Biography
- Little Horn began when Atlanta musician Keith Forrester wrote some songs about hard stuff he was going through. Being shy and reclusive about singing it wasn’t until a group picking session in Alabama where he was asked to sing a folk song that everyone else had forgotten the words to that his friend Daniel Bellury noticed his potential. After that fateful day Daniel stepped in to encourage and produce the aforementioned songs into recorded existence. The very minimal gothic-folk style album Such Pretty Houses was born and released very quietly on the then infant New York label Whale Heart Records which Daniel had founded to put out his and
- his friend’s recordings. After some solo and collaborative performances Keith began to miss being in a band and put out a Craigslist ad. The first response was from atlanta music composer extraordinaire Neal Williams. He stepped in on Bass, sound effects, and keys and brought the immensely talented Dallas Peavey with him to do the drums. They performed the songs from Such Pretty Houses albeit in a newly evolved way involving different sounds and ideas brought about by their unique collaboration. This incarnation of Little Horn was short lived and soon it was back to the drawing board. Somewhat discouraged but steadily writing new material
- Keith, during a stint as guitarist in fellow Whale Heart band Lille, recruited their rhythm section consisting of Steve Brown on drums and Daniel’s little brother Rob Bellury on Bass. Having primarily been acoustic guitar driven Keith started feeling the need for an electric counterpart to accompany his stylized and often elaborate picking patterns. Rob suggested his friend DJ Highum. After one audition and a thorough demonstration of his unique skill DJ was added to the line up rounding off what is know the definitive Little Horn. Since Such Pretty Houses the style and sound has evolved and gotten much bigger. Keith Forrester has a dark,
- southern tinged ,soul-searching lyrical style that often questions the validity of traditional religious dogma and he does it with a not-so-typical low end voice. As a band Little Horn is unique in their lack of shame for tastefully wailing their instruments, and the fact that they have been called any number of combinations of indie, folk, gothic, psychedelic, progressive and rock. To hear them tell it their approach is fairly simple: they love what they do, they write what they like, and they hope to be doing it for a long time. To solidify this objective and introduce the world to the new sound they released the EP “Twelve” in July of
- 2011 on Whale Heart Records garnering some fairly decent underground attention and establishing a solid foundation for future releases and live performances. Look for B-sides to be released in January 2012 and a follow up full length in the middle to end of the year.
News
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Little Horn's New Lineup!
Atlanta's Little Horn has morphed constantly over the course of it's two years as a band. Started as a solo project by Keith Forrester then members added, subtracted then added again, now has reached it's best incarnation yet. Keith borrowed the rhythm section from... Read More >>
