From vermont originally, Sam Amidon found some ancient sounds and some other sounds. samamidon sings some of the songs and leaves some of the other songs alone. samamidon is samuel tear (from doveman, stars like fleas, nico muhly) and thomas b (aka doveman, elysian fields, yoko ono, miho hatori) and shahzad (carla bozulich, rage against the machine, tom waits). album coming in february 2007 on plug research.