The Euphoriants by Scrote

The Euphoriants are feeling pretty great right now. Euphoric you might say. But this is no band of chemically enhanced bongheads . Their hypnotic cocktail of Talking Heads, Frank Black with a dash of XTC is enough to make anyone giddy.

The Los Angeles band (Scrote, Blair Sinta and Joe Sumner) grew out of a collective of world class musicians that couldn't get enough of playing live and would fill in gaps in their touring schedule with zero dollar, zero glory cover gigs up and down Fairfax Avenue. 'Some days I would be shocked listening to some guy shredding a guitar solo or a horn line ...' says singer Joe Sumner 'it would sound just like the records. Then someone would lean in and tell me that he really played on that Chick Corea record or whatever. It really blew my mind. It's what's great about LA. All the talent in the world and they're stuck playing Canter's Deli on a Wednesday'.

Guitarist Scrote is the classic ringmaster conjuring up bands of twenty people or more to play byzantine sets of esoteric Peter Gabriel tracks seemingly from nothing. 'Why have two guitarists when you can have five?' asks Scrote. 'People always surprise you if you just ask nicely...' the trick is he's just as happy to hear a 'no' as he is a 'yes'. ‘ In The Euphoriants our music always surprises us too' says Scrote.

'Our preferred technique for writing is to jam for five hours and tape the whole thing' says Sinta who deliberately blew a series of auditions with major artists to spend more time with the band. 'I always come away thinking that it was a fun waste of time. Then Scrote digs into the recording, picks out a few gems and Boom there's a song.' Sumner concurs 'I'll spend twenty minutes doing some kind of inane scat riff and when Scrote comes back with his fillet du musique it suddenly all makes sense.'

Their song 'Colorful Crime' illustrates this perfectly. At once melodic, tender, chaotic and bombastic it chronicles a couple caught doing something they shouldn't. There's no shame though. In fact, getting caught turns out to be the best part. 'Just like I really 'shouldn't' be playing a Casio digital guitar on these tracks. But when I hear them, I hear the fun we had in the studio and that's what comes across.' Says Sumner. 'Once the track is laid down there's really no turning back.'

Fun and chaos are the major ingredients for The Euphoriants. All three members are multi-instrumentalists and because of their collective background they can always find someone to fill out their musical palette. 'If we need someone to play the Jazz oboe we can find them in a second' says Scrote. 'But if we don't need them tomorrow they can still hang. The bar is always open.'

And thanks to The Euphoriants the music is great!

Scrote is an innovative artist & producer that works around the world.

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