Foamola

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Foamola
Origin New York City
Genres Folk music, folk pop, underground music
Years active1991 (1991)–present
Members Sparrow, Violet Snow, Lawrence Fishberg, Sylvia Gorelick

Foamola is an underground musical group from New York City, consisting of Sparrow and his wife, who went by the cyber alias Violet Snow. [1] [2] Also in the group is artist Lawrence Fishberg and Sparrow's daughter, poet Sylvia Gorelick. [3] [4] Their music has been described as "folk-minimalist", [5] and as "anti-Plutarch pop". [6] They attracted media attention for their performance at a 1995 party in honor of Phiber Optik in Manhattan. [2] [7]

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