin Mukherjee, Murray McCleary of the London boroughs south and west.
Influences: Some of those old folk tunes gasping for water. BUt paying tribute to...Blind Willlie Mctell, Son house, Blind Willie JOhnson, Pierre the Blues man, Leadbelly, Hank Williams, Valiant Swart, Koos Kombuis, David Kramer, Days of the new, Pearl Jam, Hein Schulie, Gillian Welch, The Band, Augustus Pablo, Bach, Shostakovich, Bob Dylan and Marley, Aphex Twin, Stravinsky, Bjork, The Books, Billie Holiday, Earl Hines, Beethoven, Brian Wilson, Squarepusher, Fat Freddies Drop, Blind Blake, Blur, Kronos Quartet, Thelonius Monk, The National, Count Basie, Ernest Ranglin, Iration Steppas, Dubchasm, Zappa, Palestrina, Rokia Traore, Rachmaninof,The Decemberists, Animal Collective, Taffetas, John Martyn old, Moss Beynon Juckes, Akli D, Ba Cissoko, Kate Bush, Howlin Wolf, Hem, The Broken Family Band,Robert Johnson, Charlie Christian, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Jimmy Smith, Rueben Willson, Wes Montgomery, Dave Brubeck, Grant Green, The Meters, David Axelrod, Chopin, Debussy, Villa Lobos, Faure, Tarrega, Beethoven, Bach, Phillip Glass, Cut Chemist, DJ Shadow, Dan The Automator, Del The Funky Homosapian, Jurassic 5, Madlib, MF Doom, J-Rocc, Fourtet, Bonobo, Mos Def, Hitek, Talib Kweli, Cypress Hill, Tribe Called Quest, Deftones, Rage Against the Machine, Nirvana, Ben Harper, Niel young, Nick Drake, Bob Dylan, The Band, Jimmy Hendrix, The Beatles. David Bowie, Roots Manuva, GreenAcre, Rooibaardt and of course Mr. Tom waits.
Sounds Like: The Mississippi Sheiks making love to black waistcoats and whiskey.
Record Label: YouknowIdidnotknowhomecookingcouldtastethisgood.