Pavement, The Pixies, The Beatles, Calexico, Wilco, The Velvet Underground, New Order, early-REM, The Smiths, Elliot Smith, Neil Young, Bjork, Bob Dylan, Sigur Ros, South San Gabriel, Gillian Welch, The Clash, Miracle Legion, Nick Drake, Talk Talk, Thelonious Monk, Amiee Mann, Múm, Broken Social Scene...and on and on forever
Sounds Like
"Wee have also Sound-Houses, wher wee
practise and demonstrate all Sounds, and their Generation. Wee have
Harmonies which you have not, of Quarter-Sounds and lesser Slides of
Sounds. Diverse Instruments of Musick likewise to you unknowne, some
sweeter then any you have; Together with Bells and Rings that are
dainty and sweet. Wee represent Small Sounds as Great and Deepe;
Likewise Great Sounds, Extenuate and Sharpe; Wee make diverse
Tremblings and Warblings of Sounds, which in their Originall are
Entire. Wee rep resent and imitate all Articulate Sounds and Letters,
and the Voices and Notes of Beasts and Birds. Wee have certaine Helps,
which sett to the Eare doe further the Hearing greatly. Wee have also
diverse Strange and Artificiall Eccho's, Reflecting the Voice many
times, and as it were Tossing it; And some that give back the Voice
Lowder then it came, some Shriller, and some Deeper; Yea, some rendring
the Voice, Differing in the Letters or Articulate Sound, from that they
receyve. Wee have also meanes to convey Sounds in Trunks and Pipes, in
strange Lines, and Distances."
Builder plays rock music. With so many sub-genres out there its hard to know where a band fits these days. Builder comes out of Kansas City with a sound that not only rocks hard, but also encapsulates beauty, melody and lyricism. They burnish their songs through a live show rendered as if their lives depend on it.
Builder is Isaac Anderson (guitars, vocals, motivational speaking), Mike Crawford (vocals, guitar, poetry), Eric Kautzi (drums, film-making) and Vince Lavergne (bass, mathematics).
Combining influences as wide ranging as Pavement, The Pixies, The Beatles, Calexico, Wilco, The Velvet Underground, New Order, early-REM, The Smiths, Elliot Smith, Neil Young, The Clash, and Broken Social Scene - Builder has crafted their own voice of yearning, lyrical songs paired with a melodic/angular twin-guitar + fluid rhythm-section sound. Their new songs are densely melodic and joyfully rocking
hey there...we just wanted to let you know that we'll be playing a show at The Brick in Kansas City on Fri Apr 24. we'd love it if you could stop by and spend an evening with us...
did you guys make a new album?
i like the new song.
i haven't talked to mr. vince lavergne (i went to south)
for a while,
so i'm not up with the builder world right now.
i guess myspace helps out in life just a little.
i was one of the organizers. two of my other friends and i, plus the wonderful mainstreet staff put it together. we're actually planning another one for oct. 14th, i want to try and get some jacob's well artists and people involved... it was too bad the last one was the same weekend as the retreat!
Mike~
Thanks for saying that...it means a lot coming from you. As for the vocal "pimp chain"...it was a 4060 into an API into a Purple Audio MC77...
Also, the sparkly highs are eq probably...I wasn't shy about 8-10k up 5-10 dB sometimes...I also had a hi-passed (1k) second take (or two) panned hard and turned down and that made it sound really cool...
Just off the top of my head...that's what I can think of...It was mostly likely luck though probably.
thanks dude, it was a "rockin' good time!" i have a question about pro tools... if were recording a song thats swing, how do we change the metronome to read it swing so we can align the drum track perfectly in time?? and i guess your pretty good at the guitar too.
