Artist description Starting out in 1992 as several poorly recorded experiments with poetry backed by guitar riffs and tape loops, CJ would soon discover a taste for creating a more labored, instrumental sound of music. With this new direction in mind, a stronger creative effort would focus away from tape loop experiments and more towards rigging portable tape players in order to create many with their own distinct tape manipulations and sounds.Drawing from post-rock, minimalistic and electronic music, with a strong attraction to mellow, soothing sounds, Piedmont Sorpid tends to generate off of these basis points. On the other hand, recognized inspirations soon become twisted themes and soundscapes, left unpredictable both in creation and to the general listener. It would be the outcomes of some of these recordings that would settle into a carefully planned, flowing form of experimental music found here on "The sugars of the eyes", Piedmont Sorpid's first release.However, latest musical paths lead with almost complete abandonment of previous tape manipulated musical experiments as found on "The sugars..." and dabble more with the creative possibilities of 4 tracking, experimental instrumentation, samplers and close micing.

Music Style Post Rock/Ambient/Experimental

Musical Influences Unpexpected and unpredicted sounds from all genres

Artist History 1992 - Present. 3 CD's released to date on self operated lable "Dainty Deathy".

Group Members C.J Einar - Sampler, Programming, Kit drums, Bass, Guitar, Synths, Wind instruments, Tapes, Noises. Melissa Hames - Vocal work. Caleb Lambert - Prgramming, Bass. Guests: Sam Jones - Guitar. Dave Edwards - Synth.

Instruments Bought, Barrowed, Built, & Bowed

Albums The sugars of the eyes, March 98; Estes Places, April 00, WilberForce, November 01

Press Reviews Drawing from post-rock, minimalistic and electronic music, with a strong attraction to mellow, soothing sounds, Southern British Columbia’s Piedmont Sorpid tends to generate off of these basis points. Add a little tape and recording device manipulation and you get some pretty strange listening material here. His influences and inspirations almost always transform the music into twisted themes and soundscapes, left unpredictable and indescribable, both in creation and to the general listener. By teaming up with players on various instruments tends to give Piedmont Sorpid the dynamic of a band that never really exists in a raw form. Randomly recorded group improvisations would end up being editing and altered on his screwy tape players in combination with his many solo prepared tape improvisations. It would only be after a number of years that this would all formally settle into a carefully planned music form, found here as "The sugars of the eyes", Piedmont Sorpid's debut release.

Location South Slocan, BC - Canada

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