Perfect Duluth Day Selective Focus: Sadkin 2.8.19
The Duluth Reader offers their perspective 8.9.18
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Sadkin
Under the flickering lights of the darkened odeum is where you will find the moody New Romantic acolytes, Sadkin; alternative/art-pop now hailing from Duluth, Minnesota.
Did you know that if you take two synchronized atomic clocks and place them at two different altitudes, the clock located at the higher altitude will begin to tick faster than the lower one? Time literally moves faster.
Inversely, the force of gravity is stronger towards the surface of any orbiting celestial body; time moves slower. This is one of the mysteries of gravity and how it can pull and push on time itself proving that it is not a linear constant. Physicists call this ‘time dilation’.
Sadkin has been tinkering with these mechanics for some time now. Given the concurrence that time is indeed slippery, if not malleable under the force & draw of gravity, an artful game is being played here where a string of time is being pulled from both the past and the future, artfully – musically; connecting the ends to the constant flow of the perceived present. This is where you are now.
Time dilation, this is how Sadkin’s sophomore effort, Carrera has come to be, the most recent summation of singer/songwriter/producer Max Mileski. Along with Nicholas Hanson, Anton Jimenez-Kloeckl, Alex Piazza and Chis LeBlanc – this 5 piece has been performing and recording together for the last 2 years all leading up to the release of Carrera (Olive Bay Records / distributed UMG) in November of 2023.
Ringleader Max Mileski, multi-instrumentalist, is one of those ‘records & mixes everything himself’- a diy zealot. Left to his devices, Carrera is a self described neo-new romantic, art/synth-pop, post-futurist affair – Bladerunner-esque synths, watery guitars, galloping bass guitar and live drums - treated heavily throughout. The lyrics - cryptic, leaning into mysticism, personal exploration as well as clawing towards themes of radical hope through societal & existential transformation - why not?
DJ Jake Rudh of MPR / The Current exclaimed, “Love it - Definitely has our era’s favorite influences stamped all over it. Well Done!” while On The Record asserts, “..phenomenally crafted”. Ian Little, co-producer of Duran Duran’s Seven & the Ragged Tiger and engineer for Roxy Music’s legendary Avalon said, “I can hear the influences Alex [Sadkin] and I were using (together) in the 80’s .. you’ve obviously got a good ear”.
On the immediate heels of Carrera’s release, Sadkin have found themselves drawn to actively collaborating with other artists of other art areas in terms of ensemble multimedia performances and carefully produced video’s including ballet dancers from the Minnesota Ballet, painters, burlesque & drag performers, video projection artists, actors and theater. With videos for Saints of Catalina and Hologram Hearts on the way, theater concerts celebrating these ensemble collaborations are currently being plotted to further this pursuit of ‘live-immersive’ performance.
“Sadkin joins a growing number of bands that are more pop-rock and synth/ key-oriented. While the music is a throwback to the era of Peter Gabriel and Tears for Fears, Mileski goes on a thematic voyage of studio delight that sparks some originality. If you’re willing to take this journey of romantic cosmorock, Sadkin blasts off for the listener. Mileski constructs songs that are pop in spirit, but span beyond typical repetitive radio fodder. There’s certainly a good amount of musicianship making up the many layers, each tweaked just right, into the mix to fill out the expanse of Mileski’s studio work. There’s a certain creative vision here that’s somehow familiar but definitely takes its own course on epic synth rock. It’s a serious endeavor as far as production and musicianship goes.” - Paul Whyte, The Duluth Reader
The notion of someone having command of gravity; being able to push it around and use it to manipulate perceived linear time is a curious prospect. To the displaced observer, one would appear to witness such a tightrope walker slip in and out of past, present and future instantaneously. To Sadkin, that seems like an infinitely expansive and all too tempting canvas to pass up.
Under the flickering lights of the darkened odeum is where you will find the moody New Romantic acolytes, Sadkin; alternative/art-pop now hailing from Duluth, Minnesota.
Did you know that if you take two synchronized atomic clocks and place them at two different altitudes, the clock located at the higher altitude will begin to tick faster than the lower one? Time literally moves faster.
Inversely, the force of gravity is stronger towards the surface of any orbiting celestial body; time moves slower. This is one of the mysteries of gravity and how it can pull and push on time itself proving that it is not a linear constant. Physicists call this ‘time dilation’.
Sadkin has been tinkering with these mechanics for some time now. Given the concurrence that time is indeed slippery, if not malleable under the force & draw of gravity, an artful game is being played here where a string of time is being pulled from both the past and the future, artfully – musically; connecting the ends to the constant flow of the perceived present. This is where you are now.
Time dilation, this is how Sadkin’s sophomore effort, Carrera has come to be, the most recent summation of singer/songwriter/producer Max Mileski. Along with Nicholas Hanson, Anton Jimenez-Kloeckl, Alex Piazza and Chis LeBlanc – this 5 piece has been performing and recording together for the last 2 years all leading up to the release of Carrera (Olive Bay Records / distributed UMG) in November of 2023.
Ringleader Max Mileski, multi-instrumentalist, is one of those ‘records & mixes everything himself’- a diy zealot. Left to his devices, Carrera is a self described neo-new romantic, art/synth-pop, post-futurist affair – Bladerunner-esque synths, watery guitars, galloping bass guitar and live drums - treated heavily throughout. The lyrics - cryptic, leaning into mysticism, personal exploration as well as clawing towards themes of radical hope through societal & existential transformation - why not?
DJ Jake Rudh of MPR / The Current exclaimed, “Love it - Definitely has our era’s favorite influences stamped all over it. Well Done!” while On The Record asserts, “..phenomenally crafted”. Ian Little, co-producer of Duran Duran’s Seven & the Ragged Tiger and engineer for Roxy Music’s legendary Avalon said, “I can hear the influences Alex [Sadkin] and I were using (together) in the 80’s .. you’ve obviously got a good ear”.
On the immediate heels of Carrera’s release, Sadkin have found themselves drawn to actively collaborating with other artists of other art areas in terms of ensemble multimedia performances and carefully produced video’s including ballet dancers from the Minnesota Ballet, painters, burlesque & drag performers, video projection artists, actors and theater. With videos for Saints of Catalina and Hologram Hearts on the way, theater concerts celebrating these ensemble collaborations are currently being plotted to further this pursuit of ‘live-immersive’ performance.
“Sadkin joins a growing number of bands that are more pop-rock and synth/ key-oriented. While the music is a throwback to the era of Peter Gabriel and Tears for Fears, Mileski goes on a thematic voyage of studio delight that sparks some originality. If you’re willing to take this journey of romantic cosmorock, Sadkin blasts off for the listener. Mileski constructs songs that are pop in spirit, but span beyond typical repetitive radio fodder. There’s certainly a good amount of musicianship making up the many layers, each tweaked just right, into the mix to fill out the expanse of Mileski’s studio work. There’s a certain creative vision here that’s somehow familiar but definitely takes its own course on epic synth rock. It’s a serious endeavor as far as production and musicianship goes.” - Paul Whyte, The Duluth Reader
The notion of someone having command of gravity; being able to push it around and use it to manipulate perceived linear time is a curious prospect. To the displaced observer, one would appear to witness such a tightrope walker slip in and out of past, present and future instantaneously. To Sadkin, that seems like an infinitely expansive and all too tempting canvas to pass up.