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Local band aims to involve listeners
■Cyrus Grape blends a mixture
of jazz and psychedelic rock,
featuring long guitar solos
By Courtney Sweet
for the Emerald
Local band Cyrus Grape is all
about the music.
Together for just less than a year,
the band consists of guitarist and
lead vocalist Nate Bech, key
boardist and back-up vocalist John
Kelley and drummer Ryan Davis.
Bech and Kelley met while liv
ing in the University residence
halls, and they also had classes
together in the School of Music.
The two played together for about
three years before Davis, whom
they had met previously, joined
them last spring.
“Nate and John had gone
through several drummers. Then
they called me,” Davis said.
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Bech, who has played guitar for
about 10 years, is the driving force
behind Cyrus Grape. He not only
acts as the group’s spokesman, but
also writes the majority of its music.
“I write out the main ideas,
melody and harmony. The band
fills in the rest,” he said.
Their sound features lengthy
guitar solos and often swings be
tween laid-back jazz and psyche
delic rock in the same song. Al
though the band’s major
influence is Pink Floyd, Bech
said Miles Davis and Mahavishnu
Orchestra have had an impact on
them as well.
Cyrus Grape, whose next live
appearance is scheduled for Feb.
23 at Cafe Paradiso, performs
songs that usually last well into
the eight-minute range and are vo
cally sparse. Rather, they tend to
focus on Bech’s guitar stylings and
the various talents of the other
band members. “Our songs can be
kind of long and arduous,” Bech
said. “Have patience.”
“We ask the listener to be in
volved,” Kelley added.
Kelley has played the piano
since third grade. He has written a
few songs for the band, citing “a
lot of classical music” as an influ
ence, along with Argentinean tan
go musician Astor Piazzolla
While the rest of the band tends
to overpower his music, Kelley
plays a significant role in filling
out the band’s sound. Without a
bass player in the band, his key
board adds another dimension to
the music.
Davis, a junior at the University,
has played drums for six years.
During the more powerful sections
of Cyrus Grape’s music, Davis pro
vides a pounding back beat to
Bech’s guitar.
His influence, when brought to
the forefront, brings the band’s mu
sic from fairly mellow jazz to a
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Cyrus Grape, a local band whose influences range from Pink Floyd to tango musician Astor
Piazzolla, will perform at Cafe Paradiso on Feb. 23.
much more rock-influenced sound.
Cyrus Grape also occasionally
features cellist Matt Wilkinson,
who Bech said is “kind of a con
stant guest performer,” but may
join the band later.
Wilkinson met the band mem
bers through music classes at the
University, and has played with
Cyrus Grape about three times in
live shows.
Their collaboration began when
Bech wrote some music for
Wilkinson to play with the band.
“He wrote a piece for me and it
went from there,” Wilkinson said.
“He’s starting to write a lot more
music for me. ”
Like Kelley, Wilkinson is occa
sionally drowned out by the pow
er of the guitar and drums. When
his music does shine through,
however, it mellows the band’s
sound and lends it a more classi
cal air.
Student Juliana Baseman enjoys
Cyrus Grape’s sound.
“You can hear their music,” she
said at their Feb. 7 show at Cafe
Paradiso. “Especially in a live
show, you can see they enjoy it,
they enjoy what they’re doing.”
Cyrus Grape, whose name, Bech
said, comes from a children’s book,
hopes to finish recording and
pressing an album by summer.
Currently, they only have a demo
CD available at their shows.
Courtney Sweet is a freelance reporter
forthe Emerald.
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