Zach Leybick

I'm into down-tempo jazzy drums, glitchy beats, intricate and spacious guitar lines, alternate guitar tunings, exotic chords, droning rhythms and sound manipulation. I'm perpetually trying to avoid tired chord voicings and progressions, and am, to say the least, weary of the standard pop song structure. I like to generally keep things linear, and avoid repeating much, but tend to bring back themes and movements. I work best in an ad-lib setting, and am probably most native with a nice single-coil electric with a big pedalboard, some synths and electronics or a solid jazz kit, although I've never owned my own set.

In younger days I played in bands, doing the guitar thing. Started the Black Heart Conspiracy, which got me notoriety as a local guitarist, which led to me auditioning for and joining Divine Endings before the 2005 Vans Warped Tour and parting ways at the end of that year. After a slow year or so of trying to find my place as a musician, I started an ambitious project called Closer, also my first female fronted group, who participated in the 2007 Emergenza Festival, but a wave of troubles sunk that ship. Writers block prohibited me from writing hardly any music, and not a single lyric over the year and a half. Now, I built myself a nice home studio, which means the next chapter is currently being written.