All About
WHAT is OAS?
Octopus Attacks Shark!! [OAS] is a Seattle-based musical configuration actively mining the rich veins of disparate musics and synthesizing them into new forms with ritual intensity.
Octopus Attacks Shark!! crafts, reinterprets, and transforms music from a variety of genres, including punk, garage, industrial, prog, hellhound blues, and twisted roots. Their debut album, "Outside Agitators", blends the frenetic energy and lyrical calls to action of punk with the anthemic explorations of prog and alternative garage metal, resulting in a unique synthesis of sound.
WHO is OAS?
Sonic synthesizers and tricky transformers hungry to perform rites and rituals in the Temple of Song.
"Coyote"
Vocal Exhortations, Dissonant Harmonic(a) Waves, Purveyor of Dark Energy
Coyote hails from the salt-tanged, fog-haunted cypress groves and defiant cities of the North California coast.
Outside of the band, they are a steward of relics in the vaults of The University and an agitator for decolonizing access to community collections.
Dirk Hortensius
Guitar Armourer
Dirk"alurka" Hortensius speaks guitar in a strange Canadian/Carolinian dialect.
As soon as you take his instruments away, Dirk transforms into his true form: an utterly completely incomprehensible nerd. He can usually be found angrily ranting and raving about politics, Star Wars, or ridiculous history trivia - somehow all at the same time. A truly useless multi-tasker.
Scott Humphreys
Producer of Whale Sounds
When not handling low-end duties, Scott spends his time holding ivory keyed seances to commune with the classical, romantic, and modern composers that everyone should spend their lives listening to.
"Jazz is America's greatest gift to the world. All other American contribution are inferior to jazz, or otherwise not uniquely American. This is law."
Shiva Shrivastava
Drum Captain of Time and Space
...but only according to his watch.
Shiva daylights as a Software Engineer, whiskey connoseiur, and dog-dad.