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MKNZ Ilirska Bistrica, Sunday, 07.12.2003 at 21h:
Formed in the summer of 2002 by Blake Fleming (ex-Laddio Bolocko, the Mars Volta), Marcus DeGrazia (ex-Laddio Bolocko), and German singer Silke, ETTM sought to take the best inspiration and instrumentation from the more creative bands of the late 60s such as Love, the Pretty Things, and the Doors, and update it for the new millennium. Adding guitarist James Wilk (ex-the Imaginary Numbers) later that year, the band began touring the NYC club scene. Creating instant happenings at their performances, ETTM quickly established itself as one of downtown New York’s hottest new bands. Featuring imaginative powerhouse drumming, keyboard propelled bass and vintage organ melodies, intertwined guitars, and Silke’s strong vocals which recall, if anything, a more world weary, less glam Siouxsie Sioux, ETTM creates intricate searching pop songs, achieving that delicate balance of using familiar sounds and elements, yet presenting them in a wholly original way. The summer of 2003 saw the release of the bands self-titled first EP, which was recorded at their own Black Gate Studios in Red Hook, Brooklyn, and issued on Philadelphia's No Quarter Records. Their next move took them out of the basement and into Manhattan's Sear Sound to put the finishing touches on their second EP, Clouds Move So Fast, also on No Quarter Records released Nov.4 2003. It is be available in Europe through Consopiracy Distribution. Audio: Clouds Could Move So Fast EP ETTM self-titled EP:
The band was born in the city of Rijeka in March, 2000. The members are: Mihael Prosen (singer), Davor Tomic - Pinky (guitar), Sasha Vukosav (drums), Fraño Jardas (bass guitar) and Dario Pazanin - Borut (guitar). With their prior work, the members of Father influenced the music making process in various Croatian bands. Laddio Bolocko from New York had a great influence on the forming of Father. Having experienced the music expression and the concert performance of the aforementioned band, the members of Easyman decided it was time to take a new direction, and to create fresh material which won’t urge the listeners to automatically force it into any of the moulds of world music. As for other musical role models, there are a few bands that left a deep mark in the creativity of each member of Father (Faith No More, Tool, Deftones, Pantera, Alice In Chains, Machine Head...), but it is just by moving away from the norms and boundaries that were set by each of these bands, that Father wants to pop up from the sea of copycats and various attempts of imitating popular bands, and to show music they produce in a more original and distinctive way. Today, after three years of ‘entombment’ in a shelter where they practice, the five members of this band are proud owners of 15 songs, hoping they won’t be ‘passed over in silence’ because of its (as it is often regarded in Croatia) ‘too vehement’ expression. Along with over 30 shows all over Croatia and Slovenia (Zagreb, Rijeka, Split, Dubrovnik, Pula, Ljubljana, Crikvenica, Labin…), our greatest success is winning the qualifications for ROCK OTOCEC 2003 where we competed with 182 bands. This festival is known to have been the place where big bands such as Henry Rollins, NoMeansNo, Asian Dub Foundation, Dog Eat Dog and H-Blockx performed. In Croatia we thrived with the performance in the final of the musical competition ‘INKUBATOR’, a project organized by the record company ‘Aquarius records’, exclusive representative for ‘Universal' in Croatia. The award was album recording and publishing. With this show in club Aquarius in Zagreb (one of the most popular clubs in Croatia), we were included in the gang of twelve best Croatian demo bands (a great success for a so-called metal band, since this kind of music still doesn’t even exist in the Croatian publishing industry!). Regarding further concert promotion, the arrangements to have concerts in Croatia, Slovenia, Holland, Austria and Switzerland have already been made, but we also plan to have shows in other European countries (of course, we wouldn't mind being invited in other parts of the world as well). The CD-material contains 9 songs recorded on three separate occasions from June, 2001, to January, 2003. On the last occasion, we were in studio for six months, after which VASAII was born. All songs were produced and recorded at studio ‘Studijozasirotinju’, under spiritual and recording guidance of Boris Rakamaric. A video for the song ‘Emon’, directed (and financed) by a young artist, our friend Dalibor Cajkovski, is also included on the CD, with the main aim to visually bring music nearer to our audience. The author of the visual identity behind the Father web site and the CD is Mirko Zorz, a great friend and the biggest Father fan in the World. Audio: Vasaii CD |
