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Bob Powell Biography
Bob Powell is a composer and currently resides in Los Angeles, California. He is a strong supporter of open source audio, software and legal file sharing. He plays a myriad of noise things, likes to write silly musical ditties and an occasional serious ballad. In the year 2004 Bob released a 5 part anthology of his work as open source audio on archive.org (Internet Archive). Bob Powell Anthology spans a 26 year period of recordings from 1975 to 2001, contains 64 original songs and was mastered in the years 2002-2003 by Tom Grimley and himself. Bob is currently mastering his newest solo album entitled "Los Angeles" that is due to be released in December, 2004. Other current projects include mastering Anthology II (Parts 6-10) as well as archiving of musical projects Local Skull and Evil Flower.
Born in Rochester, New York in the year 1961 to parents of Scottish and Irish descent. Joined the U.S. Navy in 1979 and served aboard the U.S.S. Denver based in San Diego, California. Studied Film/Video at Columbia College and The Art Institute of Chicago. Lived and worked at Igloo the Theatrical Group in Chicago, Illinois as it's Resident Composer and Technical Director. Past musical projects include Evil Flower with Ann Boyle (also known as B-Side) and Kathy Everson. Various other horrifyingly bad musical endeavors over the years include The Bathroom Musicians, Local Skull, Theater of Vampires, Pipes of Pain, Dreamscape of the Falcon, Thirsty Brats, Texacala Jones (post Horseheads), Bruce Moreland, Duchess DeSade, Pussywillow Patch, recording Tom Grimley boxes and many other forms of insanity...
Today Bob lives in self imposed exile working on solo projects and does not believe in collaboration or groups of any kind.
"Bob Powell is one tripped-out guy. How do we know? All those echoes bouncing around and colliding in his songs, the non-sensical underwater lyrics, the feeling that his music sounds exactly like the moment when things start melting before your eyes when the trip really takes off. You could bury these tapes in a field and watch the mushrooms grow." -Kali H. (Listen.com)
"Bob is a wandering minstrel, and as our greedy time has harvested every attention, he's sneaking into neighboring backyards while we're sleeping, luring lucid dreamers to pasture. It may be years before he hops your fence, and longer still will his tales of irreversible lovliness shake your sealed windows and charm your fluffy warm blankets before you repent....but you must!! This music will slip in and out of your indescision, ring true when the bells are tolling, and rest on your weary back as wings whilst you run with hastened resignation for the hills....and like a wandering minstrel, gone far too soon." -Tom Grimley (Liner note from Bob Powell Anthology)
"Bob Powell's music reminds me of what punk rock would sound like if it had originated in the backwoods of the deep south by a bunch of drunk, redneck moonshiners." -Goo's Reviews
Born in Rochester, New York in the year 1961 to parents of Scottish and Irish descent. Joined the U.S. Navy in 1979 and served aboard the U.S.S. Denver based in San Diego, California. Studied Film/Video at Columbia College and The Art Institute of Chicago. Lived and worked at Igloo the Theatrical Group in Chicago, Illinois as it's Resident Composer and Technical Director. Past musical projects include Evil Flower with Ann Boyle (also known as B-Side) and Kathy Everson. Various other horrifyingly bad musical endeavors over the years include The Bathroom Musicians, Local Skull, Theater of Vampires, Pipes of Pain, Dreamscape of the Falcon, Thirsty Brats, Texacala Jones (post Horseheads), Bruce Moreland, Duchess DeSade, Pussywillow Patch, recording Tom Grimley boxes and many other forms of insanity...
Today Bob lives in self imposed exile working on solo projects and does not believe in collaboration or groups of any kind.
"Bob Powell is one tripped-out guy. How do we know? All those echoes bouncing around and colliding in his songs, the non-sensical underwater lyrics, the feeling that his music sounds exactly like the moment when things start melting before your eyes when the trip really takes off. You could bury these tapes in a field and watch the mushrooms grow." -Kali H. (Listen.com)
"Bob is a wandering minstrel, and as our greedy time has harvested every attention, he's sneaking into neighboring backyards while we're sleeping, luring lucid dreamers to pasture. It may be years before he hops your fence, and longer still will his tales of irreversible lovliness shake your sealed windows and charm your fluffy warm blankets before you repent....but you must!! This music will slip in and out of your indescision, ring true when the bells are tolling, and rest on your weary back as wings whilst you run with hastened resignation for the hills....and like a wandering minstrel, gone far too soon." -Tom Grimley (Liner note from Bob Powell Anthology)
"Bob Powell's music reminds me of what punk rock would sound like if it had originated in the backwoods of the deep south by a bunch of drunk, redneck moonshiners." -Goo's Reviews
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