Scenic

After the demise of Savage Republic, guitarist Bruce Licher formed Scenic, which creates similar moody (and occasionally doomy) guitar-dominated instrumentals with strong Middle-Eastern influences. Unlike Savage Republic, however, Scenic -- a trio which also includes Brock Wirtz on drums and James Brenner, formerly of Shiva Burlesque, on bass -- plays entirely instrumental material. Their debut album, Incident at Cima (1995), took Savage Republic's post-punk raga-rock into gentler, more melodic territory. The post-punk is still there, but the influences of Ennio Morricone and ...