Southern California heavy blues hard rock trio Idlewar have upped their game from a very high bar with their second release Rite due out on Oct.3rd via Off Yer Rocka Recordings. Singer/bass player James Blake solidifies why he is one of the best singers in rock today. With a continuation of varied moods, tempos and groove. IDLEWAR’’s music is far from one dimensional. With the record being produced again by drummer Pete Pagonis. Rite maintains the sound of a band playing with inspiration and grit.  Singer James describes the LP as such: This record sounds like a Mad Max machine convoy. A group of ferocious apocalyptic vehicles barreling through the wasteland full throttle...about to come apart at the hinges. Then every so often they slow or even stop to survey the landscape all the while contrasting their silhouette of destruction against a backdrop of serenity.

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Well I'm 26 year old drummer living in Calgary with a brain full of melodies and arrangements, ALL of which come to me at 2:00am! I started playing when I was 13. My dad "Johnny V" got me into music being a Juno winning, Canadian blues hall of fame guitar player (plug ;) and what not and having a seemingly endless amount of records, tapes, cds, etc. for me to listen to! I've found my tastes to be in Metal, Funk, Prog, and Classical but I will not shy away from anything that can be classified as music (insert sub-genre joke here).

Feel free to check out my shtuff as for I will be putting my random tunes up on this page as well as my recordings I deem "listenable". I've also got some drum covers of some other tunes up on youtube (see link above) and my demo "Warlord" is up for sale on littlev.bandcamp.com (see link above) if you feel inclined to support my musical habits.

finally made a soundcloud. Donations are always welcome :)
Youtube: www.youtube.com/c/lothanen
PayPal: paypal.me/lothanen
Email: lothanen@gmail.com

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Electronic musician from Norway. I started playing piano/keyboards in the mid 80s. After a few years at the municipal music school, I quickly grew tired of the simple piano-only education and got to move on to classes with keyboards and synths. From the early beginning with Technics K-200 rhythm keyboard from 1983 via some Casios/Hohner keyboards, I evolved with the later Technics KN-1000 and KN-2000 before moving on to Roland XP-50. As the computer revolution made DAWs affordable, 1999 made sequencing using Cubase easy and the studio grew ever larger with more outboard gear. Today the studio has become a sizeable and functional MIDI/arranging studio with over 40 synths/modules and more centered around a MacPro with MOTU’s Digital Performer, and numerous more or less famous productions.

I have always had a musical approach towards sound engineering and composing, rooted mainly in vivid harmonic structures and saturated compositions. Inspiration has always been the likes of Jean Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Eric Serra to name a few giants in the electronic scene, but also a heart towards well produced pop music from the 70s and 80s as well as epic film scores from John Williams, Alan Silvestri and Hans Zimmer. The baby era of computer music from the late 80s and early 90s was also a heavy influence.

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