Need New Body
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Need New Body is an avant garde music collective band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
and beyond, numerous members of which have gone on to become members of the band Man Man
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Philadelphia County, with which it is coterminous. The city is located in the Northeastern United States along the Delaware and Schuylkill rivers. It is the fifth-most-populous city in the United States,...
and beyond, numerous members of which have gone on to become members of the band Man Man
Man Man
Man Man is an experimental band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Man Man is known for their exuberant live performances. When performing, the members of the band sometimes coordinate their outfits, often seen in white outfits and, more commonly, war paint....
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Members
- Christopher PowellChristopher PowellChristopher Powell is a musical artist from Philadelphia. He has been the drummer and percussionist for experimental rock group Need New Body, the equally adventurous music group Man Man and the Chicago sextet Icy Demons....
/ Pow Pow – Drums - Tookie Sherman – KeyboardKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
- Chris Reggiani – Bass
- A.I. – Vocal, BanjoBanjoIn the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...
- Jamey Robinson – PianoPianoThe piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
- Jim Reggiani – Percussion
- Griffin Rodriguez – Megabass
- Larry D. Brown – SaxophoneSaxophoneThe saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...
- Man Durphic – AestheticistAestheticsAesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty. It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste...
- Magic Ronston – Aestheticist
Discography
- Need New Body (2001, File Thirteen Records / Pickled Egg RecordsPickled Egg RecordsPickled Egg Records is a UK independent record label founded in Leicester in 1998 by Nigel Turner. It has dedicated itself to redressing the world’s musical balance in favour of quirky genius, bent tunefulness, noisy playfulness, jazz turmoil and inventive retro-futurism...
) - UFO (2003, File Thirteen Records / Pickled Egg Records)
- Where's Black Ben? (2005, 5RC / Pickled Egg Records)