| SAID SARA is the newly unveiled solo venture of San Francisco, California singer-songwriter David C. Benson (Acephalix, Depressor). The outfit presents its eponymous maiden release. Under the epithet SAID SARA, David Benson has divulged his solo/acoustic project. While the shelter-in-place decree compelled by the COVID-19 pandemic may have allowed time for the completion of the brand new self-titled debut EP, it has been thirty years in the making. As the drummer of crusty death metal warhorse Acephalix and ascetic industrial-death automaton Depressor, so SAID SARA may seem like a withdrawal for Benson. The channel through this seemingly vast sonic desert was Transition., with which he spent fourteen or more years as guitarist/vocalist-turned vocalist. This genre-obscuring clique’s sole album, 1994’s Spine, was released on Black Flag guitarist Greg Ginn’s ultra-legendary SST Records. While SAID SARA’s sound may have more in common with Neil Young than Nailbomb, its lyrical tropes are largely of the ill-lit: irreparable loss, toxic arrogance, debilitating anxiety. This alloy of bright and blight is inherent in the six songs on the EP, three of which were written in the early-1990s. The other three, written this spring during breaks in compulsory “distance learning” (Benson is a high school Special Ed teacher), coursed forth as if no years had been lost in between. The EP was self-recorded in the Spring of 2020 except the closing track “The Thing” which was recorded on April 13, 1991 by Corbin Armanini and Benson on 4-track cassette. Listen to SAID SARA’s debut EP RIGHT HERE. https://saidsara.bandcamp.com https://www.facebook.com/saidsarasf https://www.instagram.com/_d.benson_ |
