News

4.11.05

If there are indeed 3 rules of audience, as Mark E. Smith once claimed, then they must be as follows:

1) The only demands met are those made by the music.
2) The attention span is proportionate to the size of the record collection.
3) 'Tis nobler to be in front of, rather than in, the audience.

With these truths in mind, three lads from Baltimore raided their environment for inspiration and set about presenting it onstage. Slowly but surely, their gumbo of anger, jokes, noise, melody, bitten beats, botched chords, tweaked frequencies, and nervous energy coalesced into a band called Kecak (pronounced KAY-chek, after the Balinese monkey chant).

As their partnership bore bolder ideas, tighter rhythms, and greater confidence, Kecak confounded crowds throughout the mid-Atlantic. Backed by a drum machine, the trio blasted through their caffeinated postpunk in what appeared to be three simians in student gear conducting kamakze musical karaoke. Faced with audiences at a loss for a reaction, Kecak regularly began invading the club floor to push/pull their spectators into participation.

Currently on a live hiatus while one bandmember resides in Japan, Kecak are concocting a new batch of songs to follow their 2004 full-length, "A Better Way To Lose Sleep". As soon as the music is fit for public consumption, count on Kecak to continue destroying whatever rules of audience you may have thought existed.

SUPPORT INDEPENDENT MUSIC and please buy our flippin' sweet CD, A Better Way To Lose Sleep, for only $8 (shipping included). Please write to Kecak@clownz.com for a mailing address.