- Sky Cries Mary
, that formed in the late 1980s.
The husband and wife team of
Roderick Wolgamott Romero andAnisa Romero sing dual lead vocals.Other principal band members includeMichael Cozzi (formerly ofShriekback ), who produces their albums and plays guitar, Ben Ireland on drums, Juano on bass, and William Bernhard on guitar and keyboards. Recently Kent Halvorsen joined the band on keyboards.Gordon Raphael (producer forThe Strokes ) played keyboards until 1997. The first album, from 1989, featured Roderick Wolgamott Romero playing withJon Auer andKen Stringfellow fromThe Posies . The second album, released in 1990, featured the same trio, joined byScott Mercado , Alfred Butler,Stephen Brian-Salit ,Mark Ultra , Kevin McCoy andJeff Guess . The band, after that album, reinvented itself as a septet with the the following lineup: Roderick Wolgamott and Anisa Romero,DJ Fallout akaTodd Robbins ,Joseph E. Howard (akaJoe Skyward ),Bennett James ,Marc Olsen andGordon Raphael .It was during this time they recorded "A Return to the Inner Experience." Mike Cozzi replaced Marc Olsen on the fifth through seventh albums. In 1994 Juano replaced Joe Howard. William Bernhard, joined the band in 19988 after Michael Cozzi left to pursue other projects.Sky Cries Mary had broken up in 1999, shortly after the release of "Seeds" because band members wanted to work on other projects. They regrouped in various configurations including Hana, which featured Anisa Romero, Jeff Greinke, and Ben Ireland, and No Futuro, an experimental musical project helmed by Roderick Romero, William Bernhard, and Jeremy Moss. In 2004, the band (composed of the Romeros, Ben Ireland, Juano, Michael Cozzi, and William Bernhard) regrouped after they won the rights to their music back from their old record company and subsequently released their first live album "Here and Now". Two years later they followed it up with the critically acclaimed album, "Small Town."
Discography
* "
Until the Grinders Cease (1989) Lively Art/New Rose Records. (1999)World Domination Recordings
* "Don't Eat the Dirt " (1990) Lively Art/New Rose Records
* "Exit at the Axis " (1992)World Domination Recordings /Capitol Records
* "A Return to the Inner Experience " (1993)World Domination Recordings /Capitol Records
* "This Timeless Turning " (1993)World Domination Recordings /Capitol Records
* "Moonbathing on Sleeping Leaves " (1997) Warner Brothers Records
* "Fresh Fruits for the Liberation " (1997) Warner Brothers Records
* "Seeds" (1999) Collective Fruit Records
* "Here and Now" (2005)Hoodooh Music
* "Small Town" (2007)Hoodooh Music Sky Cries Mary finished the recording for their newest album on February 1, 2007, and it will be released through
Hoodooh Records .Their song "The Elephant Song" was featured on the soundtrack for the movie The Harvest. Their song "Shipwrecked" was featured on the soundtrack for the movie
Tank Girl . Their song "Cornerman" was featured in the movieHigher Learning playing from a jukebox. Sky Cries Mary were one of the first ever bands to have an 'internet only' concert. [*Strauss, Neil. [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A04EEDE1F31F931A15752C1A962958260 "Rolling Stones Live on Internet: Both a Big Deal and a Little Deal"] , "The New York Times",November 22 ,1994 . AccessedFebruary. 25 ,2007 .]References
External links
* [http://www.skycriesmary.com/index.php Sky Cries Mary homepage]
* [http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sky+cries+mary Sky Cries Mary on YouTube]
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