St. Alia of the Knife

Not much of a history. I just played in some bands that I thought were pretty good but broke up. I tried to get a new band together but it never happened so I gave up and make music by my self now. I wish there was a cool story. I should make one up. ...it should have a car chase in it.

I’m working on playing with prerecorded backing tracks. Still looking for the right mix of what to play live and what I can actually sing and play at the same time. Look for it in the near future.

I Jump around a lot. I’m kind of flightily and I yearn to experiment. Mostly what I do is a kind of loud indie rock guitar/old school synth bleep/skippy sputtery electronic beat/giant swelling orchestral thing. I don’t always do those things all at once. Sometimes I do. As for actual bands that I think pop up in my music: Pavement and Built to Spill guitars show up a lot. In failing to make Sufjan Stevens orchestral arrangements I think I end up with something original. I try to do big beats like the Chemical Brothers. My music contains some slow ambient swells like Icelandic bands Mum & Sigur Ros. I also try to make fun electronic based music like Aqueduct & the Postal Service.

I use fender Guitars mostly. I have a Jag-Stang that I’m supping up and a set-neck custom Telecster. I’m getting into a weird area now of playing just acoustic a lot so I’m using a wonderful Big Baby Taylor. As far as loops go I make them in Fruity Loops and Reason. I record onto Mixcraft and sometimes cakewalk.