Artist description Erik REZ is more of an Act than a band. Bringing in-your-face socio-political Rock'N' Roll to the masses.

Music Style Naked Social Acoustic Rock

Musical Influences The Levellers, James, Phil Ochs, Radiohead

Similar Artists Violent Femmes?

Artist History REZ spent a short spell with a full band (The Factery REJECTS) but while occasionally jamming with musicians and other madfolks he prefers to stay solo as he ventures across the continent. Look for him!

Instruments Acoustic Guitar w/ drums & bass on a couple songs

Albums The Product ( 1999) (14 Original songs!!) "Factery REJECTS Live!" (2001) (15 songs from by bands live set. To order e-mail erikrez@hotmail.com

Press Reviews Erik has been reviewd by both the OC Weekly and Mean Street Music Magazine both based in So Cal. In December '99 He was featured by the OC Weekly as having one of the Best 10 albums of the Year!Also in OC Weekly's great gigs of '99 on a billing with Damien jurardo, dave Fischoff, Nova Soul & Maersk "Acoustic-guitar man REZ odd at first but ultimately likable, with a slew of great songs, someone you couldn't ignore."In OC Weekly June 25th "the Product" was first reviewed: "Is Erik REZ a poet? A radical-liberal lefty? A coffeehouse strummer? Or just some Fullerton guy with a voice that sounds like angry honey-bees breaking through your eardrums? Yes, kids he's all that. But you don't really mind his nasally pipes after a while-people thought the same of Dylan, anyway- and the dude can pen some smart worldly, pointed lyrics about uncomfortable things nobody likes to hear about (and isn't that what a folkie is supposed to do?). He's got a biting song about bands as marketing concepts ("Product") and anotherr heartwarmer about having gooey oral sex with Queen Victoria ("Vitoria's Orgasm," something particularly nauseating given that the queen has been dead for a hundred years or so). But we're more interested in REZ's weightier stuff: "God" is an anti-organized-religion rant that he masks in a gentle, Franciscan-choir-like hymn. And "Ja8il Inc." goes off against the California prison industry from an inmate's point of view (Where would you be without this new corporate slavery?/Where would you be without us working for free?/ Where would you be without Pete Wilson's empathy?/ Go on and build another jail"). Maybe that's why we like REZ: when it comes down to it, in the finest folksinger tradition, he's got something to say-and he wields a machine that kills fascists. (Rich Kan

Location Fullerton, CA - USA

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