Proximity Butterfly
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Proximity Butterfly, Psychedelic / Punk / Rock from Chengdu
Lineup
Chenduxi- Drummer
Heather Judson-Bass
Joshua C. Love-Guitar/Vocal
Biography
A spectacle of a trio pounding rhythms and wails to the likes of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jane's Addiction and Rage against the Machine, she comes with the Sirens' songs from a most peculiar place of all places...
Proximity Butterfly is a highly philosophically charged project that began in August of 2003. She consists of a drummer, bass, and guitar coming from China, Canada, and America. The story of the band expresses the maturity that exists in its seriousness towards the human subject. She becomes the conundrum of herself; that which brings her flight and being.
I left Cleveland with quite a large philosophical... dissatisfaction. I couldn't really understand people, why they did what they did. Basically, people drank until they were blind, shot up, snorted whatever they could find, sucked down late night martinis and complained about their jobs being too hard or something... It showed me really what America had become... a place in need of a revitalized eye. I tried starting a newsletter and couldn't seem to get anything musical going in that city. Everyone had a plan, but no one followed through with it. Seemed like the end of that life was about getting a job to buy things you needed to get a new job for... boat cruises and front lawns. And this girl used to come into the restaurant I worked at and would always talk to me about buddhism and so on. She seemed pretty interesting... and she would come back quite often... The girl I was seeing at the time was pretty coked out all of the time and her house eventually became more trash and stains than anything else. She was still recovering from coming home to her previous boyfriend shooting himself in the face with a shotgun. The pill brigade was the direction everyone was going. So I went to California to breath...
I had been working in a self-built studio in Cleveland for 2 years and recorded some ideas that I knew could get some dreams moving, but again I couldn't find anyone to share this stuff with. I had planned some volunteer work in Guatemale. When I got back from building houses outside of Coatepeque, along Guatemale's border of Mexico, I had made arrangements to move to China, to relocate myself philosophically. I needed to challenge my ideas, my ways of living, thinking, and Being.
After about a year and a half of being in China, the possibility of opening up some doors, meeting musicians, artists, etc, seemed all the more possible. And what we needed to begin was passion, creativity and people that weren't afraid to just follow they're creative colors... and that is exactly what happened...
taken from their MySpace site'
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