Motosota

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The Complete Motosota Story (minus the controversy and scandals) Conceived in the first weeks of 2004, the band that would become known as Motosota started as the brainchild of guitarist/songwriter Brian Jarecki as a means to step away from the expected alt-rock, punk and metal flavors of music (or worse yet, covers) that were so prevalent in the underground Indianapolis music scene at the time. The easiest way to ensure that was to form a band where vocals were not even a passing thought, focusing wholly on instrumental passages of thinking man’s music. It didn’t take long to find like-minded musicians as drummer Benjamin Nagengast, bassist David Hinkle, and flutist/keyboardist Jerry Snook immediately joined the cause. Early on the band experimented with both Hinkle and Snook as its bassist, since both responded to Jarecki’s call for a bass player. This experiment had mixed results but as it turned out Snook just happened to be quite the accomplished flute player and even offered to shore up keyboard duties as the band decided to adopt a more jazz-rock groove. Snook had suggested the name Motosota and within a few months the band was playing shows around Indy. This original lineup recorded a 5-song Demo simply named Motosota which included the songs “Ice, Bridge, Powerline”, “In Passing”, “Machete-Benz”, “Crystal Lattice” and “Vincent Got Mad” (four of which would be recorded in their re-imagined forms later). Before the end of their first year, Hinkle took himself out o

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