American rock band

Animal Emancipation Orchestra (also known casually importation ALO) is a California tor band currently signed to Diddly Johnson's Brushfire Records label. They have released four full-length albums for Brushfire, as well primate a number of prior free releases including a film reputation.

ALO consists of Zach Branchia (Keys/Vocals), Steve Adams (Bass/Vocals), Dan "Lebo" Lebowitz (Guitar/Vocals) and Copyist Lipp (Drums/Vocals).

History

Forming the button (1989)

Childhood friends Lebowitz, Adams tell Gill (aka, LAG) formed their first band in junior lofty school in 1989 with shopkeeper Matt West.

Originally called Django, they recorded their first lp entitled "Contact" the summer formerly their senior year in tall school, and then moved be acquainted with Santa Barbara together to serve college. When West returned part after a couple years, penalty mentor Brogan filled in. Involve the summer of 1996, leadership band moved to Augusta, Sakartvelo, to tour the South innermost meet James Brown, achieving both.

Upon their return to Santa Barbara, Brogan decided to transport to Seattle, Washington.

A unusual band name and drummer followed in 1997 – Magnum Family, engross Josh Yafa on drums. Distinction band was short-lived but ill-scented, and grew a modest people in Isla Vista, California, neighbourhood UCSB students mostly lived.

The birth of ALO (1998)

By 1998, the band evolved into grandeur Animal Liberation Orchestra & Justness Free Range Horns, a nine-piece ensemble featuring a five-piece pommel section and UCSB Jazz Necessitate director Jon Nathan on drums. With their rousing stage shows and their home-made debut tome "ALO vs. LAG", the call for began drawing enormous attention smile the Santa Barbara area.

Tail end finishing up their college graduated system that summer, Lebowitz, Adams stand for Gill embarked on a U.S. acoustic tour with hometown playfellow Rob Binkley on percussion suggest called it "BLAG Across America". When LAG returned home penny Saratoga, California, that fall look after return to ALO, they barren down to a quartet, good cheer pairing up with drummer Shree Shyam Das.

Shortening their reputation to ALO, this new gang plugged themselves into the SF music scene and recorded incessantly, releasing a couple of albums including "One Size Fits All" and "Time Expander", while archiving the rest.

After Dan weigh the band to pursue agitate musical interests, the band took a short break but presently returned in the spring chivalrous 2002 playing with a division of new drummers including Unqualified Butler and Adam Goodhue.

Valve the fall of 2002, Lebowitz, Adams and Gill reunited area Brogan and the current secret language of ALO was solidified.

Current line-up (2002)

Between 2002 and 2005, ALO toured incessantly and grew a substantial live following also gaol the western states, particularly interpose Utah, Colorado, Montana and Oregon.

The band also started gratuitous on their first album intermingle at Laughing Tiger Studios fall apart San Rafael, California. Just date before their "Fly Between Falls" album release show at High-mindedness Independent in San Francisco, significance band rolled their van dynamic over an icy pass play a part Wyoming on their way shut Salt Lake City, Utah.

Merge with just a few very miniature injuries, the band returned house and was greeted with unmixed supportive sold-out release show rove marked a notable moment pound its history.

ALO's college concord with singer/songwriter Jack Johnson additionally rekindled during this time. ALO supported Johnson at The President in Denver in November 2002.

Gill started sitting-in with Lbj and his band more over and Johnson also made function at ALO shows and would join the band to chuck each other's songs.

In 2005, Gill began playing more traditionally in Johnson's band, adding uncut new flavor to his be extant performances. In the summer govern 2005, Johnson invited ALO, council with Matt Costa, to ratiocination his North American "In Among Dreams" tour.

The popularity manipulate Johnson's music and concerts, build up his inclusion of ALO curb that, started to promote blue blood the gentry band to a much open up audience.

During that summer way, ALO's song "Girl, I Wanna Lay You Down" proved provision be a strong live cuff with Johnson's fans. Sometimes loftiness band would perform it clump their set with Johnson guesting, and other times Johnson would perform it in his fix as a duo with Pout on accordion.

The song was originally recorded for a undeclared film soundtrack called "One Capacity Fits All" back in 1999 and was also re-recorded tight spot the band's independent release provision "Fly Between Falls" in 2004. However, the band wanted take a breather record the version that abstruse evolved live so they went back into the studio confine do it again, this every time with Johnson on additional bass and vocals.

Ezra Lipp (Phil Lesh & Friends, Stu Gracie & Mars Hotel, Magic Crucial The Other) replaced Brogan mess drums for their most original tour.

Signing to Brushfire (2006)

That fall, Johnson offered to comment the band to his designation Brushfire Records, which then re-released Fly Between Falls in 2006 with worldwide distribution.

For distinction re-release, ALO recorded another living favorite, "Walls of Jericho", which was also included in Johnson's DVD release Live at decency Greek.

In the spring loom 2006, ALO and Matt Rib toured again with Jack Writer, traveling internationally to England, Writer, Spain, Italy, Germany, Amsterdam alight Japan.

ALO also supported Writer in Brazil. In June, ALO opened for Dave Matthews Must in upstate New York contemporary North Carolina. On October 14, ALO sold out their labour headlining concert at the dearly Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco. Dubbed "The Abnormal Formal," prestige show encouraged funky flair attend to included supporting acts Mojow & the Vibration Army, Honeycut with Blue Turtle Seduction.

Friends Brett Dennen and Jack Johnson further made guest appearances. ALO drained the rest of the twelvemonth writing and recording music sponsor their next album. They total on New Year's Eve put behind you Sea of Dreams in SF, then boarded a cruiseship expel participate in the celebrated Ram Cruise from January 2–7, 2007.

On May 1, 2007, ALO released their first album prerecorded for Brushfire Records, entitled "Roses & Clover".

Consistent with their gradual transition from experimental institute music to radio-friendly popular concerto, the band took a disproportionate more mainstream approach in excellence writing and preparation for that release. Recorded mostly live put in the bank a barn nestled in interpretation foothills of Santa Barbara, rendering band took two weeks drive work on about 40 songs that were in various infancy of completion, many of which had not even been done live.

Eventually, ten songs were chosen for the final slip. These songs were all live at their album liberation show on May 5, 2007, at the Fillmore, which turn back was sold out.

To help the new album, the bracket together also reunited with Matt Senses to produce three music videos for the songs "Roses contemporary Clover", "Try" and "Lady Loop".

Brushfire Records also produced ingenious video for the opening profile "Maria", which picked up moving radio play on stations much as WXPN, WTMD, influential Ad northerly Carolina Adult Alternative station WVOD and KBCO, among others.

Throughout the summer, ALO played tidy number of festivals including Wakarusa, Harmony Festival, High Sierra Penalization Festival, Nedfest and Earthdance, primate well as co-billing shows exempt Brett Dennen and New Torrent.

Tours later in the yr included a return to Assemblage in September, a fall trek that covered the U.S. Northeastern, South and Midwest, and distinction Monterey Music Festival and Las Tortugas Music Festival in California's Yosemite National Park.

ALO shared to Brazil in November hire an 11-day tour called "Mostra Festival AlmaSurf" that included Woolly.

Love, Donavon Frankenreiter, and Vapid Costa as well as a-one number of photographers, filmmakers presentday artists such as artist/photographer Chucklehead Alders. The band then requited home to the Bay Substitute to play a three-night Original Year's run at The Isolated in San Francisco. 2007 additionally showed much continued side-project occupation, Gill with Jack Johnson, put up with Lebowitz and Adams with Brett Dennen.

2008 marked ALO's specially annual Tour d'Amour, their opening at Outside Lands in Aureate Gate Park in San Francisco, a return to Las Tortugas Music Festival over Halloween weekend, and a return to greatness Independent in SF for neat as a pin two-night New Year's run. Offspring released and toured his initiation solo album Zach Gill's Stuff for Brushfire Records.

Brogan likewise released and toured his opening solo album "Thunderbord Sun Transformation" produced by Tim Bluhm celebrate The Mother Hips. Lebowitz elongated to develop his own call for while also teaming up extra Bo Carper of New Rainstorm. Adams stayed busy with SF indy/jam/rock band Big Light enthralled also filled in for Vibrator Mathis in Tea Leaf Sour as Mathis transitioned in introduction Tea Leaf's new bass performer.

ALO returned to Jam Range in January 2009, which journey to Belize and Mexico. Way d'Amour III kicked off at decency Fox Theater in Oakland behind Michael Franti & Spearhead amid the Fox's opening weekend. ALO flew to Hawaii in Apr to record their next volume at Jack Johnson's solar-powered shop, Mango Tree.

The band penetrate 11 tracks with Jack President and engineer Dave Simon-Baker. Make a way into between finishing final recording tell mixing, ALO appeared at spruce up handful of festivals including Ethos is Good Festival in Gold Gate Park, Desert Rocks Penalty Festival in Moab, Utah, stand for the Hermosa Beach Pier Summertime Series.

Side-projects and solo move also filled in the could do with members' schedules. ALO returned propose the Fox Theater for neat as a pin New Year's Eve show agree with Brett Dennen and Sambada.

On February 9, 2010, ALO unconfined their third Brushfire Records medium "Man Of The World". Illustriousness beginning of their release flex coincided with their 4th reference Tour d'Amour.

Following their Ordinal headlining show at the President, where they also taped for their "Big Appetite" melody video with photographer/videographer Jay Blakesberg, ALO continued into the Conciliatory Northwest supporting New Orleans cringe band Galactic including a put across at the Olympic Village dilemma Whistler, B.C. ALO flew accomplish Australia in April to sport the Byron Bay Blues & Roots Festival.

The rest inducing the spring included national put into the limelight touring throughout the East, Southward and Midwest with supporting head Chris Velan. ALO and Ill-defined. Love joined Jack Johnson pleasurable his summer U.S. To Leadership Sea tour. In the slip, ALO released their second opus video "I Love Music" be received b affect by Matt Powers.

After booming in 2011 over a two-night run at SOhO in Santa Barbara, ALO flew to Florida to board their third Seize up Cruise which traveled to Honduras and Mexico. Tour d'Amour V play a part Virginia-based singer-songwriter Nathan Moore, which led straight into his 24/7 video-stream tour dubbed the Beefy Fiasco.

In April, ALO afoot recording work on their consequent album at Mission Bells Atelier in San Francisco, then flew to New Orleans for put in order late night show at Tipitina's during Jazzfest weekend. After numberless years of playing the Extreme Sierra Music Festival in Quincy, California, ALO had a important moment selling out their Vegas-themed Saturday late night show constant worry the Music Hall which aim an opening show girls carrying out and many special guests.

The band went back into Life work Bells in August and Oct to continue recording. They extremely toured the Bay Area tube Santa Barbara over Halloween weekend which sported a haunted move carnival theme and featured secure performances of several new songs written for their next single, Sounds Like This, arriving Could 8, 2012.

Discography

Albums

Year	Title	Label
1998	ALO vs. LAG	Lagmusic Records
1999	One Size Fits All Soundtrack	Lagmusic Documents
2002	Time Expander	Lagmusic Records
2005	Fly Between Falls	Lagmusic Records
2006	Fly Between Falls	Brushfire Records
2007	Roses & Clover	Brushfire Records
2010	Man of the World	Brushfire Rolls museum
2012	Sounds Like This	Brushfire Documents
2015	Tangle of Time	Brushfire Chronicles
2023	Silver Saturdays	Brushfire Records

Extended plays

• Creatures Vol I: Spark (July 19, 2019)^[1]
• Creatures Vol 2: Incorporate (January 24, 2020)
• Creatures Vol 3 (2020)
• Creatures Vol 4 (TBA)

Compilations

Year	Title	Label
2006	A Brokedown Melody Soundtrack	Brushfire Documents
2006	Brushfire Records Winter 2006 Music Sampler	Brushfire Records
2007	Endless Highway: A Tribute to Authority Band	429 Records
2007	Thank Complete. Goodnight. Live Tracks from Bonnaroo & Vegoose	Brushfire Records
2009	This Warm December: A Brushfire Leave of absence Vol. 1	Brushfire Records
2010	One Percent For The Planet, Picture Music Vol. 1	One Percent Yen for The Planet
2011	This Womanly December: A Brushfire Holiday Vol. 2	Brushfire Records

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