Mahogany (band)
| Mahogany | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Michigan |
| Genres | Shoegazing, dream pop, ambient |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Labels | Burnt Hair, Tinseltones, Blackbean & Placenta Tape Club, Clairecords, Simdisc, Amberley, Elefant, Darla, Track & Field, Renovo, BLVD Records |
| Associated acts | Century Wheatfield, Lovesliescrushing, Astrobrite |
| Website | www |
| Members | Andrew Prinz Jaclyn Slimm |
| Past members | Allysa Massais Marissa von Wohl Jesse Rafferty Sara Dennard Robert Pietrusko Lorraine Lelis Ana Breton Jason Holmes Jeremy Scott Katrina Rudmin Roy Styles Ryan Hancock Jeremy Scott Odell Nails |
Mahogany are an electric music-based multidisciplinary media ensemble formed in Michigan in 1995 and currently working in Philadelphia, New York City, Chicago, and other locations. The band's sound combines vocals, cello, massed guitars, pianos, melodicas, sequencers, synthesizers, samplers, tape, percussion, and other instruments. Mahogany also use film, video, animation, cinema, graphic design, photography, typography and other realization and rendering techniques for a cumulative effect that the band refers to as the "Hypercube".
Mahogany have released two critically acclaimed full-length albums, The Dream of the Modern Day (2000) and Connectivity! (2006), as well as numerous singles, EPs and compilation tracks collected on Memory Column: Early Works and Rarities 1996-2004 (2005). They have performed live with Vampire Weekend, Spoon, Chairlift, Clinic, Bloc Party, Serena Maneesh, Interpol, Luna, Broadcast, Resplandor, and others, maintaining a cult status among the group’s listeners.
Mahogany are the brainchild of Andrew Prinz, created as a response borne of multidisciplinary generational precedent initiated by Prinz's great-grandfather Harry S. Will, a violinist, artist, designer and founder of the Columbus Orchestral Society (who Prinz cites as establishing Mahogany's organizational tabula rasa), and his grandfather Vernon A. Will, a mathematician and guitarist (who, according to Prinz, provided the ensemble's theoretical, aesthetic and ethical basis via his 1961 doctoral thesis The Order of Freedom: An Inquiry into the Theory of Human Selection).
According to Prinz, the band's name references the Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, as well as the mahogany tree's role as a "precious and beautiful living resource, essential to the Earth's biosphere...and a superior material for the construction of both interiors and musical instruments, prized for its beauty and naturally harmonious resonant characteristics."
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