Musée Mécanique

Musée Mécanique is an American Indie pop band based in Portland, Oregon, United States, fronted by singer/songwriters Micah Rabwin (vocals/guitar/musical saw/keyboard) and Sean Ogilvie (vocals/keyboard/guitar/accordion/melodica). The other members of the band are Matt Berger (drums/percussion/glockenspiel), Jeffery Boyd (bass/glockenspiel/cassette player) and Brian Perez (keyboards/lap steel/glockenspiel/melodica/percussion). The band's debut LP Hold This Ghost was released Sept. 30, 2008 on Frog Stand Records of Brooklyn, New York. History The band's chief songwriters, Micah Rabwin and Sean Ogilvie have been writing and performing music together since childhood. Ogilvie is formerly of San Diego, California post-rock band, Tristeza. Musée Mécanique was founded in 2006 with the addition of Berger, Boyd and Perez. The band is named after San Francisco, California museum, Musée Mécanique. Ogilvie said, "We love to make a song that has its own soul, just like the machines they have over there at the museum". Hold This Ghost This record's sound has been described by music and culture magazines XLR8R "a layered, delicate take on folk, meticulously arranged with an ear for atmosphere and texture, with surprises unfolding every moment"[3] and by Metroland (newspaper) as "subtle, elegant, yet fully modern folk-pop." Musée Mécanique has been compared to Neutral Milk Hotel and Beirut.[4] This album was produced and engineered by Rabwin and Ogilvie and mixed by Tucker Martine who has worked with The Decemberists, Sufjan Stevens and Laura Veirs. 'Hold This Ghost' received a 7.2 (on a 10 point scale) on Pitchfork Media. Writer Rebecca Raber said, "Musée Mécanique distinguish themselves from the throng [of Portland, Ore. folk acts] by ignoring Americana influences and infusing their brand of intimate melancholia with lush arrangements and electronic underpinnings."[5] The song, "Like Home" was featured on the internationally-syndicated NPR show "All Songs Considered" on Nov. 17, 2008.[6] The band extensively toured across the United States in 2008 and will continue to tour in 2009 to support Hold This Ghost. In 2009 Micah Rabwin and Sean Ogilvie toured the first time in Europe as Musée Mécanique together with Laura Gibson. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.