

With the completion of their latest full length, the band will be seeking representation and is looking forward to playing new venues, festivals and touring. Late 2008 brought Brian Arthur on keys, rounding out the band's sound and allowing The Company the flexibility to diverge from sequenced sounds at will.ĭeepsleep has performed in Seattle since 2004 and since 2007 has held a monthly residence at ToST Lounge, inviting local acts to join the bill with them. The possibility that improvement in deep sleep. By 2007, Lynn Turner began adding her visual art to the band's sounds, projecting her work during performances and contributing an ethereal dimension to Deepsleep shows. suggests that both drugs had a part to play in the improvements in sleep, symptomatology and behaviour. In 2006, Lena Baisden joined the line up, lending her 1940's-jazz-singers-inspired sultry vocals. In 2005, founding members Tom Morhman (turntables) and Jay Wilson (drums) met Aydin Tankut, a bassist songwriter and Turkish scientist. They make this music for themselves to enjoy first, then the world.

The majority of The Deepsleepers have crossed paths with each other spanning the course of a couple decades and a couple cities. The Company is a group of old friends making new music. Everyone involved has put such passion into the album that The Deepsleep Narcotics Company is just that much more eager to share its sounds with listeners. John Fricke, trumpet virtuoso with a big name and bigger resume in Seattle, laid down beautiful work on several tracks. Michael Shrieve, the original drummer for Santana and the creative force within Seattle-based project Spellbinder, has contributed countless hours to consulting Jay Wilson (drums) and Lena Baisden (vocals) on percussive and vocal layouts, respectively. Steve Fisk, (mixer/producer/engineer/musician/legend) who has worked with the likes of Nirvana, Soundgarden, Soul Coughing, Maktub, Ben Gibbard, and many more, mixed the tracks and put in his two cents as impulse arose. Their upcoming 2009 full length independent release has been supported by quite a few Seattle powerhouses. They are influenced and inspired by their surroundings – music, literature, film, science, paintings, conversations, politics – which often find a way into the songs. Their upcoming release and live shows demonstrate a range of sounds: each song moves differently from the rest and no two are alike. Symptoms of Excitants: Excitants produce excitement, reduced control over movements, deep sleep passing on to coma. Symptoms of Deliriants: Deliriants produce active delirium, sudden fits of laughter, catching at imaginary objects, staggering and becoming insensate etc. The Deepsleep Narcotics Company combines down-tempo, jazz, electronics, scratching, smoky female vocals and dark lap top compositions into a sound labeled Electro-Noir. Narcotics produce drowsiness, passing on to deep sleep and coma. plays a regular monthly show, and Fisk, amongst many projects, recently crafted the original, ambient score - along with fellow NW man-about-town Ben Gibbard - to Kurt Cobain biopic, About A Son.Ĭatch The DNC every last Saturday of the month at ToST - FYI: no shows this month - and look forward to more posts about this "electroacoustic" group soon. While perhaps best known for the more organic rock sounds of their past, both Shrieve and Fisk have made moves beyond their earlier, defining years: Shrieve plays often with his band at ToST in Fremont, where The Deepsleep Co. With Seattle legend Steve Fisk (stay with me now as we look back at a few of his success stories: Nirvana, Soundgarden, the Screaming Trees, etc.) manning the mixing controls and crediting original Santana drummer Michael Shrieve as "drum consultant," this is definitely something to brag about. Word on the street is that local electronic group The Deepsleep Narcotics Company will soon begin looking for distribution and label support for their forthcoming new album.

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