Cul de Sac (band)

Cul de Sac
Origin	United States
Genres	Post-rock Alternative rock
Years active	1990–present
Labels	Shock Records Nuf Sed Lunar Rotation New World of Sound Earworm Rough Trade / Capella Northeastern Flying Nun Records Thirsty Ear Strange Attractors Audio House
Website	www.culdesac.org
Members
Glenn Jones Robin Amos Jon Proudman Jonathan LaMaster Jake Trussell

Cul de Sac are a rock music group formed in 1990 in Boston, Massachusetts and led by guitarist Glenn Jones. Their music is primarily instrumental. Jones and keyboardist Robin Amos have been the only constant members.

They have been classified by some as post rock, but Jones has expressed some discomfort with the term. He states that Cul de Sac is the most "musically satisfying" group he's been involved with; a group that is the "closest to being the band I'd dreamed of forming. It allows me to combine my love of open-tuned guitar, played fingerstyle, with my love for electronics and noise, all placed within a rhythmic rock framework." Jones occasionally plays "The Contraption," a prepared lap steel guitar.

Cul de Sac have collaborated with guitarist John Fahey and with Can singer Damo Suzuki.

Glenn Jones has also recorded three solo albums, This Is the Wind That Blows It Out (2004), Against Which the Sea Continually Beats (2007) and The Wanting (2011).

Cul de Sac performed at North East Sticks Together in 2006.

Discography

• ECIM (1991)
• I Don't Want to Go to Bed (1995)
• China Gate (1996)
• The Epiphany of Glenn Jones (1997) - with John Fahey
• Crashes to Light, Minutes to its Fall (1999)
• Immortality Lessons (2002) - live
• Death of the Sun (2003)
• The Strangler's Wife (2003)
• Abhayamudra (2004) - live - with Damo Suzuki

External links

• Official Site
• Cul de Sac at Allmusic
• a short biography at Epitonic.com
• 1999 interview by Piero Scaruffi