The Total Height
Bothan Spies
About The Total Height
As a rule, The Total Height looks only upward. Influenced by many, but powered only from within, they are a movement of the individual. Their music is an innate response to that which builds skyscrapers and moogs. It is a tribute to that divine capacity of the human mind. The Total Height is comprised of Dana Collins and Chrisarena, two musicians out of Long Island, New Yorks semi-thriving scene. Chrisarena developed an early taste for jazz, while Dana initially developed being strictly of the classical sect. This beginning of improvisation vs. structure is important to be noted here for its future tension. When he began playing in bands, she was training to be a classical pianist in Vienna, Austria at the University of Musik. Eventually Dana realized that the modern world's conceptions of classical music no longer suited her purpose. Their form of fierce competition and rigidity towards contrived standards did no justice to her personal vision and understanding of music. At the same time, Chrisarena became the drummer for the emo band, The Buddy System. Dana began testing the waters of new performance styles on her first stint since classical performing and switched from playing background music in stuffy restaurants by going on tour with the Long Island band, As Tall As Lions (Triple Crown Records) as their guest. Shortly after Chrisarena began attending Marist and Dana started at The New School, they found time to jam together between studying. The Buddy System broke up and The Total Height was formed. It wasn't chance, but the right timing and inevitability. Together they fused their diverse tastes and styles into an instrumental sound of drums, piano, synthesizer, harmonica, and various percussive instruments. The music speaks volumes more than can be recorded through words. Ayn Rand wrote on love...Once you've felt what it means to love as you and I know it-the total passion for the total height-you're incapable of anything less.
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