apsisband
apsisband
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| Member | Jan 22, 2012 (14 years) |
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Bio
Samuel Dales has played the guitar from age twelve, later adding vocals, drums, bass and sitar to his expertise. He has since enjoyed a varied music career, expressing his accomplished playing through a range of sounds from progressive rock to ambient. His early success with Canberra band Lagosta, showcased his young talent whilst they shared the stage with such bands as Cog, Shihad and The Butterfly Effect. In the past year, Samuel made a shift from lead guitar in post-rock outfit, Ibex, to focus on the finalization of his own EP. After three years of painstaking work, the production is complete. An accomplishment for any musician, Samuel has developed a sound completely unique and of his own.
The Metra Wave is a surprisingly stunning home studio production, written, performed and produced by Samuel himself, though not without help from some exceptional talent. Samuel recorded part of the drum tracks with his mentor Rob Grant, at Fremantle’s Poons Head Studios (also where the EP was mastered); and Ibex drummer Mike Newman, contributed his exceptional drumming skills on the track ‘Connect’. On a trip to India in 2010, Samuel was inspired by the techniques demonstrated in his studies at the World Music Ashram in Varanasi. His passion for the spirit of the country comes out primarily in the track ‘All I ask.’ Samuel enlisted Melbourne tabla master, Glen Kniebiess, to help fuse traditional Indian and western music into a journey through soundscapes of mud and swamp. For the remainder of the EP, all other sounds were solely crafted by Samuel; creating a seamless transition of thought and space rarely seen in a modern age of one-hit wonders.
Samuel states some of his primary musical influences to be that of Cog, Jeff Buckley, Devin Townsend and Bob Brozman, among many others. Non-musical influences of David Lynch, Bill Hicks and George Orwell also find a way to work themselves into the sometimes haunting and paranoid sounds of the music and lyrics. The title, The Metra Wave, rightly congers images of the flying and electrically charged sounds that the EP invokes.
With a band now assembled, and plans for a new album to be recorded in the coming year, Apsis are ready to let loose their electrifying sound across Australia. With band members Paul Fitzgerald (guitar), Evan Wilkinson (bass) and Steven Frithall (drums) completing the line-up, Apsis are most certainly a band to keep a close eye on.
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