Alta Mira by Alta Mira, 2009

Website: Alta Mira Live

Home Base: Clifton Park, NY

Genre: Rock, ProgRock, AltRock

Compared To: Modest Mouse, Jeff Buckley

Influenced By: The Beatles, Radiohead, Wilco

Bio: Al·ta Mi·ra \ alta mera \ n :
1) a poetic, intricate, textured, time shifting, art rock band based in New York consisting of four members; Tommy Krebs (drums), Hunter Sagehorn (guitar), August Sagehorn (bass), and Joe D. Michon-Huneau (vocals). 2) a dinosaur of unlikely proportions.

Alta Mira was birthed in Albany, NY on a sunny, summer afternoon in 2004 when a mutual friend introduced a scarved and sandaled Michon-Huneau to three quiet, brooding musicians-namely, one Krebs and two Sagehorns-who were, at the time, rehearsing several upbeat ditties which would thereafter become Alta Mira’s first handful of songs. Upon playing two of his solo songs on a beat-up acoustic, Michon-Huneau was inducted into the band’s lineup.