take solace in our biographies
Every story has characters. Our's has a couple.
Take Solace is an indie rock band based near and around the Milwaukee area. We play a breed of indie folk rock that combines keyboards, mandolin, banjo, brass and electric rock guitar.
All of us have BS degrees in various realms of study so we can say that we "know" what we are doing. We also have day jobs; so we write songs and play shows for the love of the music not for the monetary compensation (although that is a nice touch and we won't shy away from any tips).
skills: Invoking lyrical musings of boastful ignorance, punch drunk vocals and buoyant arrangements to program the songs of take solace. Artfully photographing and codifying recent events and posthumous transmigrations while maintaining and inspiring social networking cultures.
weapons of choice: vocals, lyrics, guitar, toys, keyboards, parallax errors, kazoos
Hero: e.e.cummings
skills: Drawing biological influences to chemically paint stuttering riffs and shifting dynamics through the use of colors matched to perfect harmonies. Telemarketing.
tools mastered: mandolin, guitar, banjo, broken twigs, bass guitar, keyboards
Favorite Color: periwinkle
skills: Using financial models to produce youthful acoustic rhymes, fragrant mandolin melodies and harmonic mouth harp dramatics. Advising of the monetary calculations required to perpetuate take solace's transportation and living expenses.
devices utilized: mandolin, guitar, harmonica, alto sax, backup vocals, misc. percussion
Favorite Mythological Character: Pygmy
skills: Artfully crafting forward-looking rhythms and harmonious percussives whist vocalizing musings tuned to present component frequencies of the signal that is an integer multiple of the fundamental frequency.
devices utilized: percussion, backup vocals
Primary Folkloristic Focus: African Drums and Folklore
skills: Engineering utilitarian modules for brass harmonies whilst manhandling pyrotechnics. Mixology and amplificationology.
instruments efficiently maintained: trumpet, valve trombone, various mixers
Favorite Call Letters: WUWM