![]() The opening track, “Darkwave,” is built on swelling, electronic tones that create more of an atmosphere than a melody. That darkness is the foundational energy of the album, and ultimately became the impetus for the group’s name. Randall Dunn heard a lot of the stuff we were doing, and he really pushed us to go in that direction, and we were happy to go there.” “When we were improvising we just kept coming to this place, this kind of dark sound track. “We didn’t know at all what we were gonna do before we got into the studio,” Skerik says. So it’s just a continuation of that,” Skerik says. As long as I’m the worst person in the band, then I’m always learning something. “I’m really lucky ‘cause I get to play with a lot of really great people, and that’s always been my school, you know. ![]() He’s also a founding member of the groups Critters’ Buggin and Garage a Trois, which have been home to Stanton Moore, Mike Dillon and Marco Benevento. His resume includes being an original member of Les Claypool’s Fancy Band and the Les Claypool Frog Brigade. Skerik is no stranger to playing alongside experienced prophets of music. “There’s just whatever the music wants to be, whatever the music needs to be at that time.” “There’s just no limitations,” Skerik said of playing with his bandmates. Perhaps Skerik, Deitch ( Lettuce) and Medeski ( Medeski, Martin & Wood) were chosen to create it because of their reverence to the philosophy that great music is its own entity - that great musicians must bring it to life on its own terms. For DRKWAV, The Purge was a process genuinely ruled by something greater than its mere human creators. But the truth is the veracity of these claims isn’t nearly as important as the ways in which they guide the artistic process. It’s easy to be skeptical about these sorts of proclamations. At the same time there’s just a completely different reality.” “There’s so many different layers of time going on. “It’s really hard to describe in language, you know, in English, because there’s no reference to time,” he says. He proceeds slowly, occasionally stopping to consider how to most truthfully explain his thoughts. His voice is self-assuredly calm over the phone. “We just called each other the next day,” Skerik says. On a night three years ago before the group had ever played together, the vision came to each musician. ![]() ![]() In a video on the group’s Kickstarter page - which went live on February 12th to fund their upcoming debut album, The Purge - they agree that it was a “collective hallucination” that demanded the project come to life. For saxophonist Skerik, drummer Adam Deitch, and keyboardist John Medeski, forming the supergroup DRKWAV (pronounced “Darkwave”), wasn’t so much a decision as a mandate issued by inhuman forces. ![]()
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