Amidst a cultural landscape littered with the rehashed, surrounded by a peer scene extolling Doublemint®™-twin like sympathy, the Ebb and Flow is not afraid to take a left turn on the throughway, getting lost in the zone of the unclassifiable. Stalking chance and saving face, snubbed by the fear of the other, this band has inadvertently become poster children for inter-cultural collaboration.

When Russian born San Francisco-bred guitarist/singer Sam Tsitrin met New York born Indiana-bred drummer Sara Cassetti and Iran-born Nashville-bred keyboardist/singer Roshy Kheshti it was a pre-9/11, post-millenial world littered with the excesses of dotcom wealth and electronica’s gluttony. Five years later, a world overdetermined by paranoiac, pre-emptive assault has necessitated their musical commentary.

On the heels of critically acclaimed debut Time to Echolocate, the band returned to the studio this spring with Aaron Prellwitz (Neil Young, Sun Kil Moon, Erase Errata) and Christian Hanlon (Unbunny, Rogue Wave) for a sixty hour recording marathon from which two songs “Here Are Caught White Falcons” and “Alaska: Lost and Found” have been culled for a limited edition tour EP. Since forming in 2001 this band of misanthropes has refined a sound that the Wilamette Weekly has called “epic, experimental pop that builds up, then explodes like a confetti-filled balloon, bright bits of color showering down on your mind and soul.”

Tour EP Here Are Caught gives listeners a sneak peak into The Ebb and Flow’s agitprop antagonism, a call to arms that both provokes and enraptures listeners. This band of political and social refugees present a sonic commentary on hypocrisy and the social repercussions of gluttonous excess. The EP also includes two remixes from Time to Echolocate: a darkly subtle rework of “Body and Soul” by Austin’s Magic Surprise and a sunshine-infused remix of “Framer Framed” by Winslow Turner Porter III, both guaranteed to satisfy listener’s in search of The Ebb and Flow’s driving groove.

Catch the band on their 2006 Summer tour.