Artist: Subtle
Genre(s):
Rock
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
For Hero: For Fool
Year: 2006
Tracks: 11
New White
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
Formed in 2001 when Amoeba Music record store employees and musicians Jel (Jeffrey Logan) and Doseone (Robert Adam Drucker) -- wHO already made up the Anticon dance band Themselves -- started playing with Dax Pierson, clicking well-nigh outright. Soon they invited woodwind player Marty Dowers, guitar player Jordan Dalrymple, and violoncellist Alexander Kort -- all of whom Pierson had antecedently played with -- to join the mathematical group, and Subtle (with Jel on percussion section, Pierson on keys and autoharp, among early instruments, and Doseone on vocals) were born. After a couple of 12" releases and some EPs, A New White was released on Lex Records in 2004. Tragedy smitten the band in February the adjacent year when their go van slipped on black ice, paralyzing Pierson from the chest down. Still, Subtle pushed forth, issue the remix and collaboration EP Wishingbone in 2006 and signing to EMI, which released the group's soph uncut, For Hero: For Fool -- which included vocal and harmonica exercise from Pierson -- in alignment with Lex later that same year, with a companion slice, Cry & Ice, out in late 2007.
Gert Emmens
