Indian Summer

Marc Bianchi Seth Nanaa Adam Nanaa Ead Dan Bradley
In the beginning, there was punk, an allegory of the vital need to shout what repression wanted to bury. For punk is the verb, the first impulse to say. But he was opposed to the imperative of order. We marginalized him. From the resistance to this oppression came hardcore. To harden the tone. As if after the slogans, it was necessary to move on to armed struggle. As if screaming was not enough anymore. But on the big evenings often succeed the disenchanted tomorrows. Indian Summer has this post-revolutional side, this voice cut in its momentum, which is no longer able to express anything but a grudge of pain.
Indian Summer (not to be confused with the eponymous rock prog band of the 70's) is a story as brief as it is intense, like its name, similar to those summer season ends bearing hope that one would like to see eternally lasting and that die with the fall of the first leaves. Indian Summer was born on one of these leaves; in a precarious balance, symbol of the last bright sigh that shines before the coming of winter. Formed in 1993, the group only lived two years. We know that too well, the Indian summer never lasts. It was through the meeting of 5 friends – including Marc Bianchi de Mohinder – d'Oakland (California) that the formation took root in the early 1990s, participating in the creation of the second hardcore emotional wave: the 90s way. Without much experience, the group began discography. I thought so. A 7 in 1993 at Repercussion Records, chained by splits with Embassy, Current and then Ordination of Aaron. The quintet gives everything, not to mention. They also participate in several compilations: The Eucalyptus compilation, Food Not Bombs, The Ghost Dance compilation. In 1994, all of these works were grouped together by Future Recording in a discographic form that took the name Science . More than ten years after this epilogue, the label comes out Hidden Arithmetic which includes 12 songs from the two mythical lives of 1993 at Pitzer College and 1994 at Blue Universe. The live form makes it possible to hear perfectly the emotional charge of the quintet, especially on the anthological "Angry Son/Woodworm" where Adam Nanaa ends up on the ground, strangled by the sobs. (Videos on the Internet circulate and report on the scene). It should be noted that the band had the peculiarity of not naming its songs, so the titles were given over time by the fans where the confusion and disagreement that one sometimes encounters about the nomination of the works. Become a cult with time, placarded as THE group emo par excellence – in its true nature – the combo is now dispersed within several projects ( Her space holiday , The eastern seaboard or We all inherit the moon ). Indian Summer is more than a memory, a calcined field on which leaves fall.