It's a long story involving another band called The New York Room, the film with Veronica Lake, and perhaps most importantly the fact that the blue gene for dahlias was lost, making a Blue Dahlia an anomaly.

We do play live! We live in Kalamazoo and roam around these parts fairly often. We are putting plans in action to leave these parts to visit yours.

Well, there's stuff like this for people like us. We like the freedom to be ourselves.

We would have to read it first. ;) What we're really interested in is marketing and distribution.

Bits of the gang got together in 1995, so we've been at it for 10 years. Mates have come and gone, but the core has remained cool. We have a number of CDs we're proud of (The General, This Floating World)and a growing repertoire of live modern scores for silent film (Buster Keaton, Clara Bow)and modern dance, plus some commercial credits. At the moment, it's the future we're excited about...

juana molina, cocteau twins, trilok gurtu, lhasa, tom waits, laurie anderson, jaco pastorius, U2, the church, dead can dance, and and and

middle of a lake

far too much. there's a lot of percussion. and a lot of cable. and microphones. and guitars. and sound effects. and we still have to carry it ourselves.