Snõõper (the Project) began as a collaboration between local
Nashville punk mainstay Connor Cummins and Blair Tramel, an early
education teacher with a sideline in wickedly funny animation and art.
As their cassette tapes and homemade videos began to find scattered
fans around the world, the duo brought the Project to the live stage
in late 2021 and Snõõper (the Band) was born. Featuring one of the
wildest live shows out there, as well a maelstrom of puppets, 8 bit
animation, papier-mâché, whistles, flashing lights and a whirling
dervish of bodies, Snõõper commits the live act to a studio setting
and sets the stage for one of the most promising punk debut albums in
decades. But don’t take our word for it; here’s Henry Rollins,
at-length on the magic of Snõõper: In the briefest of descriptions,
Snõõper is a band who, in a 33 1/3 rpm world, make 45 rpm music they
play at 78 and it completely works. Even at this incredible speed,
Snõõper (the kinetic duo of musician Connor Cummins and visual/video
artist, Blair Tramel) is super precise instrumentally and skillfully
melodic vocally, even though, again, they’re flooring it almost the
entire time. The overall effect is a megadose of extremely cool and
unique songs that while at the speed of tomorrow, would lose their
overwhelming fun factor if played any differently. As far as Snõõper
vinyl, there’s been three 7” records: 2020’s Music For Spies,
the Snõõper EP released in 2021 and last year’s Town Topic EP. All
of them are great but you’d be well advised not to sit down once
you’ve put a side on, as you’ll be getting up to flip the record
over all too soon. Snõõper’s music isn’t for sitting around to
anyway. Diverging from their regular two person line-up, for Super
Snooper, Connor and Blair brought on drummer Cam Sarrett, bassist
Happy Haugen and Ian Teeple on second guitar. The results do justice
to the music and has evolved Snõõper’s sound exponentially. On the
fourth listen to Super Snooper now and a new evaluation springs forth:
Snõõper don’t play fast. They play at the speed of Snõõper. The
band is so tight, the songs so ready for the Bonneville Salt Lake
Flats testing site, one might conclude Snõõper’s just leapin’
and lopin’, to borrow the title of Sonny Clark’s excellent 1962
Blue Note LP. Snõõper’s completely happening 11-23-22 thirty-four
song 27:22 set at Nashville’s Exit/In, mercifully recorded and
released so you can back up your witness testimony as to how smokin’
the show was with actual audio verification is further proof of how
totally ripping this band is and brings to mind a topic insinuated by
the live recording but proven true by Super Snooper. Given the brief
but awesome glimpses into Snõõper’s music afforded by the
aforementioned 7”s, one might wonder if the group could hold the
line for a full album. The answer is an enthusiastic yes. Super
Snooper is great great great and you might find yourself playing it
over and over as it gets better and better the more you do. Presented
by Hi-Dive. This is an 18+ event
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