Enon / mp3

Enon is named for a town near Dayton, OH where Enon founder and singer/guitarist John Schemersal is from. Schemersal basically started Enon and recorded their first album Believo! by himself. He then began touring with a rotating group of musicians that gelled together in 1991 as a three piece consisting of Schemersal, Toko Yasuda, and Matt Schultz. They have since added Rick Lee and Steve Calhoon to the line-up creating a band whose pedigree includes Brainiac, John Stuart Mill, Skeleton Key, Butter 08, The Lapse, The Van Pelt, and Blonde Redhead.

Their latest album released in February, Lost Marbles and Exploded Evidence, is a DVD and CD consisting of b-sides and web-only downloads culled from their last six years of work.

Although I am partial to the songs where Toko sings lead, Schemersal’s percussive rasping adds enough of a snarl to the music to keep it interesting. Plus, they use the Casio SK-1. What’s not to love?

Recommended tracks:

• Natural Disasters
• Kanon
• Shave