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eohippus all contents copyright 2007 max carmichael | why eohippus? bio contact | |
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arts portfolio: visual arts music writing events design | |
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music: bands | back next | |
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Terra Incognita 1981-1989 My best-known band, TI recorded on Ralph Records and traveled to New York for shows at the Knitting Factory and other hip venues on the strength of a Village Voice review. Terra Incognita started when I invited old friends from CalArts to join my new San Francisco friends in a show at Club Foot in early 1981. I had a bunch of new songs, we got together a couple times just before the show, and I stayed out all night postering. There was a big turnout of total strangers and they loved us and kept us playing through three long sets. The San Francisco contingent continued as the experimental group of 1981-2, followed by the electric string band that went to New York and recorded on Ralph Records, the brief version in which Katie and I recruited real musicians to back us up in 1988, and finally my funky dance-band version in 1989. The 1981 Terra Incognita developed compositions automatically out of weekly jam sessions, organizing immersive "performance art" events in public, like our Financial District event culminating in a maypole dance at Bank of America Plaza. The "Ralph Records" TI used electric guitar, bass, and violin, and three voices, adapting bluegrass and juju instrumental styles, with songs written by each of us. We played up to four times a month, at every club in the Bay Area, for three straight years, both headlining and opening for acts like Camper Van Beethoven and Flaming Lips, and developing a devoted audience. Katie was furiously negotiating with bigger record companies when we decided to break up the band and start over. Our only cover song, "Rank Stranger", is still played on the radio from time to time. The final, funky TI played at large venues all over northern California, opening for popular world-beat bands like the Looters and Zulu Spear. |
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mp3 samples 1981-1982: Betsy Ayers, Max Carmichael, Scott Rankin, Jon Spayde, Gary Tanner, Mark Twohy. Guests: Gary Bachman, Francesca Jackson, Clara Lusardi, Mark Norris.
1984-1988: Max Carmichael, Katie Rauh, Mark Twohy. Guests: Benjamin Bossi, John Walker.
1988-1989: Sophie Barnes, Max Carmichael, Michael Corbett, Mike Elias, Wendell Rand. Guests: Irish, Lygea.
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