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CURIOUS HAIR & MAX DANCE
Endlessly creative Miami band led by singer-guitarist Jeff Rollason blurs the lines between rock, country, noise, pop and anything else you can think of.
The Curious Hair are monkies. They also make music, but first and foremost they are monkies.
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BAND: MITCHEL GURDJIAN, MICHELE "MAX" KANE, AND JEFF ROLLASON
plus ALSO SOMETIMES BRIAN CAPATI, DAN HOSKER, RUBEN SINDO, RAT BASTARD, BIANCA PUPO, FERNY COIPEL, RIMSKY PONS, ARIYAH OKAMOTO, LUCY REX, XELA ZAID, GERARD KLAUDER, MARIA MURAWKA, MARIO PADRON, ANDREW YEOMANSON, AMANDA GREEN, VITO, BOBBY LOAD, RYAN HA HA, SASHA WEISFELD, LESLIE KEFFER, DUDLEY PEELER AND MANY MANY MORE. WE ARE A BIG RETARDED FAMILY. WE LOST COUNT LONG AGO OF HOW MANY MEMBERS HAVE PASSED THRU BUT THEY ARE ALL LOVED. INTO THE HUNDREDS IF YOU COUNT LIVE SHOWS AND FRINGE ACTIVITIES.
INFLUENCES: NOISE ART MUSIC LIFE DEATH BIRTH SEX LOVE
 
SOUNDS LIKE: AMERICANA NOISE ROCK ART COUNTRY WESTERN BLUES GLAM FOLK POP HISS OLD NEW NOW SONGS MAYBE
About MAXDANCE: Max made dance beats with noise and things for dancing or zoning
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Biography
The Hair hail from South Florida, a culturally bankrupt region of the world with about as much energy as death. And no letters please. I live in South Florida. It is merely our opinion.
The Hair are an ensemble of the only interesting, talented musicians in the area. They decided to make a record. They all can write, play and sing well. So they set up a mic, gathered around and recorded some songs.
The opener, "Heart Shaped Song", brings you back to the moment when you picked up that old guitar with only three strings, plucking it over and over. The repetition was cool, and it felt good. Awful and awesome at the same time.
Think of a very high Yoko Ono hitting some bongos. Alright. Now. Are you getting it yet?
A highlight is "Happiness Grows", marked by very cool background vocals which I will call "crowd" vocals. Everybody sings. Sounds like the Manson Family with Charlie on guitar and Leslie Van Houten on background vocals, lamenting about how Dennis Wilson is next. Or, on a more positive but equally strange note, think Michelle Phillips, John Phillips and Denny Doherty singing around a campfire while engaged in all sorts of "things". Another highlight is "Downhill", a rollicking Velvet Underground-sounding song which sounds flat the whole song. Like a warped LP that sounds cool.
This is one of those from-out-of-nowhere CDs. There is an energy, spontanaiety and raw energy that is captured magically.
If you like Patti Smith, Maggie Estep, the Velvets, Henry Rollins' poetry, Wilco, Plastic Ono Band, the Dada period and laid back energy, you will get this and love this.
If you have no idea what the hell I am talking about, stay away because there is not enough room on this site for me to explain it in words. You will blame me.
The Curious Hair
Say Hello to Happiness
(Evol Egg Nart)
by David Fufkin
Miami based micro label EVOL EGG NART RECORDINGS has been supplying music fans just like you with high grade lo-fi since the summer of '96. Originally a cassette only label, most EEN music now finds its way to happy listeners on CD-R and mass produced CD formats. Bringing you a vast assortment of artists including The Curious Hair, Maria Marocka, Jeff, Ho Chi Minh, Vito, Angela Patua, Rat Bastard, Amanda Green and many many more, Evol Egg Nart gives you your own personal glimpse into one of the finest musical underbellies you'll ever have the pleasure to stumble upon. Look for several Egg Nart compilations coming later this year. Want more Nart? Visit us at nartworld.com or read this.
As I made the left turn on Sunrise Blvd., my passenger remarked in response to Track 6, "Pied Piper": "...hideous." I agreed, but my take was strongly positive. This recording is the modern day equivalent of the Plastic Ono Band's Live Peace in Toronto. It is Nico moaning into a microphone for an Andy Warhol movie soundtrack. It is shards of glass glued to celluloid, projected onto a white wall, while you are standing in front of the wall, ranting for the overthrow of the government.
This is some skewed powerful sh.t, this Curious Hair.
 
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Posted June 14 2006 Hair's splitting
Jeff Rollason, Michele "Max" Kane and Dan Hosker of the veteran Miami band The Curious Hair are no strangers to the absurd. They keep office supplies in a defunct oven, ride tricycles in chicken suits, craft baby fetuses as toys and converse easily about topics such as snake-oil salesmen and Kurt Vonnegut.
This week, the garage-and-folk-rock band will take its one-of-a-kind show on the road with a self-financed summer tour titled Backwoods to Big City. After launching the tour Thursday at Churchill's Pub in Miami, the group will visit more than a dozen cities, from Atlanta to Cincinnati, in less than three weeks. But the trio isn't stressed about the long practice hours and days of travel. Away from the summer heat of the Magic City, touring is a welcome reprieve.
"We'll be happy to see people on tour," Rollason says. "Some of them I'll be happy to see as we drive away."
The Curious Hair has released a number of CDs and singles over the past 10 years, including the 2005 album Sunshine State. The band favors simple, catchy melodies that are complemented by a gritty, lo-fi recording aesthetic. "I've always liked it best when it comes out noisy and raunchy," Kane explains, "but the songs come out nice."
Beyond that statement, though, the band members don't like to define why and how they make music. "You can look, but don't look too hard," Rollason warns. "Let it just be."
-- Noralil Fores
Copyright 2006, Sun-Sentinel Co. & South Florida Interactive, Inc.
Comments: Strokes Is for Dopes is not just the title of a Curious Hair CD but a statement of purpose for this Miami-based troupe blessed with boundless creativity and a mean independent streak. Since Rollason formed the band with longtime musical compatriot Gurdjian in the mid-1990s, The Curious Hair has championed a keep-’em-guessing approach, virtually reinventing its sound from one release to the next; the band’s catalog is rich in everything from psychedelic pop to true-grit Americana to noisy, esoteric rock. Rollason’s Evol Egg Nart Recordings has proved to be one of the most-influential local labels in the past decade, releasing not only The Hair’s indispensable albums and singles but also music by such forward-thinking artists as Alex Diaz, Amanda Green and Sleeping Dogs Lie. The label’s most recent release is the Marocka solo album Ranch Songs.
Members: Jeff Rollason (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Maria Marocka (vocals, guitar, keyboards), Mario Padron (bass), Mitchel Gurdjian (drums)
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