Biography
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Years Active
2017 – present (7 years)
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Founded In
Warwick, Kent County, Rhode Island, United States
babybaby_explores is the cited name of the providence art-rock project, "Baby; Baby: Explores the Reasons Why that Gum is Still on the Sidewalk", created by Lids B-Day (effected Vox & sampler), Sam M-H (electric guitar) and Gabe C-D (keys & rhythm) from Warwick, Usa. Utilizing guitar effects pedals to manipulate sounds from guitar, vocals and drum machines they create dissonant and lighthearted simple structured danceable songs that pay homage to musique concrète, European underground synth punk of the late 70’s through the 80's, anthem music, dada, and the Providence DIY & noise scene.
The project started out as a parody of sound–pseudo concept project between Lids B-Day and Sam M-H in winter 2017. It was about turning the energy spent dealing with miso(gyni), ageism, and industry gatekeeping in the local art and music community into some kind of musically laughable, naive, & sharable whimsy. Sam and Lids grabbed the smallest, most affordable, and simplest equipment they could, lugged it across the icy used auto-lot, which was the “front-yard” of their dwelling place, and into Lid’s unheated wood panel adorned basement-bedroom (called the magic cabin) and began making songs. The set up was a painted casio keyboard, a loop pedal, a mini Squier guitar, and a microphone going through a delay pedal. The two would create and loop drum beats using the keyboard. The guitar Sam was using probably hadn’t been played in over ten years, they began writing songs in the very out of tune-tuning it had come to be in. (Every current song is still made and played in that tuning.) Lids would then add strange, beautiful and incoherent narrative melodies.
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