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Bone Poets Orchestra
12+ albums
folkrockPsychedelic Rockpsychedelicfolk-rock
about
Bone Poets Orchestra was originally known as Gaia Consort. Official Website: http://www.bonepoets.com/ Christopher Bingham composer, conductor and lead singer for BPO got his start as a band leader through an unusual set of circumstances. Orphaned at the tender age of 10 years old by a tragic greased pig accident at church picnic, he learned to buck up and roll with the punches at an early age. Ok, not really. The way it all really happend was like this: Once upon a time a Pagan folk rock band swallowed it's tail, embraced it's progressive rock roots and became Bone Poets Orchestra. It's all been driven by lead singer / composer Christopher Bingham who was raised on show tunes through his 60s childhood and passed the acid test in early 1970s St Louis, where the airwaves were filled with golden age progressive rock. He started seriously putting out records in the early 90s, which were blended folk and jazz, but really found his voice when he and his wife, Sue Tinney, started the seminal Pagan band Gaia Consort in 1997. Pagans loved it, but after four records, it seemed the granola crunchiness of the name was scaring away a lot of people who would otherwise give the music a spin. So - a new name: Bone Poets Orchestra became a chance to explore different textures and the old joys from his acid drenched childhood, but all filtered through 30 years of immersion in just about every musical style. Bingham has a "no stylistic borders" policy - whatever works is what works. But y
