Fresh Riffs: Our New Writer IC, And A Window To Whats Important…
(Editors Note – We’ve branched with our new writer. IC is American and currently living in Boston Massachusetts. Here a few words about his musical journey so far.
MS.)
Having bounced from the state of New York, then to Connecticut and now Massachusetts, and being the son of an artist and a “summer-of-love” hippie, I’ve had the good fortune of being saturated in culture relentlessly since I was very young.
The drastic change in lifestyle moving from here to there and back again, proved influential to my tastes in music and a burgeoning interest in literature, that often found intersects as I began to take on writing my own music.
I found interest in musicians such as Crosby, Stills and Nash, and predominantly The Jimi Hendrix Experience. The attraction to bluesy, heavy, and hypnotic sounds brought me into taste within Punk-Rock but ultimately sparked an ongoing love of Heavy Metal and nearly all of it’s winding and minutely specified sub-genres. Favourite artists off the top of my head include Agalloch, Suicidal Tendencies, Wolves In The Throne Room, Death, Leviathan, and Brutal Truth.
As of recent, a return to my musical roots via my father has had me spinning artists including The Grateful Dead, Neil Young, even The Counting Crows. The former two having sparked a love and interest in Folk music, that’s had me addicted to the works of Mark Kozelek and Current 93.
At middle school age in Connecticut I had a peaked interest in guitar, that had led me to owning my first electric guitar, an Ibanez which had stuck with me for a few years between jamming positively horrible music through high school, which never saw shows or recordings.
Something about the instrument had me in a bad way, due to having been born with poor coordination skills that I still struggle with to this day.
Pairing that with monstrously large hands and meaty fingers, my younger self had a rice paper patience that broke as I developed an interest in singing, that I seemed to have taken to more naturally. After graduating, I picked up an electric bass for the first time properly and filled in for a Deathcore band for a handful of shows, before heading off to my first year of university.
A couple rough steps in learning how to organise shows and two years later I ended up booking shows fairly regularly within the scope of Metal and Hardcore, with the occasional underground Hip-Hop.
The rest is for us to explore together.
-IC
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