[kj] Bechdel/KJ similarities

[Tim Bucknall]

that sounds worth a listen
Cheers Nicholas
----- Original Message -----
From: "nicholas fitzpatrick" <gasw30 at hotmail.com>
To: <gathering at misera.net>
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 4:35 PM
Subject: [kj] Bechdel/KJ similarities


> For anyone interested in KJ-sounding keyborads.
>
>
> >>>>Fear Factory, Prong vets ready EP, live debut
> By GREG PRATO, Billboard.com
>
>
> With industrial rock outfit Fear Factory taking time off, singer Burton C.
> Bell has turned his attention to a new project, Ascension Of The Watchers.
> On record, the group consists of only Bell and ex-Prong/Killing Joke
> keyboardist John Bechdel, each of which go the multi-instrumental route on
> their forthcoming debut EP, "Iconoclast."
>
> But according to Bell, AOTW is nothing like Fear Factory stylistically.
"The
> only similarity is that I'm singing," he tells Billboard.com. "It has
melody
> to it -- Fear Factory has melody, but it's the music that I've written
with
> John. So it's not like metal, it's not percussive; it's more organic,
> landscape-y texture kind of feeling. It's totally like a hypnotic kind of
> thing."
>
> With each of the five songs on the EP going over the six-minute mark, Bell
> describes the music as reminiscent of Pink Floyd, the Cure and, not
> surprisingly, Killing Joke.
>
> The group's name came from a book that Bell was reading shortly after
> relocating from Los Angeles to Pennsylvania. "I was getting into 'The Book
> of Enoch,' and I was just reading it a lot," he says. "The Watchers were
the
> angels that basically descended from heaven, and took the forms of
people --
> they took human wives, and they taught the humans the way of the world.
> Basically jaded the humans from God, so the Watchers were banished from
> heaven indefinitely. That's what this is -- I felt this was my spiritual
> journey."
>
> "Iconoclast" will first be issued as a vinyl-only release later this month
> via AOTW's official Web site, before released on CD with a bonus video of
> the track "On the River."
>
> The group's first live performance is set for Sunday (Feb. 6) at New
York's
> CBGB club. Also on the bill is False Icons (Bechdel's other band) and
Still
> Life Decay (of which two members will guest during AOTW's set, with Bell
> returning the favor for two songs of their set).
>
> Bell admits feeling some butterflies for AOTW's debut show. "I'm nervous
as
> hell," he says. "It'll be the first time being onstage playing guitar
while
> singing. I've been rehearsing every day."
>
>
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