What excites me most right now? My favorite young songwriter, Anthony Masington, is heading into Applehead Studio in a few weeks to lay down tracks for his Session 606 debut! This has been several years in the making, being as many of the songs began taking shape 5 years ago in his hometown of Trevose, Pennsylvania (in his basement). At the very end of 2008, asthmatic Ant bit the bullet- left everything he ever knew and relocated to Kingston, New York to work with producer and fellow musician David “Wavis” Parker (original Coheed and Cambria live keyboardist) on recording (t)his material. The two had sporadically worked together over the course of 2 years whenever Third Star Warrior could rack up enough dough to afford travel and studio time at Darkworld Studio. One fateful day after relocating while Ant and Wavis were working on “The Great Act of Failure”- Josh Eppard stopped by the studio and instantly fell in love with Anthony’s musicianship. Having been the house session drummer at that time, Josh sat behind his kit and tracked drums to the aforementioned song as well as “Exodus 8:25” and “Sound of Machines.” Their musical bond was so strong and deeply inspiring that as a result of this union… This rebirth… Wavis, Ant and Josh formed MOURS, putting all other projects on hold for about 4 months. Then the group’s focus shifted to reviving Josh’s project, Weerd Science, being as the sophomore record was nearly completed prior to the change of pace that Mours brought about. They lost the studio spot. April 20th, 2009 Josh, Wavis and Ant went to Cornell Street Studios with Gangstroph The Baptist and DJ Dirty Ern to rehearse for the Weerd Science live show when 3’s Joey Eppard, Daniel Grimsland and Gartdrumm stopped in. The 8 epically rocked out to “Dear S.A.M. I’m Dead too You” and “Clap if You 3> Someone" among other songs. Fortunately performances of those two songs were recorded and posted to youtube archiving the moment. Now in 2010 Josh is wrapping up recording his latest project and gearing up to tour the United States with Terrible Things. Anthony just played the first show with his latest project, The Flatline Symphony and recorded a song for Flannel Channel. This Session 606 studio time is well overdue and I’m freaking stoked to hear Chris Bittner play bass again! Many many thanks to the far-too-awesome Chris Pohlman and Tyler Wohlfelder for helping make this possible!
The multi-dimensional Anthony Masington
Session 606 - his brainchild
The Flatline Symphony - Ant sings, plays keyboard and engineers for Delaware’s TFS. Please vote for them to play Camden’s Warped Tour! http://www.battleofthebands.com/theflatlinesymphony
Weerd Science - he plays guitar and sings background vocals in the live band
Progrefs - Ant’s pop-rock demos
A Scream For the Memory - his foray into the world of electronic music from 2006. The lyrics to “Barebones” were inspired by an old poem of mine.
Follow Ant Masington @AntMasciantonio
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