No, I don't mean the Nitzer Ebb song. I mean that we are getting MUCH closer to being ready to play out. This has been a tortuously long process as we have all been busy with everything else in life. Somehow, though, we've managed to eek out a regular practice schedule, condense our live setup into something we can deal with, and work out nearly enough songs to do a show.

We're looking at sometime around late February or early March 2009 to do a show, and would love to talk to some of our fellow Twin Cities electronic bands about playing together at Club Underground or some such venue.

We'll keep working on things on our end, and starting to contact some of our fellow musicians and venues. If YOU would be interested in playing with us or booking us (or seeing us play), please send us a message here or at ketherband@gmail.com.

peace

Jason (and Dave and Tom) of Kether
ketherband.com

I just posted the track Go Outside off of our record, just because I think that some people on MySpace (who find going all the way to ketherband.com inconvenient) might dig it. Really I should just post the whole record here, but the whole record is ALREADY AVAILABLE FOR FREE on our website.

Anyway,I also updated all three of the songs on MySpace so that you can actually read the lyrics. Especially important to me are the lyrics for Go Outside, as that is based on the real experience I had when I was mugged and had several of the bones in my face shattered on May 15th 2006.

And on that happy note, I wanted to talk about something more current: our live setup. This has gone VERY slowly. Everyone in Kether is far too busy (Tom is currently on tour... somewhere.. with his main band In Defence, I have a 11 month old baby and a busy job, and Dave is equally as busy on many fronts). Having said that, we HAVE been working on material and practicing on a regular basis! We are still working out some specifics, but what we do know is that we will be playing the three songs posted on MySpace, and all the rest of the material will be brand new. We have several new songs written already, and more ideas in the works. I think the plan is that once we have a few more of the new tracks in a more polished state, we'll start the (often long) process of booking shows as we figure out the last few pieces. After all, nothing motivates you like an impending deadline! I'll post here again (maybe even more often than once every 5 months) when there is more news.

It's been a while since we  posted here, as we are all very busy with many things both musical and otherwise, but we thought we should update and let everyone know what is going on. 

Since the vast majority of our music is done entirely on a computer, it takes a decent amount of adaptation in order to be interesting as a live performance.  After all, merely hitting "play" and singing is pretty boring, unless you really like karaoke!  As such, we are forming a lineup of enough musicians to be able to actually play at least a majority of the parts.  Some parts done on the computer are impossible for a real person to play, and others require a live drummer (which we don't currently have), so the computer will still be involved, but it will definitely be just a component of a larger whole, instead of the entire source of the music.  Having Tom playing live guitar helps a lot in this regard as well.

Our current lineup is Jason (vocals/keys), Tom (guitar), Corey (keys), and Dave (keys/computer).  Having Corey and Dave join has brought not only a wealth of creativity but several more pieces of gear (like a Moog Opus-3).  We also recently got our hands on an M-Audio Axiom 49, which will also help quite a lot for the live performances. 

We will keep working, and have a feeling that there will be a lot more to post (like show dates) when we get more things ironed out.

Until then, peace.