In the heart of “Cowboy Country”, in the midst of a vast Mid-western plain, sits Stillwater, Oklahoma, hometown to the band Other Lives and its gifted singer/composer and multi-instrumentalist bandleader, Jesse Tabish.
 
At first glance, this evocatively named small city, so remote from the hyperactive music scenes of NY and LA, seems an unlikely headquarters for Other Lives, a band with a coolly elegant aesthetic and decidedly unusual instrumentation tastes to boot, a band whose densely textured music is ambitiously and uncompromisingly sophisticated, yet instantaneously appealing and alluringly mysterious. But Stillwater’s remoteness and lack of big city cache turned out to be a key factor in the realization of Other Lives’ second album Tamer Animals
 
In addition to lead vocals, Jesse plays piano, guitar, harmonium, organ, vibes, and electric harpsichord, joined by cellist Jenny Hsu and drummer Colby Owens (who along with Jesse were also founding members of Other Lives’ earlier incarnation, the band Kunek). Mix in Jonathon Mooney (on guitar, violin, French horn, trumpet, keys and percussion) and Josh Onstott (bass, Mellotron), and it all adds up to a dizzyingly diverse sonic cornucopia.
 
Underlying Tamer Animals’ rich palette of sounds is a native Dust Bowl austerity: a desolate yet epic beauty that mirrors the sweeping landscape that surrounds them.
 
Tickets go on sale on Friday 19th November at 9am.