About Me
fascia has morphed into this: Port of Est
the low down, Fascia's original life span was from around 1997-2001 or so. During that time Fascia stayed quite busy playing the club circuit, various art opening/events etc..., and spending endless hours in the studio/sound lab recording and composing... in 2001 Chandler decided to leave Fascia for other musical projects. To keep things moving Todd continued working with Tim Watt (bass, and electro noise specialist) who had recently (around 2000) started contributing to Fascia. After a couple of years Chandler, Todd and Tim reconnected, and decided to work together again in a more stress-free, relaxed, spontaneous fashion. Today Fascia is more of a loosely knit collective... Fascia had a few impromptu performances in the summer of 04 for the first time in years : playing at Lenny's (Kirkwood Ballers Club) and Azul (Decatur). In the future, Fascia will continue creating music and performing when feasible...Todd now lives in Maine, but stays in Atlanta a couple months out of the year, Chandler now plays drums full time for Snowden, Tim is a busy doctor but also performs as an electro-experimental soloist at various Festivals (Burning Man etc...) around the country
for what others have said about Fascia read below:
Fascia was formed in February of 1997 by four artists: Todd Kitchens, Chandler Rentz, Honnie Goode and Elizabeth Nayadely. The artists wanted to create an encompassing experience that combined visual imagery with live instrumentation. Goode and Nayadely shot a series of colorful yet elusive images on super 8 film which provide a non-verbal narritve to the hypnotic music performed by Kitchens and Rentz.
The music of Fascia captures the essence of "wall-of-sound" ethereal guitar noise that was popularized during the heyday of the British Shoe-Gazer movement and incorporates it with sampled electronic loops and accelerated beats. The drumming, despite it's intricacy, is all done live.
Their earliest performances were at independent film festivals throughout the southeast. More recently they have played in clubs around Atlanta like the Point, MJQ, Nomenclature, and the Back Drop Gallery.
http://www.audiogalaxy.com/bands/fascia/
Fascia are that little clique of black-wearing hipster post-rockers at your local film school; a band created by four Information Age artists pursuing somewhat disparate goals, yet somehow staying together to express visions and visual imagery via dope-style stereo sounds of today. When you listen to Fascia, you hear shimmering, crystalline ambient rhythmscapes and pristine synthetic washes accompanied by live instrumentation. Drummer Chandler Rentz and guitarist Todd Kitchens produce tracks in a studio that probably contains a phonograph and a collection of dub, drum and bass, and Tangerine Dream records. These tracks then become templates or palettes for Rentz's tight, disciplined sorties and Kitchens' watery, droning splashes. When you see Fascia, as many in the Atlanta area often do at indie film festivals, gallery openings, and clubs, you see the crossfaded, super-imposed Super 8 and video projection remix collages of Honnie Goode and Elizabeth Nayadely, accompanied by a live band (Rentz and Kitchens, of course). Fascia are the super cool home-entertainment multimedia audio visual consumer product of the future. They are the band, the band's music videos, and the band's live stage show all in one and all at once.
