Ellipsis...
A band with multiple personalities.
What is Ellipsis?
el.lip.sis \i-'lip-s*s, e-\ \-'lip-.se-z\ n or
el.lip.ses
[L, fr. Gk elleipsis ellipsis, ellipse, fr. elleipein to leave
out, pl fall short, fr. en in + leipein to leave]
1a: the omission of one or more words that can be obviously
understood and supplied to make a construction seem more complete
(as in "the man he sees" for "the man that he sees")
1b: a leap or sudden passage without logical connectives from one
topic to another
2: marks or a mark (as ... or *** or -) showing omission esp. of
letters or words
Who is Ellipsis?
Ellipsis is a garage band, pretty much... or basement, actually.
(Originally Suki's... then Sri's... then Eric's... then Suki's
again...) We met at the University of Maryland and got together to
form a consulting company, and to relax after the meetings we
brought our instruments along. Eventually we all got different jobs
so the company never materialized, but a band sort of appeared in
its place. And then we all got new instruments.
And then Sri went to Alaska, then Massachusetts, then Washington
state, so we don't play together much any more.
- David MacKenzie
- vocals, guitar, keyboards, bass
- Sridhar Rao
- drums
- Suki Hirata
- guitar, bass, drums
- Eric
Poh
- bass, guitar, keyboards, vocals
- Keith Barteck
- bass, vocals
What do they play?
As you can imagine after looking at the above list, figuring out
who does what on any given song can be... interesting. We find that
arranging songs for 5 amateurs can be pretty difficult, not to
mention getting everything mixed audibly above the drums without
provoking the neighbors to have us arrested, or finding times when
everyone can get together all at the same time. So we often break
into factions of 2-4 people instead and sidestep the question.
Looks like some other guys have had similar experiences.
Everyone in the band is a Rush fan, so most of the covers we do
end up being Rush songs. We've also tried some Smashing Pumpkins
and Police stuff. Usually we get part way through the song and
can't remember the rest... thus the band's name.
The style of our original music is sort of updated classic rock
with an ambient twist... Sri describes it as "folk-thrash"... maybe
"folk-Rush" would be more appropriate if we keep adding
keyboards...
Recordings
Our first album was going to be called "Obscure", for reasons that
are, uh... never mind. But we never made it, just some demos and
jams, and Dave's songs got better recordings on his solo albums.