Blanton Ross
most often presents his work in collaborations with painters, animators, film makers, and choreographers. As a multimedia composer, Ross creates an assortment of textures and styles both aurally and visually. He often utilizes experimental recording/mixing techniques and Max/Msp/Jitter in his prolific songwriting and composition. His weaving of numerous acoustic and electronic instruments with everyday sounds can be heard elsewhere. For Tears of the Moosechaser, his focus has been writing lyrics, singing, and encouraging you to have a good time.


Antony DiGennaro
is a modern goat enthusiast. He is renowned as a master of prepared goat technique and is currently working on 8-15 goats per day. He graduated from the Goatborg Institute of the Goat with a Bachelor's in the Fine Art of Goatgineering. Someday, Antony plans on going back to school for a Doctor of Goatsciences degree. Current non-goat ensemble projects include the death metal band Whale (Jake Vossler, John Wash IV), Tinhorn Justice (Cory Beers, Ian Carroll, James Barry, Chris Stewart), Feedback Wave Riders (Michael Jon Fink, Ulrich Krieger, Vinny Golia, Chas Smith, Brian Walsh) and work as a solo goattarist.


Igor Korvolych
was a multi-instrumentalist and folk music historian, originally from the city of Novosibirsk in Central Russia. He came to the United States in the mid 1990's to study folk music and ethnomusicology, having a strong interest in the indigenous music of North America. Igor spent many years living between New York, Louisville and Chicago before settling in the Los Angeles area around 2005. It was in the fall of '07 when he was discovered by Tears of the Moosechaser and asked to handle mandolin and mandocello parts. Korvolych's young life was cut short, however, just months after recording tracks for Songs for a Sinister Woman when he was mysteriously killed in a bizzare accident while purchasing produce from a farmer's market near his home in Ventura.


David Tranchina
is an up and coming bassist on the Los Angeles scene, known for his big warm sound, solid groove and inventive melodic solos. Originally from Forestville, California, he started playing bass at age 13, and was self taught until he began studies with Classical bass virtuoso Barry Green at UC Santa Cruz where he earned his Bachelor's Degree in Music. While at Santa Cruz he also studied Jazz with Stan Poplin, John Clayton, and Karlton Hester. In 2006 He moved to Los Angeles to attend Calarts, where he studied with Charlie Haden, and Darek Oles, and received his Master's Degree in Jazz Performance in 2008. Other influences and mentors are Wadada Leo Smith, David Roitstein and Alfred Ladzekpo.
David has composed music for animation, and done quasi-improvised music music for experimental Dance and Theatre. His compositions range from post-bop-ish to experimental and avant-garde and have been described as "jive", "fishy", "stinking", "bass-tastic", "beautiful man", "absolutely delightful", and "decomposed". He looks for inspiration everywhere, and seeks to find humane and environmentally friendly ways to compose music.
David has performed with Bennie Maupin, Gary Fukushima, Matt Otto, Nate Wood, Gonzalo Bergara, Lorca Hart, Walter Smith III, Bobby Watson, Mike Barone, Butch Morris, William Winant, Smith Dobson, Vinny Golia, Larry Koonse, and Joe LaBarbara. David has played some of the top jazz venues in Los Angeles, including The Jazz Bakery, Catalina's, Vibrato, The Temple Bar, 2nd Street Jazz, Cafe Metropol, The Mint, and REDCAT. He's also has recorded with Slumgum, Dirty Squid, Clinton Patterson, Brandon Sherman, Hanna Rifkin, The Botticellis, Chariman Mouse, and It'sawhale, and the 16th and 17th Annual Calarts Jazz Album recorded at Capitol Records.



Ulrich Krieger
is a composer and saxophone player. His pieces are widely performed by ensembles in Europe and the USA. Krieger's recent interest lies in the experimental fringes of contemporary pop culture, the limbo between noise, metal, ambient and silence. So did he transcribed and arranged Lou Reeds 'Metal Machine Music' for classical instruments. He has won several awards and residencies for: New York, Los Angeles, Venice, Rome, Bologna, Darmstadt and others. Collaborations include: Lou Reed, Lee Ranaldo, LaMonte Young, Phill Niblock, Christian Marcley, Mario Bertoncini, Merzbow, Michiko Hirayama, John Duncan, Zbigniew Karkowski, DJ Olive, Alan Licht, Kasper T Toeplitz, Radu Malfatti etc. He calls his way of saxophone playing 'acoustic electronics' and often uses his instrument as an 'analogue sampler' from which he can call his quasi-electronic sounds, which then get processed.
Recent projects are Metal Machine Trio (with Lou Reed), Text of Light (with Lee Ranaldo), and zerfall-gebiete (with Thomas Koner) - somewhere in the nirvana between experimental rock, ambient and contemporary composition.



Chris Stewart
started playing violin in a public school orchestra in 1995. While continuing his classical education through high school and college, he also developed interests in several other styles of music including bluegrass, jazz, experimental noise music, heavy metal, and rock. Currently, Chris plays in several groups all of varied styles. To Tears of the Moosechaser, he blends noise music and traditional styles on acoustic violin.


Mr. James "Jimmy" Barry
is a gentleman and a scholar. As a decorated veteran of the Great War, he bravely served his country as a combat cellist and has battled honorably alongside the likes of Tears of the Moosechaser, Hurt Model, Tinhorn Justice, Dog Shit Taco, and 18 Squared to name a few.


Daniel Corral
is a composer and multi-instrumentalist born and raised in Eagle River, AK. Currently residing in the L.A. area, his unique voice has found a diverse range of outlets. He has accompanied avante-garde puppetry all across the USA, had his music performed by an orchestra riding the Santa Monica Pier Ferris Wheel, been featured at a USC faculty concert of original player piano music, displayed his massive multi-movement music boxes at galleries all over Los Angeles, composed for a number of films and dance performances, and much more.


Gabriel Deutsch's
musical career has been a diverse one. In 1997 he was pulled on stage to play guitar with rock band Green Day at Point Fest 9. During this time, Gabriel was studying finger style blues and blue grass guitar by ear. In 2005 he received a BM in classical guitar performance from South East Missouri State University. During his study, he won the MMTA State-Level Guitar Competition. From 2006-2008 he received his Master's Degree in performance and composition from The California Institute of the Arts. During this time he studied Flamenco with the renowned Miroslav Tadic. Gabe was kidnapped from The Cameltones and joined the live line up of Tears of the Moosechaser shortly after the release of "Songs for a Sinister Woman".



Paul Fuller
recorded five-string banjo and Dobro with Tears of the Moosechaser for "Songs for a Sinister Woman". Recently Paul has begun experimenting with instrument building. He also performs with the Bluegrass fusion group American Primative.