Genres: Experimental Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock Active: 90's, 2000's Formed: in New York, NY
Tower Recordings, Child Readers, Panda Bear, The Pink Mountaintops, Circulus, Songs of Green Pheasant, Feathers, Nobody & Mystic Chords of Memory, Woods, Matt Valentine, The Sunburned Hand of the Man, No-Neck Blues Band, Daniel Higgs, Six Organs of Admittance, Wolf Eyes, Currituck County, Devendra Banhart, Women & Children, Ben Chasny |  |
In addition to running the Polyamory label with Tovah O'Rourke, James Toth was the leader of New York-based avant-garde/freak folk ensemble Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice. Taking the first part of that name as his own -- and occasionally billing himself as "Wooden Wand Jehovah" -- Toth gathered at one point or another O'Rourke (who also comprised Dead Machines with her husband, Wolf Eyes' John Olson), Satya Sai, Glucas Crane, Steven the Harvester, and Heidi Diehl. There were others, too -- the Vanishing Voice lineup shifted as much as its members' various aliases. The sounds the group made were fluid, too, incorporating everything from the '60s mysticism of Donovan and Van Morrison to free jazz, noise rock, folk traditionals, and the entire Silt Breeze catalog.
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