Artist description Songs are written. Songs are recorded. Songs are played for Dave Sardy, leader of Brooklyn-based rock deconstructionists Barkmarket,producer of freakishly great ability(Helmet, Skeleton Key, Dandy Warhols) and future proprietor of SeeThru Broadcasting Company. A partnership is formed. Sardy will refashion Already Impressive Recordings into Amazing Sounding Album, springboard for some of Believo!'s more twisted ditties("Matters Gray," "Elected"). Listen keenly and you'll hear an abundance of samples, crackling vinyl, processed vocals and poor, defenseless signals distressed beyond recognition. Which is exactly the point. "A lot of sample-oriented music is about referencing things and the nostalgia of it, and we're definitely not about that," says Schmersal, who claims to like the first Jackson 5 record, Ornette Coleman and The Residents equally."It's more about finding sounds than referencing things that people recognize."Believo! is most definitely NOT three accomplished musicians slumming it with samplers at the expense of form.There are songs here, amazing songs. The opening "Rubber Car" lurks ominously, melding the ingeniously original drumming of Calhoon with Lee's sound manipulation and the freakpop falsetto of Schmersal's forays with Brainiac. "Cruel" is Portishead cruising in Ennio Morricone's big black car."Conjugate The Verbs," "Get The Letter Out," and "World In A Jar" are skewed pop filtered through a cracked lens. No such pretense with the straightforward, absurdly catchy"Come Into"; in a perfect world it would be huge."One of the comparisons that Brainiac got that I really like is that it sounded like cartoon music. I think Enon is pretty consistent with that. I think Brainiac was a lot more unhinged than Enon, but there's still a lot of craziness."

Music Style Craziness, check. Surprisingly melodic songs built with layer upon layer of noise, samples and keenmusicianship, check. Complete andtotal inability to be succinctly classified by lazy music journalist types check.

Musical Influences Jackson 5, Ornette Coleman, the Residents

Similar Artists Brainiac, Skeleton Key

Artist History Enon is John Schmersal of Brainiac,and Rick Lee and Steve Calhoon of Skeleton Key. How did this happen and why weren't you informed? The facts as we know them:Following the demise of his band,Schmersal records a sobering album of 4-track ruminations, Forget Everything (under the name John Stuart Mill), in an abandoned Masonic temple in Kentucky. Enon is created shortly thereafter, christened after asmall town in Ohio, microwave manufacturer, or vacation resort in eastern Alabama (Schmersal can't decide). Two singles emerge. One ("a sad, depressing affair," says Schmersal) comes out on Chicago's All City, the other on Britain's Liquefaction imprint. Schmersal realizes that he hates Kentucky and moves to New York City.Friendships are reestablished.Calhoon and Lee are quickly subsumed into the Enon vortex. "At the point where I decided I really wanted to put together a band," he explains, "I'd been playing with these guys and it was sort of like, 'Ding!'.

Group Members John Schmersal, Rick Lee, Steve Calhoon, Toko

Instruments guitar, bass, drums, vocals, electronics

Albums believo!

Location New York, NY - USA

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