photo by Victoria Holt (view set)
As you can imagine, Oklahoma is home to a lot of great music, much of it roots-related, but Stillwater must run deep because even though the north-central town gave rise to the likes of Garth Brooks, it is also home to the group Other Lives, whose sophomore releases, Tamer Animals, is a lush orchestral pop masterpiece. Mixing electronics and strings, dual drummers and trumpet and bell-adorned antlers, the 5-piece band performed live in our studio last month as the toured with The Rosebuds. Check out these achingly beautiful songs captured on video just for you:
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Yes! Good Oklahoma band!
This music is very beautiful. Such a labor to be able to execute this live with such precision and so many instruments. Great Oklahoma band! Good job Other Lives and KEXP!
love their music, also check out some of their previous music when they were the band ‘kunek’
Extraordinarily done! Thanks for taping and sharing this.
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I am mesmerized. This blog link was sent to me this past the weekend, and by Tuesday I had Other Lives’ “Tamer Animals” CD (right, a real physical CD) in my hand, thanks to an Amazon gift card/code that needed spending. So, ‘nuff said... I’ve now got a new/current soundtrack for my daily commute to and from work. Moody Blues/Sergio Leone, plus American Roots/Folk... and something else all rolled into one. Not fair to put such markers on a group that’s their own, but maybe it’ll help make folks stop and listen.