Friday January 02 9PM Sail With Kings South City Ale Drayton Valley has a hidden pool of musical talent according to Sail With Kings, a local band that has recently garnered notoriety after releasing an EP this year and opening for Trooper at their concert earlier this month. “There’s a lot of hidden local talent that you don’t hear much about,” said Devin Hutchinson, guitarist with Sail With Kings. However, though not well known, the music scene in Drayton Valley is a tight knit one, meaning the boys didn’t have to look far to find support when they started performing. “When we thought of bands for our CD release, we asked probably five people and five people said yes so we had a show right there,” explained Tyler Stang, lead vocals for Sail With Kings. “You don’t have to look around, we grew up with everyone that played at that show.” Sail With Kings is made up of three born-and-raised Drayton Valley boys, Stang, Hutchinson and Spencer Ciesielski. While Stang and Ciesielski had been playing together in a metal garage band for years, Hutchinson joined the party last year. As a group of three Sail With Kings began writing music together last summer with the goal of recording an EP. While their musical background was metal, Stang explained that he was looking to write music that had more vocals than metal and would appeal to the crowd emotionally. The group is still hesitant to label their sound but Mumford and Sons – a folk rock band from Britain — was brought up as a musical influence. “I personally think that’s what music should sound like, how it should inspire people to smile. I still love metal, don’t get me wrong, but this is what inspires me to write and keep going,” Stang explained. “They’re a lot of different emotions involved in the type of music we play than there is in metal,” noted Hutchinson. “It’s a genre that everybody can get into,” Ciesielski added. In December the boys set up some equipment in Stang’s garage and began the recording process for their EP titled Closer. But with each member juggling school and jobs, Ciesielski and Hutchinson both in high school and Stang recently graduated, finding times that worked with everyone’s schedule was tricky, said Stang. “It took a long time to record four songs,” he said with a laugh. “You have to somehow get three guys’ different schedules to match.” Ultimately the goal for the band is to make music their careers, they said. In order to do that they need much more exposure. Playing as the openers for the Trooper concert was a huge step in that direction, said Stang. “What this show did for us was something that we could never do alone,” he said. But it was family and friends who supported them that made the experience unforgettable. “When we were actually on stage we realized how many people were there to see us, how many tables were being bought because of our families and our friends,” said Stang. Sail With Kings has also taken a giant step towards getting exposure by putting their songs on iTunes. The first day their EP went online it made it to the top five for downloads in the singer/songwriter category. In the future, by continuously writing and continuously playing their music, Sail With Kings hopes that one day they will be signed with a label. Until then, they will be playing their hearts out in the community and taking every chance they get to make Drayton Valley’s musical talent a little less hidden. - Drayton Valley Western Review https://youtube/watch?v=7iEXvtRXZYE
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 16:49:56 +0000
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