Ashe

I have instruments.......and I use them......but Im not a traditional "musician"
WARNING!
The following contains FAR more than anyone could POSSIBLY ever care to know about me
....but if you are interested in my musical past, here ya go....
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I played my first "real" show back in 1989 with a punk rock band called My Mind's Mine (Also called M3 ), we opened for a band called The Smashing Pumpkins (Im sure Im wrong about that) .....Even though I wasn't an official member of the band...we were all friends and played music together..... I was summoned onstage to play bass on a spur of the moment cover of Ministry's "So What"....
In 1991, after several years of reckless living and blowing off "art school" in Denver Co.., I found myself in Tennessee, in the Cherokee National Forest, living in a former Illegal fireworks factory which fronted as a worm farm.. until a huge explosion litterally blew their cover...The place had turned into a commune basically, with a cast of characters right out of a Nick Cave song or, more likely, a Jack Kerouac novel. This is where an experimental project heavily influenced by cheap whiskey, wine, pharmaceuticals and the music of The Birthday Party and Throbbing Gristle , was organized....This project went under the names Cock Wagon as well as Wurm Pharm
1991/1992 I found myself in Portland Or., which quickly led to more musical experimentation. After importing several friends from various parts of the country, combined with new friends..and my newly aquired 3 story house filled with quite an array of instruments and experimental "found" instruments including a 20' foot highway girder, two standard drum kits and two drum kits assembled from 50 gallon metal oil drums, the band Sub Division was born. With a bass on loan from Joe Albanese from the legendary band Mighty Sphincter and drums aquired from Foreskin 500 , Sub Division began playing, as well as crashing shows, with the likes of The Dandy Warhols , Crash Worship and Daniel Menche to name a few...
In 1995 The band Nocturne was assembled in my now infamous basement. Nocturne was a more "polished" band, and seemingly the only band of its kind in the city, which lead to sold out shows, rave reviews and bookings up to four times a month locally and a US tour with performances with bands such as...Low, Bethany Curve, King Black Acid, Christian Death, Switchblade Symphony, Sunshine Blind, The Electric Hellfire Club, Big Electric Cat, NON, Black Atmosphere, The Prophetess, Test Dept., Noxious Emotion, Sheep on Drugs, The Razor Skyline, The Impotent Sea Snakes, Trance to the Sun, Faith and Disease, Kevorkian Death Cycle....to name a few.....
Nocturne Managed to release one E.P. entitled "Of Beauty And Decay" and record one full length for Energy Records which was never officially released but is available thru In Aeternum Records.. It is entitled "In Remembrance"
During this time, two of my Nocturne bandmates and myself had a short lived band called Agitprop , which was the brainchild of Mark Blewett (the Nocturne drummer) and featured myself on synths and Fritter (who is currently in backandtotheleft ) as the electronic percussionist and Mark handling bass and vocals. We played a few shows around Portland but didnt go beyond that. There was an Agitprop release that Mark put out, but good luck finding a copy.
By the end of 1997 Nocturne parted ways and I immediately began playing shows with Trance to the Sun in Santa Barbara Ca... After some long distance collaboration, We eventually played shows all over California with Switchblade Symphony , Spahn Ranch and Lycia
1998 Found me in my home town in North Carolina. Here I spent a year in virtual solitude writing and recording material for my solo project, The Elysium Facade
In 1999 I returned to Portland to take up where I had left off with two of my Nocturne band mates....which ultimately never came together. After pretty much all of my former cohorts had moved away, I found myself having a hard time finding like minded collaborators. Out of desperation and extremely poor judgement, I was reluctantly convinced to join Written In Ashes and I agreed to join on a temporary basis....We signed to a label in Hollywood and I was somehow elected to record and produce the new self titled album "Written In Ashes"....which I did. We toured the US and played shows with bands like Bella Morte, The Cruxshadows, Voltaire and played the GothCon Festival in New Orleans.
After numerous lineup changes, a label change and an utterly miserable experience I'd had enough.
In 2002 my Trance to the Sun bandmate Ashkelon Sain relocated to Portland and saved me from my hell and we formed Electromagnet which eventually turned into Submarine Fleet after a lineup change and importing Mark Linder from Blade Fetish as vocalist. During this time Submarine Fleet Recorded the E.P. "In A Case Of Fire".
In 2003 I began another project called disekt after being introduced to JM by a mutual friend, James from Deathline International . With an initial track release by Einstürzende Neubauten in Berlin and club and radio play In Germany, England, Canada and the U.S. disekt took off rather well. Currently disekt has released one E.P. entitled "Asphyxiation Techniques" and is currently on hiatus.
In 2006 I left Portland, but not before going into the studio with Submarine Fleet to record parts of their new album "A Very Strange Sight In The Distance".
I then spent about a year and a half living in Texas where I collaborated with Submarine Fleet and continued to record and release music as The Elysium Facade.
In October of 2007 I once again returned to North Carolina and the beautiful city of Charlotte. I have started a new project called Glass Arcana and continue with The Elysium Facade. To date I have released 3 albums as TEF since 2000, "Breathe", "The Deepest Sky Is A Shallow Puddle" and "B Sides and Lost Days" a fouth album will be released in the coming months.

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