Simitree

Simitree is the result of a lifelong musical possession, an inability to focus on one instrument, a lack of focussed effort on accomplishing simpler goals, a dreamer’s web of what no one would ever call a map to success, and an abject denial of the existence of concrete genres, (among other things). Born to Midwestern parents in a hyperbolically east coast suburb called Watertown, Charlie Kessenich grew up building massive improvised Lego constructions while glued to a radio. He was fascinated and terrified by Prince songs and equally intrigued when his mother played Ravel on the piano. Discovering weed, jazz and Radiohead in early adolescence and deciding on the drums as a principal instrument, Kessenich’s self perpetuating fractal snowball of musical obsession began rolling down hill. Soon the personal computer became the canvas on which he could happily paint the different colors of the different instruments he bounced between, and with which he could furthermore mangle and blur their hues. Narrowly avoiding abduction into a band that turned out to be a failed cult, Kessenich moved on to begin a decade of sonic exploration, in his bedroom alone, as well as collaborating with the bands ‘ensemble, et al.’ and ‘Toebow.’ The outcome of that exploration is Simitree: atmospheric, oblique, immersive, hi-fi/lo-fi, modern psychedelic, soultronic, and whatever other tag du-jour one wishes to apply to it.