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Discography
Town Downer EP (Self-Released)
Alexander Technique EP (Self-Released)
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San Francisco-native songwriter and vocalist Jesse Rimler grew up surrounded by music-making of wildly different styles. His father (writer and Gershwin expert Walter Rimler) composed hundreds of Tin Pan Alley-inspired tunes on the living room upright piano while his brother played guitar and drums in hardcore punk bands in the garage below. The combination had a profound effect on Jesse's songwriting, which is both sweet, finely wrought yet aggressive and open to unusual harmonies and dissonance. After teaching himself rudimentary piano and guitar chords, Jesse formed a band with multi-instrumentalist Jon Gondo, eventually recruiting two thirds of the experimental improvisational trio Beep! -- virtuosic keyboardist Michael Coleman and genius drummer Sam Ospovat. The energetic foursome count Ray Davies, Randy Newman, The Velvet Underground, Hoagy Carmichael, Grizzly Bear and Radiohead as influences.
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