About
Sewing Machines is the pastoral fever dream of 23-year-old singer / songwriter / producer / mutli-instrumentalist Max Horwich. He stitches together naïve melodies about love, loss, hope, confusion, and the weather in a voice both nostalgic and urgent. On record, Horwich creates vast, hazy soundscapes with dense orchestration and washes of reverb for his songs to inhabit. On stage, he explodes with a vibrant energy and magnetic stage presence that defy his diminutive form.
Sewing Machines took form in the musical hotbed of Wesleyan University, where Horwich studied traditional folk and avant-garde jazz and classical music with living legends Alvin Lucier and Anthony Braxton (who claims to have “walked around three feet off the ground for a week” after seeing Sewing Machines in concert). It was there that he met fellow music students Adam Tinkle (guitar, pedal steel), Michael Hurder (bass, guitar, keys, vox), Ben Seretan (bass, guitar, vox), and Max Lavine (drums), who would form the core of Sewing Machines’ rotating line-up. Over the course of 2007 and 2008, the band refined their live set and recorded their full-length debut Sundays in an on-campus studio fondly dubbed “the Submarine.” In the summer of ‘08, they took to the road, playing 20 shows in clubs, bars, stores, living rooms, and museums across the eastern half of the United States, all in just over three weeks.
When the tour ended in Chicago, Horwich and Hurder settled there and found an apartment together, where they now organize DIY concerts, house touring bands, practice and record relentlessly, and occasionally sleep.
In August of 2008, Sundays was made available for free download through Future Folk Records, a web-label that Horwich co-runs with producer/DJ/sound artist Rod O’Connor. Get your copy today!
