Extra Life

After doing time with experimental music outfits such as for example ZS, Ocrilim (with Mick Barr), and Dirty Projectors, Wesleyan music graduate and modern guitar deconstructionist Charlie Looker struck from his own in 2006 along with his solo project Extra Life. Acquiring cues from his previous in ZS right into a even more song-based path, Looker released a three-song CD-R EP around the FNR Display Produces label and quickly began playing out around the brand new York City region, in addition to leaving on a short three-week tour from the East Coastline as well as the Southern USA, sharing phases with Dan Deacon, the Deceased Science, Parenthetical Ladies, and Nat Baldwin on the way. In early 2008, Looker come up with a solid of character types including bassist Tony Gedrich (Archaeopteryx), drummer Ian Antonio (ZS), key pad/tenor sax participant Travis Laplante (Small Ladies), and violinist Caley Monahon-Ward (Nat Baldwin), and required to the street in Feb and March of this 12 months on Extra Life’s first tour as a complete music group. Their debut full-length record, Secular Functions, was released that could on Planaria Recordings, and was accompanied by two produces on Sockets, a single classical guitar EP along with a break up 7″ with Nat Baldwin.