Soda Ash

A darkpop band with intensely beautiful--yet often bilefully angry--songs, Soda Ash delivers dirty angel-tinged music with sensual emotion. Finding their influences in such varied genres as industrial rock, punk, new wave, lounge and Britpop, Soda Ash presents the listener with a paradigm of rock music--without sacrificing pop sensibilities. Soda Ash leads their audience down a path filled with tribal drums, throbbing bass structures, hypnotizing guitar riffs, haunting keyboard melodies, controlled feedback, blistering punch, and a healthy dose of twenty-first century spite. Reviewers have compared them to bands as diverse as Curve, The Velvet Underground, Hole, Garbage, Placebo, Vast, Jesus & Mary Chain and Ministry.

Formed in the college town of Columbia, MO, Soda Ash has built a sizable following in Missouri. In the summer of 1999, Soda Ash toured the West Coast of the US as part of the MidSummer's Nyte Scream Tour, and have engaged upon a few Midwest tours since then. Soda Ash has performed with such groups as Kevorkian Death Cycle, Gitane Demone (formerly of Christian Death), Apocalypse Theatre, Nocturne, and Gooding.

Reviewers throughout the states have found Soda Ash's live show to be an energy filled romp, filled with sexy anger and vitality. In January of 1999, Soda Ash released their debut LP, Sci-Fi Lullaby, on fledgeling indie label Graffenberg Records. On March 3, 2001, Soda Ash released their sophomore effort, Box of Gods, and will tour in support of the release.
Soda Ash members' cities of origin span the continent: Erin Knowles, vocals, keyboards, programming from Tampa, FL; Josh Spiekermann, guitar, from St. Louis, MO; Erma Zimmerman, drums, from Davis, CA; Brandon York, guitar, from Falmouth, KY, Tony Guillory, Bass, from Munich, Mike Farmer, Guitar, Bass, from Columbia, MO.