About Mako Sica
Hometown
Chicago, IL, United States
Formed
2007
Genre
Jazz
Mixing punk ideals and the experimental traditions of their Chicago hometown, Mako Sica craft spacious excursions that touch on post-rock, prog, and avant jazz without owing too much of a debt to any particular influence. The trio is comprised of guitarist/trumpeter Przemyslaw Drazek and percussionist Michael Kendrick, both formerly of the electro-acoustic group Rope, and guitarist/vocalist Brent Fuscaldo. Fuscaldo came up with the name Mako Sica for the group on a trip to Arizona’s Painted Desert; a Sioux Lakota Native American term meaning “land bad,” it fits the band’s sprawling, sometimes menacing, expanses perfectly. Their debut was Noise Attic Session 2, a cassette-only release of 100 copies by PlusTapes; along with September 2009’s live EP Mayday at Strobe, it captured the nuances and immediacy of their largely instrumental sound. Mako Sica’s full-fledged debut album, Dual Horizon, arrived in spring 2010 on La Societe Expeditionnaire. ~ Heather Phares
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