Skysaw formed in 2009 by Chicago, IL & Arlington, VA musicians under the recommendation of mutual friends, and the group members have since been writing and recording songs through a cross-country collaboration. Mike Reina and Anthony Pirog were writing cohorts in the much-loved Fairfax, VA-based group, The Jackfields, whose Pink Floyd-meets-Beach Boys psychedelia was widely lauded. Jimmy Chamberlin is known to music fans around the world as the virtuoso behind the drum kit with such venerated acts as The Smashing Pumpkins, Zwan and Jimmy Chamberlin Complex. These three musicians of Skysaw have now created brilliant, tuneful and whip-smart pop music that can loosely be described with words like "progressive" and "symphonic," while at the same time deserving their own category.
The group were formerly known as This and had released a six-track EP entitled Great Civilizations online on November 1st but removed it soon afterwards because they were unhappy with their name. Billy Corgan, who performed with Chamberlin in both Smashing Pumpkins and the short-lived Zwan, gave his former bandmate his support via Twitter; “I heard Jimmy Chamberlin’s band has a new moniker: ‘Skysaw‘. Cool name.”
Chamberlin said, "My thoughts on Skysaw after we first started writing were that this is something very special. Having worked in many varied situations, I can honestly say that Skysaw is much different from anything I have experienced in the past. The icing on the cake is to be partnered up with Dangerbird Records -- certainly some of the brightest minds in the new music business paradigm. We look forward to moving into the future with them!"
Pirog states, "We've never had a conversation about what kind of band we should be, or what kind of music we should write. Skysaw is just what the three of us do collectively -- the sum of three very distinct musical personalities who share a common goal of creating great music."
Reina concludes, "If I had to put it down to one sentence, I'd say Skysaw is here because there are things in life that move us and just can't be put into words, so we make songs using everything we love and hate about the world, and everything we wish we could change about ourselves and each other."
Skysaw is Jimmy Chamberlin, Anthony Pirog, Mike Reina and Boris Skalsky, Paul Wood. Debut full length album "Great Civilizations" coming May 2011 on Dangerbird Records.
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