Details:
genre:
- R&B
- Pop
- Rock
- Drum & Bass
- Soul
- Trip-Hop
- Trance
- Alternative
- Club
- Blues
- Dance
- Funk
- Indie
- Lounge
location:
Austin TX, USA
bio:
The RainDoggs are a collaboration of musicians from Austin TX, brought together by musician/producer & Brooklyn transplant Rob Porta. They were put together to back up various singers with live shows and/or album production. The name RainDoggs comes from Tom Wait?s description of all the dogs that got caught in the rain and lost their way home. ?The way the music business is today, we?re all a pack of lost doggs trying to find our way? So the name just made sense, plus most of them met in a Tom Waits tribute band.
Beyond Tom Waits, their influences include Snoop Dogg (yes, that?s where the name comes from) Dap-Kings, The Heavy, The Rolling Stones, The Black Keys, Portishead, Gogol Bordello, Faces, Tom Petty, ADELE, The Budos Band, Marvin Gaye, James Brown, John Mellencamp and so much more, The RainDoggs create a unique new sound that mixes R&B/Soul & Blues with a David Lynch movie.
Their debut album, ?Red to Black? with Texas Folk/Blues Singer Ali Holder is filled with complimentary horn arrangements, featuring Brent Cagle (The Jake Levinson Band) on Sax and Ali?s former Trumpet player Michael Prohaska (Ali Holder and Train Robbin? Whiskey) mixed with a classic approach of ?Rhythm/Lead? guitar Duo with Rob Huntley & Stewart Cundy (John Deery Band).
After recording Red to Black, the band decided they wanted to continue, since Ali has a full-time band with Ali Holder & The Broken Hearted The RainDoggs teamed up with Larisa Montanaro. Larisa started her career composing electronic music for the ?concert hall and for dance?. Her solo works and collaborations have won awards, including the Russolo Prize in Italy and the Bourge in France, and her music has been performed throughout the world. She has collaborated with international choreographer, Yacov Sharir on several pieces, including D-U-O-S and Body Automatic, which incorporated interactive technology. Her collaboration with artist Alicia Berger in Tacoma, Washington also integrated interactive technology into a cohesive art installation.
website:
http://raindoggs.com