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Aceface - Threatlevel

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ACEFACE was assembled by Carl Nanders, a Toronto-born vocalist, guitarist and songwriter. ACEFACE is an explosive mix arising from the sounds of Nanders' s classical music studies and a love of the music that was born in the era of the Who, Pet Sounds, mod-soul and Brit-pop. Nanders is a classically-trained multi-instrumentalist who also composes his own string & wind arrangements. Parallel to ACEFACE's upcoming 6-song EP - slated for a winter 2007 release - he is currently working on a solo project as well.

The depth and multi-faceted nature of ACEFACE must be explored fully to be understood. More than a band, they represent a living, breathing, manifesto.

"The very point of modernism is that it's uncompromising in its search for the new horizon, the new expression, or the new sound. I've heard people say "for a band called Aceface you don't sound all that mod", to which I reply "yeah? that says a lot more about your limits than mine. There's something inherently self-defeating about the concept of a mod "revival" or "revivalist", especially when it's based in copying the past...

There's using the great art of the past as a springboard to new ideas and sounds, and then there's turning yourself into some sort of tribute to the past, whether 10, 20, 30 or 40 years back. I'd much rather see myself in the former camp than the latter, and if "purists" don't like it they should move into a museum and start calling themselves "historians" rather than "modernists".

"Besides, there never was a mod revival in Germany; they never went away. I was a mod for years before I realized I was one. I loved the suits, scooters and music, without ever realizing there was ever any commonality between them."

One day, someone said, "do you know what mods are"? Nanders then realized there was a sub-culture that captured every ethic of art, music and pop sensibility that had always inspired him, in a neat little package called "modernism".

Fast-forward to Canada 2004: "Sometimes I feel like I'm proselytizing to North Americans - that there is just a smarter, more urbane and worldly existence available than the frat-boy-fed shit culture that we live in - crap anger bands and vapid ignorant machismo."

"A great set of ideas is a great set of ideas. Regardless of what geographical location they originate from, reducing a set of universal ideas to Anglophilia or Americana or any such term is completely disingenuous and the last refuge of the hack journalist or hack thinker."

ACEFACE are made up of Nanders, alongside Dutch guitarist Freek Siezenga, keyboardist / vocalist Michael Anderson (Scottish-born Canadian) and Canadians Matthew James Leaker (bass) and drummer Gregory Lyons.

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released January 1, 2004

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