Sékin (SAY-kin), previously kind of known as Asian Acoustics, is the product of two guitar playing buddies that decided to make some music, whether it be good or bad. It is said that Sig influenced Nik to start playing, but Sig disagrees. Anyways, Nik and Sig had the idea of a band for a long time (that's where Asian Acoustics comes from), but neither of them really did anything about it. Then, very recently (a few weeks ago (in February-ish)), Nik showed Sig his first poem/song: "Wish Upon A Dead Star". Sig liked it, and added whatever guitar riff he could think of to make it kind of cool. To make a somewhat short story even shorter, Sig and Nik became a band again, decided on the name "Sékin", and recorded their first EP titled "Smile If You Want to Kill Me".

Word spread about the duo, and they started getting good feedback on the CD. Nik and Sig began wishing that Sékin were a full band so they would sound even better. SUDDENLY, in a poof of smoke, a drummer and bassist appeared before them: Matt and Thomme. The two were overjoyed with the new members and began practicing as much as they could, which actually wasn't really that frequent. That is the story behind the band, and if you come to our shows, then you too can be part of Sékin history. Don't you want that? Yes, you do.

-June 3rd 2003 - Smile if You Want To Kill Me EP is released.

-June 11th 2003 - First Sékin "show" for special peoples at a bonfire. Sig and Nik entertained the crowd with a cover of "In this diary", then "Unexplained", "What you said to me", "Con fuoco" and "Wish upon a dead star".

-June 27th 2003 - First band practice with Thomme and Matt.

-August 19th 2003- "First and a half" Sekin show with December Starlight, "The Jeremys", Plays for Sheep and Tadpole army (who played a few songs spontaneously). We played "Wish upon a dead star", covered "1-15-96", covered "What you said to me", "forget about you" (Sig solo), "Rain" (Nik solo), covered "Hands down", and finished with "Unexplained". Thanks to everyone who made it out to this show, thanks to the other bands who played.

-October 4th 2003-Nik plays Coffee House at Naperville Central for the first time, singing in front of his largest croud yet. He covered "Stare at the sun" by Thrice, accompanied by Kevin Lewis of Plays for sheep on the bass.

-November 20th 2003-Sékin plays their first full band performance at Naperville Central's Central Stage, with the song "50/50". They were loud and proud.

-December 7th 2003-First official full band show (we were technically the only full band there). Before a random set by the Randy/Steve/Urlakis band, Sékin acousticly (Nik and Sig) played "wish upon a dead star" and "the beltsville crucible" (thrice cover. Songs played full band were opening with two instrumental songs, the second being "The Failed Escape of the Marionnette", then "Unexplained", "Listen Closely and Wonder", "This song brought to you by a fallen bomb" (thursday cover), "Con Fuoco" and closed out with "5050".

-December 12th 2003-Biggest show yet, held at OAS. We played second after tadpole army. Opened with our weird funky song, then played "listen closely and wonder", "rain", "50/50", then ("wish upon a dead star","beltsville crucible" and a new solo song by sig) acoustic, then back to electrics with "this song brought to you by a fallen bomb", and closed the set playing "the failed escape of the marionette" without sig.

-January 3rd, 2004-First paying gig. We played with Autumn's Remorse, First Impressions and Starlike*Collision. Opened with "50.50", then "unexplained","listen closely and wonder, the weird funky song, then "rain", "this song brought to you by a fallen bomb", and then we closed with "the failed escape of the marionette".

-January 24th, 2004-Second show at Marianne's, this time with two more members. Sig opened with "Sleep tight", then we had a nice intro, then "5050", "unexplained", our crazy jazzy song, "listen closely and wonder", "rain", "this song brought to you by a fallen bomb" and "the failed escape of the marionette."

-March 12th, 2004-Best show yet at the Albrect Arena, even with Nik's throat bad. Opened with crazy jazzyness, then unexplained, 5050, listen closely and wonder (special singing by sig), rain, this song brought to you by a fallen bomb, and failed escape of the marionette.

-May 1st, 2004-Odd show without Sig. We medlied a few of our songs and put them all into "the failed escape of the marionette" and played instrumental for about 15 minutes. good show.

-May 7th, 2004-Art fest at NCHS. Opened with a new instrumental intro, then listen closely and wonder, don't worry the doctors will fix it, the failed escape of the marionette, 5050, nothing, this song brought to you by a fallen bomb, unexplained and then a marionette outro.

-May 22nd, 2004-Youth Ambassadors Battle of the Bands at Naperville Community Center. Opened with an intro, then played Unexplained and Marionette. Placing unknown, but a cover band won, a pop punk band placed second, and new friends of Sekin- Spin Perry -placed 3rd.

-June 9th,2004-Last minute decision to play the last day of school show. Funnest show to play yet. Is funnest a word? Setlist: don't worry the doctors will fix it, listen closely and wonder, nothing, fallen bomb, unexplained and 5050. Thanks to I Need Sleep for the show/use of PA/guitar tuner.

-June 26th, 2004-Battle of the bands 2. This show was fun, Sekin placed 2nd in the battle. Played three songs, Unexplained, "Girls are hawtt" debut, and "The Failed escape of the marionette".

-July 17th, 2004-Sekin returns to OAS, bigger and better. Unfortunately due to technical difficulties the set got cut short. Songs played were and intro, then Unexplained, Nothing, Fallen Bomb cover and Marionette

-October 28, 2004-Sekin plays the Halloween Blaze, making an awesome come-back after several months. The set was full of energy and lots of fun. First croud surfer too. Set list: Intro, Unexplained, Marionette, Listen Closely and Wonder, This song brought to you by a fallen bomb, Girls are Hawtt.

-October 29th, 2004-Sekin makes the last minute decision to play another show at the Cherny household deck. The set was a few songs cut short due to weather conditions, but the set was as follows: Intro, Unexplained, Marionette, Fallen Bomb, Girls are hawtt.