Attention Pioneer Valley musicians: the instrumental psychedelic pop band Strobe Horse needs your help.

After performing at this year’s Happy Valley Showdown in Northampton and continuing to play occasional gigs around town, says group multi-instrumentalist Patrick Clifford, the band is actively looking for more members to fill out its sound, which currently relies heavily on pre-recorded tape loops. However, before applying, all interested parties should know just exactly what they will be getting into.

Though it’s described by drummer Mark Palmer as “electric dazzle pop,” Strobe Horse’s material is defined by Clifford as sounding like “an electric horse strobing in a colorful kraut-mixture swoofing rhythmically about in a child’s mind.”

Such an eclectic style of music fits well with the band’s unusual moniker, which was thought up by Clifford.

“Mark, our friend Ben and I were hanging out on the levee in town one night, and there was this dense mist in front of us,” says Clifford. “I had this vivid image in my head of a wild horse strutting towards us out of the mist, and the horse was flashing lots of different colors. I told them about the visual and described it as a ‘strobe horse.'”

Unusual band name aside, the group’s origin story is far more commonplace. Though only officially playing as Strobe Horse for the past four to five months, Clifford and Palmer began playing music together about two years ago when they met at work and discovered they shared similar interests and influences.

Eventually, following a brief stint performing under the name The River Eater with guitarist Dave Tourtellotte, the pair decided to start making loops to play with after Tourtellotte moved to Los Angeles.

But loops weren’t the only addition to the band’s act. In order to give audiences more to interact with during live shows, Clifford has also developed a series of video collages to make gigs a complete multimedia experience. Such antics could be telling signposts of where Strobe Horse is headed in the future.

Clifford says, “We’re excited to see where we evolve to. Especially since there’s so much influence from all over the musical map to weave together. I just want to make people dance to some wacky stuff.”

In the meantime, the next hurdle is accumulating enough material for an album so fans can bring the Strobe Horse experience home with them.

“We’re hoping to have enough songs for some sort of release in the not too distant future,” says Clifford. “Just working on more material is all we have our minds set on at the moment.”

For more information on Strobe Horse please visit www.strobehorse.bandcamp.com.