{"id":25720,"date":"2024-09-03T09:01:28","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T16:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/?p=25720"},"modified":"2024-09-03T15:19:49","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T22:19:49","slug":"camosun-student-brings-the-dreamy-noise-with-black-treacle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2024\/09\/03\/camosun-student-brings-the-dreamy-noise-with-black-treacle\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun student brings the dreamy noise with Black Treacle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Local band Black Treacle is making an impression in the music scene, and it\u2019s easy to see why. Their sound is dreamy yet heavy, and instantly transports the listener to a time of basement block parties and Sony Walkmans, a time where tapes of The Cure, The Charlatans, and The Smiths lined teenagers\u2019 shelves. Black Treacle\u2019s music is melancholy, unique, and it imprints itself on those who hear it.<\/p>\n

Vocalist\/guitarist Ray Nufer\u2014who is also a third-year Camosun Visual Arts student, and Nexus<\/i> student editorial assistant\u2014says that the band started as a studio experiment and blossomed from there.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe played our first show in January, so we\u2019ve been performing live for about half a year,\u201d says Nufer. \u201cAfter our first year, we released an album… Harry [Breeze, guitar\/bass synths\/vocals] comes from a recording background, and he was the one who got me interested in tape machines, envelope filters, and other kinds of vintage equipment. Harry brought his recording background to Black Treacle, and I brought a great deal of lyric writing and songwriting\u2014I come from a writing, poetry, and art background. So what I personally bring to Black Treacle is a lot of the visuals, the photography, illustrations, sometimes animation, so together I think we make a pretty great team.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Black Treacle, featuring Camosun College student Ray Nufer (left), tap into the spirit of post-punk with their sound (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And along with drummer Andrew Brown, each band member has been influenced by different music, which helps give Black Treacle\u2014who are playing at this year\u2019s Good Party fest, which is free, although donations for charity will be accepted\u2014its unique sound.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHarry is really \u201960s, \u201970s inspired, and I\u2019m a lot more \u201980s, \u201990s post-punk inspired. We want people to listen to us and feel like they\u2019re listening to a lost eight-track recording.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even though Black Treacle is fairly new on the music scene, they have already had some very memorable musical experiences. For example, the band\u2019s first gig was supposed to be in a little apartment in Chinatown; it got shut down at the last minute and the band hit social media looking for a new space.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, someone answered who had just started putting on painting parties in the basement of Archer Gallery… This person had never hosted music events, we had never put on a live show. But we went there and saw how big and beautiful a space it was, he had lights, we had our own sound equipment, plus one of Andrew\u2019s friends who knew how to drum tech, and all the bands collaborated to make a proper show space, and over 200 people came to the show, like everyone who had heard of Black Treacle and at least 100 more. It turned out to be a really, really big night, and we played fabulously.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nufer says that they still have people approach them about that performance, but the band\u2019s first love will always be the studio.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re a group that was born in the studio, and that will always be our main prerogative, but I personally really like performing,\u201d she says. \u201cHarry and I both agree that we\u2019d like to keep performing on the west coast, where post-punk and alternative rock are pretty well received. We don\u2019t really have ambitions other than just keeping it local and staying true to our creative selves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Good Party fest
\nFriday, September 13
\nSaturday, September 14
\nSunday, September 15
\nFree, Vic West Community Centre<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Local band Black Treacle is making an impression in the music scene, and it\u2019s easy to see why. Their sound is dreamy yet heavy, and instantly transports the listener to a time of basement block parties and Sony Walkmans, a time where tapes of The Cure, The Charlatans, and The Smiths lined teenagers\u2019 shelves. Black […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,316],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-september-3-2024"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25722,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25720\/revisions\/25722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}