- Friendly Bears
Friendly Bears is an
avant-garde musical quintet based in Brooklyn, New York. The band is known for their complex compositions, drawing on styles infree jazz ,modern classical,punk rock ,progressive rock , and metal. Currently, the line up includesTim Byrnes on trumpet,Rich Bennett on guitar, Matt Filler onbaritone guitar , and Andrew Greenwald on drums.History
The band formed in the fall of 2000 under the name Osos Amistosos (Spanish for Friendly Bears) and have been frequently referred to as "The" Friendly Bears
Under the lineup of Byrne, Greenwald, Bennett on baritone guitar, and Mary Halvorson on guitar, Friendly Bears released the 2003 12" split with Infidel?/Castro. They contributed four tracks of "Gritty dissonant analog math rock with a cool, calm and collected trumpet by
Candiria 's Tim Byrnes."The summer of 2005 saw the release of "On Oceans, Light, and Sleep," a full-length CD from Pralaya Records.
Line Up
Current
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Tim Byrnes - Trumpet
*Rich Bennett - Guitar
*Matt Filler - Baritone Guitar
*Andrew Greenwald - DrumsFormer
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Mary Halvorson Other
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Chuck Stern
*Judith Berkson
*Rebecca Pronsky External links
* [http://www.myspace.com/friendlybears Friendly Bears] on
myspace
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