Celilo was one of the bands who played our our pre-launch party last year and I developed an immediate crush on the band. A couple of the fellows even drove all the way out here to Gresham to record an in studio performance for my former podcast, The Z Spot. You can check out that show by clicking here.
From their MySpace page:
Celilo (pronounced suh-lie-low) from Portland, Oregon, USA gives a slight nod towards Dark Side era Pink Floyd, 70's Neil Young, and the Fleet Foxes straddling the boundaries between indie rock, psychedelia and atmospheric folk. A banquet of dreamy soundscapes, surreal rhetoric, and an early Genesis-like tendency to shift gears mid song to emerge from a dark forest of sound onto the modern sunlit plain ...
They have a new album coming out on September 27 called Buoy Bell which I'm sure is going to be quite a listening treat.
I caught up with Sloan Martin, lead singer for the band, earlier in the summer. Meet...Celilo!
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How long have you lived in the Portland area?
Since the 4th grade, I'm almost forty, do the calculus, long time!
Give us a brief history of your band/project: I quit drums cold turkey, got turned onto bluegrass, drifted into songwriting via Neil Young, Bob Dylan, Ryan Adams, continued drifting back to some of my Led Zeppelin roots, met the folks in my band now, booked some gigs!
What’s the first song you ever learned to play? When the Levee Breaks (drums), Harvest (guitar)
What’s your favorite local venue to play? To see other bands? Doug Fir Lounge
Speaking of other bands, who do you like on the Portland music scene? Dolorean, Ezza Rose, Lost Lander
Tell us about a recent “Only in Portland” moment you might have had. Colonel Sumner Park, total bohemian San Francisco late 60's scenes revisted but with crusty anarchist hipsters instead of hippies.
Finish this sentence: “I cannot live without_____” coffee/weed.... hee hee
More on this band at their MySpace page - click here. They will be playing at Jimmy Mak's on September 9th with Holcombe Waller and y la bamba for MFNW.
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