Tambersauro live is Mike Blackshear on guitars and vocals; Lance Higdon on drums, cymbals, laptop and vocals and Jeff Price on bass guitar, keyboard and vocals.
Influences
Sonic Youth, Shellac, Slint, Rush, Pink Floyd, Don Caballero, Battles, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, June of 44, Rodan, Sharks Keep Moving, Han Bennink, Peter Brotzmann, Genesis and many others.
Sounds Like
A steel cage match between a lawnmower and an abacus.
to wit:
2008 ~ Theories of Delusional Origin
2007 ~ The Blue Letter & Tambersauro (Split 10" Vinyl)
2006 ~ Box Equals Box
2004 ~ Track 6 entitled "Via the Same Methods" on Er Compilation One | A Symposium on the Real Life Threats of You and Me
Tambersauro began playing together one bleak fall in 2003, three players recovering from the breakups of their math-meticulous and porcelain-pretty ensembles respectively. Convened in such a spirit of opposition that they briefly toyed with the idea of never adopting a name, the men that would become known as Tambersauro started out as a crash collision between the polarities of their previous bands.
Their early compositions bore this out in its Zorn-like stitching of Shoegaze sheen to odd-metered fury and head-turning injections of Jazz and Latin music into the mix. Here were the seeds of what would become the band's signature attempt to ignore the tensions inherent in such reckless genre-blending, choosing instead to weave them tighter, squeezing out an unexpected tunefulness and harmony by doing what shouldn't work.
Over the course of one comp track, an EP, one side of a 10" "single," a full-length CD, and an upcoming 12" LP, Mike Blackshear, Lance Higdon and Jeff Price have kept mining these various veins for inspiration, pushing each other forward in their abilities to turn received musical frameworks inside out. Sublimating their identities beneath workmanlike jumpsuits, delivering blistering jams with a decidedly unserious stage demeanor, their live performances have moved into the realm of sonic gladiator battles.
I was indeed - but if you say it like that I sound creepy. It was cooler outside rather than in, so I was able to catch snippets every 30 seconds or so; and Tyler scrounged up a CD for me so I was able to properly listen afterwards. I liked what I saw and heard. :)
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Hi, My name is Patrick Callan, I just put out my first full length record-"Tales of a Folk Punk Nothing" on Blanket Statement Records.
It was recorded in the dead of winter 2009 and was released May 8th. I put a lot of heart into it.
Please listen to the songs I have up on my page, if you like what you hear, you can buy the record through snocap( The itunes competitor that screws over artists less).
As my label is small, at the moment all profits from the record go towards funding future projects,tours, etc. like the new record from my friends Turn Back Now! out June 25th.
we are planning out some summer tour dates right now... Houston is not too far in the distant future!!! we will definitely be in touch, when are you coming through DC?
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