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Tambersauro
12+ albums
post-punkpost-rockmath rock
about
Tambersauro is a Houston trio comprised of bassist/vocalist Jeff Price, guitarist Mike Blackshear and drummer/electronics worker Lance Higdon. They started playing together in November of 2003, aiming to create a new synthesis between the complex intensity of math rock, the melodic introspection of late-90's emo, and the marginal vocabularies available in free improvisation, jazz, funk, and Afro-Cuban music. Convened in such a spirit of opposition to their era and locale that they initially desired never to have a band name, Tambersauro set a daunting path for their ensuing future as a band with no real place to call home both conventionally and categorically. Meeting every week at Jeff's house/studio in the northwest Houston suburbs, Tambersauro began to arrange their disparate influences into a workable whole. Their first song appeared on Price's “Esotype records Compilation One | A Symposium on the Real Life Threats of You and Me.” The seeds of their fundamental musical approach were all apparent: asymmetrical meters, sinewy, glissando-laden bass lines, wiry guitar work interspersed with melancholy chord progressions, urgent and indignant shouts and sulking whispers. After making their live debut at the Rayford Road Community Center as part of the “Esotype records Compilation One” release show in 2004, the band set about to record their first EP, known as "Box=Box" for its ideogrammic cover design. It was also this year that Jeff proposed adopting the uniform anonymity of
top songs
albums
Box Equals Box
Theories of Delusional Origin
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Realia
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Box = Box
From the Last Day I Saw You
The Blue Letter & Tambersauro (Split 10 Inch)
Er Compilation One | A Symposium on the Real Life Threats of You and Me
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Bellowing Offspring
Oils and Soils
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Box=Box
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The Blue Letter/Tambersauro Split 10"
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From the Last Day I Saw You EP