Ida May 27, 2008

Ida, a New York City band known for their quiet, even pastoral, take on urban life, combines strange buzzing sounds, incandescent acoustic drones and dissonant tone clusters to create their unique sound. A singer/songwriter in the subversive Greenwich Village folk scene of the late '60s and '70s, with several songs lent to the Holy Modal Rounders, Michael Hurley maintained an infrequent solo career into the '90s but was more famed for his writing credits.