www.SonicSugar.us - check out our new band name and website! SEER circa ‘98” - Intelligent Design and the genesis of a rock band. Music and the “evolution” of it is an ongoing process. Singer, songwriter Chris Baumgart knows this oh so well. Looking back to the beginnings of SEER and working on the band’s third project in 2006, his reflections offer some personal gratitude with the opportunity to, literally, thank God we’re still rockin’!!! Surprisingly this album was recorded and produced in the early years before the big “change over” from analog to digital. It was recorded at Pearl Studios in Milwaukee, WI. At the engineering helm was local award winner Todd Scott. Scott was at the digital forefront recording with Protools on a Macintosh. This project had begun in 1996 but was delayed until later in 1997, having to redo several songs because of a frozen hard drive and a hard lesson in learning the term-”save” to a back-up disc. Even so the whole band at the time found this digital recording process quite fascinating. SEER was comprised of four band members Chris Baumgart -vocals/guitar, Rick Stolzenfeld-lead guitar, Mike Rome-bass and Mike Phetteplace on drums who had replaced Tom Hockel -both drummers contributed to the cd. The desire to release this CD now was; 1) there’s some great music here, 2) we wanted to share the bands musical beginnings with our growing fan base and 3) a little back story about SEER’s history really shines the light on how “sonically” the band has matured. Recording and producing, “SEER circa ‘98” laid the foundation for the bands newest music. Jimmy “Beatmaker” Fonk arrived in the lineup soon after this disc was toured around the state doing live shows. With digital music and all its offerings of software samplings and the integration's of keyboards and other hardware a whole new world would later opened up. (check the new band out at www.sonicsugar.us) Lyrically the band has always pressed into the spiritual side of life's journey. Writing about the experience of “relationship”-between God and man, between a woman and a man, and between one another. What use would a seer be without sharing certain truths or bringing questions to bare in a day when so many struggle. And when people's spirits shrink we have a great source of strength to draw from. Music reaches deep into the soul...and often it is music that resurrects it. Now that's intelligent by His design. Copyright 2006 Chris Baumgart/ Push Blade Music/ Seer U.S.A.