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"Starting a new band is not something I really thought I was gonna do. For many years you know I’ve sort of avoided it, I like playing on my own, I like playing with other bands backing me up.
USX (aka U.S. Christmas) such an important band in my life, I’ve just never really wanted to be one of these guys that’s in a bunch of bands, but I tell you it has been good, it got a lot from me, we fit together real well, as people being the most important thing. The recording that we’re getting ready to release through Hypershape is in part a look at the past and present, you know. It came at an appropriate time, the idea to use some spoken word, some samples, this all comes from bands you know like Buzzov*en, Eyehategod, Entombed and some other bands that are really wicked in terms of guitar too.
The guitar approach sort of switched from what I’ve been doing, John Trudell also has a part on it with some spoken word samples, he was a Native American author, poet and political activist. During most of the 1970s, he served as the chairman of the American Indian Movement based in Minnesota.
And at the time of the stuff in Standing Rock, and all the stuff that recently happened in America, as a student of history, I know the history of native Americans, in words John Trudell says is a certain time, truth about how we look at ourselves, how we look to the natural world in this planet and each other so I hope that his message can come and blend with ours.
The energy.
The wildness.
Freedom.
And just the recklessness.
And I think that’s just part of human beings,
are part of everybody and everybody can feel them.”
Nate Hall, October 2016
credits
released November 10, 2016
Recorded and mixed August 29, 2016
by Travis Kammayer at Fahreneit Studio, Johnson City (Tennessee)
Nate Hall - guitar, vocals & electric mandolin
Joe Anderson - bass
Scott Thomas - drums
Ben Brower - guitar
Sophie Hull - female vocals
Chihuali - screams
Spoken words samples by John Trudell
Thanks to Monson Guitars, Mack Guitars, ZED & Venarossa for the effects, BLK/TRI for the pickups, Heyday Music in Asheville NC,
Black Arts Toneworks, Moxtronix Effects.
Handled & released by Hypershape Records in 2016
Artwork and layout by Giorgio Salmoiraghi
Hypershape Records is owned and operated by Michele Basso, Giorgio Salmoiraghi and Simone Grillo. Founded in 2007 and based in the plains of northern Italy.
Their experimental sonic background is dreamy and gloomy at the very same time. Emotionally charging and trippy. A stunning performance. Hypershape Records
Corrections House live album and one of the best records to came out last year, it brings mindfucking atmospheres and martial drones. Mike IX's vocals are deranged! Hypershape Records
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uS Christmas is and will be one of my favorite bands for many reasons. They have a very unique sound with great song writing and Lyrics !!!! Nate Hall is simply a genius . Also check his solo record A Great River . Jamie Hall
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