Sam Prekop is a longtime Chicago native with deep roots in the Chicago music scene as a member of the Sea and Cake, Shrimp Boat and working as a solo musician. Donny Mahlmeister and Jamie Levinson are former Chicagoans and current Oak Park residents who also have deep ties to the Chicago scene with various rock bands and improvised music acts such as A Tundra, The Watchers, Judson Claiborne, White Rabbits and Early Day Miners.