Hecatea Music Presents
Plasmata
with [melter] and 2 Forks
Doors 7pm
Tickets: ADV $15 • DOS $20
21+
[melter]
melter (melt’ er) n. Musical alchemy during decomposition.
[melter] is:
Robert Hyman
Jax Allos
2 Forks
‘Take It’ is the hard-hitting debut single and video from 2 Forks: a brand-new dark electro-industrial project from Cleveland, Ohio, featuring past and present members of US goth rock icons The Wake, among others. The sexually- charged industrial rock track ‘Take It’ by 2 Forks is accompanied by a stunning black and white video, produced by Chariot of Black Moth. ‘Take It’ is the first single lifted from the forthcoming 2 Forks debut album, ‘Quanticode’.
2 Forks revolves around the central duo of frontman and multi-instrumentalist ‘Danny 2 Forks’ alias Daniel C – best-known as longtime drummer for The Wake (1989-present); alongside principal engineer, co-writer, programmer, and instrumentalist Gil Singer: a producer and beatmaker for local Cleveland bands at Compound Studio, including his own studio project Scrapdata. The project is augmented by guitarist Mark Gamiere, a former live member of The Wake (1996-2000), whose later credits also include Urban Needle and ( SIC ).
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Although 2 Forks is a new entity, Daniel C, Gil Singer, and Mark Gamiere share a musical history and comradery stretching back to Daniel and Mark’s first high-school band together in the early 1980s, when both were just 14, which also featured Gil’s brother Guy Singer on vocals. Daniel recalls: “Like many bands of that era, we formed before we could all play our instruments – still deciding who should play what. My background was as a classically-trained pianist, and I’d been singing in choirs. Gamiere was playing a garage sale electric guitar his father brought home. Shortly after, I purchased a drum set: that was my real passion. This is how the band started. Just an idea, no instruments or money – but desire.”
Following a stint of ‘cover band’ gigs at local schools and community events, and with the addition of more “seasoned” players from their immediate circles, the band morphed into Midnight to Midnight (1985-86), who enjoyed some popularity in Cleveland, winning local talent contests and receiving regular airplay on local access TV. Daniel and Mark would next go on to play together in K-9 Fire (1986-1988), who released one album and enjoyed marginal success via college radio and the local indie music scene. Daniel meanwhile departed Cleveland for Columbus in 1987, on a scholarship to Ohio State University. There he befriended members of what was then an up-and-coming local goth rock band, The Wake. Daniel was asked to join the group in 1989, and has played drums with them ever since. He was rejoined in The Wake by old bandmate Mark Gamiere in 1996, who took over from outgoing original guitarist Rich Witherspoon for live shows. Daniel C and Gil Singer later collaborated on a short-lived studio project, Clair 63, around the early 2010s. Fast forward to the pandemic: The Wake’s scheduled European tourdates were being cancelled or postponed, leaving Daniel with time on his hands, and lots of it, for the first time in decades. Needing an outlet, he reached out to his childhood friend and former collaborator Gil Singer, and between them they conceptualised the new project. Daniel was to step out from behind the drumkit into the role of frontman: to write songs, play other instruments, sing, and lead the project. Certain limitations and challenges were also decided on, i.e., that Daniel would not play acoustic drums or anything too familiar and easy, forcing him out of his comfort zone. In the process, he adopted the persona of ‘Danny 2 Forks’ to assume these new roles for the project. Gil Singer, who also resides in their local Compound Studio, was to meanwhile act as principal engineer, and co-conspirator with writing and programming, while also adding some guitar and bass. Once Daniel and Gil had written and recorded 11 tracks, their old friend Mark Gamiere was enlisted for additional guitars, completing the circle. In all, the new album was created in under a year. ‘Take It’ by 2 Forks is the first of several video-singles from their forthcoming debut album, ‘Quanticode’.