Though kept busy handling percussive duties in the live incarnation of Caribou, Toronto’s Brad Weber has found time in recent years to work on his side project, PICK A PIPER, a collaboration with friends Clint Scrivener, Angus Fraser, Dan Roberts, and others, which Weber oversees by handling the production and much of the songwriting. Between 2009 and 2010, they released two digital-only EPs, both of which filled out dance-music structures with decidedly non dance-music instrumentation (glockenspiel, acoustic guitar, flute) to give it all somewhat of an organic feel.
In the years following the initial output, Weber added some samples, synths, electronic percussion, and got the help of some great guest vocalists (members of the Ruby Suns, Enon/Brainiac, Born Ruffians, and Braids), making PICK A PIPER a project whose stylistic versatility and distinct palette create a pleasantly varied but cohesive whole. ELECTRIC ELECTRIC is a french trio composed of looped and live guitars, drums, and electronics. The band was created in 2005 and played many shows in France and Europe. It was also invited at the SXSW in 2010 and Pop Montreal in 2011. They provide a sound density, a physical liberation of bodies, the repetition as a call to dance.
Their percussive music evokes a trance where the polyr-hythmic elements spread in a lightning way. These three musicians influenced by noise post-punk bands and by electronic and spectral music, play with the codes of the modern musics such as minimal electronics and futuristic r’n’b, as well as with those of the ancestral and ritual musics.
ELECTRIC ELECTRIC plays pop music with complex outlines, its own vision of ‘dance music’.
In the years following the initial output, Weber added some samples, synths, electronic percussion, and got the help of some great guest vocalists (members of the Ruby Suns, Enon/Brainiac, Born Ruffians, and Braids), making PICK A PIPER a project whose stylistic versatility and distinct palette create a pleasantly varied but cohesive whole. ELECTRIC ELECTRIC is a french trio composed of looped and live guitars, drums, and electronics. The band was created in 2005 and played many shows in France and Europe. It was also invited at the SXSW in 2010 and Pop Montreal in 2011. They provide a sound density, a physical liberation of bodies, the repetition as a call to dance.
Their percussive music evokes a trance where the polyr-hythmic elements spread in a lightning way. These three musicians influenced by noise post-punk bands and by electronic and spectral music, play with the codes of the modern musics such as minimal electronics and futuristic r’n’b, as well as with those of the ancestral and ritual musics.
ELECTRIC ELECTRIC plays pop music with complex outlines, its own vision of ‘dance music’.