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Keram

For machines to dream about...

About Me



Keram's musical output is a slippery fish that belies deeper intellectual undercurrents than one may detect upon a first listen. Rife with self-conscious, culture-jamming and otherwise socially analytical innuendo, the material often wraps itself with indelibly catchy and au-currant (but likely tongue-in-cheek) song-forms, while lyrically retracing its footsteps with pathological tenacity along the path of stark darkness towards spiritual purification and self-awareness.
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Member Since: 10/12/2004
Band Website: keramsongs.com
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"Keram Malicki-Sanchez is on stage and all dressed up with every place to go. The boys a psychedelic vision...a one-man cultural blitzkrieg, active in music, theatre, film, philosophy, writing and publishing. Fans of his band Blue Dog Pict are enthusiastic to the point of being cultish."
- Lenny Stoute - Toronto Star


Editor's Pick:
"Keram Malicki-Sanchez brings rare songs with angular melodies and blipping sonics. Combine one part hipster presence, one part folky sensitivity, and one part electronic experimentation, and you've got a musical chameleon in the best David Bowie tradition. Malicki-Sanchez describes "The Endster" as "the first-ever song about your Friendster addiction."
-download.com

"There are a rare breed of people who are not merely artistic but ultra-artistic. Not merely content to be in a band, they have too many ideas for one project. They play music, they write, they make films, they act, they paint, do any of a hundred other things, and they do them all with various degrees of skill that would make the less talented person sick. LA-based Keram Malicki-Sanchez appears to be one of those people.
Keram blends styles indiscriminately, mixing rock, new-wave, electronic experimentation, and pure, catchy, hook-laden pop all at once. At times, it sounds remarkably similar to other, well-established musicians, while at other times it takes on the truly unique feel he was obviously pursuing. "
- Jeff Marsh, delusions of Adequacy

Reviews for Keram's acoustic album "BOX":

"Keram has made what has to be one of the most compelling albums of this last year. Any one of these 9 cuts could conceivably make it onto rotation; pick up a copy of this album and learn who Keram is before everyone else does."
- NeuFutur Magazine

"Box is an acoustic collection of ballads, rich in self exposure and warmth of tone and soul. When not contemplating the twists and turns of affairs of the heart, Keram settles heavily on the theme of death. Whatever life-altering incident caused his subdued yet noticeable cynical disposition to surface may have altered how he pictured the world, but it brings out an intense determination that gets infused into his music."
- Pitch Perfect Reviews

"What is perhaps most unique about Keram (other than the fact that he seems to have grown up listening to every radio station) is that where many musicians who record electronica tend to over-use effects to mask their voices, Keram allows his voice to shine no matter what style he is working in. With a Brian Wilson-esque love of experimenting with new sounds, layers and modulations, Keram leaves no room for predictability in anything he does.

Influences: Kander & Ebb, The Birthday Party, Primus, Kate Bush, Donovan, The Clash, Aphex Twin, Robert Johnson, Nick Drake, Velvet Underground, Can, Long Fin Killie, Jimi Hendrix, Charles Ives, PJ Harvey, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Stina Nordenstam, My Bloody Valentine, Magnetic Fields, Blonde Redhead, Stereolab, Nick Cave, The Doors, Ministry, Vangelis, Brian Eno, Klause Shulze, Sex Pistols, Tom Waits, Talk Talk, The Police, Jeff Buckley, Jesus and Mary Chain, Steve Roach, Gordon Lightfoot, Edith Piaf, MGMT, The Future Sound of London, Pink Floyd, Van Morrison, Gandhi

Sounds Like: shit in the morning, better late at night
Record Label: Constant Change Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Keram Songs at Myspace.com/kms!

"Sorry We're Closed" as recorded and performed by Keram and Project: Ribcage featuring Eric Herrmann on drums and Paul Gallinato on bass. Tracked at Tone King Studios, Hollywood by Peter McCabe."Never...
Posted by Keram on Sun, 25 May 2008 09:17:00 PST

Keram takes First Place for Broadjam.com song competition

Keram View Artist Profile Song: You Are Not Alone Bio: This insightful song from Los Angeles artist Keram easily stuck out in April's Song of the Month Contest. He fuses various styles to create one i...
Posted by Keram on Fri, 23 May 2008 07:56:00 PST

Download My Funny Valentine for free - 5 days only

As a way of saying thanks to all of you who have purchased my acoustic album "Box", I am making my cover of "My Funny Valentine" available as a free download for the next five days.Simply point your b...
Posted by Keram on Sun, 18 May 2008 06:54:00 PST

Submit your album for review at MusicZeitgeist.com

The Music Zeitgeist is a music blog featuring independent music reviews, interviews, news and commentary.If you are interested in submitting your music/artist for review or interview at our site we as...
Posted by Keram on Sun, 11 May 2008 10:06:00 PST

Never-before-heard Keram recordings released

Today we bring you a set of never-before-heard Keram recordings including a cover of "My Funny Valentine" at myspace.com/kms and two new exclusives available for immediate purchase (99 cents each) at ...
Posted by Keram on Thu, 08 May 2008 06:16:00 PST

New review at The Deli - LA Edition

Something for Everyone - Keram One of the first artists to make their music available on the web back in 1991, Keram Malicki-Sanchez is always looking for ways to break new ground. In fact, if I didn'...
Posted by Keram on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 01:38:00 PST

The reviews for Box are in!

Keram - BoxIf you want to listen to something a little different, I would recommend Keram.  I just hope he keeps making music because when he hits the mark, he really hits it. - music-reviewer . ...
Posted by Keram on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 09:56:00 PST

Life Coding: 9 Ways to Fight Feature Creep in Our Lives

Life Coding: 9 Ways to Fight Feature Creep in Our Lives Editor’s note: This post written by Glen Stansberry of LifeDev (feed ). As a web developer, I’m co...
Posted by Keram on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:57:00 PST

My new music blog

Check out http://musiczeitgeist.com - a new music blog that I created as part of the Constant Change Media network that also includes theculturepin.com, thehv20experiments.com and http://freedom.const...
Posted by Keram on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 03:51:00 PST

The Anxiety of Influence

Blue Dog Pict's landmark album "Anxiety of Influence: a nodding into..." is now available for the first time ever as a digital download!If you weren't one of the lucky ones to get an actual copy while...
Posted by Keram on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:45:00 PST