Sophomore effort from the Delaware A-Team. The DIRT WEED REVUE, drops drones and keeps it classy.
This live Moral Crayfish album documents the collaboration between Dan Cohoon on prepared guitar & special guest Scott Verrastro (Kohoutek) on percussion. It was recorded over the course of the Fall of 2009. Scott Slimm recorded the performance @ the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia on 9/09/09. Steve Sanford recorded the performance @ the Crooked Shoe on 11/03/09. It was edited by Dan Cohoon @ Field Theory Recordings. You can download the entire album for free here.
Much like the mineral Gadolinite, which the latest Moral Crayfish album is named after, this album is a dark dense brooding affair. This album marks Dan Cohoon’s third time to participating in the National Solo Album Month contest, which happens every November. All Sounds produced were made using prepared/ unprepared guitar, hand percussion, thrift shop snare drum, Yamaha DX-100 keyboard, Christmas tree watering device used as a horn, bells, violin, thumb harp, harmonica and various other house hold objects. These sounds were then manipulated and layered on a laptop to create the dense sonic environments.
Moral Crayfish was honored to be offered a chance to play at the Knitting Factory for the podcast Country Feedback. It was my first live appearance in five years. It was recorded by Jeffory Simmons and edited by my self, Dan Cohoon. All sounds on the recording were produced using a prepared guitar and effect pedals. You can down load the entire performance for free here.
Five years ago, three days after Christmas the Taken Girls got together for their second to last jam session (their last one was on Valentine's Day night on KBOO) Jacob Anderson (Tape Mountain & Gang Wizard), Dan Cohoon (Moral Crayfish & Montgomery Park) and Eric Matchett (Turkey Makes Me Sleepy) rocked the Sky Pad one last time. What was produced is the most straight ahead rocking to date (if you think 12 min songs are straight ahead). The album is called EASIER THAN HOPE (as in, it is easier not to have hope).
Montgomery Park was formed at the turn of the century in Portland, Oregon by Dan Cohoon, Kelly Joseph and Jim Ebenhoh. They named their band after a historic warehouse-turned-office building in northwest Portland. The band only used toy instruments, mostly bought from confused kids at garage sales, “That is a toy, why do you want that? You are NOT a kid.”
Moniker was a band that existed roughly between the years of 1996-1999. The band played out exactly four times. Moniker was an improv based project between my brother and me.
The name Catastrophic Success comes from one of the many brilliant mis-statements our dear leader has made in regards to Iraq. A reporter asked what he thought of the situation in Iraq. George W. Bush replied that it was a “Catastrophic Success!” Well, he got it half right.
Recorded in the summer & fall of 2004 in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania. Mastered by Mini-Wagonwheel in Portland, Oregon in the winter of 2005. The quote, “We did not do it, but we dug it,” originated in the documentary The Weather Underground. It is what a hippy girl said after the Weathermen bombed the United States Capital Building.
Moral Crayfish: We did not do it, but we dug it! is available for purchase
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