Valvulado: ZECHS MARQUISE Eclectic Prog • United States

Zechs Marquise biography (https://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=5230)

ZECHS MARQUISE are an Art Rock band from El Paso, TX, formed in 2003. brothers Two brothers, Marfred and Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez joined Matthew Wilkson and Marcos Smith and formed a band (Michael Ferraro was a member for a certain period too), which was called MONOLITH at the beginning, but after they realized there's already quite a number of metal bands with the same name, decided to change it to after a manga character.

The band has been heavily touring from their very beginnings; as far as their discography-story goes, they released live EP '34:26' (guess the length) in 2006, and a full-album in 2008. The album is titled 'Our Delicate Stranded Nightmare', it was entirely done in home-production; it was meant to be an EP but it turned out the guys had enough material for an album. First it was released only as a download; it's physical counterpart saw the light of the day in 2008, for Rodriguez-Lopez Productions.

If a reader assumes ZECHS MARQUISE sounds like THE MARS VOLTA, AT THE DRIVE-IN or THE OMAR RODRIGUEZ-LOPEZ GROUP, that's not far from the truth. DNA-sharing band is showing it's full furiousness and eclecticism on their sophomore debut album. They're less 'heavy' than THE MARS VOLTA, but equally capable of producing a melting pot with anything-goes thrown in, not avoiding the trademark 'noodlings'. Their progressive kettle is spiced with psychedelia, math rock, experimental music, funk, jazz (I'm simply re-typing these genres from various web sources). I would like to add a good amount of ska-reggae-punk thrown in. Check it, it's highly recommended for more adventurous audience.

2006 - 34-26 (Live EP)