PAIGE BROMBY
Working directly from music immediately brought my mind to music videos, unfortunately I don’t have the skills to do any major animation that would be needed for a music video. So I started brainstorming the DIY ways I could make a music video.
The logical answer in my mind was to just make a really long artwork and take a video of it. That was the starting point for our project. When I first asked the band about the lyrics behind their song Vesper, Aleks mentioned the silence after a snowfall in the middle of a forest. I ran with that idea and began looking through my collection of reference images. I began to stitch together an imaginary landscape for this song to exist in.
Paige Bromby is a Guelph based artist working mostly in painting, drawing and installation. She graduated from the University of Guelph’s Studio Art Program with Honours in the spring of 2020 and is now working from a home studio. Bromby’s work is interested in the complexities of entangled spaces, the intrigue of partially recognizable forms, and the importance of shape within the natural landscape. Through this lens she has explored ideas of claustrophobia, otherness, and over-looked natural occurrences.
EXCUSE ME.
Vesper came together so quickly that it felt like a song we’d been playing since we started as a band. Things began with Adam fooling around with different tunings on his acoustic guitar until we found the E, A, D, G, C#, G# configuration that you hear on the finalized track.
Besides the acoustic, the only other elements you hear are the organ in our living room, and some spaced out electric guitar. Fun fact, we recorded Adam’s Guitar and my vocals in our basement’s cold cellar – it has a very intimate but reflective sound. Finally we finished the track with a field recording of our friend Ari walking out of our house into the snow.
Excuse Me. is Adam Kuhrt, Aleks Liskauskas, Dylan Creed, Heyden Reay, and Jo Seymour; a five-piece alternative rock group from Guelph Ontario. The band formed at the University of Guelph in 2017. We started our journey practicing in a cramped bedroom space, and somehow ended up in an even smaller one; but our dreams have never been bigger. Being in a rock band can feel like a blur of sweaty solos, mosh-pits, and burritos; but our goal has always been clear: to make art that speaks to people. The songs we create are stories that help to navigate this chaotic modern world. We feel that if our music truly connects with people, we can build a strong community of tolerance and healing. Excuse Me’s contemporary sound is the result of our five distinct musical backgrounds. When we write songs, we constantly draw upon our past experiences to bring unique stories to life. Ultimately, we want to change the world and have fun doing it, but we’d settle for some good tunes and
loving fans!
Aleks Liskauskas – Mixing on Vesper
Phil Demetro – Mastering on Vesper