OFFICIAL BIO
Regarded upon his 2006 arrival as a promising beatmaker looming in the shadows of J Dilla, Madlib, waterfalls and Dabrye, Steven Ellison -- known as Flying Lotus -- nullified all comparisons only two years later with Los Angeles. On that album, his first of five for the Warp label, Ellison distilled a uniquely crisp, spasmodic, and heady sound with elements of hip-hop, avant-garde jazz, IDM, and dubstep. While the abovementioned producers fueled Ellison, he had also been excited as a youngster by the '90s West Coast rap classics that combined programming and live instrumentation. His sound continued to develop as he put his own twist on the approach, recording with a crop of jazz musicians including the indispensable likes of bassist Thundercat and strings master Miguel Atwood-Ferguson. This process began with the turbulent 2010 set Cosmogramma and peaked in terms of acclaim in 2014 with You're Dead!, which crashed the Top 20 of the Billboard 200 and spawned the Kendrick Lamar collaboration "Never Catch Me," a Grammy nominee for Best Dance Recording. Ellison devoted a few years to various forms of film work and the operation of his revered Brainfeeder label, and returned in 2019 with Flamagra, his second consecutive album to top Billboard's Dance/Electronic chart.

Frøjya (pron. Fruh-ya) connects the darkness with the light, beauty with strength, and the past with the future.

After thirteen years of chaos both on and off the stage, two studio albums, television appearances, dozens of music festivals and hundreds of shows, a major lineup change inspired Rhythm Ship members Maggie Woods, Aaron Johnson & Doug Knutsen to take the band in a new direction.

With so much history, they bear the scars of many battles lost and won. In the process, they've built a strong foundation and shaped their sound: wild intelligent soul; a spiritual story that roars to life crackling with energy and soaked with emotion; a sort of heavy jazz wrenched from the soul of the earth.

Now they've cast off the burden of that past, but the magic remains. This new formation transcends the modern experience to connect with the deeper senses, drawing life now from a deeper well.

Inspired by sonic storytellers like Led Zeppelin, The Grateful Dead, Jack White, Pink Floyd and Jefferson Airplane, they create soundscapes that alter reality, as the rhythm of the seasons shapes the wild northern landscape that surrounds them.

Frøjya continues the work that The Rhythm Ship began, and they carry the legacy of that music into the future. But the trajectory has changed, and that future is of their own design.

Instrument player, noise maker, rootin' tooter

Merther is a four-piece jam band from Blue Hill, ME that mixes elements of roots reggae, spacey dub, psychedelic rock, and raw funk into their own experimental genre they have dubbed "Psychedelic Dub Funk". 

From super dubbed-out originals/covers, to experimental psychedelic jammin', and back again to bouncy reggae with a progressively funky twist; Merther performs with high energy and creates a flow of communicative energy between them and dancers, head-nodders, hoola-hoopers, poi-masters, grass-loungers, grass-smokers and anyone else who makes the choice to get down and feed the dub funk.

It all started when a group of super good friends came back from a huge festival in ME with inspiration flowing through all of their veins due to the incredible experiences they had together throughout the festival weekend. These fired up souls drove back home to Blue Hill and decided they wanted to make some music. 
They jammed for hours that particular night, and things took off from there.

Merther is formerly known as "Pleasant Street". We had to change the name due to confusion with other bands under the same name. 

Merther is:

Josh Bowden - Drum kit
Andre Reinero - Bass/Backing vocals
Kyle Chick - Percussion
Cam King - Guitar/Vocals

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