Ello!
actually we do some promotions for Him and although it's not necessarily
what's *doin it* for me right now...still quality and worth checkin. here's
some bio information.
please excuse any typo's I transcribe it in a rush...enjoy!
joni
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Forget what you know. forget the stream of Increadible albums that have
come out over the last 5 years bearing the HIM name, from fine labels like
Southern, Wordsound, Perishable and others. Think not about Doug Schanrin's
early dub days of deep home recordings from Brooklyn, and even toss aside
that faster-than-fela afrofunk found on last year's live band debut, which
couldn't come close to conveying the intense energy of a HIM performance.
And finally, forget that HIM albums and lineups have seen players from Rex,
June of '44, Royal Trux, Tortoise, Hover, Crown Hate Ruin, Isotope 217 and
then some.
HIM has been a full-time touring band for two years now, constantly circling
through the U.S., Canada, Europe and Japan. And they never cease to amaze.
The players (an ever-changing, 7 person lineup that revilves around the
backbone of Dougg Scharin on the drums, Fred Erskin on the bass, Carlo
Cennamo on the sax and Josh LaRue on guitar) are equally outstanding in
their talent and in their musical communication within the group. Audiences
feel that, and send it right back. It says alot of this band that in a
country where people rarely dance to live music anymore, everbody dances at
HIM shows. It's hard not to.
NEW FEATURES is brimming. Right from the record's starting point the band
takes you into a unique kind of groove, lead by adventurous melody lines
with eastern themes, and pushed by a tribal, two-kit rhythm section. Though
crazy afrojazz and thick dub fusion and onto a funky-as-shit interpertation
of Miles Davis 'On the Corner', this fifth HIM album is really the firs to
show the potential of the new, touring band.
Even the occasional, thick layers of effects heard on the record are
reproduced and improvised at their live shows, using their own mixer,
sampler, fx rack, and their own mics spread around the stage to pick up
source sounds.
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>From: leterel <leterel@yahoo.com>
>To: acid-jazz@ucsd.edu
>Subject: HIM ?
>Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 12:34:12 -0700 (PDT)
>
>Hi all, I've read some interesting reviews about a
>band called HiM on Fat Cat. They are often being
>compared Miles Davis. I was just curious if any
>recommends them? Good live? Etc. etc.
>
>_______________________________________________________
>
>Los Angeles - August 18 (Sat) HiM, The Amadans, Dave
>Pavkovic’s Exciting Trio at Spaceland.
>
>With HiM, drummer Doug Schairn has escaped the dire
>post-rock quagmire you might have guessed his pedigree
>(Rex, June of ‘44, Codeine, etc.) would have landed
>him in by now. Instead, Schairn’s HiM has developed
>from an occasionally interesting home-recording side
>project into an ongoing, excitingly full-force Miles
>Davis–influenced fusion ensemble. New Features, HiM’s
>recently released double album on Bubblecore, is
>another marvelous step forward, adding some serious
>Afrobeat unison-horn riffs and drum-bass-guitar
>grooves into the future-is-now space-jazz-dub mix.
>Tonight HiM will be a supercharged nine-piece.
>
>
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