Continuities of time and space are disrupted in a heart beat by the weight of a Higher Than Pope composition. One second you are late 60's retro and then next avant-garde progressive rock. There appears to be a genre warp as the HTP black hole collapses genre after genre, with none appear to escape unscathed.
Fans say:
"wow you are really interesting and original sounding. I am listening. you are whacked in a good way....I am listening."
"I think your song "new beast" is some kind of masterpiece. I like the raw attitude in your sound."
"I think you have the leading edge in music..very captivating...even more awesome through the phones took me to a higher plane!"
"'Wow!' I just had my ears assaulted and my mind fried simply by listening to a few tracks of this aural crack. Thank god a soft guitar jumped from the speakers just in time to let me sop up the blood dripping from my brain - very Hitchcockian! Then back into the hunt! Good to find a soul behind the sonic mayhem! And a lovely one at that."
Although primarily a guitar band, HTP have no qualms about snipping bits from multiple genres and splicing the results together. HTP are not big on songs that evolve so slowly you fall asleep between intro and verse. Instead they practice revolution and from one moment to the next you have no idea what may transpire next as you are catapulted from one sonic event to another.
I am Here for:
Music. Fans and Artists. Go sign up at http://reverbanation.com/higherthanpope
Hobbies:
I write (mostly) love poetry. You can read some at http://soundclick.com/higherthanpope if you look at my blog. A book is currently in progress and will come out probably mid 2009.
Favorite Movies:
Too many to list.
Favorite TV Shows:
What's a TV?
Favorite Music:
Higher Than Pope, Tori Amos, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Stone Temple Pilots, Pink, Nine Inch Nails, Bush, Foo Fighters, Fiona Apple, Alice in Chains, Shakira, Black-Eyed Peas, B-52's, Alicia Keys, Grover Washington Jr., Matchbox 20, Sex Pistols, Portishead, Eric Johnson, Death in Vegas, Prodigy, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, Nina Simone, Nirvana, Jane's Addiction, Greta Keller, Carlos Santana, Billie Holiday, Led Zeppelin, Ben Webster, The Beatles, The Doors, Bach, Eric Clapton, Beethoven, Mahler, Mozart, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Coleman Hawkins, Bobby Short, Phillip Glass, Coldplay, Kurt Weill, Lotte Lenya, U2, Fleetwood Mac, Cheryl Crow, CSN&Y, Moody Blues, The Hollies, Howling Wolf, Robert Johnson, Canned Heat, Neil Young, Lenny Kravitz, Cream, and on and on and on....
Favorite Books:
Genuine book-a-holic here. I read mostly non-fiction but sometimes read detective/mystery/thriller/spy novels and sf.
I Love:
Lots
I Hate:
Nothing
