The Willo Collective

https://willocollective.bandcamp.com

The Willo CollectivePart ambient band,Part art ensemble.willocollective.com"Alright, alright, this is familiar now. by The Willo Collective's Jon Brown, Dylan Greene, Chris Sies, and Evan Laybourn, released 08 January 20141. I'm always the guy going to the motor" he says.2. "Maybe it's the scene outside our current window, snowing3. after some kind of tight-chestedness, ceaseless and enormous.4. It's a hot wind, the sky is brown and burnt like unsavory5. memories (or crank, cluster, and pick-axe) or maybe the answer isn't6. stillness. You can spin or float and either way it's easy.""The idea to improvise as four percussionists on one vibraphone was inspired by Elliot Cole's Postludes. We took that idea to farmer's markets, art galleries, a yoga studio, and street corners around Michigan and Ohio. After a year performing and experimenting in public, private, static, and liminal spaces, we recorded the improvisations that became "Alright, alright, this is familiar now. Only after did we decide that the composition was more so the people, the place, and the limitations of space across the same instrument rather than the notes and their (dis)order."performed & conceived by Jon Brown, Dylan Greene, Chris Sies and Evan Laybourn~recorded by Isaac Levinemixed by Dylan Greenetitles written by Nola Smith and Dylan Greenealbum artwork and design by Dylan Greene~instrumentation vibraphone, tam-tam, oxygen tanks, metal chains, nipple gongs, wind gong~Featured on I CARE IF YOU LISTEN's Spring 2014 Mixtape"...there's something brewing the the water in Ann Arbor..."- Larry & Arlene Dunn

City: Ann Arbor

State: Michigan

Country: USA (US)

Currency : USD

Platform: Bandcamp

Technologies used: Fastly CDN