GrandBankss

Born on a gloomy Island off the east coast of Canada, Tim Vickers AKA GrandBankss moved to the states at a fairly young age and began studying music and double bass. After spending 10 years producing and working with bands in the San Francisco Bay Area, Pat Brown took him under the wing of Different Fur Studios and gave him a place and resources to write and produce at a professional level.

Working with emerging Artists such as MVCK, Elujay, Ace Diego, Odie, DerekTed as well as writing his own Experimental Electronic and Bossa Nova tracks, GrandBankss is creating his place in the Bay Area music. “Ownership” featuring Elujay marks his debut.

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NOT DEAD YET: GRANDBANKSS + ELUJAY - 'OWNERSHIP"
NOT DEAD YET: GRANDBANKSS + ELUJAY - 'OWNERSHIP"

Citing Harvard University's polarizing 2009 study on the psychosomatic effects of flowing water, the Georgian ethnomusicologist Diana R. Veerum wrote that we naturally derive comfort from tonally-descending music because it both evokes our time in the womb and triggers synapses associated with skiing and other downhill sports.

SPILL MUSIC PREMIERE: GRANDBANKSS – “SILVER CREST”
SPILL MUSIC PREMIERE: GRANDBANKSS – “SILVER CREST”

“Silver Crest” is a track written by GrandBankss while waiting for an artist to show up to his studio fashionably late. In fact the entire album was originally written and recorded on his phone at Different Fur Studios while patiently waiting for musicians to arrive, and more so when they didn’t show up. The track titled “Silver Crest” is reminiscent of a classic 24-hour diner in the Bayview district GrandBankss would take his friends at 2:00AM after playing shows in San Francisco. Nostalgia of old bay area late night spots and simple distorted Brazilian rhythms make up this album, which was taken off of phone recordings and elaborated on/re-recorded with the help of Sean Paulson, and various other people from the SF music scene.

Spill Magazine : GrandBankss – "Silver Crest"
Spill Magazine : GrandBankss – "Silver Crest"

“Silver Crest” is a track written by GrandBankss while waiting for an artist to show up to his studio fashionably late. In fact the entire album was originally written and recorded on his phone at Different Fur Studios while patiently waiting for musicians to arrive, and more so when they didn’t show up.