Listening to Cloacas is like travelling sideways in time. This (mostly) instrumental Santa Fe band invokes elements of classic Americana and classical, as well as whatever their acoustical instruments inspire. With song titles like “Venetian Blind Man”, “Hot Hamburger Pizza” and “Knuckle Butter”, they present a humorous but sincere irony that is at times bitter-sweet and melancholic, and at others gangly-legged and goofy. They have been described as a tiny mountain orchestra in a wooden box with rusty hinges.
Cloacas are:
Johnny “Johnny Bell” Bell: banjo and ukelele
Sabrina Griffith: violin, viola, vocals and kazoo
Damon Griffith: mandolin, fret-less Mandolin, vocals, sit-box and Horn of Enough
Michael “Smitty” Smith: percussion, vocals, saw and xylophone
Grannia Griffith: vocals and saw.
Audio coming soon
CD RELEASE SHOW-SEPTEMBER 8th at HIGH MAYHEM with Missincinnati
