I think I am most comfortable thinking of myself as an experimental musician. For me this means I experiment with the process by which the music is created. In this sense,
Choke was the most experimental
band I have been involved with. This is true despite the fact that the product of
Choke's experimentation ended up being closer to pop music than anything else I have played. This experimentation in large part involved doing things to break the band's members out of comfortable roles and habits. So, for instance, 4 of 5 the songs on our eponymous e.p. were based around guitar parts and bass lines written by the drummer (me) who can't play guitar or bass. Add to that a guitarist on bass and a bassist on guitar, turn it all up past eleven even on the pretty songs, and...well, just listen.
Style: Post-punk dream pop with a quick detour into prog-noise.
The players:
David Liso- guitar, bass, vocals (check out
Dynamo Stairs)
Grant Garner - bass
Matt Sneddon - guitar
me - drum kit, steel pan, hand drums, metal objects, loops, samples
Choke (eponymous e.p.) (FLAC, Ogg Vorbis,MP3)Produced by Matt Thorne (a
Skin & Barrel Production)
Track list:
1) Alexander Orchid
2) Barcelona
3) Browse
4) H20
5) Sheltering
Note: the player plays the whole e.p.
Choke released two DIY cassettes,
Gauze and
Total Reverence. My copies were, ironically, all but destroyed in a
crushed box during one of my many moves. I was able to salvage all but three tracks off of the cassettes thanks to scotch tape & razor skills learned in my experimental music classes back in the day. The track
Green Hand, in fact, was put back together from almost a dozen splices using several cassettes. The three missing tracks are a great version of
Barcelona, a version of Alexander Orchid that includes a hammond organ part missing from the version above, and a slower noisier version of
Browse. I will work on finding clean copies of those tracks. I'll upload them if they become available [update -
Now available here].
Choke:
Gauze/Total ReverenceStyle: shoegazer, rave, post-punk, dream pop.
DIY cassette releases from the early 90's.
Recorded in our rehearsal studio using 4-track cassette machine
Tracklist:
1) Mortar
2) Sex Trial
3) Shine
4) Crushed box/grill
5) Bliss
6) Poundcake
7) Circles
8) Tanta Figa
9) Green Hand
10) H20 (clank mix)
Note: player plays all ten tracks
For archival purposes, I am also including two unfinished bonus tracks. These were recorded live to ghetto blaster in our rehearsal space. Both songs were eventually part of our live set list, but they were never properly recorded. There is something about these takes that I like: Lo-fi noise.
Rehearsal Tapes1) Untitled
2 ) Sturwelpeter
Enjoy.
