![]() I had my real band with my older friends, but I really wanted to try something different.īrandon: To this day we still get screamed at from stage to get a bass player.Īlisa: That’s really funny that you should say that! I was at your Bowery Ballroom show and you guys were rocking out. I grew up listeining to '80s music and it wasn’t that weird to me, but at the time it was very odd. It all started there.īenjamin: Which at the time was not really cool. Benjamin was a friend of mine, he had this great keyboard project going, and had a really cool idea to mix using sequencers and live music. I didn’t have a band I was just playing Nirvana and Green Day covers at that point. My mom told me that I was expected to get up in front of everyone with my band. So you guys are like an old married couple.īrandon Summers: Yeah, we’ve been together as a band for half of my life, if that’s not crazy enough.īenjamin Weikel: Clearly the best half of your life.īrandon: I was sixteen when we started Helio Sequence and it was all because of this family picnic that I was told that I was playing about a week in advance. ![]() ![]() The Helio Seqence begins a Southern-focused wintertime tour on January 14 in San Antonio, Texas, reaching the Pacific Northwest by February.Īlisa Ali: You put out your first EP in 1999, but you got together in 1996. Read highlights of the inteview and watch the performance videos below. The record, out now on Sub Pop, is awash in dualities, both carefully crafted and freewheeling, which also describes Summers and Weikel's recent conversation with The Alternate Side. Listen to The Helio Sequence's exquisite four-song session when it airs on TAS on 91.5 WNYE this Friday, January 11 at 11 a.m. The setback was a push forward, giving singer/guitarist Brandon Summers and drummer/keyboardist Benjamin Weikel the perfect excuse to purchase gear - much of it with a vintage twist - and discover a new path that led to their fifth album, Negotiations. The flood that severely damaged The Helio Sequence's studio and equipment a few years ago also afforded the Portland, Oregon duo the chance to start anew with a clean slate. ![]()
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