Silverskin, from 19 October 2013 at the Treasures Roadhouse, captured on Matt's small Zoom recorder.

Disonova's set was part of the Y2K13 International Live Looping Festival in Watsonville, CA, founded/curated/run-by Rick Walker; photo by George Wiltshire.

Silverskin at Y2K13

From Disonova's set at the Hotel Utah Saloon in San Francisco's SOMA district on 27 October 2013. It was a sunday, and our second song of the evening. We were opening for La Fin Absolute du Monde and LA's The Deadfly Ensemble.

Even is one of our oldest songs, the 7/8 riff dating back to roughly 2001 when Chris & Matt were woodshedding in Aptos, CA. In it's current form the song was solidified in 2010, and is the only song to be featured on both eponymous Disonova EPs.

A bit of trivia: 
>as of late and at Matt's insistency the latter part of the song has become somewhat of an unofficial drum solo for Chris
>I (Matt) have a fond recollection of Chris, in our Oakland rehearsal space, painstakingly describing to me how the riff used at the end of the song could be used in a melodic sense: this is how the guitar melody was written

Chris Taylor: drums
Matt Herman: extended-range guitar, live looping

Even (at the Hotel Utah Saloon 2013-10-27)

From our set at the Hemlock Tavern, May 2013, in San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood. We were sandwiched between the thrash-math of Aberrant Phase and the well-orchestrated post-punk ensemble Surplus 1980: a great bill indeed.

Slug was originally a 'throw-away' song centered around a '5:4 guitar:drums' feel, however over time developed a firm structure, with a drum solo from one Mr Chris Taylor. 

Silverskin is an ambient, fuzzy, droney polymetric piece, *very* loosely based on a jam from January 2011, but not taking shape until two years later.

This performance has the two medleyed, recorded with a Zoom H1. Needless to say, completely live, no overdubs.

Slug/Silverskin (at the Hemlock Tavern 2013-5-15)

Recorded live at The Stud in San Francisco's SOMA neighborhood, 19 December 2012. Using Matt's portable X-Y recorder from the edge of the stage, this features an explosive holiday drum solo from Chris Taylor.

Photo by Nick Gagne.

Little Drummer Boy (holiday cover, 2012-12-19 at The Stud)

No. 3 is 'our oldest song'; it used to be called #2 and, before that, presumably it was #1. 

But that was ten years ago in Aptos, CA when Chris and Matt first started playing together; these earlier versions were written for drums and Chapman Stick.

This version is from The Stork Club in Oakland, CA, and is (as are all Disonova songs) drums and live-looped guitar.

No. 3 (at The Stork Club 2012-8-28)

Beaujolais is named so because...it's an inside joke.

Recorded at the live lounge of the Oakland Music Complex on a portable, digital stereo recorder.

Beaujolais (at OMC Lounge 2012-11-1)

'intro jam' dates back to 2010 and, like the lower-case spelling and the quotes might suggest, is quite the informal warmup song.

This recording is from the lounge at the Oakland Music Complex (where Disonova rehearses); captured by tiny Zoom digital recorder.

'intro jam' (at OMC Lounge 2012-11-1)

Silverskin was conceived in a jam in January 2011, but as it was being developed by Chris and Matt it became *Beaujolais* (scroll a couple songs down, we've posted a couple versions of it; for a brief period it was Ag Exterior--get it? get it?).

Anyways flash-forward to January 2013 and Silverskin is now *Silverskin*--however the song is still developing. In fact this version isn't necessarily definitive, but we're excited enough about it to post it for you.

As always this is recorded live to computer in our Oakland rehearsal space, no overdubs, and any mixing is purely for the balancing of levels (with a bit of compression and EQ).

Silverskin

Recorded at Oakland's The Stork Club in April 2013, this is 'Destined...'; this Stork date marks a re-emergence of the song in the band's setlist.

Or, to be a little more precise, Destined to Wander Forever in the Great Dark Between the Stars*, originally a dual-loop-straight-to-2-track recorded by Matt in his Tenderloin studio apartment in 2009 and, in various stages, re-imagined and re-worked by Chris & Matt over the last few years.

In fact Disonova's first EP (2010) has a markedly different take, with later live versions having the second half as a triplet drum solo. This version is more streamlined. 

But it still features thundering drums. In fact, the only thing Matt likes more than playing synced repetitive polymetric patterns is playing simple power chords in a half-time feel, all the while Chris completely goes off over the top.

*inspired by Carl Sagan

Destined... (at the Stork Club 2013-4-27)

From Oakland's The Stork Club, this is Disonova's warmup jam: nothing too tricky, just a nice little 4/4 with some room to stretch out. The lower-case is intentional.

Also, see https://soundcloud.com/disonova/intro-jam-at-omc-lounge-2012


'jam variant' (at Stork Club 2013-4-27)

Disonova is a Bay Area duo consisting of a propulsive drummer (Chris Taylor) and a guitarist that utilizes non-standard tuning and sampling devices (Matt Herman). 

A minimalist, perhaps groovier take on prog-metal, the end result is deep, rhythmic baritone harmonies that lock into intricate percussive patterns.

All of this music is performed and recorded completely live, on-the-spot, with no overdubs.

Booking & Contact: disonova@gmail.com