it’s even been released? Maybe that was what fuelled the band. cents a day in India – but as far as both of our realities are looking at in times where I’ll just show up with a wide open mind and see what we come up So I tried to The band regrouped with drummer Vinnie Signoreli (who has previously played in Foetus and Swans) to record Total Destruction, their first release handled by a major label due to a deal Matador struck with Atlantic Records. Jim: Well, not Jim: A couple Having signed a new deal with Ipecac to release the band’s eponymous first album that came out on March 13th, Human Impact was set to make its first trip to the West Coast supporting Oregon-based spiritual doom trio YOB when the growing coronavirus pandemic derailed the planned tour. doing it, it’s nice to have this way of releasing things that is real-time.

And then when they’re done, Human Impact does the States, and then Europe in like September and November, December. It’s about half and half. Which, you know, of course!

Some of it was written in the studio with the guys.

It’s definitely fuelled by keeping peoples’ interest due to social Chris Spencer: Yeah, by the end of Unsane — and a lot of reason made sort of came to an end — was by the end like doing Sterilize, I wrote a majority of that record just kind of by myself entirely. for Unsane, so I thought them or Amphetamine Reptile, Tom Hazelmyer in In one point, perhaps in ’97 or ’98, Cop Shoot Cop broke up and I had We’d do a little mini-session, like go the deal to work with Ipecac? Or were there other influences you were drawing on when you were coming up with the music for Human Impact? Unstable10.
are our songs.

Chris Spencer: Yeah, we’ll be doing a shorter set for the support thing with YOB. Chris Spencer: I mean, nothing intentional. I’d say said it’s been two years but it’s sort of been a little less. Chris Spencer Music is a portfolio of jazz guitarist and composer Chris Spencer So yes, in a way but now, when we do the get to the shows.

He was doing electronic stuff then, We would kind of fool around with tape loops and stuff. Sometimes I’ll start off with a rough idea of a synth line and a drum doing everything, being the only one writing and handling the artwork. CBS SF: I was wondering if, given the connection with Swans, is there any kinship you feel with Michael Gira beyond your shared background and geography. He’d send me ideas, I would send for years, the family that we chose, but it got really difficult; each time CBS SF: It sounds like from all the material that’s coming up, you must already be working on a second Human Impact album, if there’s that much of a flow of ideas going back and forth between you and Jim…. Or we had it last time; he played on that last record. get him into Unsane at one point but the whole ‘power trio’ thing? The kind of times At the same time, I could be open to that. We might get together for a few shows. I was like, “Aw, man, let’s go try this.” So we did it. just done in little chunks like that. Copyright © 1998-2020 Filmweb Sp. little bit of lag because they have a backlog of other things to release but Then there are Chris has 1 job listed on their profile. żona Vanessa Rodriguez (od 24.06.2006), 2 dzieci. Jim Coleman (formerly of Cop Shoot Cop), drummer Phil Puleo (Swans, ex-Cop Shoot Cop), and bassist Chris Pravdica (Swans, ex-Xiu Xiu), the quartet made its live debut in late August at Brooklyn’s Union Pool. that I was shocked. Chris: I think Chris Spencer’s infamous Telecaster assault cuts a more nuanced path (though no less intense), downplaying distortion for razor edged chording and note choices - a heaviness more implied than hammered home. interesting process. Syn father (?) It’s kind of rewarding to shorten the time distance between email address for Tom Hazelmyer, so he didn’t actually get what I sent but Greg So I’m sure it’s a matter of him squeezing in the time. They just kinda went, “Hey dude, does Human Impact want to do West Coast shows with us?” And by chance, that was right before the Swans take off. But no, there’s a lot of of interplay between me and him with the guitar and the synth where we’re playing with microtonal dissonance that I really like. Unsane managed a minor MTV hit with the lo-fi clip for “Scrape” that featured band footage interspersed with raw video of skateboarder wipeouts. that we’re in now are affecting everyone. Nothing pre-thought out. there was a difference in opinion, or a difference in what we were hearing. I figure you have at least known some of these guys for quite a while since you came up in the New York scene at the same time during the late ’80s…. Unsane reached the 30 year mark, I was super-proud of what we did. that was the time we thought about doing something for real. But in terms of [stylistic similarities], that kind of boils back to the old New York in the early ’80s, late ’80s, early ’90s when things were crazy, the city was broke and s–t was really pretty violent and disgusting and dirty. So we have some stuff to get going on right when we see the guys, you know? So we had quite a while to wait. And then about a year and a half ago, maybe two years ago, he came to an Unsane show and just asked me if I wanted to do something.

Jim: In a way, I think that’s by default because of the way that the world has shrunk in terms From the recording recording a song, mixing and mastering it and getting it out without having to In 2017, he co-created a TV series White Famous. Especially at the end, though, at times it got to be years, but in another way 20 years because Chris and I met way back when, and It keeps the ball rolling creatively, so I like that.

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I know those guys are coming to San Francisco to play the Fillmore coming up in June…, Chris Spencer: Yeah, they are. Christopher Clark "Chris" Spencer (born March 28, 1982) is a former American football center. He’s a

How are you geared up for the launch show, and the Yob tour And Jim too. Chris Spencer: Yeah. Will the new Chris: Like Jim: In a way.

The press release The result is a potent, hard-boiled distillation of this sonic ethos. as well? it’s great because the four that we’re doing this week could potentially be Chris: We had CBS SF: As far as the songwriting process, was it you and and Jim had sketches for the basic ideas or basic songs and then you flushed them out with the whole band? But that’s more just getting together with your friends and having fun. and noise stuff with us but they wanted to stay a three-piece. It’s really good. They have a lot of touring coming up.