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There was once a time when you could walk down a cobblestone street, horses clomping as they drew carriages of noblemen from one baron's mansion to the next, and pass by the members of Hour of the Shipwreck without batting an eyelash. But times have changed, and in a Los Angeles music scene obsessed with rehashing the sounds and fashion of the seventies, a quintet of musicians festooned in the garb of the nineteenth-century upper crust and swarthy pirates is bound to stick out. But this two-year-old ensemble has never played by the rules: with its long-form art songs winding their way through decaying forests of gothic folk, jazz harmonies and sublimely textured post-rock, Hour of the Shipwreck sounds like nobody else.
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RICHIE KOHAN - 12 String Guitar, Vocals

BARBARA GRUSKA - Drums, Vocals

MARCEL CAMARGO - Guitars, Orchestra Bells, Vocals

AARON ARNTZ - Wind Organ, Keyboards, Bells, Orchestra Bells, Vocals (plays in Zappa Plays Zappa)

GABE NOEL - Upright and Electric Bass, Vocals

Prospect park on a cool foggy day, Prospect park at dusk in late August full of fireflies, Central Park looking across the lake at the looming trees dipping into the water, Golden Gate Park where it is always autumn

Anything that takes you somewhere and makes you want to stay forever.

Pirates of the Caribbean after the first drop when it is still dark, there is a ship cracked in half and the captain, a grinning pirate skeleton blowing in the wind, is steering the wreckage through dark rushing clouds, and the smell, the smell that can't be found anywhere other than the happiest place on Earth.

The music from a wonderful nightmare.

Somewhere between the Midieval, Baroque, and the Victorian but post Bjork and Radiohead.

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