Offers FREE Download of New Track "Cher aKido"
New York, NY - Esoteric without being weighty and severely melodic while maintaining complex and challenging song structures, Chicago/Indianpolis electronic/dreampop band, KID SAVANT is bringing its heady intellectual smartpunk to the East Coast this month (tour dates below).
"Between the good music that our parents played us in utero and the sounds that we found on our own in the following 20 years, we know that we've inherited a good lineage of music---and that, in a sense, our tastes in music have been shaped against our will," explains vocalist/keyboardist Ryan Weisberger. "This has created a bit of anxiety in what we play as an 'indie' band fronted by humans, because know that- in some way - we're recreating sounds that have been heard already, whether we know this or not. But, as an equally electronic group, we know that technology can manipulate sound in infinite ways such that no human has literally heard before. It's a bit of contemporary 'anxiety' and and its 'deliverance' that keeps us creating noise."
Armed with an independently released EP, three singles, and a slew of new songs planned for release in the near future, Kid Savant have announced a handful of live dates starting in Philadelphia and circling back to their homebase of Chicago. As a precursor to their tour dates, they're offering up a FREE download of one of their new tracks, "Cher aKido" here: http://tinyurl.com/ks-cherakido, a textural, piano-led rhythmic track with a mesmerizing melody. The song is traced back to "the summer of 2008, well before we called ourselves 'Kid Savant'," recalls William. "We were loud, nomadic Americans passing the summer in Montreal attempting music as friends (and avoiding college internships). We found ourselves at a show for the city's Jazz Festival, where local band aKido put on a show with such verve that equally awed us as it did make us envious. We were also communally infatuated with the lead singer, who was this beautifully tall Quebecois woman with a shaved head. We felt like shit for knowing that we'd never meet her. Angsty, we took a taxi to our rehearsal space and came out with the piano riff and drums to the song." With an ironic twist worthy of Parker Posey film, the band found that "aKido is actually the alias of the group's MALE composer and boyfriend to said girl...all after he definitely heard our lyrics like 'you're an eye and ear affair' and 'I only kiss you in the studio.' Sheer confusion and embarassment, but he loved the song!"
With a powerful and impressive oeuvre that includes the midnight underground club beat of "Ominous Dancefloor", the propulsive atmospherics of "The Other Side of Paradise" and the liltingly charming "Drop It On the Stereo", Kid Savant has received plaudits from Chicago Maroon Newspaper who describes their sound as "bringing house, trance, and electronica music into the popular consciousness and merging the feeling of live trance music with the potency of a hit song" to DailyBeatz who likens them to "a symphony of synthesis in every steam-filled window... the pounding bass of a heart so sick with desire that nausea and anticipation merge into the other and build; building, building, break into a harmony on the better side of paradise."
Kid Savant is Ryan Weisberger (vocals, keyboard), John Sullivan (drums, percussion, programming), Kevin Pariso (guitar, synth) and Andrew Wendahl (bass synthesizer, bass guitar, programming).
KID SAVANT tour dates
Jul 16 @ Fergie’s (Philadelphia, PA)
Jul 18 @ Church w/ Vulture, Sherman Burns, Mrs. Danvers (Boston, MA)
Jul 21 @ DC9 w/ The Honeyguns, Mathpanda (Washington DC)
Jul 22 @ Pianos (New York, NY)
Aug 6 @ Reggie's w/ Incubator Crimes (Chicago, IL)
To hear more music, please go to: http://www.myspace.com/kidsavant
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