![]() That was our first recording together and an important day leading to this album. We just clicked, and we’ve built this album from then on.īrad DiFrancesco: We started playing music together about 8 years ago in the (famous to us) Dust session. At this point to us, it’s the most important moment in our life. Once I graduated, I went and bought a new bass, and remembering Brad had always been interested in sound engineering, I hit him up, and we had our first session. Mike Lombardy: It was 2015 I had sold all my instruments to get by through art school. When did you two start playing music together? Has it been a while or more recently? Third Eye: It says on Bandcamp that this is your debut album. So, sit back, and learn more about these Cleveland musicians. The Q&A is a bit long, but I think you’ll enjoy it. I got a chance to talk to the duo behind the band – Mike Lombardy and Brad DiFrancesco – via email, and they were kind enough to answer some of my questions. I couldn’t make out exactly what they’re saying, but I could hear them repeat, “Remember.” The whole track was like finding a secret audio recording from decades ago trying to tell us something.Īnyways, I suggest you listen to The Surface. My favorite song is “Remember,” which comes at the exact halfway point of the album and features a sort of vaporwave/synth-wave feel and a ghostly mantra-like chant. The music has a spooky, ethereal vibe, like something from the X-Files. Consisting of 16 tracks, mostly on the shorter side, The Surface crafts electronic rock songs that reminded me of older-school ambient works from the Seventies and Eighties. The record isn’t exactly psychedelic, but it has many elements of experimental ambient/electronic music that I love. Improvisation leads us to patterns these patterns become the foundations, and the foundations turn then to structures full of improvisations and patterns.” On their Bandcamp page, the duo describes their debut album as “a journey through the eternal parallel labyrinth. ![]() Most bands these days are sharing their stuff all over, so when I see an act without much online presence, I want to learn more. As the band members tell me, they’re kind of “off-the-grid” without much social media presence or anything like that, which is what intrigued me. One of the bands that reached out to me recently is The Surface, an electronic/analog duo from Cleveland, Ohio, that released their debut self-titled album on January 22, 2023. Alas, running the blog is more of a hobby at this point, and I have a full-time day job that demands most of my attention. I get a fair number of messages from bands looking for their music to get covered, and I wish I could write about nearly all of it. One of the coolest parts of running this music blog has been hearing from bands and musicians via email.
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