Free Moral Agents

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Free Moral Agents is a collective of musicians brought together by Isaiah "Ikey" Owens (keyboardist from The Mars Volta) as a means to expand the sounds of what started as a solo recording project. in the spring of 06' the band in its present and permanent line up started playing shows around long beach and Los Angeles. Upon the exit of spoken word artist J Mendee Ichikawa took control of the mic and a more electric noise based sound took over. The group is currently finishing its 2nd full length entitled "the honey in the carcass of the lion" for Gold Standard Laboratories.

[edit] Band Members

Ikey Owens

Isaiah "Ikey" Owens is the keyboardist in The Mars Volta, and was a member of Cedric Bixler Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez's side project, DeFacto. He has also performed as a member of the Long Beach Dub Allstars. He has done session work with Shuggie Otis, The Aquabats, Blowfly, Barrington Levy, Waling Souls, Radioinactive, Heavens and poet/spoken word artist Saul Williams.

Since 2002, (on his own solo album) he's been writing and recording under the moniker Free Moral Agents, releasing a vinyl-only EP on Pete Records, as well as the recent GSL split 12” with Subtitle. They released their full-length "Everybody's Favorite Weapon" in 2004.

Ikey has also joined up with 2Mex to form the Hip-Hop/Jazz duo the Look Daggers.

He also played with the Ska/Jazz/Funk band Pocket Lent, and was a member of OC's Power Pop group Teen Heroes. He played organ on My Superhero's Cheesy Love Ska.

Ikey appeared on the latest album, Blood Mountain, of Atlanta metal-quartet, Mastodon.

Ikey also appeared on Bob Forrest's debut solo record, Modern Folk and Blues - Wednesday, released on September 19, 2006. Alongside him, Josh Klinghoffer, and Mars Volta guest members / Chili Peppers Flea and John Frusciante were featured on many of the tracks, half of which were cover songs, the other half being original Bob Forrest compositions.

He's currently a Jehovah's Witness according to bandmate Cedric Bixler-Zavala.

While performing a show with The Mars Volta in October 2003 at The Quest Club in Minneapolis he was hit in the back of the head when the mic stand that Cedric was throwing around came apart.

J Mendee Ichikawa