Please feel free to contact us at any point with questions and answers to our questions – you can write to us here: arcticanimals at hotmail.com

Members:

Isaac Edwards – keyboards, patience, ears and beards, sounds & songs

Michael Tapscott – keyboards, guitars, vocals, harmonicas, dry skin, songs & sounds

Connor O’Sullivan – upright bass & baritone guitar

Michael Carreria – drums

Matthew Lundquist – pedal steel

The Short Story

Odawas was founded by Isaac Edwards and Michael Tapscott in Bloomington, Indiana. Incorporating a love for film music and anything that sort of sounded like Neil Young, they developed ideas they couldn’t really pull off. Since moving to Berkeley, California in 2008, they began incorporating a full time band for the first time. Odawas found drummer Michael Carreria by posting a Craigslist ad for a new age drummer. Carreria was the only person to respond to that ad. Connor O’Sullivan, an old friend from Bloomington, now provides rich and round upright bass tones and the sounds of his cutting baritone guitar. Matthew Lundquist, another veteran of Bloomingtopia, completes the sound of the continental shifting and glacial slide by putting the band into the ether with his pedal steel. Odawas is the contemporary sound for the new adult.

Discography

The Mind of Christ (Tired Trails, 2010)

The Blue Depths (Jagjaguwar, 2009)

Raven and the White Night LP + CD (Jagjaguwar, 2007)

The Aether Eater CD/LP (Jagjaguwar, 2005)

Vitamin City CD-r (Self-released, 2005)

Side Projects

Michael James Tapscott

Sunny California OST (Digitalis, 2010)

More Animals of the Arctic (Michael solo)

An Appendix of Whaling Terms CD (Standard Recording, 2006)

“Tom’s Death” appears on Delicious Berries, Vol. 1 (Musical Family Tree, 2006)

“I Tell Lies” appears on A Very Standard Christmas (Standard Recording, 2006)

Synthesisia (Isaac solo)

I Dreamed a World of Darkness and You the White Light Shining (BlueSanct, 2009)