The Russian School Of Music Boys Choir
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| Origin | Lincoln, Nebraska, United States |
| Years active | 2006 - present |
| Genres | A capella, Experimental |
| Labels | unsigned |
| Members | John Erlandson John Tiller Jon Garay Reid Alt Jon Morten Jimmy Pelton Drew Attanasio Matt Horn Phil Hamilton |
The Russian School Of Music Boys Choir are an a cappella/experimental music band hailing from Lincoln, Nebraska. The band writes their own music and records it themselves using an iBook G4 with heavy use of the application Garageband.
[edit] The Russian School Of Music Boys Choir
The Russian School of Music Boys Choir was founded by John Erlandson. In the spring of 2006, John desired to form a band so he quickly recruited some school friends to become members of his newly created group. John gathered his friends: John Tiller, Reid Alt, Jon Garay, Jon Morten, Jimmy Pelton, Drew Attanasio, Matthew Horn, and National Merit Scholar Philippians Toddicus-Hamiltonian III (real name Phil Hamilton) together to create and record catchy music. In their quest to develop melodies and easy to remember lyrics, RSMBC wrote and performed songs such as, "The Journey", "Bumm Cracker", and "Saw the Wood".
Recently, the band has put up two songs entitled Invisible Children, and Bagels. The former became somewhat controversial because many thought they were trivializing the insurgency of the Lord's Resistance Army. The song has nothing to do with the displacement of the Ugandan children except for the title. The beauty and the irony of Invisible Children is that the children referred to in the song are, in fact, physically invisible, not figuratively invisible.
Bagels is a 3-part song reminiscent of Queen (band)'s Bohemian Rhapsody.
[edit] Trivia
The band's first recording session was on March 24, 2006.
The collective also comprise a film troupe under the name Fingercot Productions. Their epic "Over The Trilogy" is viewable on YouTube.
The band meets regularly on the weekends to record their music.
The band themselves have nothing to do with any school in Russia, but were named by front man John Erlandson because of his heritage, and the fact that the band started as an A capella choir.
Phil Hamilton has launched a site where he remixes RSMBC songs into the genre of techno.
[edit] External Links
Official Myspace
The Russian School Of Music Boys Choir on LastFM
