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Nod Biography Since 1990, Nod has been releasing music which runs the gamut from experimental to conventional yet always wonderfully astray. The Rochester, NY-based band is led by "Scrappy" Joe Sorriero on guitar and vocals, and rounded out by Tim Poland on bass and Brian Shaffer on drums, as well as occasional 4th member, the mysterious Hugh Edwards.
The Nod muse is a many-hued beast — simultaneously funky, crushing, and just plain spaced out. There is a Shaggs-like innocence in their execution, which shouldn't be mistaken for indifference; precious few rock units become as intimate with their sound as Nod does with their creepy as all get-out caucasoid funk, which swings like Lynfield Pioneers fronted by Drungo LaRue Hazewood.
Releases Press Splendid: "...The vocal, the eccentrically tuned guitar, the bass and the drums are jagged puzzle pieces, all following their own muse and doing their own thing. Yet somehow, the elements work together, reinforcing each other without echoing or canceling each other out. It's the most beautiful thing in the world -- a risk that pays off -- and Nod makes it work again and again" [read more] Dusted Magazine: "...the past ten years, under the surveillance of few, Nod has been peeling back familiar genres of music (jazz, blues, funk, folk) to find something indescribable and alien underneath, which generations of those genres' purveyors have somehow missed all along." [read more] Weekly Alibi: "...gentle yet sassy" [read more] Columbus Alive: "...recalls the Velvet Underground's folksy moments or Will Oldham's more exuberant ones" [read more] Pitchfork: "...apt soundtrack for taking the long way home" [read more] Splendid interview Sound Collector interview Listen to a Realaudio archive
of Nod's recent performance on WFMU
in Jersey City.
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