Pamola

Pamola was once a legendary spirit that resided on top of Maine's tallest mountain, Mt. Katahdin. The
spirit was half man, half eagle and half moose.

In Abenaki Mythology, Pamola caused the storms!

Pamola is now a rad rock band also from Maine that has been making the storms for a good couple of years.

The sounds they produce draw on heavy influences from Slint's Spiderland, early Modest Mouse, DC punk, their friends and many more... the sounds themselves are very much a nice treat of noisy guitars and post whatever. There's also a bit of jazz and I am even starting to hear some folk now (ever since pete, also of Butcher Boy, lends some crazy fiddle work on top of the already out of nowhere sound these guys inflect on their small audiences).

Pamola -  2009 Demo

This summer I caught these guys again with The Waldos and Red Medicine on Poland Street at the Rough Draft House and I was really impressed with their performance since seeing them a year or so ago in Fahmtown, Maine at the show with a very young incarnation of Butcher Boy that I mentioned during their respected post. The drums were tighter and more together, there was some fiddling (not just from the guitars but also from Pete's fiddle which took me by surprise), and some sweet vocals which I previously hadn't heard live. All in all, I'm just glad these guys are still playing!

Along with Pete (perc/vox/fiddle/bass) killing bitches via music moonlighting in Butcher Boy, Bill (guitars) also plays in The Waldos, and Matt (guitar and anything he can get his hands on) also plays in Red Medicine.

Pamola used to also feature Travis of Butcher Boy on the singing mouth drum. Before his introduction to the band, Pamola was simply known as Schrute. Free stuff of interest from Schrute can be found on their Last.fm page as well as here.


Last.fm
Rough Draft Records
Facespace (because these folks are real people and should be personally insulted for their mess they call music)