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Livesongs: Third Body



"Akin to being immersed in a deep, dark sea - comforting, but slightly eerie..."- Discorder Magazine

 Description: The third full-length CD from Seattle's Faith & Disease includes mostly new material recorded live at various locations; The Troubadour in LA, The infamous Crocodile Cafe in Seattle, King Theater in Seattle, and even a track from Faith & Disease's appearance on the Spud Goodman Show. Also included are two unreleased studio tracks, and an "anomolies" from 1992-94. Overall, Livesongs: Third Body is 11 tracks of moody, slower-tempo ambiance best experienced "in the middle of the night with lights out and headphones on..." (Seattle Weekly, 8/21/96)

Review: While their last outing was a bit more rock-based and "heavenly sounding", Faith & Disease offer other sides to their gothic sounds, painting a different picture here by showcasing their diversity: covering both a prog rock tune (Renaissance's "Ashes Are Burning") and an ethereal darkwave number (Black Tape For A Blue Girl's "Overwhelmed, Beneath Me"), and presenting a tribal ambient intro from an F&D concert (most of the cuts are live). "Space Song" takes us into more stellar regions via airy, echoing guitar, trippy synths, lightly dancing percussion, and ethereal vocals. "Witches" sounds quite folky, "Solobatia" hits hard rock territory, and the rippling guitar at the start of "Violet" conjures up the Old West. Much of "livesongs" is mellow - darker and spacier than other works - featuring reverberant guitar and flowing keyboards, not to mention consistently showcasing the lovely operatics of Dara Rosenwasser. While the group shifts gears frequently, the results are pretty cohesive and involving, and they get points for diversity. Fans of the band's earlier work might be surprised, but this is meant as an album of songs that would not be found on a typical F&D album. Just indulge the band, especially because this is a good album. Its nice to be surprised once in awhile.
From “Carpe Noctem” Magazine 1997
Beauty and Bitterness



Description: This debut album by Faith & Disease went to #1 on Seattle's popular radio station KCMU for an amazing three-months, not bad for an album culled from two different "demo tapes" personally financed and produced by the band for about $400 total ("A na&#iuml;ve masterpiece," according to bassist Eric Cooley). Songs range from textured gloominess ("Chandra's Lament," "Ebb and Tide") to light-hearted folk rock ("Glass Glow World," "Content Injuries") and everything in-between, yet still sounding like an even, consistent body of music. Cover art: "A Child" by Lucca Della Robia (1466).

Fortune His Sleep



Description: The definitive Faith & Disease sound is captured here on their second release, an impressive album from start to finish. Highly eclectic and different from track to track, Faith & Disease use the majestic voice of Dara Rosenwasser weaved in with acoustic and electric guitars, melodic leading bass structures, ethnic percussion, and the occasional violin, rainstick, bells, tambourine and classically-inspired baroque synth sounds. Critically acclaimed by the likes of Alternative Press, B-Side Magazine, Option, HUH, and others. Cover art: Floating Tranquility by Eric Cooley.
Insularia



"A dreamy, laconic, and mature collection of work from a band regarded as Seattle's standard bearers..."- David Slatton, The Stranger

 Description: For the fourth and newest full-length, Seattle's Faith & Disease have sculpted their finest and most focused album to date. Insularia features 11 new studio tracks, moving through "oceanic depths of sound with intelligent finesse, the sheer prettiness of their sound is more reminiscent of Mazzy Star's dispersed simplicity...*" The instrumentation is varied, including violin (Baudelaire), flute (Cocoon), Steel Pedal Guitar (Old Dusk Dakota), and slide guitar, keyboards and guest vocals from Chris and Carla of the Walkabouts. Insularia just might "lull you into a sleep of opiated dreams..."

Review: Insularia is the most impressive album by Faith & Disease to date, a band that has steadily released a stream of consistent, non-commercial music since 1991. Insularia is also quite a remarkable leap in terms of musicianship and production values since the early days of Faith & Disease: Eric Cooley formed the band during the summer of 1990 after dropping his classes at the nearby University of Washington, realizing music was an obsession that could not be kept solely as a hobby. Faith & Disease originally existed as a bass, keyboards and drum-machine 4-track recording project until guitarist Steve Knouse and then vocalist Dara Rosenwasser were brought in. "That, to me, is when Faith & Disease began," states Cooley, "Dara and I naturally took over and have guided it ever since..And Steve's been with us since the early days, even if his tastes differ from ours most of the time, he's been essential to our sound." Brad soon left, wanting a more electronic side top the band, while Cooley and Rosenwasser opted for elements like acoustic guitar, real drums and a variety of non-rock instrumentation. During a very accelerated time from early 1991 to their debut release on Ivy records in late 1993, Faith & Disease released two cassette tapes, two 7" single, two locally aired videos, ended up on four compilations, all the while performing live 2-3 times a month. Fast forward to 1998: Insularia is the end-result of an ongoing process; a band with a tendency toward gentle musings and restrained melodies, but also fiercely dedicated to their vision and most of all: The music.
Thursday 21st September
The Troubadour
Los Angeles

Flyer Design Eric Cooley

RECORDING OF THIS SHOW AVAILABLE

Friday 8th February
Sit 'n' Spin
Seattle

Flyer Design Eric Cooley
Friday 29th November
Sit 'n' Spin
Seattle

Flyer Design Eric Cooley
6th February
Fenix
Seattle

Flyer Design Eric Cooley
Saturday 10th May
Sit 'n' Spin
Seattle

Flyer Design Eric Cooley
Saturday 7th May
Crocodile Cafe
Seattle

Flyer Design Eric Cooley
30th October
OK Hotel
Seattle

Flyer Design Eric Cooley
The Show Box
Seattle

Flyer Design Eric Cooley
Sunday 11th October
Crocodile Cafe
Seattle

Flyer Design Eric Cooley
Faith and Disease Collage

Flyer Design Eric Cooley
Friday 4th August
The Weathered Wall
Seattle

Flyer Design Eric Cooley
Saturday 17th August
Crocodile Cafe
Seattle

Flyer Design Eric Cooley
Friday 26th July
Sit 'n' Spin
Seattle

Flyer Design Eric Cooley
Saturday 26th February
OK Hotel
Seattle

Flyer Design Eric Cooley
August - September
US Tour

Flyer Design Eric Cooley
Weathered Wall
Seattle

Flyer Design Eric Cooley
Selected Discography

1992
Moon Tints of Purple and Pearl CS (Siren Song)79200*
"Voltaire's Vallerie" b/w "Igloo" 7" (Siren Song) Song79201*


"Fortune His Sleep III" Video for TV (Spud Goodman Show/KTZZ)

"Emalee" Video (Bombshelter /NW Rock)

1993
"Jardeau Blue" b/w "Crown of Sorrow" 7" (AIDA House) AHR04
"Madrigal" Video (Bombshelter/NW Rock)

1994
Beauty and Bitterness CD (Ivy Records) IR33-01 1995


Fortune His Sleep CD (Ivy Records) IR33-02


"Fortune His Sleep III" Video for TV (Spud Goodman Show/KTZZ)

1996
Livesongs: Third Body CD/CS (Ivy Records) IR33-10


1998
Insularia (Ivy Records) IR33-11


*denotes out of print


Compilation Appearances 1992-96

1992
First, Last and Forever CD/CS ("Bury Me Deep") Cleopatra


1993
Orange and Blue CS ("Jardeau Blue" and "Healing Anne") AIDA House AHR03
Seattle Women in Rock CD/CS ("Jardeau Blue") Insight


1994
Masked Beauty in a Sea of Sadness CD/CS ("Madrigal") G. Industry Records
Of Theses Reminders CD/CS ("Is It Love That Dare Not Be?" and "Overwhelmed Beneath Me") Projekt Records PRO51


1995
22 Fires #3 CS ("Fortune His Sleep" and "Like Lillith") 22Fires
When The Sun Settles Down Vol.III CD/CS/LP ("Healing Anne") Foundation (Germany)
Heavenly Voices Vol.III CD/CS ("Amelius Unhappy") Hyperium (Germany) Ghost of a White Face Clown; Tribute to Gary Numan CD/CS ("Down in the Park") NEC

1996
Alleviation CD ("Crown of Sorrow" live version) Alleviation Records (Raleigh, N.C.)

1997-98
Genre-fest Vol. 1 ("Violet") Ivy Records IR33-11


Splashed With Many A Speck ("Fortune His Sleep III" live) Dewdrops Records (Los Angeles, CA)
Americana: A Tribute To Johnny Cash ("When The Roses Bloom Again")

Irregular Records Losing Today Vol. 2 ("Rubina Verde") Losing Today (Italy)

1999
Dark Oath Sampler CD ("Relinquish" live)
Dark Oath (Portugal)
History

Faith & Disease signed with embryonic IVY RECORDS (formed by David Goebel) in 1994 and released its first album, Beauty and Bitterness soonafter. Despite the limitations of a small start-up label, the album sold well, garnished critical acclaim, and spent considerable time on Seattle's KCMU 90.3 FM "Heavy Rotation" chart. A well-received Southern California tour followed, then the band spent the following summer recording their even-better follow-up Fortune His Sleep, released in late 1995. Kind words from the likes of Alternative Press, Option, Magnet, B-Side, and a countless 'zines established F&D as a force in the indy music world.

A 12 date tour of the Western US ("Fortune His Sleep Tour") witnessed a core following of listeners in each stop, highlighted by well-attended stops in Los Angeles (Troubadour) and San Francisco.

A well-documented history of recorded live material resulted in the bands third album, Livesongs: Third Body in mid-1996. Tracks from various venues in Seattle and elsewhere along with "anomalies" and unreleased material.

BIO- From Shake The Disease

(The unedited, complete Stranger feature on Faith & Disease origianlly printed 1/21/97)
Written by Michael Hukin.

Seattle, 1991, a city brimming over with guitars and [screw]ed-up white male singers. Grunge has taken control, and shouty angst sells, baby. In the midst of this landscape, a tall, dark, handsome young bass player named Eric Cooley decides to form a low-key and fragile new band, incorporating keyboards, of all things, and fronted by a female, [Dara, who spent two years at Seattle's Cornish College of the Arts] more Mazzy Star than Mudhoney. Faith & Disease is born, and through hard work and a self- proclaimed obsession for his music, Cooley starts to get attention paid to his beloved group. Radio airplay, some flowery press and a growing local following all pushed Faith & Disease up the live ladder, moving from the Ditto Tavern to The Crocodile in about two years.....not bad for a band without a label or a manager. 1993 saw the release of a single *Jardeau Blue* on the Utah label AIDA House, and more critical acclaim followed. Three major labels sent letters of interest to the band, but after a while with nothing happening, action was necessary.

Cooley and a friend, David Goebel, formed their own label, called it Ivy Records, and proceeded to release two albums of insular and refined music by Faith & Disease, *Beauty And Bitterness* which enjoyed some success, and *Fortune His Sleep* which did even better. By now the big magazines were picking up on this quiet, hidden Seattle band and the press kit grew extensively. Now, in 1997, Faith & Disease are due their time in the spotlight. The exquisite *Livesongs: Third Body* (released in 1996, also on Ivy) showcases the band doing their thing out in the night, with material recorded at venues all over town, from The Tractor to the King Theater to Bumbershoot.
Interview

1. Livesongs sounds very comfortable even though it was recorded a many places across the city. Did you feel at ease recording live? Does Seattle make you feel more at ease than other places you've played live?
 Dara Rosenwasser: In retrospect, being on stage is always such a release, a rapture if you will. A rapture and a spawning of musical beauty. I don't think the opportunity for nerves ever arises, nor does the thought that we're being recorded ever cross our minds. It's much different playing live in front of an audience, there's a structure, but it is a free uninhibited gesture. In our past studio recordings theirs such an air of expectation that I think we all share, the impossible hope of getting the right song down to near perfection. Seattle is a comfortable city to play in. The traveling and "on tour" shows we've done always throw us for a loop......sharing motel rooms, being the last to bathe after four guys have completely ransacked the bathroom, with not a single clean towel to be found. Please girls, can you find sympathy here? ( Ha, ha, ha, oh hell.) But really, we enjoy each others company, and the music is comfortable and familiar to us. We're a big dysfunctional family living in a seasonally depressed city.
Eric Cooley: After about 100 live shows we certainly feel more confident and comfortable than we did earlier on; those early shows were pretty nerve-racking, and if we missed a change or played a song poorly it felt like the end of the world. Playing in Seattle is way different than playing on the road; playing locally is more safe I suppose--we see our friends in the crowd and don't feel much like celebrities much because once we're finished playing, tomorrow comes and it's back to the usual day to day routine. But on the road it's different, you're traveling and the whole focus of your existence is getting to the next city, or club or whatever, so you feel more of that particular "role" than usual. I did marvel at how Rick (ex-drummer) and I would be at odds most of the time while on tour, but once the set began, we'd instantly connect on this very real level, hug each other afterwards, then go right back into quarreling the next day...a real sort of perverse cycle.

2. Have you done much touring during the five or so years you've been together?
Dara: Not enough as of yet. I'm a travel junky, I'd like us to have more opportunities to bring our music to new towns. It's really important to promote your music through touring, and hopefully this US tour will happen...
Eric: A little here and there. Touring takes alot of time and energy to plan, and since we're not on a major label or have upscale management yet, it's not that easy for us. We still get decent money on the road though, and almost every show has been worthwhile. We need to tour more and are currently in the early stages of a full US tour for this summer. We better hurry though, Steve's looking for a new job!

3. What has it been like living here during the grunge explosion? Do you feel like F&D have been largely ignored or that you've garnered as much attention as you want at this point? You have quite a following in spite of the lack of media attention.
Eric: Yeah, I used to say "oh poor me, stuck in Grunge-ville..." and Dara was equally venomous, but I realize how silly that was to say. I mean, like it or not, the "Grunge" explosion was a clever and well-executed strategy on behalf of Sub-Pop, and not only did all the hard rock bands benefit from it in various ways, we actually did too. Almost every interview question from those days centered around being a "Seattle" band...and at that time there was nothing even remotely similar to Faith & Disease-- we really were the polar-opposite of the bands of that time, and despite it all, we still moved up the ladder at clubs and gained acceptance from the club owners, local music mags, and radio... which says alot for Seattle I believe. I hate hearing bands bitch about being Seattle, it's like "oh you poor, suffering artist... I feel for you." We have it much better here than most cities.
Josh Furman: Well, if we had much attention as we wanted everyone would be sick of us by now! It is kinda hard knowing that a lot of people are going out to have a raucous time and we really don't provide that. As long as some people still want a musical experience, rather than seeing their drinking buddies, there will be a place for us.

4. Many of your songs on have a spiritual undertone, especially "Hashivenu" on Fortune His Sleep. Are any of you religious or were you raised in a religious family?
Dara: Hashivenu seems to have become the focal point to "Fortune His Sleep" lately. People are drawn to it because of its placement on the CD (track 2) an unexpected acapela vignette, eerily familiar 4,000 year old Hebrew prayer that has been given many different renditions through Christianity and Judaism. Both Joshua and I were brought up under the Jewish faith, and I'll let him fill you in on the rest.
Eric: ...and Steven and I were raised in Christian-based households. There are many beautiful elements in religious music, and Dara and I frequent "Compline" at St. Marks Cathedral on occasion, but in terms of a dogmatic, encompassing religious doctrine in our band, no not at all.

5. What is the status on your next studio project? Are you planning on releasing another CD this year? (if so, what can we expect from it?)
Eric: We are currently in the process of "testing the water" with some majors, but we'll see what that yields. We've been contacted before, but we don't subscribe to the "Cinderella complex" many bands have with being signed by a major label...we just take our time and write music that has value to us. The next studio CD will definitely be our best work ever, and I can honestly say that based on the recent songs we've performed live.
Dara: The future of F&D is uncertain at this point, at least where I stand, we do have the material though. We've been really spoiled with Ivy with the last three CD's, and now we're getting a taste of what it's really like to "shop" our music to bigger labels. Oh woe is me! The "princess syndrome"

6. I loved your cover of "Ashes are Burning" (Renaissance, an unheralded band). Can you give us an idea of what songs or bands you might like to cover in the future?
Eric: I first heard "Ashes Are Burning" about four years ago, by accident. Since then I've realized just what a cult-like band Renaissance was (and is), and that they were in many ways the early seventies equivalent of like, Dead Can Dance. Many people appreciate the fact we've unearthed that song and put it in a newer context, so perhaps someday we'll do the entire 27-minute version... without the masturbatory bass solo! That's such a funny concept; the "solo." How seventies!
Dara: I recently received a Shawn Colvin tape from a customer at work, he thought I might like "Polaroid" a credible song, but I was thinking more along the lines of "Tangerine" or "Good Morning Heartache." A song from the Big band era would suit my voice, and our music, more appropriately.
Eric: Yeah, or a Jane Green song from the 20's...I could hear Dara doing "Parlez Moi D'Amour" quite well.

7. Do you see Faith & Disease leaving Ivy for a major label somewhere down the road? What are the long-term plans for Ivy as a label?
Eric: Hopefully, yes, but that's to be determined at this point. Every group, sooner or later, who has proven their capable of writing good music, wants to expand their fanbase, and we're no exception, but we are cautious of letting go of our freedoms... I've heard some rather gruesome tales about bands who get sucked into the major label machinery... Ivy Records will continue to operate if and when F&D leave. David and I created this monster, and we have no plans of easing up on the progress we've made with it. Ninth Circle (the newest addition to the Ivy roster) are a promising band, and there is a compilation set for release soon...

8. Your music has this beautiful, balanced, peaceful quality. Do you think fans make the mistake of thinking you personally have these traits? I mean, are you guys these perfectly balance people or is your music created from chaos?
Eric: That's a great question. Are we always laconic and dreamy? nope. "The notes land like drops of molten wax, stinging the flesh before solidifying into soft puddles..." but we've downplayed that for a while now...back in our "Pre-Raphaelite" phase we did take ourselves pretty seriously. I don't think we're THAT contrary to our music though, not like say, a band like Love Spirals Downwards, who stayed with us when they played Seattle... two totally approachable, unpretentious people who happen to create this wonderful, tranquil music. Our music is created from a fair degree of chaos though, and you'd be surprised how often we, argue about the silliest things.

9. Do you embrace the Goth label that has been attached to F&D, or do you find that it restricts where you'd like to take the band?
Eric: sigh... I see F&D as no more "Goth" than say, Mazzy Star or the Cranes or whatever. Some cite the artwork on the album covers and flyers as suggesting we're darker than thou, which is admittedly my doing, as I am obsessed by morose images and states of decay and transition. But Goth? The cover of the live album the weathervane of this wonderful old horsebarn next to a river, built in 1903, about to be paved over and become a strip mall or industrial park... which I find both tragic and inevitable.

10. What do you make of all the media hype surrounding the Goth scene in the wake of the Baranyi trial?
Dara: Like they say "any press is good press" but our Stranger interview, with the headline "Goth or not?" couldn't have come at more appropriate time.
Eric: I don't care...

11. What is the most surprising thing people don't know about you personally?
Dara: I killed someone. Don't tell my mother.
Eric: I call my grandmother "Grammy"
Steve Drives a psychedelic van
Josh climbs rocks
Dara has a letter she wrote to Michael Jackson (at 12)
One of us is under 21..guess who?
Astan Interview

Original interview text from "Astan" Magazine (Germany) 3/98 here we go:

1. Who's in the band and what instruments do you play?
 Eric: I construct melodies on the bass, play some guitar (a total of three songs on the new album and Dara and I wrote all the lyrics. Dara is the vocalist, but also plays and writes songs on guitar, and lyrics.
The other members at the present are: Steven Knouse, whose played acoustic and electric guitar on all the albums, and Joshua Furman, our treasured drummer who also incorporates non-rock drums into our sound..I'll let him pronounce them all. Our "live" lineup also includes Charlotte Sather, flute and some additional vocals, and John Clough, our good friend who plays keyboards. We have also always made it a point of bringing in musicians to add certain elements to songs, violin, organ, flute, etc.

2. How would you describe your music?
Dara: It is sad-core ...I'm the diva of the sad-core scene. Haha
Eric: facial expressions and tone of voice don't always translate that well in this medium... Our music is sad, yes, but that's not to say we're always bummed out and miserable, not at all.

3. Where are you based and is there an address where readers can order your music from?
Eric: We live in Seattle. There are many ways people can order all four of our albums. The obvious way is to write Ivy, or better still, ask your record store clerk to order it if they don't already have it.
Dara: our music at this point should be accessible. It's great to know people out there enjoy the music.

4. Give the scoop on 'Insularia' - how long did it take to record, how did the process go, and is it different from your previous albums (in style, recording process, etc...)?
Dara: I remember it standing out from the other albums; the weather was nice, which doesn't happen often in Seattle...and Kevin (Suggs,Co-producer) made it all wonderful.
Eric: it was our first album with a real "producer" and full-time Engineer. But of course I'm such a control freak, it ended up being co-produced with myself. Dara had the option to, but felt Kevin and I were doing fine.

5. Ok, this one may not get included in the interview, but I was just listening to track 7, 'I Come and Stand at Every Door' - and I'm a lil' confused...It sounded like the beginning of another song I've heard, which I thought was 'Song to the Siren' by This Mortal Coil (Liz of Cocteau Twins singing), but maybe I'm mistaken...?
Dara: Actually, you're right and you're wrong.
Eric: It's actually an old song, the Byrds covered it first, then This Mortal Coil on their third album...

6. Who are your musical influences?
Dara: ...Misfits, DOA, Dead Kennedy's, you know, Circa 1981 (She was 7!)
Eric: Yeah, but I'm more into Slayer, Celtic Frost, Megadeath, Iron Maiden...the "Priest" ... Rock and Roll Dude!!!

7. This one is for Dara...Do you do any vocal exercises before you sing or protect your voice in any way? I've always been in awe of high-range singers and wonder how they keep their voices so beautiful!
Dara: I smoke, drink and vomit. I'm not sure how I keep my high range, but for all vocalists I think it comes naturally and you know your limitations...attention to control and range.

8. Will you do any touring for your new album? How have shows been in the past?
Eric: Like every album, we want to tour. This time we're going all over the US in the fall. Our past tours have gone well, and it's great because you REALLY see the true character come out in people when you're on the road for that long. It's worked as a good weeding out process for certain people. In Seattle our shows are different, we know everyone and the crowd knows all the songs...
Dara: We get to catch up with all our flings in other cities... (laughs)
Eric: I'll never hear the end of that.

9. (This question will most likely show up near the beginning of the interview in my zine, but I just thought of it now!) Could you give a brief history of Faith & Disease, the band? When did you start out, what made you want to form a band, what albums have you put out and the like...
Eric: I became obsessed with music and felt a need to offer Seattle a sound that no one else was doing or doing poorly. I'm obsessed with music and forming a band that includes all my passions; artwork and graphics, writing, playing music, and working together. I'm lucky Dara and I met, because this wouldn't have happened without her...
Dara: How sweet of you to say... I'm thankful as well. Want some secret punch?

10. Your music is not 'Top 40' material (and that's a very good thing!) and it must be difficult to find your audience...how do you deal with this? Would you want to be in the mainstream or do you have other goals?
Eric: It may be harder to find an audience and KEEP it if your playing music everyone's heard before. What I like about this band is how we have kept going at a very "indie" level, but things keep getting better every year..slowly but long-lasting it appears.
Dara: I would have to agree. Has the key been made? Our music is like a treasure chest; you never quite know how much... um, how much gold you're going to find.

11. What bands do you listen to now? Are there any UK bands that you like?
Dara: Tarnation, a band from Italy called Ordo Equitum Solis, Legendary Pink Dots, Swans
Eric: bands from the UK? I love Mojave 3 (Slowdive, whatever), Mazzy Star...
Dara: I wish Josh had never given you that Mazzy Star album.
Eric: Why?
Dara: because you played it over and over and over. Nothing against Hope but it was a little excessive.
Eric: No more than your little CD's you play over and over... like Tarnation.
Dara: Maxine (released on Blast First in the UK in 1991), our friend.
Eric: Have you heard of Maxine? They were written up in Melody maker several times about 6 years ago. He runs an antique store in Seattle now, and we play with Maxine live sometimes.

12. Ok, now for some non-musical questions; What's your favorite: book/magazine/fanzine?
Dara: "Are You There God? It's Me Margaret." No, but really "Mirands Beautiful Dream."
Eric: I read all the time, so: Book: "Memoirs of a Beatnik" by Dianne Di Prima..or "1984" by George Orwell. Magazine: "Adbusters" is a great parody of consumerism and megacorporate idiocy. 'zine: Lots..I have a huge 'zine collection. I used to edit a zine called "Sixth Form" so I always have admiration for the zine scene. Some good new ones are "Outburn," "Ben Is Dead," and "The Big Takeover."
Dara: Our guitarist has sticker collection!
Eric: God, we sound like a bunch of nerds.

Film?
Dara: "Santé Sangria" I'm deeply passionate about Mexican culture since I was born in South America (Panama).
Eric: "Splendor In The Grass" (1963), and "Paper Moon." "Black Narcissus." "Head."

Quote?
Eric: "Music is in the air all around us. Musicians don't create it; they pull it out of the air and put it in their instrument. If you empty yourself out, it can come into you. It's like taking a shower. Just let it wash over you, without worrying where the water had been before." I just read that today actually, it was said by Mal Waldron, a legendary jazz pianist who used to play with Billie Holliday, John Coltraine, etc.,

Actor/actress?
Dara: Juliet Binoche, Mr. T
Eric: Jennifer Jason-Leigh, Maureen O'Sullivan in the 30's, um...Buster Keaton

Type of food?
Dara: Gummy Bears, chocolate, salad.
Eric: veggie burgers, noodles and peanut sauce.

Drink?
Dara: Ginger beer.
Eric: Coffee, fruit juice and beer.

13. If you could score the soundtrack for any film, what would it be?
Eric: Black Narcissus starring Debra Kerr..1946 I think.
Dara: Hiroshima Mon Amore, Marguerite Duress

14. If you made a mix-tape right now, what songs/artists would you include on it?
Here's our combined tape:
1. Take Everything, Mazzy Star
2. Gloomy Sunday, Billie Holiday
3. Mercy, Mojave 3
4. A Forest, Cure
5. Only You, Portishead
6. Banks of the Ohio, ?
7. Witches, Cowboy junkies
8. Idily, Tarnation
9. Bells Ring, Mazzy Star
10.Gigantic, Pixies
11. Strength of Strings, This Mortal Coil
12. Tarantula, This Mortal Coil
13. Anything from the first album from LOW
14. Vain, from the Dogs in Space soundtrack
15. Louise, Clan of Xymox
16. The Spangle-maker, Cocteau Twins
17. New York City, Damon and Naomi
18. Katy's Song, Red House Painters
19. Uncle Joe, Red House Painters
20. All, Diamond Fist Werny
21. Jack Kerouac spoken word w/ Steve Allen on Piano (1950's)

15. Have you visited other countries or US states? What were your impressions?
Eric: I have never been to Europe, but will someday. When we get reviews or airplay in far away places, I feel like we've traveled there with our music. We've had attention in some wierd places, like Rostov on-Don (Russia), Petah-Tikva, Israel, Lithuania, Belgium, and even the Philippines.

16. Do you think the Internet is going 'revolutionize' how you promote your music, i.e., WebPages with band info, etc..? Is it already?
Eric: You mean the evil robots. They are taking over.
Dara: I'm scared already...
Live

Faith & Disease have played 100+ live performances since their inception. F&D have played North By Northwest '97, Bumbershoot Arts Festival, and Folklife Festival '97 (under the name Memorium), and the King Theater. F&D have toured three times since their inception; Jardeau Blue release tour in 1993; Beauty and Bitterness Tour in 1994; and the Fortune His Sleep Western US Tour in late '95. "Eric and Dara of Faith & Disease" California mini-tour, last summer '96. F&D have shared bills with Sky Cries Mary, Low, and Mark Kozelek of Red House Painters, Spinanes, Damien Jurado, and Love Spirals Downwards to name a few.


Europe

F&D have received press and/or airplay in the following area: U.K., Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Belgium, Lithuania, Russia (Rostov-On Don), Philippines, and Petah Tikva, Israel. Fortune His Sleep was released in the UK/Netherlands by the Blue Rose Record Company during on 6/96.


TV

F&D performed "Fortune His Sleep III" and "Jardeau Blue" live on the "Spud Goodman Show" (KTZZ/Fox) 4/21/95; The videos for "Emalee" and "Madrigal" premiered on NW music program "Bombshelter Videos" (KTZZ) 1993-94. The song "Wallow" from the album Fortune His Sleep was used in a Memorial Day documentary on a Delaware PBS affiliate station in 1995.


Projects

Dara Rosenwasser and Eric Cooley perform as a duo occasionally, and both have guest appeared on three different non-F&D albums. An all-acoustic offshoot called Memorium includes Dara, Eric, and Steve most of the time. Steve Knouse fronts local band The Curtains, including ex-F&D drummer Rick Allen.
Ethnomusicology senior (UW) Joshua Furman lends his drumming talents to The Specters. Live keyboardist John Clough fronts Shadow Light. Live flautist Charlotte Sather is a composition major at WWU. Ex-F&D/Memorium Jenny Foster plays Celtic harp with Jeremy Enigk.
Projects

Steven Knouse
  • sings, plays guitar, and songwriter for the band The Curtains Tape cassette (self-released)

    Eric Cooley and Dara Rosenwasser
  • appear together on the track "Eventually" on the Kill Switch...Klick album dEGERNERATE (Cleopatra Records)
  • appear together on the track "Sanity" on Shadow Light Within The Shadow Light Ivy Distribution

    Eric Cooley
  • bass guitar on the track "The Eternal" on Ceremony: A Tribute To Joy Division, Mere Mortal Records (Boston, MA)
  • bass guitar on the track "Red Door Number Four" on TRANCE TO THE SUN Azalean Sea CD

    Dara Rosenwasser
  • sings on the track "Counterintuitive"on Trance To The Suns "Azalean Sea" CD

    Joshua Furman
  • drums for The Spectres

    Past Members

    Mary (backing vocals 1992-93)
  • plays violin, flute and sings with In Gowan Ring (World Serpent)

    Daniel O'Malley (violin 1995-96)
  • played with traditional Celtic band The Wicked Celts.

    Joaquin Tavares-Sinai (keyboards 1992-96)
  • songwriter and keyboards for "Pre-Hispanic" ritual act Quinto Sol

    Rick Allen (drums 1991-1993, 1995)
  • played drums debut CD from Blah
  • played drums with Salon Betty
  • plays drums with The Curtains (see Steve Knouse)

    John Clough (keyboards 1992)
  • fronts local act Shadow Light, played briefly in Ninth Circle, Black Atmosphere

    Robert Macusick (violin 1993-94)
  • played in Salon Betty

    Jessie Soloman-Sykes (guitar 1996)
  • plays guitar and fronts local band Hominy
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    Dara

    Photograph by David Goebel
    Eric and Dara

    Photograph by Alyssa Stevens
    Eric and Dara

    Photograph by Alyssa Stevens
    Crocodile Cafe
    10/11/98
    with Rasputina

    Photograph by Christina Carson
    Eric
    Crocodile Cafe
    10/11/98
    with Rasputina

    Photograph by Christina Carson
    Live in Hollywood
    6/97

    Photograph by Octavia
    Eric and Dara

    Photograph by David Goebel
    Performance by Eric and Dara
    Live at the Tractor Tavern
    5/97
    First Live Show
    Ditto
    3/25/91

    Photograph by Joe
    Dara

    Photograph by Alyssa Stevens
    Faith and Disease 1998
    Tour publicity shot
    Dara and Eric
    Live at the Greenman cage

    Photograph by Victoria Sprung
    Faith & Disease Publicity Shot 1993

    Photograph by Kyrbir I-SP