Once & Future Band is 
Joel Robinow - Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar 
Eli Eckert - Backing Vocals, Bass, Guitar 
Raj Ojha - Drums, Percussion, Synth Programming 

With 
Phil Manley - Lead guitar on outro of “Brain” 
Danny T. Levin - Played, arranged, recorded horn arrangements on “The Old Brain”

Credits
Released March 09 2018 on Castle Face Records
Produced by Raj Ojha 

All songs written and performed by Once & Future Band 

Engineered by Phil Manley and Raj Ojha at Lucky Cat Recording and OKR Studios. 

Mastered by Roger Seibel at SAE Mastering 

Album artwork and design by Chris Appelgren

Heavenly Bodies

The Old Brain

Destroy Me

Brain

Demo of a little instrumental synth ditty.  Recorded at OKR Studios.

TEN. Uhhh, Pearl Jam Ten. (working title, demo)

Once & Future Band's BBC Radio 6 Music's Guest Mix appeared on Tom Ravenscroft's show with Jon Hillcock sitting in on February 3rd, 2017.

Track Listing

Mort Garson/Lucifer - Witch Trial
McDonald & Giles - Tomorrow's People: The Children Of Today
Paul McCartney - Momma Miss America
Pete Rock & CL Smooth - They Reminisce Over You
Jan Hammer Group - Don't You Know
Alain Goraguer - Mira Et Ten
Allen Toussaint - Last Train
George Duke - Faces In Reflection No. 2
Miles Davis - Rated X
Colonel Abrams - Trapped (Hell Interface Remix)
Patrice Rushen - Remind Me
Henry Mancini & His Orchestra - Theme From The Thief Who Came To Dinner
Don Blackman - Holding You, Loving You
Frank Zappa - Oh No
Egg - I Will Be Absorbed
Boards Of Canada - Olson

Once & Future Band BBC 6 Guest Mix (HQ)

BBC 6 Guest Mix

From our performance on Marc Riley's BBC 6 Radio show.

"Destroy Me" was recorded live for Gideon Coe's BBC 6 Radio Show.

Rolando - Live on BBC 6 (9/21/17)

How Does It Make You Feel - Live on BBC 6 (9/21/17)

Heavenly Bodies - Live on BBC 6 (9/21/17)

Destroy Me - Live on BBC 6 (9/21/17)

Tell Me Those Are Tears Of Joy

Magnetic Memory

Imaginary Enemy

Standing In The Wake Of Violence

BBC 6 JINGLE

Formed out of the primordial creative ooze of the San Francisco Bay Area, Oakland's Once & Future Band is Joel Robinow (keyboards, guitar, lead vocals), Raj Ojha (drums, recording / mixing engineer) and Eli Eckert (bass, guitar, vocals).  For over a decade, Joel, Raj and Eli had worked together (in various combinations) with several bands and projects, including Drunk Horse and Howlin' Rain. Throughout those years, they often spoke of forming an outlet into which they could combine their love of 60s and 70s psychedelic pop, jazz-rock, fusion and progressive rock, in addition to their myriad other musical fascinations.

In 2012 word finally became deed and Once & Future Band was born, taking inspiration for their name from T.H. White's Arthurian classic.  In 2014 they released the "Brain" EP on Mouth Records, drawing comparisons to ELO, Queen, Steely Dan, Yes and The Beach Boys.

In 2017, the band released their self-titled LP on John Dwyer's Castle Face records, garnering rave reviews from MOJO, Uncut, Modern Drummer and Shindig among other publications and landing a spot on The Wire and The Guardian's Best of 2017 list. Their songs have been featured on Henry Rollin's KCRW radio program as well as the BBC Radio shows of Gideon Coe, Jon Hillcock and Marc Riley (whose show they have performed live on multiple times). They've made their way across the US and Canada as main support for Tool and Chris Robinson's "As The Crow Flies", toured the UK and have shared the stage with such diverse acts as Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Chris Robinson Brotherhood, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, White Denim, Mild High Club, King Tuff, Dungen, !!!, Battles, Foxygen, Red Fang and Metronomy. They were also personally selected by Flying Lotus and Wire to play their curated festivals.  In 2019 The Black Crowes announced live on Howard Stern’s show that Joel Robinow and Raj Kumar Ojha will be part of their new band, backing them for a 2020 US / UK reunion arena tour.

With 2020 comes the release of their 2nd full length LP, “Deleted Scenes” which has been years in the making.  The self-produced record comes out on April 10th, 2020 via Castle Face Records, featuring another iconic cover by longtime collaborator Christopher Appelgren.

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