One of the most eclectic
releases of the year has finally hit the shelves, Fischer's Flicker's
debut CD “Katmandon't” - an unusual assortment of weirdness and
musicality that sets the album (and group) in a class by itself.
Formed by musician Scott Fischer, whose brain is like a vast musical
amusement park, Fischer's Flicker is his latest artistic
brainchild, and marks the next step in a musical evolution that began
over 15 years ago. While Fischer's Flicker's debut album is certainly
more “mature” sounding than his previous efforts, containing none
of his trademark humorous rock tunes, it stays true to the core of
Fischer's music with big melodies and ambitious composition. This,
coupled with live performances that include extravagant and
imaginative video installations that sync up with the band's live
performance, will make you want to jump right back in line for
another ride!
“When writing for the new CD, I
didn't make a concerted effort to get 'more serious' on the release,”
Scott explains, “it just came out that way. This is the first album
released to-date without any 'joke tunes' on it. My lyrics seem to
have become more honest/open than ever before. Not that they weren't prior,
but songs like 'Souls', 'Wound Up Being Me' and 'Ex-Birthday' had me
really telling it like it is, where I would tend to hide meaning in
humor in the past. It definitely seems to deal with more mature
concepts than my prior releases, which only makes sense given some of
the heavy hands that were played in life during the process of this
recording.”
Scott Fischer, a Chicago native, has been writing and performing music since he was a teenager. In 1994, he founded Deja Voo Doo, and in 1998 released 'Carpe P.M.: Honor Comes Only After Humility', a highly ambitious concept album whose success led to Fischer's involvement in Zappening 2000 (a tribute festival to Frank Zappa). It was during the shows to support the release of 'Carpe P.M.' that Fischer began to develop and refine the multi-media aspects of his live shows including custom-designed “living TV heads” that synced up to the band's live performance. Says Scott, “It frustrated me to see people in attendance of a live show and giving a solid 8 collective minutes' worth of attention to the act, intermixed with catching up with old acquaintances, refilling cocktails, relieving cocktails, smoke breaks, etc. I wondered how I could find a way to capture, say, 16 minutes' worth of attention. I felt that I needed to hit the audience with another sense in addition to wowing their ears. Right between the eyes was the answer! I grabbed hundreds of hours' worth of B movie sci-fi, student films and documentaries and then, in turn, spent hundreds of hours myself creating videos that evoked emotions pertinent to the songs they were created to sync up with. The videos are definitely a big part of the live show and what hopefully separates us from the others.” In order not to lose the “organic” feel in concert, a live VJ was employed to take on the painstaking task of “vari-speeding” the videos to correlate with the live band.
After several years of writing and
performing, Deja Voo Doo evolved into Powderhouse and then Babaganoo.
After a hiatus, Scott Fischer formed his latest musical vehicle
Fischer's Flicker; a band comprised of Deja Voo Doo alumni including
Mario Licciardi and Tim Kubiak on guitar, Turan Yon on bass and Tim
Gavin on drums. And now Fischer's Flicker's debut CD “Katmandon't”
is ready to turn your universe upside down! “I have always strived
to do something different with my material,” says Scott. “Not
only from others out there but from my previous material as well.
Inevitably, I always end up having an 'opus' of sorts on each
release.”
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