Brokedown Insoluble Pie Crust Blues

Scurry Loose

The great, the only, the irrevocable Howell Mooney – multi-instrumentalist and neoclassic singer-songrocker extraordinaire - has made appearances in a damn-near statistically impossible array of situations in New York City and his current home, Los Angeles.

Since his first-ever public performance at a Planned Parenthood benefit, he has caressed the drumskins with Ricky Riot of the late, lamented political punk/klezmer act Schmekel; torn up the stage at an East Village tiki bar with his own instrumental surf-rock outfit, The Maui Hurricane; toured the cafes of Montreal with The Rude Mechanical Orchestra, a radical marching band; interpreted Gershwin with the poet and drama scholar Bender; seduced the audience with solo voice and dumbek as a featured performer in MANDONNA, an all-male Madonna tribute; and played his defiant bisexual anthem, "There Ain't No Fence," at more than one bi visibility event.

Mooney continues to wander the earth, expanding his group of talented associates who know how to turn on a dime from a three-chord slam-banger to a recondite, green-patina'd Americana ballad. He enjoys candle-lit dinners, long walks on the beach, and subverting the dominant paradigm through full-spectrum aural-emotional transubstantiation.