TERA MELOS

First Kramer hears Tera Melos on the radio

Then he goes and auditions for the Tera Melos video

Thanks to Gary Dolphiore-Ridolphin for capturing Kramer’s love of the Melos.

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Rad Releases ‘11- Tera Melos

Continuing our Rad Releases feature is a band who have not only made our year here at Circuit Sweet but also been a regularly featured band throughout the past 12 months. We have the honor in speaking to Tera Melos to find out their top releases.

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3 QUESTIONS
ONE: What’s behind your obsession with The Simpsons?

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In accordance with requests from fans, the Exclaim! TV crew brings you a second edit from Tera Melos’ performance of “Aped” from their 2010 album Patagonian Rats.

So for those who wish to listen to the performance without interruption, check out the performance of “Aped,” re-edited without the interview portion above. Also included below is their performance of “Trident Trail,” which is also from Patagonian Rats. Enjoy.

You can also watch Tera Melos get interviewed and perform “Kelly,” on Exclaim! TV.

Experimental rockers, Tera Melos, stopped by the Bloorcourt neighbourhood while they were in Toronto to treat us to a couple songs from their Exclaim!-approved 2010 album, Patagonian Rats.

Above, watch Tera Melos perform “Aped” while they fill us in on the songwriting process and some of the ideas that are floating around regarding future releases.

Be sure to watch Tera Melos’ performance of “Kelley”, here.

“When we heard Sacramento, California psychedelic genre destroyers, Tera Melos, were in town we invited them to stop by and play a couple songs. The dimly lit Theatre of Human Health was the perfect environment for the guys to perform “Kelley” off their Exclaim! approved album, Patagonian Rats, with their freaky life-size Freddy hanging in the background.Keep an eye out for an interview with Tera Melos, coming soon to Exclaim! TV.”

Photo proof that our own Nick Reinhart of Tera Melos is a dead ringer for the late great Steve Jobs circa 1980’s and he’s down to act so Hollywood let’s just save your casting agents the trouble and do this.

..Tera Melos is a unique blend of math rock, slacker indie pop, grunge, punk, and noise. At one minute they’ll be playing a fairly poppy song, maybe with a few strange chords, and suddenly it breaks down into chaos. During these sections, Nick Reinhart randomly tapped frets on his guitar, staring at his jerkily moving fingers as if the instrument had possessed them. It was reminiscent of Queens of the Stone Age’s psychedelic freak-outs on their first two albums. When they got heavy it was abrasive with loose rhythm and tone. John Clardy’s jazzy punk drumming was aggressive with many intentionally arrhythmic moments. Their new honorary member joined them on stage, a Freddy Krueger costume that was suspended next to Reinhart.

Click To see all Photos and full review of show w/ Boris & Coliseum

photos by Grant MacAllister, words by Parker Langvardt

Tera Melos have been on the road with new label mates Boris, their run together takes a break after the 10/20 show at Oberlin College. Then Tera Melos will  meet up with Melt Banana for a handful of East Coast shows. Tera Melos will then meet back up with Boris at FFF Fest Nites in Austin where they will be playing on 11/5 at Red 7 with label mates Russian Circles & Boris, what a Lineup! They will then play a few of their own headliners and meet up again with Boris for the end of that tour. Don’t miss them when they roll through your town.

TERA MELOS US / CANADIAN TOUR DATES 2011 
Oct 19 - Chicago, IL @ Metro * !
Oct 20 - Oberlin, OH @ Dionysus Disco /Oberlin College * !
Oct 22 - Cleveland, OH @ The Grog Shop # 
Oct 23 - Ithaca, NY @ The Haunt #
Oct 24 - London, ON @ APK Live
Oct 25 - Toronto, ON @ Wrong Bar #
Oct 26 - Montreal, QU @ Il Motore # 
Oct 27 - Cambridge, MA @ TT The Bears # 
Oct 28 - Hamden, CT @ The Space # 
Oct 29 - New York, NY @ Santos Party House #
Oct 30 - Philadelphia, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie
Nov 02 - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl
Nov 03 - Athens, GA @ Caledonia Lounge 
Nov 04 - Mobile, AL @ Alabama Music Box
Nov 05 - Austin, TX @ FFF Fest Nites at Red 7 w/ Russian Circles, Boris
Nov 06 - San Antonio, TX @ Studio 13
Nov 07 - Denton, TX @ Rubber Gloves
Nov 09 -  Tuscon, AZ @ Solar Culture Gallery
Nov 10 - Tempe, AZ @ The Clubhouse * 
Nov 11 - San Diego, CA @ The Casbah * 
Nov 12 - Los Angeles, CA @ EL Rey * 

* w/ Boris
# w/ Melt Banana

Tera Melos takes home the Sacramento Grammy aka The Sammie this year for Outstanding Experimental.  

Tera Melos stopped by to record a session with BeatCast during their busy summer touring schedule, which has seen them play across Europe and the US, including shows with Sargent House labels mates Le Bucherettes and Adebisi Shank. They very kindly ventured into the wilds of the english countryside with us to our friends at Coach Road Studios where we recorded a few songs. See here ‘Frozen Zoo’ and ‘Aped’ from the current album ‘Patagonian Rats’.

Tera Melos are yet again on the road across the US, this time with Japanese legends Boris, and later with Melt Banana. Full tour schedule can be seen here.

You can also get this session to watch on your iPod from our iTunes channel here – BeatCast iTunes.

The BeatCast Coach Road Sessions are produced in association with The 405.
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Maps & Atlases with Nick Reinhart of Tera Melos / Photo: Maria Colòn

Tera Melos hasn’t exactly been on hiatus this summer. They’ve headlined a mini West Coast tour with label mates Adebisi Shank and Le Butcherettes, and there have been surprise appearances by Nick Reinhart – most recently performing a rousing encore with Maps & Atlases at Ace of Spades in Sacramento (see image).

But they return to the road this Fall supporting new label mates Boris for much of their North American tour, as well as a separate leg of shows supporting Melt Banana. DATES HERE 

Additionally, Daytrotter has posted a session with the band, featuring 3 songs dramatically revised. Stream/download HERE.

In case you didn’t already know, Tera Melos’ most recent album Patagonian Rats landed on many Best of 2010 lists, as well as receiving raves from Wired.com, Exclaim!, ALARM Press, Impose and Exploding In Sound.

Henry Rollins has repeatedly championed the album on his KCRW radio show and Marnie Stern also named it her favorite album of the year in SPIN. Not sure what it signifies that Rollins digs your album but we’re sure it’s something good.

A Terroreyes TV Exclusive 

“Behind Patagonian Rats” Interview by Bobby Markos (of Native)

When an album is released, it is picked and prodded at by critics and fans alike. The songs are played over and over and read at their face value. But often times, we as listeners forget that there is another dimension to an album: the mind and timeline that went into creating it.
Tera Melos’ masterpiece “Patagonian Rats,” with its vast array of swooping content, acid-tripped melodies and unforgettable hooks was released to the public in September of 2010. With it being the band’s first or second full length (it is a long story), it was put under the critic’s microscope. Sure we all know it is technical, sure we all know it is a poppy rendition of a traditional “Melos-piece”, but do we know the emotional and exhausting story that ended up being just under 50 minutes long? Such a story needs to be told, and thus unfolds here today.

Going into the writing process, did you have any ideas for what you wanted “Patagonian Rats” to be?

Nathan Latona: We had started writing one or two songs with our old drummer. When Vince quit, it was like let’s see what happens next. We realized we could write new material that would lend to a different type of drummer. We knew the drummer was going to help carve out the direction that our band was going to go in, we were going into the unknown.
John Clardy: I think there was definitely an idea going into it, if nothing else that it would be another step in the path the band has been on with its releases. When I first joined Tera Melos they mentioned that the new songs were “headed in a less freaked out direction” which made sense looking at the lineage from the first album to “Drugs to Complex.” I was on board with that immediately because I thought each of those releases improved upon the last one. I could see the melding of the gnarly out there stuff and vocals with a strong emphasis on melody coming along and felt good about it.
Nick Reinhart: I don’t think I could articulate the idea we had for it. It was just something we had wanted to do for a long time. A few people have asked about the theme of the record: my answer is “Patagonian Rats” is Patagonian Rats. It wasn’t until after we finished recording it that we realized it had its own life and became its own thing. I think it is a really cohesive record that’s incredibly fucked up and non-cohesive at the same time. To me, this is something I’ve always wanted to do with the band. When our old drummer quit, we wanted to further explore song structure coupled with some newer ideas/concepts and write a record that we’d always wanted to write, so we found a drummer that could do just that. Our band has always sounded the way we wanted it to sound based on what we were capable of. We were not good enough 5 years ago to write Patagonian Rats.

How did the writing process begin?

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Sargent House is happy to announce the first ever pressing on vinyl of the very first ever album by Tera Melos. It never had a name, it’s often referred to as The Melody’s , Untitled or Tera Melos but none of those are actually its name it simply does not have one. We are now taking Pre-Orders for this first run of 1,000 in Clear Vinyl w/ free Download card for full album. We are also offering a bundle that comes with your choice of 1 of 2 new shirts “South Korea” or the “Band of Weirdos” which is ONLY available with the bundle and will not be sold separately. Art is by Garret Vander Leun who has done the art for many of Tera Melos’ past endeavors. Vinyl is also available separately.  ORDERS SHIP ON or AROUND October 31, 2011
PRE ORDER HERE

TRACKLISTING 
Melody 1
Melody 2 
Melody 3
Melody 4
Melody 5
Melody 6
Melody 7
Melody 8 (Edited for Vinyl) Full Length on DL Card 

STREAM FULL ALBUM HERE

Nick Reinhart of Tera Melos and Bygones sits down with Terroreyes.tv and explains to them what he’s jamming right now and  why. Of course we are very proud of him for not sharing that Hella album I let him have so early…  CHECK OUT NICK’S PICKS HERE (posted by Sargent House)