Baker Artist Portfolios

Horse Lords is the quartet of composer/performers Andrew Bernstein (reeds, percussion), Max Eilbacher (microtonal bass, electronics), Owen Gardner (microtonal guitar), and Sam Haberman (drum set). Since forming in 2010 they have garnered praise for their relentless experimentation and exacting live performances. Over the span of three studio albums and four self released tapes, Horse Lords has mined the toolbox of (post)modern music, inserting arcane techniques—just intonation tuning, complex polyrhythm, abstract electronics—into the context of rock music. Floating at the boundaries of composition and improvisation, process and performance, the underground and the vast improbable 21st century indie mainstream, Horse Lords exist in none of these places and all of them.

Horse Lords has toured internationally, with notable performances at Unsound Festival (PL), Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art (OH), Soy Festival (FR), Le Guess Who? Festival (NL), Moers Festival (DE), Pioneer Works (NY), The Stone (NY), Le Poisson Rouge (NY), Contemporary Art Museum of Raleigh (NC), The Hideout (IL), and on WFMU. Their music has been released by Northern Spy Records, NNA Tapes, and Ehse Records.