WEDNESDAY JUL 05, 2017
The Sagas
"solPUNK is a breakout! the new philosophy on genre. Dropouts to Society [Full Length Debut Coming 2017] it is the soundtrack to people marchin back to their power. Trombone being the ringleader. There will be sol belts, metal screams, funky bass plus pounding drums that all work collectively to hand feed our solMESSAGE: 'dont conform to systems that limit you. start your own universe."
"solPUNK is a breakout! the new philosophy on genre. Dropouts to Society [Full Length Debut Coming 2017] it is the soundtrack to people marchin back to their power. Trombone being the ringleader. There will be sol belts, metal screams, funky bass plus pounding drums that all work collectively to hand feed our solMESSAGE: 'dont conform to systems that limit you. start your own universe."
Honey Hips
Seersha
"New artist Seersha is a songwriter, vocalist and producer hailing from ATL. Listening to her chill electropop vibe, it’s hard to believe that just six months ago you would have found her in Nashville writing primarily country songs for anyone but herself. Missing Atlanta and disillusioned with the formulaic writing style of Music City, Seersha came home in October 2016 to find her own way. She spent the next few weeks hidden away in her apartment, writing for a new record of her own and producing herself in Ableton for the first time. She elaborates, “I turned off my phone, got off Facebook and just let myself do whatever felt intuitively right--it was a vulnerable, experimental time for me.” The result is a sparse synth-driven indiepop sound fraught with raw emotion and written solely by her in just 3 weeks. While Seersha isn’t sharing much about her background, she will divulge the origin of her name--Seersha is the phonetic spelling of Saorise, an Irish or Scottish name meaning “freedom.” “That’s what this whole project is about for me: giving myself freedom to create whatever I want, with the intention of making space for the listener to freely feel,” she says. Seersha cites influences as broad as her friend B.E.N’s impressionist bass poems (he is the only instrumentation on the record besides Seersha’s production) to Phil Collins to fellow ATL-based trip hop duo CLAVVS. Her self-titled debut EP comes available May 12, 2017 on her independent label Fox Nose Records."
"New artist Seersha is a songwriter, vocalist and producer hailing from ATL. Listening to her chill electropop vibe, it’s hard to believe that just six months ago you would have found her in Nashville writing primarily country songs for anyone but herself. Missing Atlanta and disillusioned with the formulaic writing style of Music City, Seersha came home in October 2016 to find her own way. She spent the next few weeks hidden away in her apartment, writing for a new record of her own and producing herself in Ableton for the first time. She elaborates, “I turned off my phone, got off Facebook and just let myself do whatever felt intuitively right--it was a vulnerable, experimental time for me.” The result is a sparse synth-driven indiepop sound fraught with raw emotion and written solely by her in just 3 weeks. While Seersha isn’t sharing much about her background, she will divulge the origin of her name--Seersha is the phonetic spelling of Saorise, an Irish or Scottish name meaning “freedom.” “That’s what this whole project is about for me: giving myself freedom to create whatever I want, with the intention of making space for the listener to freely feel,” she says. Seersha cites influences as broad as her friend B.E.N’s impressionist bass poems (he is the only instrumentation on the record besides Seersha’s production) to Phil Collins to fellow ATL-based trip hop duo CLAVVS. Her self-titled debut EP comes available May 12, 2017 on her independent label Fox Nose Records."
B.E.N trio
"B.E.N is the musical expression of regular, everyday life in a way that is completely irregular. B.E.N is Benjamin Ryan Williams, a Texas-born, Atlanta-bred bassist with a penchant for combining his influences into a solo experimental musical style that is unlike any other. After receiving a poetry scholarship to Oglethorpe University, Benjamin began touring full-time as a musician in 2010. After some time of Econoline van sleeping and Hampton Inn breakfasts, Benjamin was recruited to join folk music legends Indigo Girls, with whom he has recorded and played bass for since 2012. Benjamin also became a first call session bassist in Atlanta working closely with many of the cities top hip hop producers including the heralded DJ Burn One & DJ Toomp. The combination of touring with a Grammy-winning folk act mixed with recording with Grammy-winning hip hop acts helped Benjamin see a common thread about harnessing the energy of originality through the pursuit of music: the rules are man-made. B.E.N is a project all about the expression of the individual with a drive to stand out on his own. Somewhere in-between Drake & Debussy, B.E.N composes music with nods to folk, impressionism, and the avant-garde. The music is entirely comprised of sounds from the bass guitar, exploring fresh and exciting boundaries for the instrument. With thoughtful harmony, odd song structures, and opaque timbres, listening to B.E.N's music is at times as similar to reading poetry as it is listening to a performance. Oddity made accessible. In a time when the music industry seems to have no rules, B.E.N has even less."
"B.E.N is the musical expression of regular, everyday life in a way that is completely irregular. B.E.N is Benjamin Ryan Williams, a Texas-born, Atlanta-bred bassist with a penchant for combining his influences into a solo experimental musical style that is unlike any other. After receiving a poetry scholarship to Oglethorpe University, Benjamin began touring full-time as a musician in 2010. After some time of Econoline van sleeping and Hampton Inn breakfasts, Benjamin was recruited to join folk music legends Indigo Girls, with whom he has recorded and played bass for since 2012. Benjamin also became a first call session bassist in Atlanta working closely with many of the cities top hip hop producers including the heralded DJ Burn One & DJ Toomp. The combination of touring with a Grammy-winning folk act mixed with recording with Grammy-winning hip hop acts helped Benjamin see a common thread about harnessing the energy of originality through the pursuit of music: the rules are man-made. B.E.N is a project all about the expression of the individual with a drive to stand out on his own. Somewhere in-between Drake & Debussy, B.E.N composes music with nods to folk, impressionism, and the avant-garde. The music is entirely comprised of sounds from the bass guitar, exploring fresh and exciting boundaries for the instrument. With thoughtful harmony, odd song structures, and opaque timbres, listening to B.E.N's music is at times as similar to reading poetry as it is listening to a performance. Oddity made accessible. In a time when the music industry seems to have no rules, B.E.N has even less."