Album Notes

Tambersauro began playing together one bleak fall in 2003, three players recovering from the breakups of their math-meticulous and porcelain-pretty ensembles respectively. Convened in such a spirit of opposition that they briefly toyed with the idea of never adopting a name, the men that would become known as Tambersauro started out as a crash collision between the polarities of their previous bands.

Their early compositions bore this out in its Zorn-like stitching of Shoegaze sheen to odd-metered fury and head-turning injections of Jazz and Latin music into the mix. Here were the seeds of what would become the band's signature attempt to ignore the tensions inherent in such reckless genre-blending, choosing instead to weave them tighter, squeezing out an unexpected tunefulness and harmony by doing what shouldn't work.

Over the course of one comp track, an EP, one side of a 10" "single," a full-length CD, and an upcoming 12" LP, Mike Blackshear, Lance Higdon and Jeff Price have kept mining these various veins for inspiration, pushing each other forward in their abilities to turn received musical frameworks inside out. Sublimating their identities beneath workmanlike jumpsuits, delivering blistering jams with a decidedly unserious stage demeanor, their live performances have moved into the realm of sonic gladiator battles.