THE MIMETIKS

Hey All,

Looks like our Tuesdays at Saje will be canceled until the beginning of September. Apologies, but it would seem Tuesday Night wasn’t as bangingin’ (yes : bangingin’) as it could be and we don’t want to put unnecessary strain on the good people over at Saje.

Never fear, however, for a lack of live music. there are still hip things happening over at Saje and we’ve still got a month of Sundays coming up for you. it will only mean that we put that much more energy into our Sunday afternoon sets.

Hope the Summer is otherwise bangingin’ for every body.

see you sundays,
Akie

oh. has it been a minute or what? apologies to the heads who do check in on us. kyle’s been traveling and I’ve been sick. and luke has been working all kinds of stuff in the city. still, we are back in the swing of things. there have been a couple of missed days (due primarily to my being sick) but i’ve seem to back on the horse and the agenda remains, as ever, to bring fresh music from the brooklyn-side of things.

it’s summer time and that means summer romance. summer lovin’ (happened so fast….). and also… sweet summer rain (which we’ve had a little bit of a few days back). the good thing about having been on the downtime for so long is that we have a lot of new material. material we flipped to the back burner while all the shazzlebeenazzlebees were going down. as we attempt to make that available to you, i do have some great tracks live from the weekly Saje sessions.

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i heard you

this is a tune that came to pass during one of those loooooooong tuesday nights when we keep seeming to run through more tunes than we have and we’re forced to come up with something new (you’d think after coming up with all the new stuff we’d stop running into this problem, but…). a groove based primarily on misconceptions which worked out to be in seven - which was weird. fortunately, luke is not stranger to un-even time signatures and he kept the momentum, churlishly chugging along. so, despite its best efforts to thwart us, we made it through. started the song and finished it… without losing control and… well… losing control. and so, the draft-version of i heard you was born.

what is good with all of you? (or any of you?) its been a grueling month. one in which we played a lot, and composed a lot. but also had a million other things going down. all around us. we finally took some time out today to get the beginnings of presskit together. along with a picture and a little bio, we are sending out a six track demo(nstration). we tweaked these in Protools for most of the afternoon. I was too tired to really even enjoy it. But here are the mixes.

the Mimetiks. Press Release.
1. don’t want
2. superman
3. since i fell for you
4. the keeper
5. knowher(e)
6. blackbird

Ok. its been a minute. and the last post was something of hurried throw-ing-up (a vomiting, if you will) of music. but today’s an extraordinary day. to day is a day when the forces of several elements were thrown together in precisely the right way. when all the wheels of music were grinding easily together. what was achieved, therefore, was a blasting-effect. and explosion, a projectilic out-pouring. of new music, and new songs. and new sounds. and outrageous cohesion.

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the keeper

here’s a tune that sprung forth from my mind like the grey-eyed goddess of wisdom from her father’s “splitting” head-ache. wednesday afternoon, as i was (supposedly) practicing for a different gig, this tune simply turned my head. maybe it was the night preceding or the coffee-dregs infusing the room with quite, darkening, energy. but i pressed record. made the crap demo mp3. and sent it immediately off to kyle and luke. calling it: the keepers. one alteration: no “s.” hope you dig this summer-song. and let us sing often.

i have no clue

and this is from tuesday night’s craziness. on the spur of the moment we decided to take this little progression and make it a song. and so it became. luke sat on it… and the rest is like water: all flow.

flood

also from tuesday. we started the whole night off with this groove. i may have gotten the syncopation from John Coltrane’s Body and Soul of Coltrane Sound. in the trio format the tune goes from being the poetic sort of rabble-rousing it was intended to be to a sort of scathing spell-casting. its heavy, wild, fire-starting. and its only the first go-round, son.

and finally:
my funny friends
i’m not sure what i can say about this joint. it was the last song of the afternoon. and, we sort of let the guard down. at the center of this maelstrom are two motivational ideas: 1. my favorite things (which kyle had been playing solo at the set break right before we pressed record) and 2. just friends… which gets severely distorted here. and becomes something altogether different. great solo by luke at the end of all… i like to call that last section “the dream.” a dream only, yet, five hours old.

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now i am sitting exhausted in my semi-functional kitchen. with the cats (dolly. dinah. i’m thinking about new names for them. or last names. the Antigone sisters anyone? or is that too much?) all this is in the past now. but the excitement of it remains. i hope it excites you, dear reader. and send you into the same tizzy is sent me.

if not: we’ll keep trying.

til we do,

keep listening.

- akie

more on this post. but for now: me, luke, kyle. in kyle’s apartment a couple of sundays back… enjoy.

good to my soul

akie

oh snap! how long has it been?! too long! and yes, however well intentioned that hiatus may have been, it must be made-up for. and i hope tonight’s post will get us at least partway there. tonight’s post is dedicated to the working band. of late is has been kyle, luke (notary), and myself holding it down sundays in Brooklyn. with only a few gigs under our belt, we have begun to lock-in on all these previously amorphous tunes. give them shape and breath. and bid them live.

and with that said. we’ve had the opportunity to sit down and record some rough drafts of what might constitute the live show. were you to come out to Saje or Brooklyn Exposure on a Sunday afternoon or night, you might get the full brunt of it. as it stands, this is but a taste. still… it is music.

(shhh. originals and current covers.)

watch your mouth

blackbird

autumn nocturne

just friends

the personnel and instrumentation on all these is:
kyle jaster - bass
luke notary - cajon, cymbals, cowbell,other stuff?
akie bermiss - keys and vocals

enjoy!

family. there is a McCoy Tyner album called Extentions which has some rather awesome cover art and whenever i think about family or dynasties… i see that image. Well, the Mimetiks are beginning to extend into a musical family. with each passing week new faces, new contributions become part of the larger picture. Zach is one such cat. already his contributions are unmistakeable. and they make the tunes what they are. transforming alchemy into something beyond its original intentions. turning autumn nocturne into the jawn instead the sketch of jawn. and suddenly, in my mind, brand new ideas start to crop up. new concepts, new reasons, newness.

there are other cats jumping in now. Percussionist Luke Notary was with us last sunday night at Brooklyn Exposure. Bringing his own blend of propulsion and melody into the fold. creating his own sort of unexpectedness to bear. Hoping to get a lot more stage time with luke as the year rolls on.

and there’s Greg Glassman — jazz trumpet gunner. He’s dropped in at Saje on the odd tuesday night or sunday afternoon. playing over and under the stuff. making expression from his horn, from his presence. and sprinkling in some experience. some challenge.

we’ve just met a great pianist, singer, composer in his own right. arthur lewis. one evening at Brooklyn Exposure and some excellent words exchanged. and then just listen.

there is also a McCoy Tyner album called Expansions. and a live record called Enlightenment. i leave it to you heads to find those. dig on them. and dig on the artwork too. its all part of the statement. that’s how they used to do it back in the day, you know. so we’re takin’ it back…. waaaay back.

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this week: Zach Dunham is with theMimetiks at Saje brunch Sunday from Noon to 4. And Brooklyn Exposure from 7 - 9:30.

yo all, in this week’s adventure your intrepid players spent an inordinate amount of time chilling before the sunday night gig at Brooklyn Exposure. Since, we discovered, you can sometimes work across the street from where you live, we decided to live across the street from our work. Many thanks to the people who came out (Christine, Liz, The Casey) to check out this inaugural concert.

Because of a sort of scheduling mashup there was absolutely no publicity other than that which we ourselves did. This strikes us as fine for a first time. We know that every great thing must begin with an offering and we are every ready to be that. For those of you who’ve never been to Brooklyn Exposure — it is a dope little spot. Bar and Restaurant. With a lower level bar and eating area and an upstairs dining area. Even if you can’t make it out for our sunday night concerts, I suggest you stop by and help this establishment become an ESTABLISHMENT.

But it looks like we’ll be there every sunday with a different cast of characters to supplement the duo on a number of occasions. Next week its the inimitable Zachary “downlow” Dunham on the kits. To jog your memories, here’s a little taste of what Zach can do on the drums.

cornered.

this and much more. dig him. and come out on sunday. as we shall come out to you.

words and madness,

akie

news

hey all!  its been sometime since our last posts.  the reason for this is not inactivity, but rather that things are really starting to get going.  Hopefully, I can fill you in without skipping over too many crucial elements.

more news about brooklyn gigs for theMimetiks.  After a couple of shows over at Saje Cafe, we were offered sundays at another joint for a more full-up ensemble at a place called Brooklyn Exposure.  So starting on the 4th of March, we’ll be in there cooking up something delightful every sunday evening from 6pm.  As soon as I hear more about that I’ll post the details here.  Later this week hopefully.

we’re working on teeshirts again.  this time going with something much simpler and more direct.  I think you’ll dig it when we get it finished.  Kyle (the graphics genius) is working on the design even as I type here.  so look forward to that.

in the meantime, i must have seemed bored because Kyle just hooked me up with yet another place to blog up the night.  in the interest of keeping this page fairly focused and contained (and succinct and sane and endurable) I will keep my most uncontrollable ramblings concerning this burgeoning musical scene to that new blog.  if you have the chance, scope it out here.

lastly, dig our new icon (to the right of the page).  after a cigar each, some hookah, good food, and perhaps a touch too much to drink, I showed Kyle the photo booth feature on my new computer.  madness and obscenity ensued.  in a moment of concentrated inspiration, we edited it down to like seven frames, threw it onto Illustrator, made an animation, and published it here.  Ill-advised?  Perhaps.  But it was bucket-loads of fun.

til the next joint,

akie

ps.  and, for those of you keeping tabs, never fear: we are still working on “music for apartments” there are still four or five tracks to go before we can call it quits on that project.  so whatever you do, stay tuned!

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