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sBach (USA)

Dienstag, 5. Mai

Spencer Seim, the man/creature/troglodyte who serves as the feral axe
shredder of Hella and the skins man of The Advantage, will be dropping his
new album on August 19th under the nom de guerre of sBACH entitled "sBACH"
on externer link Suicide Squeeze. sBACH by sBACH band is a frenetic mnge akin to the
collective sights, sounds and sugar rushes in the heads of an entire
elementary school being locked into a Chuck E. Cheese franchise while
having to subside on an all you can eat buffet of Fun Dip and Pixie Stix
as the animatronic band dishes out phosphorescent doom riffs while running
amok with the blips and bleeps. Seim is the master of playing his
instruments in just the right way enabling a whole frequency of sounds.

Taking cues from the choppy spazz-math of Hella and the 8 bit Nintendo
cacophony of The Advantage, Seim utilizes the trademarks steez and
proclivities of his two musical ventures to create a new one which morphs
into a kitschy, stoner rock fueled archfiend chock full of bastardized
jazz rhythms and chicken scratch electronica. With the grating jingles and
chimes of an explosion at a pinball machine factory and the caffeinated
scour of just about any song that features Seim's vivid musical talent,
sBACH will fray the senses and leave you begging for more.

After mastering the 8-bit rhythms of NES games with The Advantage and
complimenting Zach Hill with quirky yet adept guitar riffs in Hella,
Spencer Seim appears to exemplify a satisfied musician. On his latest solo
project, sBACH (Suicide Squeeze), Seim once again delves into the far
corners of sonic exploration. Despite no particular fondness for Star
Trek, Seim describes sBACH as what, "Vulcan classical music, sounds like
[to] me." And although that description may conjure up unwanted images of
a Shatner/Nimoy duet, the sound is something equally strange and out of
this world.

With sBACH, Seim seems to give a nod to his past projects. As far a
melodic instrumentation goes, sBACH and Hella are essentially the same:
spatial fuzzed out guitar melodies layered over eccentric math-rock
inspired phrasing. The blocked-in, 8-bit rhythms of The Advantage have
given way to more grandiose syncopation and unknown meter signatures,
which better demonstrate Seim's instinctive knack behind the sticks. "I
would say that my drumming changes song to song for any band I am in,"
says Seim, "I like beats that are exciting and new to me, but also enjoy
the sound of simplicity and the contrast between the two."

The end product of Seim's Hella-Advantage hybrid is captured on sBACH's
self-titled August debut; a record that sounds like Mario on a sugar high,
surrounded by Pixie Stix. Wrought with consistent tones, cartoonish
alacrity, and no lyrical content, sBACH could easily be substituted with
an old Nintendo score or at the very least, a soundtrack to a manic
episode. But perhaps the psychosis radiating from the record has some
correlation with the album's unique inspiration. "On song 4 [of sBACH] I
kept having this recurring dream of this girl playing this awesome guitar
part and every morning I'd wake up and try to play it," Seim explains.
Track 4's ominous guitar riff remains proof that one day he remembered how
to play it.

But with the excitement of the new release, especially Seim's first solo
record, on which he played every instrument and wrote every song—one
daunting question remains: will sBACH ever evolve from a side-project to a
main state of Seim's career? Or will it be just another project in an
already accomplished musician's discography? Seim, confidently replies,
"It is something I will continue all of my life. sBACH is not a one off
record thing."

externer link sBACH




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