Nascent
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Topic: Nascent
Posted By: toroddfuglesteg
Subject: Nascent
Date Posted: November 19 2011 at 11:54
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NASCENT is a duo from Boston/USA with Jeff Briggs (guitars, bass, synth, vocals) as the mastermind. It all started with some musical ideas by Briggs who wanted to have more than a one-off project. Someday he figured out that he's on the same musical wavelength with drummer Libor Hadrava, a native Czech Republic and Berklee music student. At the end of 2005 they decided to form the band NASCENT as the core members. I got in touch with them and Jeff Briggs answered my questions. ###################################################################################
When and by whom was your band born ? While in grad
school for art I was spending more time playing music than I had in a while.
After a year or so of writing some stuff without any end goal I started looking
for musicians to accompany me. Many auditions later I met Libor. The material
really came together and that's about that. I had the good fortune of living
with some great musicians in Brighton at the time (a neighborhood in Boston).
Justin Francos ended up contributing some keyboards to the recording. Tom
Hanlsowe played bass on about half of this record too. I recorded, mixed and
mastered that first record. Did any of you, past and present members, play in any other bands before
joining up in your band ? I was in plenty of
bands that never really went anywhere. Mr. Fribble, Agent Scaringi, and
Gericault's Arm were pretty good, but never went farther than a couple zip
codes. Libor was in Infinity Minus One. Why did you choose that name and which bands were you influenced
by? The name Nascent
came from a sense of something fresh. I felt like we were scratching the surface
of something deep with plenty of room to explore. I wanted a name to reflect the
feeling I was having at the time. I hope the name will continue to reflect a
newness in the future. Regarding bands
we're influenced by: Rush, King Crimson, Carcass, Megadeth and Ulver would
probably be the most immediate. Influences are funny though. We're influenced by
everything we hear, positively or negatively; and with a band like this, we can
explore a breadth of influences that some other bands can't get away with. For
instance, I'm really drawn to the minimalism of Morton Feldman and Harold Budd,
and that finds a place alongside excessive moments of 50's Hard Bop derived
chord changes played over with high gain guitar thrash riffs. I think we are
willing to draw from almost anything, but the people/bands that were willing to
arrange disparate styles/genres and sounds together merit particular recognition
regarding our appropriation of their particular aesthetic. These credits go out
to folks like Peter Gabriel, Naked City, etc. The list grows as post-modernism
becomes further entrenched in pop music.  Over to your self titled debut album from 2006. Please tell us more about
this album. You're going to
have to get more specific if the first paragraph of this interview doesn't
suffice. The latest news about your band is from 2009 and is about laying down
drums on a new project. What have you been up to during the last five years and
what can we expect from you in the future ? For the last 5
years I've been busy writing new music and making paintings. Libor opened Axiom
music school and has recently been making instructional videos for !Drum
Magazine. We started tracking some new material in September 2009. The new album
will be out early 2012. The title track from the new record “Methods for
Detection, Analysis, and Isolation” is currently available to stream on our
http://nascent.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow - . For those of us unfamiliar with your music; how would you describe you
music and which bands would you compare yourself with? I would describe
Nascent as a mostly instrumental contemporary metal band with serious
inclinations towards narrative linear compositions. We acknowledging a debt to
progressive rock from the 60's and 70's. Current bands I feel represent
something sympathetic to our musical vision would be maybe be Dysrhythmia and
Canvas Solaris. There are more... Thank you to Jeff for this interview The PA profile is http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=3543" rel="nofollow - and the homepage is http://nascent.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow - |
