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Musée Mécanique

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Musée Mécanique is an American Indie pop band based in Portland, Oregon, United States, fronted by singer/songwriters Micah Rabwin (vocals/guitar/musical saw/keyboard) and Sean Ogilvie (vocals/keyboard/guitar/accordion/melodica). The other members of the band are Matt Berger (drums/percussion/glockenspiel), Jeffery Boyd (bass/glockenspiel/cassette player) and Brian Perez (keyboards/lap steel/glockenspiel/melodica/percussion). The band's debut LP Hold This Ghost was released Sept. 30, 2008 on Frog Stand Records of Brooklyn, New York. History The band's chief songwriters, Micah Rabwin and Sean Ogilvie have been writing and performing music together since childhood. Ogilvie is formerly of San Diego, California post-rock band, Tristeza. Musée Mécanique was founded in 2006 with the addition of Berger, Boyd and Perez. The band is named after San Francisco, California museum, Musée Mécanique. Ogilvie said, "We love to make a song that has its own soul, just like the machines they have over there at the museum". Hold This Ghost This record's sound has been described by music and culture magazines XLR8R "a layered, delicate take on folk, meticulously arranged with an ear for atmosphere and texture, with surprises unfolding every moment"[3] and by Metroland (newspaper) as "subtle, elegant, yet fully modern folk-pop." Musée Mécanique has been compared to Neutral Milk Hotel and Beirut.[4] This album was produced and engineered by Rabwin and Ogilvie and mixed by Tucker Martine who h

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Castle Walls - Instrumental

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Like Home

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Two Friends Like Us

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Nothing Glorious

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Fits and Starts

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The Things That I Know

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The Propellors

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Under Glass

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Sleeping In Our Clothes

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Somehow Bound

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From Shores of Sleep (Instrumental)

From Shores of Sleep (Instrumental)

Hold This Ghost

Hold This Ghost

From Shores of Sleep

From Shores of Sleep

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Big Sur Life Formentera (Chillout and Nu House Tracks)

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Q - Born In The USA

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Musee Mecanique - Hold This Ghost

Like Home

Like Home

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Under The Radar Sampler CD Vol. 5

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Les Inrock - Un Printemps 2010

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Un printemps 2010

Daytrotter Session

Daytrotter Session

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Souterrain Transmissions Labelcompilation

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