Woven (band)

Woven
Origin Los Angeles/Santa Monica, California, USA
Genres Rock
Electronica
Industrial
Experimental
Alternative Rock
Years active 1997–present
Labels Interscope Records
Cat Toy Factory Records
Associated acts Undo
Perry Farrell
That Noise
piEL
Website
Members Ory Hodis (vocals/guitars)
Steve Abagon (guitar/keyboards)
Richard Abagon (drums/keyboards)
Barak Steddie (bass/keyboards)
Marc Viner (drums/keyboards)
Past members Jonathan Burkes (vocals/bass)
Mike Jerugim (keyboards/programming)
Beth Bergman (vocals/violin)

Woven is an experimental rock band from Los Angeles, California.

Biography

With influences including Björk, Aphex Twin, Pink Floyd, Jane's Addiction and Deftones, Woven combined electronica and rock influences, to create music that ranged from guitar-driven drum and bass to syncopated, sparse IDM. In 2001, Woven released its debut EP titled EPrime on Interscope records. The eclectic songs from EPrime quickly made their way into heavy rotation and charted nationwide on CMJ as the 5th most added record that year for college radio then landing spots on L.A.'s groundbreaking radio station KCRW 89.9.[1]

In 2003, the band released their first full length album with Interscope Records, 8 Bit Monk, which critics called a triumph of atmosphere over just about everything else and that the band had upped the groove and removed much of the subtlety it displayed on Eprime.[2] They re-enlisted the London-based mixing genius, Steve Fitzmaurice, who had previously worked with such acts as Depeche Mode and U2. The album was self-produced by Woven, with additional production by Steve Berlin of Los Lobos and Alan Elliott.

Such haunting moods would land two of 8 Bit Monk's songs, "My Conditioning" and "Soul Fossa", on the hit CBS show, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.[3]

In support of 8 Bit Monk, Woven toured with Dredg, Buckethead, The Apex Theory, Mellowdrone, They Might Be Giants and Wu-Tang Clan's Raekwon among others as well as headling their own shows and tours.

Woven guitarist Steve Abagon has performed with Perry Farrell and recently contributed guitar tracks for folk-rock veteran Rickie Lee Jones on her album, The Sermon On Exposition Street. Ory Hodis, Woven's vocalist/guitarist has also recorded guitar tracks on Perry Farrell’s 2001 solo electronica record, Song Yet To Be Sung.

In 2008, Woven released the highly anticipated follow up to 8 Bit Monk with the new album "Designer Codes".

Discography

EPrime

  1. Beautiful
  2. Tesion
  3. Steady
  4. Who Knows?
  5. Solder Me

8 Bit Monk

  1. Pillage
  2. My Conditioning
  3. Already Gone
  4. I Want Yesterday
  5. Astral Low
  6. Soul Fossa
  7. Who Knows
  8. Bubble Wrap
  9. Sync or Swim
  10. Trepanation
  11. Rooftops

Aftermath

  1. Inhale
  2. You Never Knew
  3. Cosmonaut
  4. Machine Room
  5. Abort Instruction

Designer Codes

(Cat Toy Factory Recordings) (2008)

  1. Trumpeting Strength
  2. Perception Whore
  3. Fragments
  4. Where We Going
  5. The One
  6. Do You Feel the Same?
  7. Been a Long Time
  8. Cosmonaut
  9. Sadness Last Stand
  10. Soundtrack to a Chance Meeting
  11. Prickly Pear
  12. Inhale
  13. Nothin
  14. She Blows My Amplifier

External links

References

  1. ↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=lw0U_9_pUfMC&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=woven+8+bit+monk+cmj&source=bl&ots=DRgBRMoQtc&sig=4rZnlX76_s_YfnIv8Y_JRka7txM&hl=en&ei=mljGTZHhFJCqsAOv0O3AAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=woven%208%20bit%20monk%20cmj&f=false
  2. ↑ http://music.msn.com/music/album-review/woven/8-bit-monk.1/#Review_0
  3. ↑ http://www.tvshowsongs.com/csimusicseason3.html
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