"down from a blue sky comes a flash of"
Hauhauhauhaudibble is sort of a musical slice of life... I think or maybe not. Maybe it is a 'musical free association of the mind' that unsurreptitiously and serendipitously flowed to the nimble fingers, mouths, feet and maybe other body parts of rock, jazz, free improv and contemporary classical musicians who make up the members of Watererer out of Pittsburgh. Now, I will readily admit that while I bestow the virtue of divergent, even avant garde music, I sometimes do not get it. Which is fine. I didn't get Frank Zappa, for example, but, in the case of Watererer (at least on this track) I do, get it that is... or at least I think I do and that is ok with me.
From the onset, it does have an abrasively punk tone, a proto punk free for all with explosive guitars and drum work. The vox tell a story of sorts but the music might tell the bigger story. The bass lines glue all the out there guitar stabs of chords and note patterns together while the drums punctuate all the mayhem. Interesting, precise but feels feral at times. Does the song's narration reach a conclusion, a destination. I don't really care, the journey is what I came for.
-Robb Donker Curtius
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
Watererer is a new Pittsburgh band, made up of members from rock, jazz, free improv, and contemporary classical bands/ensembles. To Finding Out is our first record. Someone told us it sounds like Mount Eerie meets Stan Kenton. We thought that was, at times, accurate. There are baroque and jazz influences. Some of it is what our bass/trumpet player Matt Aelmore (possibly derogatorily) calls "neo-classical." There's an interest in stacking notes into interesting harmonic blocks. And a lot of the songwriting was inspired by the fun, carefree (but heavily critical) vibes of Anna Burch and Stella Donnelly.
THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:
Watererer is a new Pittsburgh band, made up of members from rock, jazz, free improv, and contemporary classical bands/ensembles. To Finding Out is our first record. Someone told us it sounds like Mount Eerie meets Stan Kenton. We thought that was, at times, accurate. There are baroque and jazz influences. Some of it is what our bass/trumpet player Matt Aelmore (possibly derogatorily) calls "neo-classical." There's an interest in stacking notes into interesting harmonic blocks. And a lot of the songwriting was inspired by the fun, carefree (but heavily critical) vibes of Anna Burch and Stella Donnelly.
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