New Monsoon

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New Monsoon represents the best of the San Francisco jam scene. Formed during the El Nino rains of Northern California in the late 90's, this band has distilled their original sound with top-flight musicianship, tireless live performing and a thoroughly open-minded musical perspective. NM's unique style blends free-flying rock with acoustic stylings, tight vocal harmonies and lyrical songcraft. With a fearless pioneering spirit, they've become one of the most cutting edge bands on the scene today. "New Monsoon was formed around Bo Carper's acoustic finger-style picking and the sharp, driving leads of electric guitarist Jeff Miller. The interplay of warm acoustic tones and charged electric bite-born from a shared love of Led Zeppelin III-has remained at the heart of it's sound through various line-up changes, now a streamlined quintet with Phil Ferlino (keyboards), Marshall Harrell (Bass) and Sean Hutchinson (drums). New Monsoon is built on the pillars of the 60's SF scene-a healthy dose of improvisation, a psychedelic character and a broad stylistic reach-without expressly emulating anyone" - Dennis Cook, Relix Magazine "They have a collective power that comes off as a real unified force on stage..It's not just a band, you know? It's something transcendental" -Michael Shrieve New Monsoon has shared the stage with heavyweight guests Mike Stern, the late, great Martin Fierro (Zero, Legion of Mary), Steve Kimock, and Tim Carbone (Railroad Earth), to name a few.They've toured with String Cheese Incident, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Umphrey's McGee (Big Summer Classic Tour), supported Moe, The Wailers, etc and are a featured headliner in venues such as the Fillmore (SF), Gothic Theater (Denver), and the Warehouse (Houston). They are also a perennial favorite of the festival circuit including marquee festivals like Bonnaroo, Wakarusa, Langerado, High Sierra, Telluride Bluegrass, Austin City Limits and many others. The band's quality associations continue with their recorded output. 2007's "V" was produced by longtime Grateful Dead sound engineer John Cutler, and 2005's "The Sound" was helmed by original Santana percussionist Michael Shrieve and Paul Kimble (Grant Lee Buffalo, Luna). "Fluid flights emerge from many of the album's (New Monsoon V) best tracks-vivid songwriting fuseed with reemerging themes of search and discovery-they hang humbly from well-fortified compositions." -Jamie Lee, Relix Magazine "This diverse cast of coconspirators speaks to the range and simmering possibilities within New Monsoon's framework, a creative space that embraces instrumentals as well as dead solid songcraft. They are comfortable with complex, genre-scuttling wordless fare that blends World music with heavy metal and Nashville pickin' but is equally at home with road tales that drag us to "Alaska" or up "On The Sun" with words that echo the encompassing good will and philosophy of Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia." -Dennis Cook More information can be found at www.newmonsoon.com

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Nov 18, 10:12 AM

meet you at the greenhouse..... love it!!!!
Aug 14, 07:18 AM

Listening to 1/13/06 right now. Great Blue Queen, Mountain Aire fresh off Jamcruise.
Phil Fish
May 24, 11:05 AM

St. Louis needs the Monsoon.
May 07, 02:36 PM

if anyone is interested in Jeff and Phil's side project PA Furnace, go to: http://www.facebook.com/pages/PA-Furnace/77921352851
May 07, 02:19 PM

how about HSMF again?!
Apr 13, 07:40 PM

Cant wait for the ICS DVD! You guys just make my feet happy gol darn it!!
Mar 19, 07:43 PM

i haven't found anything that says it's a true story, but i'm sure if you hit up their website and ask these katz they'll probably let you know. I would like to think its a real story, but either way it caught my attention more than the rest and i like the whole cd. have you seen these katz live? I saw them up in L.A. one night...great show.
Nov 12 2008, 10:35 PM

Simply the best!