“The more we listen, the more we think that its primal yawp might be the only appropriate aesthetic response for these times.”—Philebrity
OOLALA will set you free from the constructs of space and time, through the vibrations of rock and roll. They are the manifestation of celestial pulsation, expressed as virtuosic, searing vocals that soar over distortion-drenched guitar and a funkified beat.
Like Aristotle and Einstein before them, OOLALA are guided by mythical insights in their musical quest for answers to the cosmological mysteries that lie just beyond our scientific grasp. “I'm presenting visions of the expansions of human knowledge that we are just discovering,” explains bandleader Michael Baker.
At every performance, OOLALA spawns a Golden Egg and presents it to the audience “as a symbol of this thing that has happened between us, as evidence of its cosmic birth.” The Golden Egg, Rumi Kitchen explains, is a perfect symbol of something being born; a divine shape.” Offstage, the trio can be found rehearsing in Philadelphia’s historic Germantown neighborhood, within close orbital influence of great Sun Ra Arkestra saxophonist Marshall Allen, on whom Rumi Kitchen drops in from time to time to offer baked goods and ruminate about the cosmos.
Check them out here on our Billy Penn Music site.