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Ramona Falls is an indie rock project founded by Brent Knopf and based in Portland, Oregon. The band name is taken from a waterfall located near Mt. Hood, a place where Knopf used to hike as a child. Brent Knopf was also one-third of the band Menomena. ==History== Ramona Falls took shape after Menomena's recording process for their third album was delayed.〔http://thevoiceofenergy.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/interview-ramona-falls/〕 Knopf embarked on the project with songs that were not used for Menomena. Brent played a handful of his own material at shows around Portland, Oregon sometime in the years prior to the Ramona Falls project, including a performance October 24, 2008 in New York under the name "Dear Everything." Some of this material was further developed for the band's first album ''Intuit''. Recording ''Intuit'' gave Knopf the opportunity to work with 35 colleagues from the Portland and New York areas.〔(Seattle Weekly Q&A )〕 The album was recorded in Knopf's own studio and at the homes, practice rooms, churches, and other personal spaces of the featured guests.〔http://comeonchemicalsblog.blogspot.com/2009/05/interview-brent-knopf-of-menomenaramona.html〕 ''Intuit'' and its songs did not chart, but received positive reviews from Pitchfork and Drowned In Sound〔http://www.metacritic.com/music/intuit/ramona-falls〕 and generated a large enough following for Knopf to justify leaving Menomena and release another album. ''Prophet'' was released on May 1, 2012 and reached #28 on ''Billboard''s Heatseaker Albums chart on May 19. Knopf took a direction on ''Prophet'' that was less centered on the acoustic guitar and focused on expanding the band's sound.〔http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/arts-and-entertainment/culturephile-portland-arts/articles/interview-with-brent-knopf-may-2012〕 Prettymuchamazing chose Ramona Falls' drummer Paul Alcott as best drummer of SXSW 2012 for his "insane, massive fills" and stage antics, referencing times when Alcott would "come out from behind his kit, stand on bass amps and yell along, drum on the walls, play cymbals backwards, and shake around his giant red ‘fro."〔http://prettymuchamazing.com/feature/sxsw-2012-a-list-of-superlatives〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ramona Falls (band)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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