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Maserati
Posted by Rob Ortenzi on 08-Nov-07 @ 02:04 PM|
HQ: Athens, GA NOW PLAYING: Inventions For The New Season (TEMPORARY RESIDENCE) THE STORY SO FAR: Forming in 2000, guitarists Coley Dennis and Matthew Cherry met bassist Steven Scarborough and then-drummer Phillip Horan in Athens, Georgia, unwittingly giving life to an instrumental musical giant of Paleolithic proportions. Five years later, the band had two LPs, plenty of tours and a shit-load of splits and 7-inches under their belts, but more importantly, the Michael Mann soundtrack enthusiasts snagged their current beatmaster-mustachioed New Yorker Jerry Fuchs. Nowadays, Fuchs' long-distance locale isn't the only logistical obstacle the band face. "We like to make things as difficult as we possibly can for ourselves," says Fuchs. "Steve is in school in Oregon and Matt is an urban planner in Atlanta, which makes coming together and writing more difficult." WHY YOU SHOULD KNOW 'EM: Since everyone already knows Mono and Pelican, you can be the coolest kid on the block with a copy of Inventions For The New Season, Maserati's first LP in five years. Their atmospheric instrumentalism is to Meddle-era Pink Floyd what Pelican is to post-metal, brachiosaur jams-think tribal, indie spins on Vangelis. Fuchs credits the band's epic sound to their near-obsessive love of '60s- and '70s-era instrumentalism (a la Aphrodite's Child). But we credit it to Fuch's badass mustache. "I'm the modern Greg Norton [of Hüsker Dü]," he says. "I always thought, 'Who's that goofball with the mustache?' Now I'm the goofball." Casey Lynch YOU LIKE? YOU'LL LIKE: MOGWAI / EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY / TANGERINE DREAM |
