Member Since: 2/20/2005
Band Website: fredoviola.com
Band Members: Fredo Viola - Vocals, programming, miscellaneous musical (and non-musical) sounds
Musicians that I worked with on the recording of my first album, The Turn, are as follows:
Brent Follis and his warm drumming style is present on a good many of the album tracks.
Ike Sturm adds deep upright bass for a number of the tracks.
Tony Morales adds cool, clean guitar to a bunch of the tracks as well.
Guest musicians also including Nami Unreal and Basso Profundo Nils Christian Fossdal doing some fab vocals, Cosmo D on cello, Deltasleep providing awesome beats and keys, Peter Buettner on flute, Dmitri Moderbacher on more flute!, André Canniere on trumpet, Paul Olenick on trombone, Deirdre White on harp... Hopefully many more to be added!
Influences:
In music:
Johann Sebastian Bach,
Modest Mussorgsky,
Dmitri Shostakovich,
Benjamin Britten,
Alfred Schnittke,
Igor Stravinsky,
Bela Bartok,
W.A. Mozart,
Biff Rose,
Ward Swingle and the Swingle Singers
Joni Mitchell,
Harry Nilsson,
Belle and Sebastian,
Radiohead,
Boards of Canada,
The Osbourne Brothers,
Odetta,
Irma Thomas,
Miles Davis,
Thelonius Monk,
Antonio Carlos Jobim (yes, love his music a lot!), White Noise,
Delia Derbyshire,
Silver Apples,
Kate Bush's "The Dreaming" and part two of "Hounds of Love",
I love the Animal Collective/Vashti Bunyon collab: "Prospect Hummer"
In film:
Fellini Fellini Fellini... (all his output starting from 8 1/2 up through City of Women),
Bergman (especially Fanny and Alexander, Cries and Whispers and The Magic Flute),
Fassbinder (especially Berlinalexanderplatz and Querelle),
The Night of the Hunter,
Baby Doll,
The Wicker Man,
Scorcese (especially After Hours),
David Lynch,
Punch Drunk Love... and oh, man I hope he makes more great movies like this!
The Old Dark House,
and definitely, oh quite definitely, Sweet Movie.
In literature:
Franz Kafka,
Jose Donoso,
Louis-Ferdinand Celine,
Tennessee Williams,
Robert Walser,
Nikolai Gogol,
Jorges Luis Borges,
Elias Caneti,
Jean Genet
Sounds Like: meself!
Record Label: Because
Type of Label: Indie