agit soul pop and roll. sextet with viola and keys as if john cale grew up in motown in a tarkovsky film.

Post art school Candy Machine (skene, east west, dischord/desoto) members Peter Quinn and Lyle Kissack were playing music with Craig Bowen in a band called INK on Monitor Records when they decided to call it quits with an unreleased cd waiting to come out. Over the next year, Peter Quinn approached some friends/musicians around town with some music he had been developing in his studio (computer) with the intention of creating a new group. The music stayed in line with the streamline quality of INK but the new collaboration would create a new richer and lush sound that would take on a life and tension of its own. With the orchestration of Raili Haimila (Calgary) on viola, Gillian Stewart Quinn (Scotland) on keyboards, jeff McGrath (Baltimore) of Thank You on bass, Christian Sturgis (Baltimore) of Fascist Fascist on guitar, and Scott Braid (Baltimore) on percussion and trumpet, Lo Moda became a complex woven mesh of intricate patterns and hooks driven by a group of varied experience and tastes.

Within the first year, Lo Moda would show to be very prolific and went into the studio to record two cds. They first recorded an honest and warm recording with Adam Cooke in their living room for a release that, due to scheduling, fell behind the manufacturing date of the second recording, Gospel Store Front, which they recorded with J Robbins in Baltimore.

With plans to release the living room recording entitled "Once Upon a Time We Dreamt in the Land of Prosperity," they are currently working on songs for their next project.