EX-VHS MAKE PEOPLE NOISE
By Team JamBase Apr 24, 2007 • 12:00 am PDT

With Boom Bipper Matt Johnson
Debut album Ordinary Ghosts ready for June
Currently on never ending national tour
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Although we never heard him sing a lick during his years in VHS or Beta, Buck’s resume would lead us to ask the question, “why the hell not?” From the ripe age of only four years old he was belting out opera all over the country until the inevitable struck — puberty. Unfortunately for him, it struck in the middle of a performance. It wasn’t until recently that Buck began to sing again. For a number of months he studied under Turley Richards, a blind Louisville musician with a vocal range that would impress Whitney Houston, and eventually regained the confidence that was lost long ago. On People Noise’s debut album Ordinary Ghosts, you can listen to Buck sing about everything from reincarnation to thoughts on his former band.
Johnson, a guitarist-turned-drummer with a background in experimental electronic music, boasts quite a resume himself. During his time in Boom Bip, he toured extensively throughout Europe and has shared the stage with notable acts like LCD Soundsystem, Yo La Tengo, Pinback and Matt Pond PA. Johnson has also performed at London BBC Peel Sessions, Centre Pompideu, Royal Festival Hall and The Renne Music Festival in Renne, France. Not to mention he studied the djembe under Yaya Diallo for a number of years. That’s quite an accomplishment for a guy who wrote and performed all the drum parts on Ordinary Ghosts on a rural Kentucky farm with no Internet and no cell phone service!
People Noise is currently on tour through the month of April and into May. For its live shows, Johnson and Buck are joined by Rahman McGuinnis on guitar, Woody Woodmansee on keyboards and Mike DuFresne on bass. Stay alert for the highly anticipated release of Ordinary Ghosts due out later this June.
People Noise tour dates available HERE.