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| The Existential Detectives | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| existence precedes essence | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Existential Detectives (besides an allusion) are an experimental band based in Bristol, RI and Salem, MA dedicated to the courage of questioning. The core of the band is formed by guitar player Wayne (a.k.a. Belanga) and bass player Donna. We are serious about not taking ourselves seriously. Our music is unfolding from an eighties genre, yet we seek to create a unique formula. The goal is to inspire, enchant, and maybe even empower the possible. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Come see us play at the Coffee Depot open mic on Friday, May 25, in Warren, RI! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Read about our gigs in our Existential Detectives diary!! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| The Existential Detectives are: | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Belanga: Guitar, vocals b |
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| Belanga was born with a conventional name to lower-middle-class parents in a mill-town fifty miles south of Boston. In his former life, he dabbled in rocket science. Much to his father's chagrin, he opted to forego the much anticipated yet failed attempts toward fashioning him into the next great sports legend in order to concentrate on myth fabrication at the impressionable age of thirteen. He received his first guitar at fifteen and immediately commenced lessons instructed by a Portuguese man who pinched his fingers whenever he made a mistake. The phantom pinchings still affect him to this day. Belanga has authored many inspirational jingles that have reached unprecedented achievement in his own mind. His professional objective is to be understood at the expense of deceiving the public by making them believe he too wishes to follow the code while undermining its influence. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Influences: Van Gogh, The Clash, Bootsy Collins, The Edge Evans, Boris Karloff, Gang of Four, Brett Favre, CG Jung, Neitszche, The B-52s, Cornplanter, Fozzy Bear, Pete Townshend, Le Tigre, The German Art Students, Edvard Munch, The Blaue Reiter, The Dead Kennedys, Henri Matisse, Graham Maby, Joe Jackson, Jean Baudrillard, and the weather. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Donna, a.k.a. Scarf Girl: Bass, vocals | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Donna was born to sing. By age two, she had created her own language, which outsiders could only approximate as "French." At an early age she announced her intrinsicly eclectic attitude toward all things by being herself. In her late teens, she confounded her peers by simultaneously singing in an operatic group and a punk rock band, while recording back-up vocals on a folk album. For a brief time in the early 80s, she even sang in one of Belanga's many basement bands, after the two met in an anthropology class. After moving to East Tennessee, she picked up the bass while singing bluegrass with some future Grammy-winning musicians. Then sadly, she stopped singing and playing bass for no apparent reason. She would like to thank Belanga for helping her realize that music is her essence, and that she still rocks. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Influences: Bronson Alcott, Ravi Shankar, Alfred Maurer (the first American modern artist), Milton Erickson, Robin Lane, Daphne du Maurier, Chrissie Hynde, Herbert Blumer, Howard Becker, H.H. Sri Swami Satchidananda, X, the Who, the Breeders, and Edith Wharton. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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