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***Over the past decade, Moviola have made six records (and split singles with everyone from The Handsome Family to Cobra Verde) in virtual anonymity in a self-built studio next to the plasma center off North High Street in Columbus, Ohio. Live appearances are rarer than hen's teeth. An odd assortment of normal Joes from Amarillo to Amsterdam, record shop freaks, librarians who dig Kristofferson, and wayward fans of the Louvin Brothers and Spacemen 3 hold them close like a secret. And viva la difference: in this band everyone writes, everyone takes a turn singing lead. It's a fiveheaded beast (with eleven kids between them), the result of which is a well-deep collective of dusty country-through-a-space-echo, folk-soul, and adult lullabies. East of Eager ratchets up the entire lot into a pure, uncluttered document of one of the finest bands you're likely to hear, but, most likely, have never heard. The timeless sounds of soul, pop, country, bluegrass woven into a classic from an ever-evolving American band. Moviola are that rare entity-- a band whose identity is the blurry combination of five individual voices, rather than a kingpin or two and their helpers.... [T]hey've sidestepped the traps and girdles of the alt-country nation-- or any other tribe-- in favor of forging their own route, casually beautiful and always believable."-- David Greenberger, NPR - Past tours with Califone, Court and Spark, Fruitbats,Ass Ponys; upcoming spring/summer '04tour
- Obscure Ohio country-soul, equal parts Music From Big Pink, Phases and Stages, and Sebadoh III
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