The second installment of Seaprog took place June 20-22, again with the Friday night event at the Royal Room and Saturday and Sunday at the Columbia City Theater. Thanks to some financial assistance from le Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the long-running Canadian band Miriodor provided a solid anchor for the festival.
Once again, variety was the theme, with examples from most of the streams of progressive music, including RIO, jazz fusion, space rock, progressive metal, zeuhl, psychedelic, and more. The Northwest was well represented by The Mercury Tree (Portland), Fang Chia (Tacoma), and several bands from Seattle. Corima came up from Los Angeles to fill in the rest of the West Coast.
Held: June 20, 2014 — June 22, 2014
Featuring performances by
Autumn Electric
Autumn Electric is a Seattle-based psychedelic folk-rock band with a tendency to produce epic rambling tracks full of differing sections and...
- Chris Barrios — Drums, percussion, vocals
- Naomi Adele Smith — Keyboards, synthesizers, melodica, vocals
- Max Steiner — Lead guitar, vocals
- Michael Trew — Electric and acoustic guitar, lead vocal, flute, banjo, synth flutes, spoken word
- Johnny Unicorn — Bass, alto saxophone, vocals
Badwater Fire Company
Badwater Fire Company redefines what can be done with the classic guitar trio format. Their complex music brings to mind the elaborate...
- Shane Rossmiller — Guitar, voice
- Michael Pearson — Bass
- Matthew Singler — Drums
Baribrotzer Solo
Baribrotzer Solo is, what else, a solo project, by John Hagelbarger. John currently plays keyboards, writes songs, and does other things with...
- John Hagelbarger — Keyboards, woodwinds, vocals
Being John McLaughlin
Breaking with the Seaprog tradition of all-original music, we're happy to be presenting Being John McLaughlin, a tribute to John McLaughlin and the...
- Tristan Gianola — Guitar
- Alicia DeJoie — Violin
- Ryan Burns — Keyboards
- Geoff Harper — Bass
- John Bishop — Drums
Corima
Corima was formed in 2005 in El Paso, Texas by high school friends Erik Martinez, Jaime Silva, Juan Tarin, and Sergio Sánchez. Initially inspired...
- Ryan Kamiyamazaki — Bass
- Patrick Takashi Shiroishi — Saxophones
- Andrea Calderón — Violin
- Francisco Casanova — Keyboards
- Sergio Sánchez — Drums
Fang Chia
Fang Chia is an experimental jazz-rock group from Tacoma, WA and the culmination of four friends playing music together for six years. After...
- Kyle Durkee — Keyboards, bass, guitar, trumpet, percussion, vibes
- Matt Price — Drums, percussion, keys, marimba
- Kevin Shintaku — Bass, guitar, percussion, glockenspiel
- Coby Tamayo — Guitar, drums, piano, percussion
Jim Bartz
Jim Bartz is a guitarist and inventor who will be presenting a set of music played on a 1939 Rickenbacker lap steel guitar, but something that...
- Jim Bartz — Lap steel guitar
Midday Veil
Midday Veil began in 2008 as a collaboration between Emily Pothast, a vocalist and songwriter who earned an MFA in visual art before devoting her...
- Emily Pothast — Voice, synths, percussion
- David Golightly — Synths, piano, organ
- Timm Mason — Baritone guitar, 12-string guitar, modular synth
- Jayson Kochan — Bass, guitar
- Garrett Moore — Drums
- Sam Yoder — Percussion
Miriodor
Miriodor was formed in 1980 (in Québec City) by the meeting of François Émond and Pascal Globensky. Different musicians came and went until the...
- Rémi Leclerc — Drums
- Pascal Globensky — Keyboards
- Bernard Falaise — Guitar
- Nicolas Lessard — Bass, keyboards
Spacebag
Spacebag (the band, not that thing you use to organize your closets, which is two words) is a Seattle trio playing something sort of like...
- Dave Webb — Guitar
- Andrew Gormley — Drums
- Luke Laplante — Keyboards
Spontaneous Rex
Spontaneous Rex is an experimental jazz and avant-rock band based in Seattle. The band focuses on originals and covers that range from modern jazz...
- Jake Sele — Keyboards
- Matt Williams — Guitar
- Joe Eck — Drums (2014)
- Nick Lonien — Bass (2014)
- Moe Weisner — Bass (2018)
- Kyle Doran — Drums (2018)
Super Z Attack Team
Super Z Attack Team started as a spin-off from the band Zhongyu, a studio-oriented project formed by multi-instrumentalist and composer Jon Davis....
- James DeJoie — Woodwinds, voice, electronics
- Randy Doak — Acoustic and electronic percussion
- Jon Davis — Chapman Stick, electronics
Tempered Steel
Tempered Steel features Ffej, Frank Junk, and Dennis Rea playing amplified, electronically processed thumb pianos. The trio's seamless...
- Frank Junk — Electrified thumb piano
- Ffej — Electrified thumb piano
- Dennis Rea — Electrified thumb piano
The Mercury Tree
This experimental Portland trio, formed in 2006, specialize in creative overuse of their effect pedals. Their latest material includes extensive...
- Ben Spees — Guitar, voice, keyboard
- Connor Reilly — Drums
- Aaron Clark — Bass, backing vocals (2014)
- Oliver Campbell — Bass, vocals (2018)
The Pornadoes
The Pornadoes is one of guitarist Jason Goessl's other projects — quite different from Trimtab, which blew away the Seaprog 2013...
- Jason Goessl — Guitar
- Ethan Sobotta — Bass
- Tom Zgonc — Drums
Zubatto Syndicate
The Zubatto Syndicate is a new 12-piece ensemble under the direction of composer and guitarist Andrew Boscardin. This exciting new group – a...
- Andrew Boscardin — Guitar
- Eric Peters — Drums
- David Marriott, Jr. — Trombone
- Chris Credit — Bass clarinet, tenor saxophone
- Francine Peterson — Bassoon
- Jim Sisko — Trumpet
- Janet Putnam — Oboe
- Dave Pascal — Bass
- Tim Kennedy — Keyboards
- Steve Tressler — Alto saxophone
- Jim DeJoie — Baritone saxophone