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BIO !!! |
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Clipped dance grooves, razorwire melodies and inspired splatter/clatter announce Erase Errata's arrival, but this story goes deeper, much deeper.
It's about a surging art community operating way beneath the radar of a dull auto-pilot mainstream; about an ethic and aesthetic of improvised creativity snatching genius from the ether; about diverse artforms intertwining in a much greater whole; about unconscious politics incurred by doing your own thing. |
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it s about a band drawing on a history of alternatie musics - post-punk, no-wave, riot grrrl, free-jazz - to cast a sound all their own, accruing acclaim in both the underground and mainstream media for their debut album, Others Animals, winking toward disco culture with a remix project, and winning the respect of the likes of Sonic Youth. |
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Mostly, it's about fun, pure and simple. That was the sole reason Erase Errata formed, after all. It was 1999, and bassist Ellie Erickson and guitarist Sara Jaffe moved to the Bay Area (Oakland and San Francisco)in California following their graduation from college in Connecticut to stay with buddies of Ellie's. Introduced by these mutual friends to drummer Bianca Sparta and vocals/trumpeter Jenny Hoyston, then playing as a duo called California Lightning, they swiftly acclimatised to the free artistic temperament of the Bay Area and came along to a rehearsal to jam some. The session had come about after the new friends played each other records late into the night, swiftly realising that they'd found in each other the rarest of things: people who care as passionately about music as themselves.
No pressures or expectations were placed upon rehearsal, it was played as Erase Errata rehearsals still are - simply for fun and as an extension of the girls burfeoning friendship. But half an hour into this 1st session, as legend has it, the band mates had written 10 new songs.
Moving quickly, the band planned shows and their 1st recording session, resulting in 1999's self titled 7" EP on Sara's own Inconvenient Press and Recordings Label, which has to date sold out 2 pressings. Erase Errata continued to rehearse as the desire took them, brilliance falling casually into their laps in the form of the songs that would eventually make up their debut album, Other Animals. Rleased on troubleman Unlimited label in 2001 and later remastered by nu-no-wave figurehead and Flying Luttenbacher Weasel Walter, the album is an instant classic, and will be re-issued on Blast First. |
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Crucially Erase Errata are not just about music. There's their intermittent use on stage costumes, for example, devised for them by a friend of Ellie's who Jenny describes as "an absolute fucking genius", and tapping into what Bianca describes as "the drag aesthetic of San Francisco, that idea of making-yourself-up and becoming someone else". They say it also ties in the idea of a creative community they feel part of, where friends who are artists in other media design posters or take photographs or make costumes and contribute to their artistic statement.
A self-supporting collective operating apart from a mainstream they find, mostly, creatively wanting. |
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