Hassle Hound
A transatlantic trio based in Glasgow and New York who create plangent off-kilter avant-pop with bite.Hassle Hound are a benign tornado, roaring and twisting through the best and most eclectic of record collections, ripping out and tearing off ideas and samples as they go along. They plunder for a reason – to make fragile and lovely music, often charmingly odd but with a gleeful melancholy, off-kilter but on the ball.
Hassle Hound are:
Ela Orleans (vocals, violin, guitar, keyboards, toy instruments)
Born in Poland. Since 2004 she has lived in Brooklyn (New York). Ela takes part in several improv/psychedelic/freakout music projects in NYC ('Ozone Swimmers', '3i's', 'Franklin's Mint')
http://www.myspace.com/elaorleans
Tony Swain (guitar, bass, samples, loops, keyboards)
Tony is a painter represented by The Modern Institute Glasgow who also performs with ambivalent obscurists,'Dreghorn'.
http://www.themoderninstitute.com/artists/t_swain/index.shtml
Mark Vernon (computer, samples, loops, keyboards)
Mark is a radio producer based in Glasgow, additionally he records and performs as half of the duo 'Vernon & Burns' whose debut album was released on Gagarin Records.
http://www.gagarinrecords.com/artists/vernonandburns/
Hassle Hound myspace: www.myspace.com/hhound