Sky Cries Mary and Satchel

SKY CRIES MARY: Sky Cries Mary is an American trance rock musical group from Seattle, Washington, that formed in the late 1980s. The husband and wife team of Roderick Wolgamott Romero and Anisa Romero sing dual lead vocals. Other principal band members include Michael Cozzi (formerly of Shriekback), who produces their albums and plays guitar, Ben Ireland on drums, Juano on bass, and William Bernhard on guitar and keyboards. Recently Kent Halvorsen joined the band on keyboards. Gordon Raphael (producer for The Strokes) played keyboards until 1997. The first album, from 1989, featured Roderick Wolgamott playing with Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow from The Posies. The second album, released in 1990, featured the same trio, joined by Scott Mercado, Alfred Butler, Stephen Brian-Salit, Mark Ultra, Kevin McCoy and Jeff Guess. The band, after that album, reinvented itself as a septet with the the following lineup: Roderick Wolgamott and Anisa Romero, DJ Fallout aka Todd "TR" Robbins, Joseph E. Howard (aka Joe Skyward), Bennett James, Marc Olsen and Gordon Raphael. It was during this time they recorded "A Return to the Inner Experience." Mike Cozzi replaced Marc Olsen on the fifth through ... more...