NOW
REISSUED ON VINYL from JACKPOT RECORDS
REMASTERED
by KEVIN GRAY!
The
Seiche Demo LP
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Seiche Gallery!
Seiche proves that GRUNGE and DARK music actually came from
Chicago, Illinois, not Seattle! And 12 years before there ever was Nirvana!
Seiche Lineup Includes:
Steve Zahradnik - Guitars & Lead Vocals
Marc Levinson - Drums & Percussion
Tom Vess - Bass & Vocals
Songs include:
In The Calm Of Your Eye, Evidently Me, Islands,
Dissonant Toys, The Maze,
Medicine Man & Good Mourning
7 Songs Total.
You also get a bonus song via download: Seiche covers King Crimson's Larks
Tongues in Aspic II
Get it here!
Seiche
- Demo Press (Vinyl LP) (jackpotrecords.com)
SEICHE Bio;
The definition of a seiche is: a small tidal wave that occurs in a lake.
Since the band SEICHE formed in Chicago right near Lake Michigan during the
emergence of New Wave, they saw an
opportunity to put that name to use for their band, SEICHE - THE IMMEDIATE WAVE. Many SEICHE have
arrived and flooded out Lake Shore Drive. Chicago usually gets 2 to 3 per year.
The band originally began in the Summer of 1978 on the South side of Chicago
near Marquette Park as the brainchild of Steve Zahradnik, who at the time
had been playing guitar for only one year. Steve was heavily influenced by
Robert Fripp & King Crimson and all past/present members like Ian McDonald,
Bill Bruford, John Wetton, Greg Lake, Boz Burrell, Giles Bros., etc. Steve
was also influenced by other bands such as The Doors, Pink Floyd, Genesis,
UK, Yes, etc.
Steve hooked up with Tom Vess (bass player) who also shared the same
influences. Tom was more of a Yes fan than anything. Tom could
perfectly
emulate Chris Squire with his fretless bass.
Audio engineer and good friend of Steve's, Joseph Klinger decided he was
going to handle the management side of the band which included finance,
bookings, and production of an LP vinyl record.
"After a few months of practicing in the garage with our original drummer
Mike Klimeco, we started auditioning
drummers to find someone closer to what we wanted. That's when we found Marc Levinson.
Marc
was very unique in the way that he could emulate any style and any drummer.
Marc, however was very hard to get because he was playing a lot of private
party, paying gigs around the city and suburbs. Marc had already
been a union musician
with the AFM local 10-208 for several years and both his father
and grandfather were prominent Chicago bandleaders, so Marc always had music work."
"After we inducted Marc into the band we began rehearsing our show and we
were now complete. Klinger booked a slot for us to
record our
new LP at Heddin West Studios, Schaumburg, Illinois, one of the biggest and best
studios in the Chicago area (now named Remmington Road Studios.")
"We were
very excited!"
During it's course, Seiche played only one gig at Haymakers,
then broke up when a scheduling conflict
emerged for another performance date. "At Haymakers We opened our live show
with "Larks Tongues In Aspic II"
by King Crimson (Live USA LP version) and played a few covers like "The Serpent" (Genesis) "Lament (King
Crimson)
"Love Her Madly" (Doors) "Astronomy Domanie" & "Lucifer
Sam" (Pink Floyd) as well as some other cover songs along with our
originals."
"On the SEICHE LP we recorded 7 original songs all co-written by Steve, Tom
&
Marc, produced and engineered by Joseph Klinger and co-produced by Seiche."
This "Demo Press" LP
was released at the beginning of 1981. "We received a lot of College airplay from WNUR Northwestern
University."
"They seemed to like "The Maze" the most." This one
was like a Jeff
Beck instrumental with Spanish guitar in the background.
