Savant

Kerry Leimer was born in Winnipeg, Canada. He was raised in Chicago before his family permanently settled in Seattle in 1967. In the early 70s, he started to take an interest in bands like Can, Neu! and Faust – innovators who were bringing the wild dictates of 60s art-discourse into music. The tape-manipulated serenity Leimer experienced with Cluster’s II was a key revelation. Leimer realized the potential to compose with minimal training and scoured pawnshops for cheap instruments and recording equipment to transpose his wayward musical instincts. Leimer’s sound palette and composition soon refined and heightened with the accessibility of dynamic equipment such as the Micromoog and TEAC multi-track tape machines. After solo experiences, and enlisting musicians from various experimental and post-punk groups of early 80s Seattle, Leimer conducted loose “jam” sessions which he recorded to tape to later manipulate into ambient / angular dance tracks, which are reminiscent of Brian Eno's work on albums such as Another Green World and Before and After Science.