Allen Clapp & His Orchestra

b. Foster Town, California, USA. Lo-fi pop expert Clapp started by playing in regional garage area bands through the past due 80s, before picking right up an classical guitar and concentrating on demoing music in the traditional singer-songwriter mould. A debut flexi-disc, ‘Extremely Peculiar Sense’, premiered in 1991, accompanied by ‘A Modification In The Weather conditions’, and an EP, Secret Lawn. Clapp’s recording debut, COMPLETELY Chance Of Rainfall, featured an array of brilliantly realised lo-fi pop tracks and discovered the singer-songwriter playing almost all the equipment himself. Rather than continuing being a one-man music group, Clapp opted to create the quartet Allen Clapp And His Orchestra, including his wife, bass participant Jill Pries, in addition to old senior high school close friends, guitarist Larry Winther and drummer Maz Kattuah (the last mentioned of two had been members from the masked cult garage area clothing the Mummies). Kattuah was ultimately changed with Bob Vickers, because the music group transformed their name towards the Orange Peels, and released a set of well-received produces, 1997’s Square and 2001’s UP TO NOW. Clapp ultimately rejuvenated his dormant solo profession, releasing Obtainable Light in 2002.