The Instruments

The Instruments is the musical project of Heather McIntosh, cellist in a number of Athens, Georgia groups including Circulatory System, Elf Power, and Japancakes. Their first album, Billions of Phonographs, was released on Orange Twin Records in 2003, followed by 2006's Cast A Half Shadow and 2008's Dark Småland. Other members of the band include Peter Erchick, Will Cullen Hart, John Fernandes, Hannah Jones, and Derek Almstead.

Heather McIntosh toured with Gnarls Barkley in 2008 as their bass player and is now playing bass and cello for Lil Wayne's band tour (Dec.08-...).^[1]

In 2009, Heather contributed cello to the tracks "Graze" and "Bleed" on Animal Collective's Fall Be Kind EP. ^[2]

References

The Elephant 6 Recording Company

Members of the collective	Bill Doss Jeff Mangum Robert Schneider Will Cullen Hart Hilarie Sidney Jim McIntyre Laura Carter John Hill Eric Allen Jeremy Barnes Jill Carnes David Barnes Kevin Barnes Eric Harris Peter Erchick Julian Koster Derek Almstead Scott Spillane John Fernandes Bryan Poole Lisa Janssen

Bands in the collective	The Apples in Stereo Thee American Revolution Beulah Black Swan Network Chocolate USA Circulatory System Dixie Blood Moustache Dressy Bessy Elf Power The Essex Green Frosted Ambassador The Gerbils The High Water Marks The Ladybug Transistor Major Organ and the Adding Machine Marbles The Minders The Music Tapes Neutral Milk Hotel of Montreal The Olivia Tremor Control Orchestre Fantastique Pipes You See, Pipes You Don't Secret Square The Sunshine Fix Synthetic Flying Machine Ulysses Von Hemmling

Other notable bands and side projects	Bablicon Casper & the Cookies Echo Orbiter Fablefactory Great Lakes A Hawk and a Hacksaw Icy Demons The Instruments Kingsauce The Late B.P. Helium M Coast Marta Tennae Calvin, Don't Jump! Midget and Hairs My First Keyboard Thimble Circus Visitations The Diminisher Eyes and Arms of Smoke Perry Weissman 3

Projects subsequent to the E6 disbandment	The New Sound of Numbers Guignol Ham1 Lorkakar Folklore Supercluster Andy From Denver James Husband The Observatory Faster Circuits Nana Grizol Nesey Gallons Madeline

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