odd owl

What does an Odd Owl sound like? Like most of San Francisco, Odd Owl comes from everywhere. When Washington musician/producer Carmen Caruso returned to the bay after receiving her Masters in Electro-Acoustic Music, she looked for a musical collaboration through the classic avenue: Craigslist. There she met the Southern Californian budding songwriter and part-time community college student, Philip Jacobsen. They formed a band, made a record, and booked a tour, only to see it dissolve in the winter of 2010. Read more on Last.fm …read full bio

What does an Odd Owl sound like? Like most of San Francisco, Odd Owl comes from everywhere. When Washington musician/producer Carmen Caruso returned to the bay after receiving her Masters in Electro-Acoustic Music, she looked for a musical collaboration through the classic avenue: Craigslist. There she met the Southern Californian budding songwriter and part-time community college student, Philip Jacobsen. They formed a band, made a record, and booked a tour, only to see it dissolve in the winter of 2010. Not wanting to cancel the tour, Caruso and Jacobsen wrote new songs and set out as Odd Owl. Over the next two years, they started to create a new sound from their eclectic influences. They incorporated classic pop, post-punk, world, and indie-folk into their own brand of polyrhythmic, polyphonic poly-pop. In 2011, they found fellow SF non-natives, Adam Wadenius and Stephen Munoz. Wadenius brought a modern drumming style honed in the Northern California art rock community. Born into Chicago's post/space rock scene, multi-instrumentalist Munoz joined on bass after working with Caruso in the 2011 Silicon Valley Rocks fundraiser. Through 2012, the new Odd Owl played shows all along the west coast and rewrote their catalog into something progressive, never unwieldy, and thoroughly now. Now, in 2013, there are muscles in the Owl's wings. Wadenius's complex and tuneful drumming, Munoz's inimitable ear for melodic rhythm, Jacobsen's wit and percussive guitar, and Caruso's finesse as a producer and songwriter are pushing Odd Owl's poly-pop out of the bedroom coziness of their first two EPs and into the joyful, darker, and livelier night. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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