Flying Flying Flying!
According to their bio, Flying was born in the summer of 2004 when Sara Magenheimer (vocals, floor drums, bells and crashes, and occasionally accordion), Eben Portnoy (guitar, vocals, glass) and Eliot Krimsky (vocals, Rhodes) began turning collages of stories, feelings, and symbols into songs.
The threesome collaborate over their love of out-there jazz, sweet pop songs, Stevie Wonder, and explosions - they all take interest in "visions, dreams, and other worlds" and you can hear it in their songs and their performance-art style. Eliot and Eben are both from Massachusettes and Sara is from Pennsylvania (just off the Main Line in Philly I believe), but now they all live in Brooklyn. Flying, via Eliot, is part of a collective of musicans bound together by... uh... an apartment building, actually, that also houses members of The Subjects, and Robert Stillman's Horses.
Flying has been playing a lot in their current Brooklyn neighborhood, Red Hook (also home to robot fav's Pela), where they did a residency of sorts at the Liberty Heights Tap Room for a while, and they've also played at indie music hot-spots Sin-e and the Continental in Manhattan. For the moment, they're not playing shows, as they're busy recording for a new full-length album, to be released soon on Seattle-based Mill Pond Records, which is very exciting indeed.
For now, you can buy their CD-R EP at Other Music and they'll be back to playing shows in September - I recommend seeing their performance, because there's something magical about their stuff. I saw them way way back, at one of their first shows (it may have been their second public show ever), and, having really no idea what to expect from this unlikely trio, I was pretty much blown away.