Almost all the money from a BandCamp purchase goes to the artist. So making a purchase there and paying a little extra helps musicians out quite a bit right now.. Here's The Saxophones Bandcamp page and a little nugget from their Bandcamp bio:
'It's so easy to stay where we are; it's a miracle anything ever changes.' Words you might not expect from somebody who has recently welcomed not just a second album but a second child into their world. Then again, change and movement come quite naturally to The Saxophones: this is a band who wrote their first album on board a boat, and who have called their second album Eternity Bay, fusing physical place with a spiritual sense of time.The Saxophones' band name, however, started out as a half-joke for the song-writing project of Alexi Erenkov, then a disillusioned jazz student who'd recently ditched the instrument. Jazz didn't offer the room for self-expression that he sought. To song-writing he turned, its straightforward, limber form a liberation from the complex musical arrangements of his university studies.Continue reading all about The Saxophones and their new Album out now titled Eternity Bay.
The solo project became a band when Alexi's wife Alison joined the ranks on percussion. Their debut album, Songs of the Saxophones, pitched up just before the birth of their first son in 2018. Written aboard the boat they lived on together, amid the incessant rain of a northern Californian winter, the record established The Saxophones' style. Drawing from fifties exotica, west coast jazz, and seventies Italian lyricism, drama seeps into their deceptively simple sound, transforming dreamy surf pop into thoughtfully textured pieces, with a spaciousness at their core.
