Glider
Bio
Band members names - role in the band:
Gavin Baker: Guitar, Bass Guitar
Pascal Asselin: Drums
Brief Band History:
Pascal and Gavin were introduced to each other on email by Arne Kittler from German band Jullander. After some conversing and tape sending they got onto the topic of recording together, Gavin told Pascal that sometimes Howard from Billy Mahonie recorded himself drumming and gave Gavin the tape of the drumming to which Gavin would add guitars and basses and construct a coherent piece of music. Pascal, drummer in Kazumi FX and Below The Sea based in Quebec City Canada loved this idea and sent a tape of him drumming that Gavin then went to work with on an 8track recorder belonging to the Clientele. The results of which are to be released in July 2000. Also in July 2000 Pascal and Gavin met each other in the flesh for the first time.
Influences:
Pascal: You probably can't see my influences in my beats but I listen to a lot of post rock, electronica and indie-rock as well as drone music and louder stuff.
Gavin: The idea of constructing music from a drum track is a very different way of working to what I am used to. If anything the songs were written as they were recorded, that is to say they were written whilst they were being recorded. Using the drum track as a start point to which a feel of the piece can be gauged, stringed instruments are added one by one, once the idea appears and after one , maybe two run throughs the part is recorded. Gradually the piece builds up. If anything the main influence for me with Glider is to be as natural as possible, think less and let the ideas come and flow without a frame of reference.
Life changing albums?
Pascal: Back in 1993, a Canuck band called Eric's Trip, the 'Love Tara' album. It opened my mind to lots of stuff after that and that's why I started playing drums. I still listen to this CD and still like it alot
Gavin: Bob Dylan's 'Bringing It All Back Home' album: I was at home aged 9 or 10 playing lego listening to subterranean homesick blues as it was fast and then I played the b-side: four long acoustic pieces and I thought: yeah: words....
Jimi Hendrix - 'Are You Experienced?' and 'Axis Bold As Love' double mid price cassette: I bought on holiday aged 11. The Guitar playing, sounds like he isn't using a guitar but it is straight from his head.
Captain Beefheart - 'Trout Mask Replica': My father borrowed it from a weird librarian he worked with when I was 15, it was laughable, I thought it was so bad... and then gradually you play it more and more and you start to hum things and see the intricacies and you realise that it is the most inventive and intense guitar album ever made.
Tom Waits - 'Heart of Saturday Night': it's so cheesy and all lovey
How can fans get in-touch with your band?
indierocker75@yahoo.com
616 Saint-Olivier#1, Quebec City, Quebec, G1R 1HZ, Canada
or
jetjohnson77@hotmail.com
PO Box 26337, London, N8 8WZ, UK
What are your plans for the future, releases, tours etc..?
Glider Releases:
'Constante Degredations' appears on Coagulation compilation CD for Emoragei Magazine. Where Are My Records. May 2000.
Glider Songs 7" ('Constante Dregredations' & 'The Time For Order') Johnny Kane Records Kane 005. July 2000.
Ils S'appellant Glider 7" ('Looks What's Ahead Koh!' & 'Gilles Kegle') Bearos Records Bearos 017. January 2001.
'The Old Moke' appears on The First Push of The Rolling Pram compilation album. Roll Push Move Records RPM001. March 2001.
With Ocean Between album Where Are My Records. June 2001.
Seeing as we live on different continents live work is a bit tricky but we like to believe we will one day, we won't let the Atlantic Ocean rule anything out.
Gavin Baker: Guitar, Bass Guitar
Pascal Asselin: Drums
Brief Band History:
Pascal and Gavin were introduced to each other on email by Arne Kittler from German band Jullander. After some conversing and tape sending they got onto the topic of recording together, Gavin told Pascal that sometimes Howard from Billy Mahonie recorded himself drumming and gave Gavin the tape of the drumming to which Gavin would add guitars and basses and construct a coherent piece of music. Pascal, drummer in Kazumi FX and Below The Sea based in Quebec City Canada loved this idea and sent a tape of him drumming that Gavin then went to work with on an 8track recorder belonging to the Clientele. The results of which are to be released in July 2000. Also in July 2000 Pascal and Gavin met each other in the flesh for the first time.
Influences:
Pascal: You probably can't see my influences in my beats but I listen to a lot of post rock, electronica and indie-rock as well as drone music and louder stuff.
Gavin: The idea of constructing music from a drum track is a very different way of working to what I am used to. If anything the songs were written as they were recorded, that is to say they were written whilst they were being recorded. Using the drum track as a start point to which a feel of the piece can be gauged, stringed instruments are added one by one, once the idea appears and after one , maybe two run throughs the part is recorded. Gradually the piece builds up. If anything the main influence for me with Glider is to be as natural as possible, think less and let the ideas come and flow without a frame of reference.
Life changing albums?
Pascal: Back in 1993, a Canuck band called Eric's Trip, the 'Love Tara' album. It opened my mind to lots of stuff after that and that's why I started playing drums. I still listen to this CD and still like it alot
Gavin: Bob Dylan's 'Bringing It All Back Home' album: I was at home aged 9 or 10 playing lego listening to subterranean homesick blues as it was fast and then I played the b-side: four long acoustic pieces and I thought: yeah: words....
Jimi Hendrix - 'Are You Experienced?' and 'Axis Bold As Love' double mid price cassette: I bought on holiday aged 11. The Guitar playing, sounds like he isn't using a guitar but it is straight from his head.
Captain Beefheart - 'Trout Mask Replica': My father borrowed it from a weird librarian he worked with when I was 15, it was laughable, I thought it was so bad... and then gradually you play it more and more and you start to hum things and see the intricacies and you realise that it is the most inventive and intense guitar album ever made.
Tom Waits - 'Heart of Saturday Night': it's so cheesy and all lovey
How can fans get in-touch with your band?
indierocker75@yahoo.com
616 Saint-Olivier#1, Quebec City, Quebec, G1R 1HZ, Canada
or
jetjohnson77@hotmail.com
PO Box 26337, London, N8 8WZ, UK
What are your plans for the future, releases, tours etc..?
Glider Releases:
'Constante Degredations' appears on Coagulation compilation CD for Emoragei Magazine. Where Are My Records. May 2000.
Glider Songs 7" ('Constante Dregredations' & 'The Time For Order') Johnny Kane Records Kane 005. July 2000.
Ils S'appellant Glider 7" ('Looks What's Ahead Koh!' & 'Gilles Kegle') Bearos Records Bearos 017. January 2001.
'The Old Moke' appears on The First Push of The Rolling Pram compilation album. Roll Push Move Records RPM001. March 2001.
With Ocean Between album Where Are My Records. June 2001.
Seeing as we live on different continents live work is a bit tricky but we like to believe we will one day, we won't let the Atlantic Ocean rule anything out.