It’s not bluegrass, or alternative country or jam. Ultimately, what they are doing is adding to Durango’s music scene with original tunes and an original sound. Again, rather than just trying to figure out what chords he’s playing and just playing something, I am really trying to find something that fits what the intention is of the song and am cognizant of being patient as much as playing.” “It became less about the bass for me, and more about how I can sonically enhance these songs, or what songs I do have that kind of meld into some sonic platform,” Carey said. It’s a mutual partnership of collaboration and respect for each other’s musical contributions to the band. If one writes a particular part, the other comes along and finds a way to add to that existing part.

Both Beck and Carey are web developers, and their love of technology rolls over into their process of making music. That style is all based on experimentation. I would fiddle and try to steer kind of clear with sticking with regular chords, and I would explore the neck and say, ‘Oh that sounds good, and that sounds good, too.’ So that kind of set the pace for me to write in the style that I do.” “But also when I first started, I didn’t really know what I was doing. “I haven’t really learned any cover songs because I enjoyed writing so much,” Beck said. Always a fan of outsider music, it was skateboarding and punk rock that got him chasing music that is “obscure and hard to find.”īeck picked up the guitar in high school after being grounded and was always someone who wanted to explore learning the guitar without going down a traditional path. His most recent contributions to the local music scene include playing in the gypsy band Carute Roma and most recently with afrobeat outfit Afrobeatniks. He was a member of The Shi*Heels and Graze, two bands that played punk covers and cow-punk with bluegrass instrumentation. With a local music resume that dates back to the mid-1990s, Carey has the longest history of playing music in the area. The band, who are Alexii Carey on bass and vocals, Nathan Beck on guitar and vocals and Ryan Swoverland on drums will perform Saturday with indie-surf-psychedelic band The Crags at the Mancos Brewing Co.

They’re a local trio you’d toss into the indie-rock category, a band playing mid-tempo melodic rock that’s part psychedelic, part ambient and experimental and all original. No “Highway Star.” No “Free Bird.” No “Proud Mary” and certainly no “Wagon Wheel.” Or for those not in the know on the lingo, they don’t play other people’s tunes. Local band ShadowTrapp doesn’t do covers.

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