Idaho (band)

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Idaho
General information
Genre (s) Slowcore , indie rock
founding 1992
Website http://www.idahomusic.com/
Founding members
Jeff Martin
guitar
 John K. Berry
Current occupation
Guitar, piano
Jeff Martin
former members
guitar
 John K. Berry
Guitar u. a.
 Dan Seta
Terry Borden
Mark Lewis

Idaho is an American indie rock band from Los Angeles . Along with Low , Codeine and the Red House Painters, she is considered a pioneer of the slowcore sub-genre . The band has released seven albums as well as several EPs and singles.

history

Idaho was founded as a duo by Jeff Martin and John K. Berry in 1992. In December 1992 they got a recording contract from Caroline Records and in 1993 released the EP The Palms and the debut album Year After Year . For the 1996 album Three Sheets To The Wind , the multi-instrumentalist Dan Seta got on together with the bassist Terry Borden and the drummer Mark Lewis. Already in the beginning they were often compared with bands like American Music Club , Low or the Red House Painters, to which there were textual and musical similarities. Because of their often very slow music and as a result of various tours with like-minded artists, Idaho were quickly referred to as a slowcore band, and they are still considered to be pioneers today.

Over the years Idaho became the solo project of the singer-songwriter Jeff Martin, who recorded most of the last Idaho albums alone. Berry stayed in Idaho. B. connected as a producer. For the 1998 album Alas , Melissa Auf der Maur contributed vocals to some of the songs. The band's music was initially based mainly on Martin's and Berry's four-string tenor guitars, and recently the piano is increasingly being used. The sound is mostly calm to introspective, but occasional outbreaks provide dynamism. On the last published The Lone Gunman , there was a development towards more experimental structures, some of which were referred to as a mixture of Radioheads Kid A with Frédéric Chopin .

Discography

Albums

  • Year After Year (1993, Caroline )
  • This Way Out (1995, Caroline)
  • Three Sheets To The Wind (1996, Caroline)
  • Alas (1998, Buzz)
  • Hearts Of Palm (2000, Idaho Music)
  • Levitate (2001, Idaho Music)
  • The Lone Gunman (2005, Retrophonic)

Compilations etc. Ä.

  • People Like Us Should Be Stopped (Live, Volume 1) (2000, Idaho Music)
  • We Were Young And Needed The Money (2002, Idaho Music)
  • Vieux Carré (2004, Kalinkaland)

EPs

  • The Palms (1993, Caroline)
  • Drive It (1994, Quigley)
  • Bayonet (1995, fingerpaint)
  • The Forbidden (1997, Buzz)

Singles

  • Skyscrape (1993, Ringer's Lactate)
  • Fuel (1993)
  • Pomegranate Bleeding (1996, Caroline)

Web links

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  1. ↑ Slow-core pioneers IDAHO ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at 'The Stanford Daily' (English)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / daily.stanford.edu
  2. ↑ Article in Guitar Player magazine, 1994
  3. ↑ Tolucan Times and Canyon Crier on slidingpast.com (English)