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Sunday 31 August 2008

Meet the Band: Build a Machine

The band: Mike Serra (guitar, voice), Nick Serra (bass) and Tyler Saraca (drums); all hail from Walpole.

The sound: Metallic guitar riffs, hints of reggae and graspable lyrics

The name: Build a Machine takes its list from a line in the Jane�s Addiction song �So What!�

�It has everything I love about a rock song,� Mike Serra said. �There ar waves and trippy (stuff) and I�m a large fan of that. Ty (Saraca) suggested it and it�s sort of what we want to do.�

The story: Eight age ago, guitarist Serra and Saraca bonded over a love of Jane�s Addiction during artistic production class at Walpole High School and started acting music together.

�We were the only band that didn�t play the pop-punk stuff,� Serra said. �We�d play, like, reggae and (stuff) and people actually didn�t moil it. We were always the queer men out. But pop-punk is out now!�

Two-and-a-half long time ago, Mike�s younger full cousin Nick joined the gang to phase Build a Machine. The trio packed up and headed to California but found few friends in high or low places on the Left Coast.

�We didn�t know anyone out there,� Mike Serra said. �We were homeless person, living in my car and sleeping on the beach. Finally someone rented us an apartment in the Salton Sea Desert. It was such a trippy place, so extraneous to us, but real good intake for the album.�

Now back in Walpole and out of money, Build a Machine returned East - with help from a Jane�s Addiction.

�We went to see Steven Perkins, the drummer from Jane�s Addiction, play and gave the trumpet player our demonstration,� Mike Serra said. �We started keeping in touch with him and he set us up with Dave Aron, Snoop Dogg�s sound guy. He�s done production for Tupac, U2, Sublime, Prince and all these other big names.�

Build a Machine recorded at Aron�s house in Laurel Canyon overlooking the Hollywood sign. Aron enjoyed the band�s sound so much that he called in Perkins to cut a song with Build.

Aron is presently on tour with 311, but Build a Machine is header back to his house in October to conclusion the album.

The goal: �To retire in Huntington Beach, Cali,� aforementioned Mike Serra. �You have to go. It will change your life evermore. It�s replete of unholy friendly, mellow people. I love it.�

The show: Build a Machine plays a free show tomorrow night at the British Beer Company in Walpole.

�Everybody likes free,� Mike Serra said. �Right?�

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Thursday 21 August 2008

Download Gondwana mp3

Artist: Gondwana: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Reggae

Discography:

Made in Jamaica

Year: 2005

Tracks: 14

While reggae mightiness be in general associated with Jamaica and then Africa, the influence of Bob Marley and roots reggae has traveled the earth, even into South America where it inspired the formation of Gondwana, a Chilean band that has tardily made an seismic disturbance about the ball. Formed in 1987, during the years of the Pinochet dictatorship in their primordial din Land, the ring had to observe a relatively humble profile until the political mood alleviated, as the government wasn't overly exquisite on a jr. generation airing beliefs that didn't mesh with their deliver, particularly if they mired Rastafarianism, with its peaceable approach to life. In some shipway, that obtuse development was ripe, because it gave them a chance to work out their possess sound, which, according to singer Quique Niera, became "very rockish, simply we also experience the South American traditional rhythms, like the bolero." That commingle showed up to some extent on their debut In concert in 1996, only if really came to fruition quaternion years later on their soph movement, Mo Coming. In Chile the record album was highborn Alabanza, and proven to be a discovery, rocketing them to the fee of the national charts. The extracted single "Antonia" too proven to be a chart-topper. The record album didn't unsure apart from political issues, with "Libertad" dealings frankly with the judge and peace that eluded Chileans during the absolutism. In the awaken of the album's U.S. release on RAS, Gondwana undertook a reality circuit.