Brian Weitz, also known by his stage name Geologist, is a musician best known as a member of the experimental pop group Animal Collective. He provides electronic sound manipulations and samples for the band. Solo he does that and plays a lot of hurdy gurdy too. He just released the collaborative LP “A Shaw Deal” on Drag City with his friend Sleepy Doug Shaw.
"Sleepy" Doug Shaw (fka Highlife) is a London born songwriter, living in New York since 2003. Stringing tangled guitar patterns into hypnotics - fingering circles into webs of repetition in song. He is influenced by Desert Blues, Grime flows, old Calypso, Ragas, rambler's laments and on... Shaw moonlights in sways as Gang Gang Dance's bass controller, was formerly a longtime member of White Magic and Janka Nabay and has contributed to records of Cass McCombs, Hal Wilner, Eric Copeland, etc, and shared stages around the globe with the likes of Lou Reed, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Animal Collective, Mdou Moctar, Dizzee Rascal, Terry Riley, Yoko Ono, Bert Jansch, Black Dice, Les Filles de Illighadad, Sonic Youth, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Michael Hurley, etc, etc
