River Phoenix Alekas Attic
River s sister rain would periodically attend a part of a rehearsal but officially joined about a year later.
River phoenix alekas attic. River s rock group is called aleka s attic it s a name he confided he made up a character from one of his fictional stories. When the phoenix family moved to gainesville florida river found friends who shared his love of rock music. They would play all night sessions together and soon formed a band called aleka s attic. A pair of previously unreleased songs from river phoenix s band aleka s attic will be released on august 23rd in celebration of phoenix s 50th birthday.
Millions of unique designs by independent artists. Aleka s attic were a band formed in 1987 88 by the actor river phoenix. Although she had sung along with river since they were young she in fact showed little interest during the first year or more of aleka s attic when it was only river and josh greene greenba. River himself thought of the name.
The band were offered a two year development deal with island records in 1988. It drops on february 14th via kro records launchleft but is available for pre order now. The band s line up changed over the years the original members were river phoenix vocals guitar rain phoenix vocals josh mckay bass josh greenbaum drums and tim hankins viola. Aleka s attic river phoenix 50 podcast w michael august 27 2020 watch a very special episode of the launchleft podcast as rain phoenix and special guests flea dermot mulroney and michael stipe celebrate and remember the life and music of river phoenix who would have turned 50 on august 23rd.
Aleka is a poet philosopher he said. He s the lead singer of the band and plays guitar. His sister rainbow does back up vocals plays maracas and tamborine. Aleka 8217 s attic was a short lived band formed by river phoenix in 1988 until 1992.
However it does not appear on the soundtrack. The two songs were recently completed by. Rain phoenix the sister of the late river phoenix has teamed up with michael stipe for a new song called time is the killer the song will appear on time gone a double a side single with her brother s band aleka s attic. Aleka s attic were an alternative folk rock band from gainesville florida formed by river phoenix and josh greenbaum in april 1987.