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The experimental Aussies have turned heads with their dual bass player set-up, but chief songwriter Matt Fack says The Omnific are no mere gimmick. Having honed their craft to its sharpest point with second album The Law Of Augmenting Returns, he sits down with Prog to discuss their desire to redefine what bass guitars can do.
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The Omnific are proving that bass players needn’t be confined to the role of supporting cast. The unique power trio comprises two bass players –neighbours-turnedbandmates Matt Fack and Toby PetersonStewart –and drummer Jerome Lematua. It’s something Fack calls “a happy coincidence”.
“It was never a plan to have two bass players per se,” he says of their origins. “It was so rare to find someone that has that ability on the same instrument as you, up the road from you, so we started jamming and that quickly snowballed into our first EP [2016’s Sonorous]. By that point it felt like we’d struck a little magic, so we just kept going.”