Upsilon Acrux is an instrumental quartet (dual guitars and dual drums). Their music is not easy to describe but attempts to do so regard it as esoteric, mathematical, athletic, and noisy. It is generally very intense, loud, hard-hitting and unbelievably virtuosic.
Prefix Magazine notes that the music is "...weird and playful and glowing, a much-needed antidote to the normally sober world of instrumental progressive rock.” The combination of blazingly fast, interwoven musical lines delivered at blinding speed mixed with their unique melodic sense makes Upsilon's music instantly recognizable. They are "Technically brilliant, rhythmically unbelievable, with just the right amount of melody," (Disagreement.net). Upsilon Acrux is one of the most creative and original of the shockingly large number of great post-punk, avant-garde rock bands today. ...
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Upsilon Acrux is an instrumental quartet (dual guitars and dual drums). Their music is not easy to describe but attempts to do so regard it as esoteric, mathematical, athletic, and noisy. It is generally very intense, loud, hard-hitting and unbelievably virtuosic.
Prefix Magazine notes that the music is "...weird and playful and glowing, a much-needed antidote to the normally sober world of instrumental progressive rock.” The combination of blazingly fast, interwoven musical lines delivered at blinding speed mixed with their unique melodic sense makes Upsilon's music instantly recognizable. They are "Technically brilliant, rhythmically unbelievable, with just the right amount of melody," (Disagreement.net). Upsilon Acrux is one of the most creative and original of the shockingly large number of great post-punk, avant-garde rock bands today.
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Based out of Brooklyn, NY and creating a group sound that is truly their own, Afuche is a band that needs to be heard by lovers of adventurous, modern progressive music! Formed by Ruben Sindo Acosta & Zach Ryalls in 2008, they have been adding to the ensemble and evolving their sound by writing, performing, and touring non-stop - it was at one of their many shows where we found them and watched their continued development with keen interest.
Afuche is a 5 piece band featuring Ruben on keyboard, vocals and percussion, Zach on guitar, Denny Tek on bass, Andrew Carrico on baritone sax and Ian Chang on drums. Taking their cues from Can, The Dirty Projectors, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, James Brown, Tortoise, as well as African and Afro-Cuban music, they take these musical influences as a base and apply their own group sound to it and bend it all into a hybrid, original and very progressive contemporary rock music that is interestingly complex without losing its inviting quality; most of all Afuche is a lot of fun.
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