In 2005, the eclectic Bay-Area, California indie/hip-hop outfit Why? released a song called “Mutant John” on their EP, “Sanddollars”. In this song, frontman Yoni Wolf decided to sing out the email address of a long-lost friend on the other side of the world - Adam Lee Rosenfeld. What resulted was a barrage of emails with cryptic messages and even more cryptic attachments, all with the underlying question: who is this guy anyway? Adam grew up in Cincinnati, OH with the Wolf brothers - Yoni and Josiah - from Why?/cLOUDDEAD, which contributed to a mutual appreciation of the generally more left-field things in music, art, film, culture in general, etc. - but during those childhood years, Adam’s parents promptly packed their bags and returned to the country from whence they came - Israel. Adam’s experience throughout his teenage and young adult years - the rift between Western and Middle Eastern culture, spiritual awakening, military service, marriage, children - produced within him a voice quite uniquely his own, a voice committed to tape, or whatever other format, with the intensity and musical energy that comes from hours and hours, bus ride after bus ride, of listening to Guided By Voices and super-underground psychedelic rock band Polyphemus, amongst others. The Pit That Became A Tower is the band that Adam started with his wife Bethany in 2003, although recordings had been floating around for a while under different names (Mutant John, Gospel Zombie). It ranges from 1-piece to 5-piece, depending on who’s in the country, who’s in their ninth month of pregnancy, and who’s got exams. TPTBAT have shared the stage with Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Why?, and Voxtrot, amongst others. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/The+Pit+That+Became+a+Tower">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.