The Six Parts Seven is an American post-rock band formerly based in Kent, Ohio. The band was founded in 1995 by brothers Allen Allaman and Jay Karpinski (playing guitar and drums, respectively), who had earlier played with Old Hearts Club, a band of similar style (but with vocals). In 1998, Tim Gerak was added to the core member line-up, playing guitar and also credited with additional engineering on the band's later recordings. Most of the group's music is instrumental, featuring multiple "clean" (undistorted) electric guitars, with electric bass and drums, as well as electric lap steel guitar, viola, and occasionally also piano, vibraphone, or trumpet. Rather than relying primarily on strummed chords, songs are generally built by combining single-note melodic lines.
Links to Peel[]
Peel played a few tracks from the band in 2002. He nominated their album, Things Shaped In Passing, as one of the albums recommended for December 2002 (Peel's Record Box).
Shows Played[]
- 31 January 2002 (Radio Eins): The Constant Variables (album - Silence Magnifies Sound)
- 28 March 2002 (Radio Eins): The Day After The Day After Here (album - Silence Magnifies Sound)
- 04 December 2002: 'Seems Like Most Everything Used To Be Something Else (CD-Things Shapes In Passing)' (Suicide Squeeze)
- 12 December 2002: Now Like Photographs (LP - Things Shaped In Passing) Suicide Squeeze
- 2003
- 30 January 2003 (Radio Eins): Sleeping Diagonally (album - Things Shaped In Passing) Suicide Squeeze