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Hometown: Chapel Hill, NC
Label: elemental
Management: Aaron Smithers
Website: www.myspace.com
Genre: Other
The Hem of His Garment is a loosely-defined heavy-drone collective functioning in Chapel Hill and the greater Triangle area of North Carolina. The Hem has continued to expand in flux, performing in ensembles ranging from three to as many as fourteen contributing musicians.
The Hem's compositions most often involve some direct manipulation of phase (or frequency) cancellation, which at high volumes creates phantom-like, unharnessed rhythmic effects. Ideally, listeners will be able to react physically to the sound waves: to this end, The Hem usually employs slowly modulating bass and sub-bass tones which can be felt as well as heard.
“But the highlight was Chapel Hill's drone collective.... The piling layers of tone the group laid upon the audience became thick and heavy enough that they became a physical entity...creating a disorienting sense of space and time as their hour-long song took flight.”
Bryan Reed - Daily Tar Heel
