Alluvion - MN

If anyone is wondering what the next "basement gem" to come out of Minnesota's underbelly is going to sound like, they should probably talk to Berndt Evenson, the guitar-weilding gent responsible for Alluvion.

Evenson has been in various musical groups since he was a teenager, ranging from psychedelic rock (Con Queso, featuring Seth Mooney, and Greg Norton of legendary punk band Husker Du) to Tech-House and Hip-Hop (Simply Us, featuring Dustin Lundell, and Roe Pressley aka Swee2th of Minneapolis based SubClass ent.). While playing numerous festivals and clubs in the surrounding midwest alongside talents such as The Meat Puppets, Eyedea, Carnage, Dessa, Sole, Kanser, and Kris Krane, he was toiling with the sounds that would soon develop into what is now known as Alluvion.

The first four Alluvion albums (taken down by the creator "to start fresh," as he says,) were rough, but playful explorations in dark, yet mellow wobbly bass synth sounds, combined with melodic textures, and thumping percussion. The full length release "The Deepest Depths of Shallow Waters", was a whole new beginning in more ways than one; Evenson not only clearly improved his production skills (due in part to help from friend Karl Folk aka EvilScience,) but took his love of movie and song sampling and threw in a great deal more live guitar and even several tracks with his own, albeit mostly heavily processed, vocals. It is an impressive new turn and continues to show that Alluvion's releases are anything but predictable.

Fresh off the 2017 Spring Tour (which consisted of 36 shows in 40 days,) through practically every state west of Minnesota, Evenson began planning more shows for the upper mid-west and beyond with intentions to release more full length releases before another full tour cycle. His cover/remixes of Eiffel 65's "Blue (Da Ba Dee)", Tove Lo's hit "Habits" and Bob Dylan's "Ballad of Hollis Brown" have certainly caught the attention of audiences; and although he says he has no intention of becoming a "cover band" he enthusiastically hints at more remixes in the near future, "I have some really interesting ideas for the next ones (laughs,) I doubt anyone will see them coming."

The Alluvion concert experience features live guitar, midi tweaking, analogue ribbon improvisation, and heavily effect driven vocals. Evenson seems determined to assure audience members, that this isn't typical EDM or basement rock; however, once you've seen or heard Alluvion, that becomes delightfully apparent. The ongoing motto from Alluvion over the past few years has been, Feel The Waves, with the ever-growing sound from album to album, it has become clear how that came to be.

al·lu·vi·on
əˈlo͞ovēən
noun/LAW
the action of the sea or a river in forming new land by deposition.