Thursday, November 01, 2007
Aaron and Nikki please look away, we're going to get fanatical right about now -- but we'll try and keep it short.
We can't recall the exact details but it was roughly ten years. We had just started writing for a certain publication and were asked to do a night at Fais Do Do. Thursdays (or was it Tuesdays?) at the club were called Mephisto and the resident bands one particular month were the beloved Devics and the one and only Aaron Embry.
Now, before we go on, we had heard about Mr. Embry through various music scene aficionados before this night. "Nothing short of brilliant". "The man is a genius". "Utterly inspiring". Those were the kind of words we heard all the time with bands those days and time and time again we were always more inclined to put them on the veritable punching bag/piñata. So being young and cynical we took in the so-called "brilliant, inspiring genius" in true Silver Lake hipster form -- arms folded in the back of the room with the usual look of disinterest.
Perhaps 10 -- at the most 15 -- seconds into the first song, we fell in love with Aaron Embry. It's a weird thing when that moment happens. It's like when you're in grade school and the girl you just passed a note to returns it with a circle-heart around "yes". Yes. We tried to pick a part what exactly we were listening to since we couldn't really classify it into anything we'd ever heard, but it was like burst of piano pop with jazz phrasing and several gallons of sheer and utter madness.
So we're stuck on Embry like glue for the next few years through various projects (some of which can found on his Wiki) but then quite suddenly he falls off the face of the earth and no amount of Google hacking can find any trace of him.
2007 comes and word of a new Embry project with wife Nikki surfaces called Amnion. Again, Google fails to provide any information other than its biological reference, which we still find interesting and ultimately rewarding if we ever see "embryos in mammals and reptiles are protected by this membranous sac" on Jeopardy. An appearance on KXLU's "Demolisten" and shows at The Bordello and The Hotel Cafe soon come and we are back in love. His music has changed only in that there's a certain sense of peace and optimism about everything. We don't exactly understand where that's coming from, but we feel it. And it's a feeling that only reaffirms our belief that the man is...
Brilliant... Genius... Inspiring.
Amnion performs at pehrspace on 11/2. You can also see Aaron Embry perform with Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Anders & Woods. New album coming soon.
Amnion - "Praise God For the Light Within Me" (MP3)
Amnion - "Here Goes Nothing" (demo) (MP3)
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actually i think mephisto was on wednesdays because i could never go since that was the one day i had late shift. or was that thursdays?? well i can't remember either. aaron is awesome though.
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