Sharks And Seals

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Sharks and Seals has been Joe Tricoli (Friend/Enemy, the Bimbobs), Todd Mattei (Joan of Arc, Friend/Enemy), Dave Osborn (Consafos, Belfrie), Alance Ward (Consafos, Belfrie) and Gary James (Box Of Baby Birds). Tricoli and Mattei started the band as a completely recreational project, recording improvised pieces to a hard drive. Soon they realized that the music deserved to be taken more seriously. With the help of some of their musician friends, they filled out the songs and finished the first Sharks and Seals release, It Used to Be Knobs and Machines and Now Its Numbers and Light (Brilliante). This record was a mix of guitar-based improvisation, digital experimentation, and straightforward song writing (this especially in Joe Tricolis clever vocal arrangements). All of these aspects skated on the edge of delicate collapse. The new and second Sharks and Seals record, Its Hard Not to Mean Anything (Is Collage Collective), involved for the band a very different approach than the first record. Bass player Dave Osborn and drummer Alance Ward had joined Sharks and Seals shortly after the release of It Used to Be Knobs and Machines.... The new full-band lineup found Sharks and Seals writing songs in a more straightforward way. Without losing the improvised edge that Sharks and Seals was inspired by originally, the songs became solid entities that could be strongly transmitted live. Happy with this newfound live strength, the band recorded most of the material for the second record li

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It Used To Be Knobs And Machines Now It's Numbers And Light

It's Hard To Not Mean Anything

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It Used To Be Knobs And Machines And Now It's Numbers And Lights

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Radio Cookie Scene 0032

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Cookie Scene / october 2006

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It Used to Be Knobs And Machines Now It's Numbers And Lights

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It Used To Be Knobs And Machines And Now It's Numbers And Light

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Bril 011

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Cookie Scene 0032

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Brilliante

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...awake in the greylight 2

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Awake In The Graylight, Volume 2

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