dear exZAKtly,
hey, will you please get me my absent sound cd back? i’m feeling relaxed and meditative tonight and would really like to hear those intense and intricate sounds right about now. it is hard to find music that puts you into a dreamlike state without making you want to sleep, but, as you may recall from the last time i wrote about this band, absent sound does just that with their delicious brand of post-rock ambiance.
so if you could snag their cd it’s all true back from your co-worker, i’d appreciate it. feel free to listen to it again so i can make you go see them with me when they play chicago - i can’t wait to see the choreographed film and video loop projections they use with their live shows. i find it to be such perfect headphone music that it will be interesting to see it translated to a visceral experience but we shall see what we shall see. in the meantime, i guess we will have to content ourselves with their answers to superstarcastic’s 5 questions.
thank you kindly,
joiezabel
ps. do you think they are trying to be funny with that last answer, considering that, like most of the cool kids, they are canadian and all?
1. when historians listen to your most recent CD 1000 years from now, what will they say?
Holy shit this is so ahead of it’s time!!!
2. if you could play a show with any band/musician living or dead, who would you pick and why?
Josh- G!YBE because the tension they create is so pure.
Jim- Mike Patton because he is so insanely versitile.
Dave- James Brown is the most intense live act ever.
Rob- The Beatles, Can and Absent Sound, fuck now that’s a bill!
3. what is the strangest band-related dream (one of) you have had?
Hanging out with Lou Reed and Eddie Vedder; also camping up north with Sonic Youth.
4. what do your fans look like?
Humans with spirals and X’s in their eyes hypnotized by the sounds of Absent Sound.
5. what bullshit do you run into at most every show that makes you think “man, this bullshit again?”
When there are sound people/ promoters/ and bands who don’t care enough about the totality and importance of a great experience of music, so in other words they just show up to play/or punch the clock. We’ve seen that you really do only get out what you put in.
bonus question: why won’t you forget to tip your bartender?
Cause it’s the American way!
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yeah, i suggest everyone pay some attention to these guys, check out their songs on their myspace and so forth - because they just agreed to play the superstarcastival!!! so far they will be coming the longest distance and i want them to have a really good reception. which means that zak has 4 months to get over his hatred of all canadians other than me.
This article doesn’t have any good keywords. Absinthe!
um, lou reed? eddie vedder? c’mon, commissar…it can’t ALL be about absinthe.
(see, there’s 2. clever, eh?)
what’s great is that absinthe link totally got business from me. i’m ordering! i stockpile everything, including drugs. if it all goes to hell, i’ll just break open my bunker o’ fun and have a good time until the radiation gets to me…
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Comment by exZAKtly — January 30, 2007 @ 7:24 am
Don\’t all Canadians aspire to become Americans anyways???
These guys do kick ass…their music evokes visions in my head that are just…well, downright scary.
I\’ll get that album for you before you can say \”Leonard Bernstein in a g-string bikini.\”