Formed in the winter of 2007,this West Philly band combines the lyrical wit and cynicism of Ray Davies, Mayo Thompson and Frank Zappa with the fluid musical versatility of Lee Hazlewood,Can, Os Mutantes, and various international reactions to the psychedelic, garageand prog rock explosion. Zach Sulat (vocals,guitar), Matt Ricchini (drums,vocals), and Michael Heinzer (bass) spent five years refining their songwriting, performance, free improvisation, and communal-living tensions as members of The Doctor & Philip and Burrs. Eric Carbonara (guitar), a solo musician with a record released recently on Locust Music’s Wooden Guitar series joined them to form Soft People.
Soft People have shared the stage with Damo Suzuki's Network, Dirty Projectors, Jennifer Gentle, Samara Lubelski, The Dodos, Birds of Maya, Begushkin, Stinking Lizaveta, Pattern is Movement, Castanets, Shapes and Sizes, Alec K Redfearn, Madagascar, Orion Rigel Domisse, Anup Pradhan, Lizz King, Whales and Cops, Public Record, Mike Tamburro, members of the Teeth and the Spinto band, and others.
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