Lovely sounds and stories from dirty, broken Brooklyn.
band:
Marc Hug - mandolin, guitar, electroniques
Dominica Paige - vocals, cello, keyboards
with this rotating cast of characters:
Bethany Spiers - guitar, bass
Jeffro Richards - bass, guitar
Brian Jacobs - trumpet
A two-person trio, Marc Hug, Dominica Paige, and their rotating guest musicians play what can be described as electronic folk pop. Their song structures center around mandolin, cello, sliced & diced guitar and gastro-intestinal boops and blips. Paige's hazy and haunting vocals float overtop, painting poetic images of days gone by. They create glistening pop loop gems that leave you feeling part of a woozy, lilting waltz.
Born in the stormy weather of New York City, mossyrock released their first two songs on a red 7" vinyl single, A Decade of Autumns. Soon afterwards they holed up in the Zero to One Galleries in Ontario for a ten-day recording session, taking breaks only to plunge themselves off cliffs into the nearby quarry and eat strawberry-rhubarb jam. The end result was a full-length album, appropriately titled The Zero to One Sessions, which was released by Toronto's Nice+Smooth Records in August 2005.
Mossyrock set out on the road in support of Zero to One, and while travelling the long highways of the U.S. and Canada, they found and developed the sounds that they had always known they were capable of. They honed their skills at creating the three-minute pop songs they were always fond of, and returned home to record a 5 song e.p. which caught the ears of the legendary Tim 'Love' Lee.
Tim asked to hear some more music and soon licensed some music for his Boy Scout Recordings compilation. After a summer spent hitchhiking across Canada looking for adventure and inspiration, Mossyrock returned to Brooklyn to write and record their second full-length l.p., tentatively titled The Winter Will Ask. For this new collection of songs, Paige has taken on more prominent role in regards to singing, and Hug has sharpened his mandolin stylings. They have worked with several guest musicians on the record, including Camper Van Beethovens Jonathan Segal, Canadian country singer Rae Spoon, and Brooklyn roots rock/cabaret musician James Apollo. As the trio progresses, their quirky electronic roots are still evident, but their folk pop influences are becoming more and more apparent.
