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The folk- influenced experimental trio Akron Family Band is touring in support of its new album, “Sub Verses.”
It’s a beautiful, sunny day in Los Angeles and Miles Seaton has the day off.
“It’s like the calm before the storm,” he says during a recent phone interview. “I’m enjoying this day before I head out on tour with the band. Then the craziness will begin.”
Seaton is one-third of the folk-influenced experimental band Akron Family Band. The other members include Seth Olinsky and Dana Janssen.
The group is gearing up to release its new album “Sub Verses” this month and Seaton is excited about it.
“It’s been a long time coming,” he explains. “It’s an interesting process for us when we make music. This album took us about a year and we took our time deciding which songs would make the album.”
Seaton is quick to say that each song had its own process from beginning to end.
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“The songs are all like children and each one is different,” he says. “You have to nurture each one a different way and it can be difficult because sometimes the songs don’t come out the way you’d like them to. It’s a lengthy process for us.”
Seaton says he can’t wait to get on the road and perform the new songs live.
“We’ve been keeping them to ourselves for so long,” he says. “We can’t wait to see the reactions to it all.”
While most people think the band is mellow because of its folk influence, Seaton says that the trio rocks out on stage.
“When we go out there, it’s on,” he explains. “We leave everything on the stage. We put all of our heart and effort into the performance so that at the end of the show, we’re satisfied with it all.”
Seaton says while he does enjoy being on tour, studio time also is great.
“There are advantages to both,” he says. “I love interacting with people and the spontaneity of performance, and I love just as much the ability recording gives you to truly get inside an idea. With those ideas, we get to build and build until we have something that is representative of us.”
With the live show, Seaton says he enjoys getting spiritual with the audience.
“Music for me happens the night of the show,” he says. “There’s the band performing and the crowd receiving. With those two subjects set in motion, it quickly becomes about the experience of it all. We are all souls coming together for a common thing. At the end of the set, I want to feel like I’ve given my all to the crowd. When we do give our all, we can immediately see it on the faces. That’s what music is to me.”
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