FANG CHIA

Fang Chia is an experimental jazz-rock group from Tacoma, WA. The band’s four core members all studied music at the University of Puget Sound and have been playing music together for the past six years. As former members of The Warner House Cat and Electric Minge, their shared musical background is rooted in grit and improvisation. The band’s mission statement has always been to blur the lines between genres and balance complexity with approachability. Often, Fang Chia goes beyond the typical bass-guitar-drums-keys set up, using synthesizers, vibraphones, saxophone, and live brass – frequently through effects and loop pedals. The rhythms tend to be mathy and the harmonies jazzy, but at its core Fang Chia is experimental rock and roll. from www.fangchia.com