keram

Always defying classification, Keram is an experimenter and pioneer, having been one of the first artists to make music available online back in 1991. Ranging from ambient circuit bent minimalism, to heartbreaking acoustic folk, from noise core punk to sugary Tokyo pop, he follows his whims and fulfills them all. A growing number of listeners around the world have learned to follow him on the adventure.

Keram's musical output is a slippery fish that belies deeper intellectual undercurrents than one may detect upon a first listen. Rife with self-conscious, culture-jamming and otherwise socially analytical innuendo, the material often wraps itself with indelibly catchy and au-currant (but likely tongue-in-cheek) song-forms, while lyrically retracing its footsteps with pathological tenacity along the path of stark darkness towards spiritual purification and self-awareness.

"Keram Malicki-Sanchez is on stage and all dressed up with every place to go. The boys a psychedelic vision...a one-man cultural blitzkrieg, active in music, theatre, film, philosophy, writing and publishing. Fans of his band Blue Dog Pict are enthusiastic to the point of being cultish." - Lenny Stoute - Toronto Star

"There are a rare breed of people who are not merely artistic but ultra-artistic. Not merely content to be in a band, they have too many ideas for one project. They play music, they write, they make films, they act, they paint, do any of a hundred other things, and they do them all with various degrees of skill that would make the less talented person sick. LA-based Keram Malicki-Sanchez appears to be one of those people.

Keram blends styles indiscriminately, mixing rock, new-wave, electronic experimentation, and pure, catchy, hook-laden pop all at once. At times, it sounds remarkably similar to other, well-established musicians, while at other times it takes on the truly unique feel he was obviously pursuing. " - Jeff Marsh, delusions of Adequacy

Note: This is not Keram himself - this profile was created by his Street Team to promote his music to the world


The Hanging Tree - Keram live in Toronto

The Hanging Tree - by Keram, performed by Heather Graham for the movie Broken