Califone
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Biography
[Edit]After the disintegration of Chicago's blues-rock innovators Red Red Meat, the band's four remaining members struck out on their own, initiating several varied endeavors but never straying too far from their home base, or each other. Ben Massarella and Tim Rutili revived their Perishable Records imprint, Brian Deck opened the Clava recording studios, adjacent to the Perishable offices, and Tim Hurley recorded and released his own Sin Ropas project on the resurrected label. Amid the flurry of activity, all four also found the time to contribute to the ill-fated A&M-commissioned Loftus LP. While enduring the fluctuation between crisis and monotony inherent in the daily operation of a small, independent record label, Rutili began work on his next musical project, Califone.
Named after the pedant audio supply manufacturer, Califone was initially just Rutili banging out songs with a computer. Eventually, he began to enlist the help of some familiar cohorts and cycled through several transient contributors; ultimately, the revolving cast spawned 1998's self-titled debut EP. A joint Flydaddy/Perishable release, the record was distinctly more focused and confident than Red Red Meat's swan song, There's a Star Above the Manger Tonight. While still incorporating the bizarre sounds and sequenced beats of that record, this time the band didn't allow its in-studio experimentation to overwhelm the songs. Interestingly, at the end of the nascent recording sessions for Califone, someone in Rutili's new conglomerate noticed that the band was, in effect, a reincarnation of Red Red Meat; the principal members of the supposedly defunct quartet were the only remaining people in the studio.
A second self-titled EP followed in 2000 on Portland's Road Cone label, which soon after was paired with the first on the Sometimes Good Weather Follows Bad People compilation. With Califone's fundamental studio lineup at least temporarily solidified as Massarella, Rutili, and Deck, the band recorded its debut LP, Roomsound, with an open-door policy; members of Eleventh Dream Day, Tortoise, and Fruit Bats all performed on the album. Released in the spring of 2001, Roomsound fused the disparate elements the band had been struggling to unite since There's a Star Above the Manger Tonight, creating a cohesive, affecting album.
The limited-edition Deceleration One appeared in February 2002, showcasing some of Califone's stunning live-recorded instrumentals. It was a combination of film loop mixing by Jeff Economy and Carolyn Faber and a puppetry sketch interpreted by Califone. A month later, Sometimes Good Weather Follows Bad People was released, capturing the two new tracks as well as material from the band's two previously out of print EPs initially available on Flydaddy and Road Cone. Rutili and Massarella were on a roll. They collected additional musicians during the summer of 2002 for the recording of the Quicksand/Cradlesnakes EP. It's a rough-edged, dark effort, but Califone's ever-changing musical cinema remained at its best. Released in 2004, Heron King Blues further refined their blending of melodic acoustic compositions and experimental tendencies before the band went on hiatus for most of 2005 while Rutili focused on soundtrack work. The band reconvened in late 2005 to begin work on Roots & Crowns, released in October 2006. All My Friends Are Funeral Singers followed in 2009. Bluesy, broken, and impressionistic, 2013's Southwest-birthed Stitches was the first Califone release to be recorded entirely outside of the Windy City.
Title: Villagers
Artist: Califone
Genre: Indie Rock, World Music, Alternative Country, Experimental, Folk
Title: Heron King Blues
Artist: Califone
Genre: Rock, Blues Rock, Indie Rock, Progressive Rock, Punk Rock, Alternative
Title: Sometimes Good Weather Follows Bad People (Expanded)
Artist: Califone
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Progressive Rock, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist
Title: Quicksand/Cradlesnakes
Artist: Califone
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Progressive Rock, Alternative
Title: Quicksand / Cradlesnakes
Artist: Califone
Genre: Rock, Experimental Rock, Indie Rock, Post Rock, Progressive Rock, Alternative
Title: Sometimes Good Weather Follows Bad People
Artist: Califone
Genre: Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, World Music, Alternative, Folk
Title: Roots and Crowns
Artist: Califone
Genre: Rock, Blues Rock, Indie Rock, Alternative, Songwriter/Lyricist
Collections
Title: Chamber Music - James Joyce (1907). 1-36.
Genre: Alternative
Title: Plum
Genre: Electronica, Rock
Title: BOATS: A Transgressive North Compilation
Genre: World Music
Title: Indie Electro Pop October 2013
Genre: Indie Pop, Indie Rock, Alternative
Title: Indie 69 September 2013 (CD1)
Genre: Indie
Title: Indie 69 October 2013 (CD1)
Genre: Indie
Title: 100 Greatest Indie Folk (CD2)
Genre: Power Pop, Post Punk, World Music, Country, Pop, Alternative, Folk
Title: 100 Greatest Alt Country & Americana (CD2)
Genre: Rock, Indie Rock, Punk Rock, Pop Rock, Alternative
Title: Spelljams 2022
Genre: Indie Rock, Alternative
Title: Pop Rock: Hits Of The Alternative Scene (CD1)
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, Pop, Alternative, Indie
Title: The Test Of Imagination (CD3)
Genre: Rock, Punk Rock, Pop, Alternative, Indie
Title: In The World Of Sound Herbarium (CD2)
Genre: Pop Rock, Alternative, Indie
Featuring albums
Title: Music From The Motion Picture Stranger Than Fiction
Artist: Various
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack
Title: Watch Dogs (Original Soundtrack) (Deluxe Edition) (CD1)
Artist: Brian Reitzell, Peter Connelly
Genre: Theatre/Soundtrack