Edmonton, AB
http://radio3.cbc.ca/artists/FRACTAL-PATTERN
Basically, a group of 5 people from Oil Country have been pushing the envelope regarding instrumental music under the name Fractal Pattern for the last 4 years. This formative time was spent writing music, playing 150 shows around North America and selling over 1000 copies of their first record, No Hope But Mt. Hope. In this time the band has learned how to function independent of the mainstream music industry by booking, managing, and organizing themselves into a functional unit with a working-class ethic and progressive agenda; promoting their art in a sustainable fashion while using it as a vehicle for dialogue concerning the environment as well as animal and human rights.
Using guitars, bass, drums, a French horn and a variety of secondary instruments, the band recorded and released their second full-length album, “Absent From But Entirely Within the Landscape”. Their sophomore album intends to challenge the listener not only to open up to songs that deviate from the current punk rock mean, but to question their role as a steward of the planet. While clocking in at just short of an hour, Absent is the best representation of a band that has struggled to find their identity within a musical landscape dominated by the trite output of the commercial music industry, while trying to maintain a positive outlook in creating music that can be seen as something more than a simple commodity. The album was also printed on recycled paper using biodegradable, soy-based inks.
| Name |
Role |
| nathan |
guitar |
| andriko |
guitar |
| jordan |
french horn |
| Dallas |
Drums |
| Hank |
Bass |
botch, dirty three, fugazi, propagandhi, shellac
| FANS |
PLAYLISTED |
TOTAL PLAYS |
| 5 |
33 |
5,342 |
