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Saintseneca is an American
folk rock Folk rock is a fusion genre of rock music with heavy influences from pop, English and American folk music. It arose in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom in the mid-1960s. In the U.S., folk rock emerged from the folk music re ...
band from
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, that was formed in 2007 by singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Zac Little. The current band is made of Zac Little, Caeleigh Featherstone, Jessi Bream, and Andy Cook. They are known for their diverse range of instrumentation in both their recordings, as well as in their live performances. The band have released three EPs and four albums ''Last (2011),'' ''Dark Arc (2014),'' ''Such Things'' (2015), and ''Pillar of Na'' (2018). The band utilizes a wide range of acoustic instrumentation (
balalaika The balalaika (, ) is a Russian string instrument, stringed musical instrument with a characteristic triangular wooden, hollow body, fretted neck, and three strings. Two strings are usually tuned to the same note and the third string is a perf ...
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mandolin A mandolin (, ; literally "small mandola") is a Chordophone, stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally Plucked string instrument, plucked with a plectrum, pick. It most commonly has four Course (music), courses of doubled St ...
,
dulcimer The term dulcimer refers to two families of musical string instruments. Hammered dulcimers The word ''dulcimer'' originally referred to a trapezoidal zither similar to a psaltery whose many strings are struck by handheld "hammers". Variants of ...
,
bağlama The bağlama or saz is a family of plucked string instruments and long-necked lutes used in Europe, Balkans, Caucasus, Middle East, Khazar, Central Asia including Germany, France, Belgium, TRNC, Netherlands, Albania, Greece,Bosnia, Serbia, Croat ...
, floor percussion) with more contemporary elements such as synthesizers and electric guitars.


Biography

The band originated during Zac Little’s teenage years in a small Appalachian town in
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. Little relocated to the city of
Columbus, Ohio Columbus (, ) is the List of capitals in the United States, capital and List of cities in Ohio, most populous city of the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 United States census, 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the List of United States ...
with original members Steva Jacobs and Luke Smith to attend
Ohio State University The Ohio State University (Ohio State or OSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbus, Ohio, United States. A member of the University System of Ohio, it was founded in 1870. It is one ...
. Throughout his college years in Columbus, Little accumulated and learned a number of instruments: banjo, mandolin, dulcimer and more, and upon meeting violinist Grace Chang, Saintseneca’s initial live line-up coalesced in the fall of 2008. This line-up toured regionally around the East Coast and released the four-track ''Saintseneca'' EP on September 1, 2009. This was followed with the release of the five track ''Grey Flag'' EP on March 30, 2010. This line-up continued to tour the Midwest and East Coast throughout 2010 and early 2011 while work began on their first full-length album, ''Last'' which was released by Mama Bird Recording Co. on August 16, 2011. The initial line-up amicably dissolved on August 31, 2011 after the album release show for ''Last'' in Columbus. Since releasing their debut album, the band has brought Steve Ciolek (The Sidekicks), Maryn Jones ( All Dogs), Jon Meador, and Matt O’Conke (also of Tin Armor) into the fold. The band signed to
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records in the spring of 2013. After 10 months of home recording with Glenn Davis (of Way Yes) the band entered ARC Studios in
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to begin work with producer
Mike Mogis Mike Mogis is an American producer/mixer/engineer and multi-instrumentalist who owns ARC Studios (Another Recording Company) in downtown Omaha, Nebraska, Omaha. Mike, along with his brother A. J. Mogis, A.J. Mogis, founded Presto! Recording Stud ...
on their second full-length album ''Dark Arc''. The first single from that album, “Uppercutter”, was released on October 15, 2013. On April 1, 2014 Saintseneca released their second full-length album, ''Dark Arc''. On October 9, 2015 the band released their third album, ''Such Things''. On December 9, 2016, the band released ''The Mallwalker'' EP. In 2017, the band released three digital singles, "Book Of The Dead On Sale", "Moon Barks At The Dog", and "Wandering Star". In anticipation of the August 31, 2018 album ''Pillar of Na'', the song "Frostbiter" was released on June 19, 2018 and "Ladder to the Sun" was released on July 16 of the same year. Both were accompanied by music videos.
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described Saintseneca as unexpected and innovative in a review following these releases. Saintseneca released a new single "All You've Got Is Everyone" on February 3, 2021, through Anti Records. Zac Little described the song as: "I wanted to write a Christmas song, but it didn't feel right this time. So I thought about old new years and made a Valentine. I miss everyone, and I figure a song is kind of like a little tent. A place in space and time - you can pack it up and take it with you, get it out when you need it, and I like to imagine being together inside." In 2023 the band resume touring while continuing to work on new material together with Mike Mogis.


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{{Authority control American folk rock groups Musical groups from Columbus, Ohio Musical groups established in 2007 Anti- (record label) artists