“We are no longer one-dimensional people,” he announced. Before he became a member of Megafaun, Cook was part of DeYarmond Edison, a band led by Bon Ivers Justin Vernon. He is a member of the freak-folk band Megafaun. Speaking from the stage at Merkin Concert Hall during their Ecstatic Music appearance last year, Dreyblatt said such genre transcending collaborations wouldn’t have been possible several decades ago. phil cook is an American guitarist, banjoist, pianist and singer. “This record with Arnold marks a step towards Megafaun becoming more of a live-in-the-studio recording band, a more traditional and time-tested method.” Expand Phil Cook was breast-feeding when I arrived at his home in Durhamor so the Megafaun member. It’s “the most rewarding way to record,” said Joe Westerlund. Megafaun plays Cat's Cradle Thursday, Sept. The album was recorded live in the studio with no click track and minimal separation, a new experience for the men of Megafaun. They connected again last February to play the Ecstatic Music Festival in New York City. to lay down the tracks that make up Appalachian Excitation.
Excited about the performance, they booked the Pinebox Recording studio in Graham, N.C. They presented Dreyblatt’s compositions at the 2008 Wire Festival in Chicago and concerts in Boston and NYC.īusy schedules kept them from working together again until the 2012 Hopscotch Music Festival in Raleigh, North Carolina, just a stretch of mountains south from where they’d developed their joint sound. The following year they were able to schedule a week long residency at Salem Art Works in the mountains of upstate New York, where Dreyblatt taught them the just intonation tuning system he’d developed as well as some of the instruments he’d devised. After a decade of crafting their sound, Westerlund contacted Jeff Hunt, owner of the Table of the Elements label, looking to get in touch with Dreyblatt, whose work all three admired. The North Carolina by way of Wisconsin trio Megafaun (comprised of brothers Brad and Phil Cook and Joe Westerlund) has been working since 1997, when the three met at the H.O.R.D.E. His music is based on his own vocabulary of pulse and self-designed instrumentation. Now based in Berlin, where he is active as a visual artist and as a composer. Such categorizations have to be set aside before taking in their Appalachian Excitation.īorn in New York in 1953, Dreyblatt came up under such lauded experimental groundbreakers as Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros and La Monte Young, obtaining a Master’s degree in composition from Wesleyan University. Tickets and more information on the show can be found at the XPN Concert Calendar.The meeting of composer Arnold Dreyblatt and psych-folk trio Megafaun shouldn’t be seen as unlikely just because it’s cross-generational, or even (arguably) cross-genre. Watch video of the cover below, listen to Cook’s World Cafe session and see him play Philly tonight at Boot and Saddle. Both sides of that coin can be heard in his cover of “1922” by Duluth, MN singer-songwriter Carlie Parr – a song he recently performed live during a stop at The Twin Cities’ radio station The Current. Last year, Cook released Southland Mission, his second solo album and an admirable blend of psychedelic twang and more traditional roots rock. (He also recorded with Hiss on the Cafe’s recent visit to Durham, NC – listen for it later this month.) When that band split, brothers Phil and Brad Cook and their longtime friend Joe Westerlund reconvened as Megafaun. He’s also a frequent collaborator, as we see in his role of The Happiest Lead Guitar Playing Dude Ever in Hiss Golden Messenger’s 2014 World Cafe Session. He got his start in Justin Vernon’s first band, DeYarmond Edison, and went on to perform with Megafaun and Gayngs. Phil Cook has been around the block a bit. Phil Cook performs in The Current studio | Photo by Nate Ryan / 89.3 The Current
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