Bloomington, Indiana instrumental trio Ativin explores the outer reaches of dynamic songwriting and performance. Their music is sometimes delicately brooding, immersing the listener with complexly interwoven and beautiful guitar, and sometimes it is crushingly powerful, gaining volume and momentum and pushing the limits of instrumentation with intricate arrangements and dramatic time changes. Ativin's music is influenced by the crashing storm and stress of Chicago bands like Shellac, the orchestral nuances of Louisville's Rodan and Rachel's, and the free experimentation of instrumental jazz.
Ativin formed in Bloomington, Indiana in the winter of 1994 after Chris Carothers (guitar) and Rory Leitch (drums) met at Indiana University. Guitarist Dan Burton joined the group the following spring, cementing the band's loud, instrumental rock sound. Steve Albini andCarl Saff recorded the band's debut EP, Pills Vs. Planes, which was released in December 1996. The spring of 1997 saw the release of the Modern Gang Reader/Larkin single, the first of several releases for Secretly Canadian Records. The band worked with Andy Bryant at King Size on German Water, its debut album for Secretly Canadian, releasing it in March 1998. A return to Albini's Chicago studio, Electrical Audio, yielded the four-song EP Summing The Approach, which was released in the fall of 1998. Interiors followed after a wait of three years in early 2002. Continuing on in the same veign as Interiors, Ativin released Night Mute in early 2004.~ Jonathan Cohen, All Music Guide (from mp3.com)
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