Immaterial Possession
Immaterial Possession Live in 8MM 02.05.24
8MM
Schönhauser Allee 177b
May 2, 2024
7:00 PM GMT+2
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Crunch Tapes Berlin & Positive Transmitter Agency present:
Conjuring a mysterious brew of folk, psychedelia, world music, and progressive rock, Immaterial Possession are a group from Athens, Georgia whose music takes listeners into a world all their own. Their sound is exotic without being forbidding, created within the framework of pop music while embracing a mindset that falls outside its boundaries, and generating a sense of joy even when it slips into a shadowy mood. The group introduced themselves with their self-titled debut album in 2020, and 2023’s Mercy of the Crane Folk fleshed out their ideas with greater skill and assurance.
Immaterial Possession was formed by Cooper Holmes and Madeline Polites, a pair of multidisciplinary artists originally from Atlanta. They had been part of a community of musicians, artists, and theatrical performers who had established themselves in the city’s D.I.Y. underground scene. Feeling confined by the size of Atlanta, Holmes and Polites relocated to nearby Athens, a college town that had a reputation as a home for free-thinking and bohemian culture in the Peach State. The two were eager to start a band, with Holmes on bass and vocals and Polites on guitar and vocals. Looking for like-minded collaborators, they found experienced percussionist John Spiegel and keyboardist and woodwinds player Kiran Fernandes (whose father, John Kiran Fernandes, was a member of celebrated Elephant 6 group Olivia Tremor Control).
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Immaterial Possession Biography
Immaterial Possession first conjoined in a secret tunnel under the town of Athens, GA, USA. Madeline Polites made her way there, riding on the operatic waves of an exploding cauldron in the middle of the Aegean Sea. Along the way she was taken in by a colony of Sirens, in which she is forever dedicated to.. in addition to voice, she was given special permission to shred the strings of her guitar into thin strands of shining hair (so long as she uses her very own finger nails). These strands are fine enough to travel across the skies via the wind, albeit sometimes dangerously, causing fires..
Cooper Holmes, bassist + vocalist, had been living in the tower of an old decaying mansion, where he worked all day restoring it’s bones. Eventually, it hit him that deep, driving, sexy base frequencies were the most efficient way of moving matter, and thus made his way to the tunnels to practice more of this lost ancient craft.. and found Madeline down there doing the very same thing.
Somewhere down the halls, they heard the songs of a dancing hollowed out piece of tree, swirling around in familiar yet expanding geometric patterns.. it turned out to be Kiran Fernandes downloading a subterranean folk symphony from the guidance of inscriptions from past tunnel dwellers. Instruments began appearing like magic and cycled through his hands like a chef intuitively cooking up an ancestral meal of gourmet genetic codes. He had mapped out a rout to Cappadocia and the three began digging..
A fourth being, of revolving identities-but who often calls themselves ‘the drummer’- travels down to steady the earthen foundation through use of percussive alignment. This mysterious entity is as playfully morphing as a Gargoylian village on the face of a church in Prague.
From above, faint echoes enter the tunnels, asking, ‘What’s that strange but familiar psychedelic, folk, pop, post-punk, rock-and-roll stuff I’m hearing ooze out of the ground…?’ Below, Immaterial Possession laughs as they avert the resolution by changing the channel.
Read MoreCooper Holmes, bassist + vocalist, had been living in the tower of an old decaying mansion, where he worked all day restoring it’s bones. Eventually, it hit him that deep, driving, sexy base frequencies were the most efficient way of moving matter, and thus made his way to the tunnels to practice more of this lost ancient craft.. and found Madeline down there doing the very same thing.
Somewhere down the halls, they heard the songs of a dancing hollowed out piece of tree, swirling around in familiar yet expanding geometric patterns.. it turned out to be Kiran Fernandes downloading a subterranean folk symphony from the guidance of inscriptions from past tunnel dwellers. Instruments began appearing like magic and cycled through his hands like a chef intuitively cooking up an ancestral meal of gourmet genetic codes. He had mapped out a rout to Cappadocia and the three began digging..
A fourth being, of revolving identities-but who often calls themselves ‘the drummer’- travels down to steady the earthen foundation through use of percussive alignment. This mysterious entity is as playfully morphing as a Gargoylian village on the face of a church in Prague.
From above, faint echoes enter the tunnels, asking, ‘What’s that strange but familiar psychedelic, folk, pop, post-punk, rock-and-roll stuff I’m hearing ooze out of the ground…?’ Below, Immaterial Possession laughs as they avert the resolution by changing the channel.
Folk Rock
Indie Rock
Psychedelic Rock
Psychedelic Pop
Folk Noir
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