The Samurai Conquistadors, a six-piece band from Norman, performed several of their newly engineered songs in front of an intimate crowd at 9 pm, February 11. The show took place at the Opolis, 113 N. Crawford in Norman.
“Friday night, I think we played five songs off of the new album, four or five,” drummer Zach Nedbalek said. “We’ve got a little more than that tracked right now though. We’ve just kind of been adding more and more new songs every show we play,” Nedbalek said.
The band has come to find, through recording and playing live shows, that their new music has a relatively wider appeal with their audience. “We really have been trying to not get obscure with our music,” Nedbalek said. “We’re not trying to alienate people, we’re trying to make them groove.
“A lot of our music has gotten more centered, less sporadic I guess. We didn’t plan it like that, it’s just what we started doing for ourselves first and then we realized it’s very similar to our old stuff, just a little easier for people to get into, I think.”
The crowd gazed and moved in unison with the tempo of the music. “They reminded me a lot of Neva Dinova and Modest mouse, with their horn section,” newly acquired fan Jay Shropshire said of the band’s sound.
“They had a kind of slow core kind of rock. It was pretty cool.
“I checked out their songs on Facebook, but before Friday, that’s all I knew. I’m definitely going to check them out again.”
The Samurai Conquistadors anticipate the release of their new album to be within the next several months. “We’re hoping and we’re going to try really hard for it to come out in the summer,” Nedbalek said. “We’ve got a little more than half of it recorded right now, so I’m pretty optimistic.”
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