At Thursday, 12 July 2001, you wrote:
quoted 8 lines ok ... music .... saw a guy that goes by
>
>ok ... music .... saw a guy that goes by
>the name of "chessie" open for mouse on
>mars last month ... interesting stuffz...
>says he gets his inspiration from trains
>lotsa odd noise and some beats ... i enjoyed
>it live
>
Chessie is the guise of Stephen Gardner. Chessie put out several
releases on the westcoast Drop Beat label in the mid 90s but since
the Drop Beat label has since folded, the only new chessie release
is a split 10" on the Plug Research label. Here is some more info
from the Drop Beat website (
http://www.dropbeat.com/core.html)
Chessie is the working name for Virginia resident Stephen Gardner,
a young and talented multi-instrumentalist who began his music career
several years ago at the age of 16 with cult anti-rock group Lorelei.
Gardner embarked upon his Chessie project in 1995, systematically
filling 4-track cassette tapes with his swirling, disorienting breakbeat
compositions. Samplers are not normally part of his studio arsenal
- he prefers to loop his beats with the aid of reverb units and let
the natural flow of the loops have a say in the ultimate structure
of each tune.
It is this on this organic base that Gardner adds live bass and guitar,
creating a mesmerizing mixture of edgey beats, unsettling soundscapes
and often improvised melodies. His ongoing studies into composition
and improvisation clearly pay off in tracks that cannily blend structure
with chance, the familiar and the startling. It is truly a new music
- one that refers to the currently popular strands of jungle, post-
rock and dub, but moves well beyond the usual facile and superficial
"experiments" into a more ambitious and far deeper realm.
A few chessie releases:
. Chessie: approach 7" (Drop Beat)
. Chessie: meet cd/lp (Drop Beat)
. Chessie: signal series cd/lp (Drop Beat)
. Chessie/Computer Soup split 10" (Plug Research)
Chessie does a good live show too. I was lucky enough to see him
play a few years ago on the Dropbeat tour with Kit Clayton and Stewart
Walker. All three artists are really nice guys too.
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Westlake, OH 44145
United States
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