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Arco Flute Foundation, The |
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Over the next four years, the Arco Flute Foundation toured the United States several times and released three full length albums (The Second Lesson In New Era Time as well as The ThirdÖ and Everything After the Bomb is Sci-Fi, all three on Cenotaph Audio). Live performances were usually against a film backdrop, with Tamburoís hand-painted films covering the band. Their improvised moments included guitar, electronics, bells, and various inventive percussive elements. While the band grew tremendously during those four years, increasing their use of experimentation both in composition and musicianship, reaching their peak in creativity, this peak also coincided with graduation and separation. Tamburo currently lives is between homes, and is actively making solo recordings, while much of the rest of the band has relocated to Pittsburgh and has begun again as Air Guitar Magazine. Everything After Everything After the Bomb is Sci-Fi is exactly what the title states: all of Arco Flute Foundationís best recordings ñ both live and in their home studio ñ since their third album was recorded, documenting the most creative moments of this artistic collaboration. |
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The Arco Flute Foundation formed in 1999 when two-thirds of Pittsburghís minimalist drumless rock trio Meisha moved to Edinboro, PA to attend the small state university located there. With little else to do in this sleepy farm town, Mike Tamburo and Pete Spynda devoted themselves to this new band with Matt McDowell and Jeff Komara. Komara provided the drums Meisha always purposefully lacked, giving the new band a distinct identity, both leading the sound into massive rock bombast (like Mogwai or Kinski) and into expansive, earthy drone and clatter (like No-Neck Blues Band or Franciscan Hobbies) while never straying from the crystalline, hypnotic guitar interplay that so identified Meisha.