A great band you probably never heard of.

So any time I have friends over to my house for whatever, I always have music playing in the background. When a certain little Elephant 6 band pops on the stereo, I swear to you that there hasn’t been one single time when someone hasn’t said, “Who’s this? – they’re great!” (or something to that effect…). Well this band  is Beulah. They were part of the The Elephant 6 Recording Company. Elephant 6 was a collective of musicians who spawned some of the most notable independent bands of the 1990s, including The Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Apples in Stereo and of Montreal (from wikipedia).

So check’em out. I hope what happens to my friends happens to you — that you discover a great band that you never heard of before.

Here’s more interesting tidbits from Wikipedia re: the Elephant 6 collective:
The most characteristic trait of an Elephant Six recording is the eclectic and exotic instrumentation: along with the guitars and drums, you hear, for example, the flugelhorn, singing saw, and the wandering genie on Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea; the euphonium, selemintan, and magnus organ on Olivia Tremor Control’s Black Foliage; the sitar, “magic robot voice”, and Nepalese copper shawm on Elf Power’s When the Red King Comes; and everything from sarangi to clarinet played by eighteen backup musicians on Beulah’s When Your Heartstrings Break. This was the ostensible nature of the Elephant Six collective: instruments, players, and space are divided among and shared among many projects.