BOBBY (band)
| BOBBY (band) | |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Bennington College, Vermont, USA |
| Genres |
Dream pop Psychedelic music Folk music Indie rock |
| Years active | 2010-present |
| Labels | Partisan Records |
| Website | partisanrecords |
| Members | Tom Greenberg: guitar, vocals, leader Molly Erin Sarle: vocals Maia Friedman: vocals, keyboards Amelia Randall Meath: vocals Paolo Menuez: guitar, keyboards, vocals Julian Labat: bass, keyboards Martin Zimmermann: drums, keyboards, guitar Roby Moulton: keyboards, percussion |
BOBBY is a cooperative musical project based on the talents of musicians from Partisan Records and Knitting Factory Records which is notable for achieving an avant garde alternative sound using polyrhythm as well as achieving critical acclaim before releasing their first album entitled Bobby. They signed a contract with Partisan Records in 2010.
With the exception of Paolo Menuez––who attended Hampshire College––group members were students at Bennington College who moved into a remote house in western Massachusetts in the town of Montague. Tom Greenberg was the founder, according to several sources. Greenberg brought in musical friends including Martin Zimmermann, who had been heavily influenced by Bennington teacher and jazz percussionist Milford Graves. The group was a "loose collective" emerging from "a broken social scene of Bennington College pals," according to one account, and as a "grab bag of college friends and label mates" by a second account.
The name Bobby does not describe an actual person but rather a fictional character who was a "wayward founding member" who never played with the band but whose "spirit lingers over the project." One account suggests BOBBY was the name of a "bad dancer" who was the fictional friend of Tom Greenberg, and in the spring of 2010, Greenberg composed songs for his imaginary friend Bobby to dance to. After using the name BOBBY, the group encountered book artist Keith Smith's 1985 publication "BOBBY," which described an imaginary friend by the same name BOBBY. Smith granted permission for the group BOBBY to feature pieces of his book BOBBY for their album artwork. One reviewer tried googling the word Bobby only to find it "un-Googleable" since it is not a unique name.
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