The Armsmen
The Armsmen
Genres: Garage Punk, psychobilly, denmark, punk rock, Lo-Fi
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About The Armsmen
The Armsmen was an extremely short-lived Danish garage punk band. The band consisted of Sebastian Sharif (vocals, guitar, organ), Dimitris Kafidas (vocals, guitar) and Jelena Bundalovic (drums, vocals). The trio - of Iraqi, Greek and Serbian descent respectively - played all western blues-based music, raucous, amateurish garage rock channeling The Gories' primitive stomp, The Mummies' vintage worship and Oblivians' fuzzed up mayhem. Dimitris and Sebastian started playing drums and synthbass respectively in their friends' band, Copenhagen-based shoegaze/dream pop band The Brazierlights in the Window, with very little playing experience. In the beginning Sebastian's drumming was rudimentary at best, while Dimitris had tiny stickers on a Microkorg telling him what to play. Hitting it off over their shared love for Crystal Stilts and hardcore punk, the two decided to form a project and soon started recording slobby guitar tracks played directly into a soundcard in Sebastian's dorm room with only a drum machine for rhythm section. Wanting to recruit a drummer, a friend suggested Jelena, a creatively restless, multi-talented soul involved in amateur filmmaking, acting (she has starred as a supporting role in nationally broadcasted TV-series, Dicte, and a feature film, Nordvest), dancing and more. Jelena hardly listened to music at all (least of all garage rock) and had not played drums since elementary school, but was nevertheless up for the job. Not surprisingly she was a match made in heaven for the proudly dilettantish band, and so The Armsmen was formed, existing for little less than a year in 2012 during which they only played one gig: the 40th birthday party of Dimitris' brother-in-law. The band disbanded amicably when Dimitris and Sebastian moved up north of Copenhagen in order to live in a commune. Despite the short existence, the band recorded a lot of demos with the crude setup of a single, cheapo condenser-mic placed in the middle of the rehearsal space. A tape featuring these recordings is set to be released in early 2015 on Vortexas Records, the micro-label run by Sebastian. Since then Dimitris and Sebastian, now slightly more proficient, has been busy with a new band, Mongrels.
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