Spermatic Chord
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Spermatic Chord is an experimental rock music collective from Hong Kong.
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[edit] Music
Spermatic Chord's approach to music is ambiguous combining traditional and experimental forms, with a provocative mix of composition and improvisation. They are a collective of over a dozen accomplished musicians, many being multi-instrumentalists. They blend and contrast styles in compelling and sometimes shocking ways with deep understanding and mastery of the individual styles of music they play. Spermatic Chord's music is cerebral, vibrant, and daringly playful. Audiences often describe Spermatic Chord's sound is an abstract mixture of tech metal, math rock, grindcore, prog-rock, heavy metal, free jazz, jazz fusion, bossa nova, Middle Eastern music, electronica, videogame music and their approach to music is often considered complex. Their live performances are usually unpredictable and absurd, often leaving the audience either in awe or in total confusion.
Spermatic Chord has released 3 albums, 1 split and has been on various compilations. The most comprehensive album being "Calculating Stupidity". All Spermatic Chord songs are named by numbers. The group is known for wild unpredictable improvisations on stage and often posts complete live bootleg recordings online for people to download.
[edit] Band history
The band was founded and lead by medical student, Adam since 2002. The bandname "Spermatic Chord" was a play of words on the medical term spermatic cord and was inspired during an anatomy dissection class involving the groin of a cadaver. The main objectives of the band has always been to explore the experimental side of music, maintain a creative environment for all the members involved, and to expose Hong Kong audiences and musicians to less conventional approaches to music. The performing lineup of Spermatic Chord always varies, and depends on which of the members happen to have free time, and which members happened to be in the city. Thus lineups often range from as little as 2 members up to at most 7 members on stage at a time.
Members of the band have also formed a Hong Kong based DIY record label Brown Note Rechords, specialising in distributing DIY music of lesser known underground artists in Hong Kong.
Adam is known for turning everyday objects such as water bottles, apples and tennis rackets into playable musical instruments.
[edit] Members
[edit] Current Core Members
- Adam - Guitar, Banjo, Melodica, Recorder, Bugle, Electronics, Vocals
- Shum - Clarinet, Vocals, Percussion
- Eugene - Drums
[edit] Other Collective Members
- Owen - Trumpet, Keyboards, Drummachine, Melodica, Cowbell
- James - Drums, Excessive Drums
- Joe - Drums, Cowbell
- Arthur - Bass, Keyboards, Vocals
- Vivek - Beatbox
- Nicole - Vocals
- Kat - Keyboards, Electronics
- Amin - Guitar, Recorder, Melodica
- Trigger - Chinese Flute
- James - Bass
- Marcus - Drums, Saxophone
- Tino - Bass, Didgeridoo
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- Your Band Sucks (2004)
- Calculating Stupidity (2005)
- Blue Screen of Death EP (2005)
[edit] Splits
- Death is an Ironic Scene Split EP w/ Boys in the Well (2003)
[edit] Compilations
- For Change, People and Our City Touchmusic Compilation (2005)
- Cross the Unjust Line Sound Out Louder Compilation (2006)
