Artist description The Glass Bead Game takes its name from the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Herman Hesse about an intricate and sophisticated past-time of futuristic aesthetes. Intricate and sophisticated are good words to describe the band's music. Cera Byer's lyrics combine skewed rhymes with playful, poetic language. Marrying pensive verse and soaring vocals with sparse guitars, electric pianos, upright bass, violin, and drums, the foursome produce an ethereal soundscape that has been compared to acts such as Kristin Hersh and Throwing Muses, Cat Power, and early Cowboy Junkies. Whether their melodic transubstantiations are Nobel-worthy is up to you- but the lush harmonies and haunting atmosphere the band creates are certainly noble. The Game has been playing in the San Francisco Bay Area since summer 2001, participating in local festivals including the third annual bEASTfest, and has performed at numerous Bay Area locations including San Francisco's Broadway Studios, Oakland's art and performance venue 21Grand, and the infamous Starry Plough, as well as venue's in southern California, most notably The Knitting Factory in Hollywood. The Glass Bead Game has performed alongside veteran performers such as Bonfire Madigan, Vetiver, Wire Graffiti, Mark Growdens Electric Pinada, Ramona the Pest, Peoples Bizarre, and many others. The Glass Bead Game is currently planning to record a full-length album in the fall of 2003.

Music Style ambient rock, art rock, eclectic alternative

Similar Artists micheal gira, cowboy junkies, low

Artist History the glass bead game began in the winter of our discontent with a crackely 4 song cassette made on cera's tascam 4 track. since then it has been snowballing into a musical cataclysm of catastrophic dimension.

Group Members guitar/piano/vocals/lyrics- cera, bass/accordion/etc- jd, violin- jeff hobbs, drums/percussion- dean cook

Instruments guitar, piano, upright bass, accordion, violin, drums

Location san francisco, CA - USA

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