Chris Marti- Guitar
John Hanson - Drums
Jon Housworth - Bass
Jeff Chous - Keyboards/Kaossilator
Space Monster is an original idea, nothing more than "music has no rules," so we have tried to combine as many different styles as we can grasp. For that reason we haven't been able to be consistently labeled but to be honest we mostly attract to blues, funk, jazz, ska, reggae, and good old rock and roll. But lets start this story - we're from St. Paul, Minnesota. We started playing music on top of a korean restaurant two years ago. John Hanson on drums, Chris Marti on guitar, then came Jon Hou.. More >>sworth on bass guitar. Since that moment, we have been increasing our original repertoire of music - we have almost 3 hours of music we enjoy playing without breaks and can play our upcoming album front to back without a single REST. We've also rounded out our sound with Jeff Chous on keys/khaos pad, giving us new avenues to embark on our musical adventures. We're bringing our funky, spaced out jams to the Twin Cities - or your computer right now. Either way.
Bella Ruse
Bella Ruse's combination of airy folk and crunchy pop transforms rooms into secret gardens and paints pictures of invading bombardiers, salty sea love, and super glued hearts. Surrounded by a laboratory of instruments - typewriter, suitcase organ, glockenspiel, and kazoos - singer Kay Gillette's antique voice and Joseph Barker's mournful guitar twist and twirl and dip and dive and carry you deep down the rabbit-hole into their magical musical world.
They've been traveling the country for two years, opening for Sarah Mclachlan, Heart, and Hey Marseilles along the way. Their songs have been u..