Town and Country

Founded:

Headquarters: Chicago, IL

Website Link(s): http://www.thrilljockey.com/artists/?id=10049

Label(s)

 * Thrill Jockey
 * Box Media

Genre(s)

 * Post-Rock
 * Experimental Rock
 * Chamber Jazz

RIYL

 * Fridge
 * Collections of Colonies of Bees
 * Friends of Dean Martinez
 * Tortoise

Band Members

 * Josh Abrams
 * Jim Dorling
 * Liz Payne
 * Ben Vida

Includes Members of

 * Terminal 4
 * Sticks and Stones
 * Pillow

Band Biography
Town and Country, the Chicago-based quartet, is made up of four multi-instrumental artists that combine the atmosphere of free jazz with the tendencies of post-rock. Ben Vida (cornet, guitar, harmonium) Liz Payne (viola, hand bells, Celeste), Jim Dorling (bass clarinet, Harmonium, glass), and Josh Abrams (String Bass, Hand Bells) create exotic sounds and trance-like rhythms that weave in and out of each other with an ease that could only be established after years of playing with each other. Influences range from John Cale, to Eastern classical music to 90s post-rock experimentators Fridge. Always ethereal, Town and Country composes music for rainy days and calm nights.

=Discography=

Albums

 * Town & Country 1998 (Box Media)
 * It All Has to Do With It 2000 (Thrill Jockey)
 * C'Mon 2002 (Thrill Jockey)
 * 5 2003 (Thrill Jockey)
 * Up Above 2006 (Thrill Jockey)

EPs

 * Decoration Day 2000 (Thrill Jockey)