Bangalore Choir - Cadence - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

FRIENDSHIP COMMANDERS are not just any band within the wider musical cosmos of heavy rock and stoner metal. Artistic excellence, reflected in the two Grammy wins of singer, songwriter, and guitarist Buick Audra as well as the status of drummer and bass player Jerry Roe as one of the world's most sought after studio percussionists, paired with outstanding lyrical intelligence have once again flown together organically to shape their forthcoming album InchBEARInch. InchBEARInch was written around the realization that Buick Audra had essentially been kicked out of womanhood. This album is a documentation of her awareness also while cataloguing other areas of human connection art, outsider culture, and dark rock venues Inch all places where empathy and creativity grow wild. Audra and Jerry Roe arranged the fourth FRIENDSHIP COMMANDERS album to have two distinct sides, musically heavy and light, salt and sugar, fire and air, lost and found. Although hailing from Nashville, Tennessee these denizens of the 'Music City' kindly beg to differ. FRIENDSHIP COMMANDERS' sound draws from sludge, doom, heavy metal, and grunge with roots in punk and hardcore, among other guitar driven styles. InchBEARInch, like it's predecessor InchMASSInch, was co-produced by band members Buick Audra and Jerry Roe. The duo returned to Salem once more to work alongside longtime collaborator, Kurt Ballou, who also tracked the instrumental performances and mixed the record. As a result, the songs' huge range of musical ideas and expressions are unified in sound as well as in theme, which runs throughout the record in various ways the ever-elusive idea of belonging, where it occurs, and where it absolutely does not. With InchBEARInch, FRIENDSHIP COMMANDERS present a rare sparkling gem of an album, heavy yet captivating, shiny yet dark, and songs that brim with meaning. InchBEARInch is easy to get into

BANGALORE CHOIR / METAPHOR - This is Bangalore Choir's third album after reforming in 2010. If you are looking for something reliable but with a little bit of something extra then this is a definite album to seek out.

BANGALORE CHOIR / ON TARGET - Singer David Reece then formed Bangalore Choir, who recorded their debut album On Target with Ian Mayo on bass and Jackie Ramos on drums, (both from Burning Rain), and the dual guitar attack of Curt Mitchell and John Kirk (both from Razor Maid). The album powers in with Angel In Black, a corking, commercial rocker about the stereotypical bad girl, which could have come straight from the Bon Jovi songbook. If The Good Die Young (We'll Live Forever) is an anthemic, slow, melodic rock number that arguably should have been a classic of the glam metal genre, while Doin' The Dance (co-written by Jon Bon Jovi), nevertheless presented a funkier front, more reminiscent of Extreme. Hold On To You begins with some nice acoustic arpeggios before presenting another big, anthemic chorus and some harmony guitars. The twin guitars offer some great moments throughout the album, not least on the driving pop-rocker Slippin' Away, and the staccato, thudding Freight Train Rollin'