Matt Swope, of quaint suburb Santa Clarita CA, moved to Brooklyn NY in 2005 to start an exciting career in office assistanting. Soon realizing he was no match for the exhilaration involved in such work, he took a job as a bike messenger in Manhattan and began to write music about his daily adventures. In his travels, he ran into (literally) Graham Bishop, a popular restaurant food server and music legend. The ensuing bruised ribs and scraped knees quickly healed into a band known as the Señors of Marseille. Today, after a long day of swerving between taxi cabs, Matt works toward bringing his special brand of catchy folk-pop power piano to The Señors of Marseille, and thus, the world...
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Graham Bishop's meteoric rise to rock superstardom began, humbly enough, in the driver's seat of a 1991 Nissan Sentra GXE when, at a stop light in his home town of California, he rapped and hummed nonstop for at least three and a half minutes to the tick tock of his left turn signal. It was then that he realized that those in the world with ears ought to hear his sounds. Soon after the Sentra, Graham purchased (with his hard-earned greenbacks) a blue 1999 Ford Ranger that he adoringly named Lexi, after his one and only gay crush (seriously) on soccer megastar, Alexi Lalas. In his Ranger, Graham remixed hundreds of songs using only his steering wheel, hazard lights, and vocal chords. Music was calling and Graham could not help but answer.
In the fall of '05, only four years after 9/11, Graham traded in his car keys and California for a metrocard and New York. He began, with feverish intensity, composing symphonies of subway dings, whirrs, and toe taps. Wherever Graham went, he found that going there made him make music. The satellite sound is inescapable – even underground – and Graham knew it. He bought a guitar. He bought a computer with music recording capabilities. He bought a microphone. With the necessary tools in hands, Graham and his college janitor friend, Matt Swope, created what most people in the Americas call a "trilingual, acoustic, garage rock-splosion," The Señors of Marseille.
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