Feathers is from Miami. Feathers is Eddie Alonso, Matt Crum, and Eric Rasco. A trio of musical prodigies and wild men, they rarely leave the tropics. When they do, the end up at SOMA in Chicago, where they are recording their debut EP trilogy with John McEntire and a slew of Chicago musicians. Absolute Noon was released on Hometapes last year. This Fall brings Synchromy, the second installment and a testament to quack medicine, magic, mock horror, the Bible, spirituality, the moon, snakes, great egomaniacs, paradise, and the idea of taking real drugs. Taking cues from dusty stacks of library music albums and the possibilities of analog synthesis and progressive psychedelia, Feathers crafts new music in old ways.
Biography by William Ruhlmann
Not to be confused with several other acts of the same name, the Miami-based avant-garde instrumental rock trio Feathers, consisting of members Eddie Alonso (formerly of See Venus and Chroma), Matt Crum, and Eric Rasco, traveled to SOMA Electronic Music Studios in Chicago to record their debut EP, Absolute Noon, for Hometapes with John McEntire. The disc was released in 2005, and the group declared it to be only the first of a trio of EPs. The second, Synchromy, was issued on October 17, 2006.
Review by William Ruhlmann
The instrumental trio Feathers (not to be confused with other artists of the same name), consisting of keyboard player/guitarist Eddie Alonso, drummer Matt Crum, and bassist Eric Rasco, issues the second of a projected trilogy of EPs with Synchromy, which is informed by a rock sensibility out of the late '60s or early '70s. In fact, much of the time, the music sounds like the instrumental break or solo section of a song by some psychedelic or progressive rock act of that era -- the Doors, Frank Zappa, Iron Butterfly, the Who, etc. -- except that the singer never comes back in to bring that song to its conclusion; instead, the music mutates into something else and continues on. It makes for a trippy listening experience and might accompany a light show or portions of a '70s science fiction movie.
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