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Currently playing bass in Little Billy Lost with Fred Pineau (The Atlantics), Smitt E. Smitty (Figures on the Beach/Fireking) and James Melanson (Pop Gun), gigging regularly and working on new music to be released in 2020. Last played Bass in Two Saints (with Joe Mazarri  x-Thunders, Daughters, Pussy Crush) and previously with Tenafly Vipers, Gimantis, The Illegals, 5-Point, Big City Rockers (with Fred Pineau & Tom Hauck of The Atlantics) American Pulverizer (with Kenny chambers of Bullet LaVolta/Moving Targets fame), Natalie Flanagan Band and too many others to bother naming.

Aloud makes forward-thinking rock & roll that reaches far beyond the genre's boundaries. Spearheaded by Jen de la Osa and Henry Beguiristain, it's a sound rooted in sharp hooks, amplified guitars, and a willingness to explore new ground, with the band remaining in constant evolution.

The group launches itself skyward with Apollo 6, a psychedelic album laced with sweeping, spacey textures and distinctly personal songwriting. "We kept asking ourselves, 'What would a rock band on a different planet sound like?'" says de la Osa, who shares lead vocals and songwriting duties with Beguiristain. "That question led to a lot of sonic experimentation, and we came up with a cosmic, echoing record where you can hear the room itself. You don't just hear the song. You hear the space."

For Aloud, breaking new ground wasn't just a creative decision; it was a necessity. After putting the finishing touches on 2020's Sprezzatura — an ornate album inspired by the Muscle Shoals sound, featuring horns, strings, and contributions from Grammy-winning engineer Guy Massey — the musicians found themselves at home, unable to perform together due to the global pandemic and nationwide lockdown. They'd always been a collaborative outfit, arranging songs together in a rehearsal space before tracking them in a recording studio, and they'd just released the most lushly layered album of their career. Now, they'd have to do something different to maintain momentum.

"As writers, we're always looking at the experiences we've had and trying to use that as inspiration for songs," says Beguiristain. "Being locked up meant we had to turn inward instead, because that's all we had. I think we just naturally went to a personal place, and the guitar became our way of dealing with things. Songs became our therapy."

Recorded in several home studios across Los Angeles, Apollo 6 came to life as Aloud reflected upon the chaos, challenges, and resilient spirit of the modern moment. Beguiristain and de la Osa wrote songs about the benefits of meditation, the detriments of social media, and the coping mechanisms humans turn to during dark times. They experimented with guitar pedals — a Space Echo here, an organ emulator there — to coax new textures out of familiar instruments. They peppered their songs with sound effects, bird noises, and snippets of dialogue. Without help from an outside producer, the two reached out to bandmates Charles Murphy (bass) and Chris Jago (drums), both of whom utilized their home studios for recording sessions. Everyone produced. Everyone shaped the arrangements. As Aloud readied Apollo 6 for blastoff, the musicians also made sure to balance the layered swirl of their instrumentation with the most personal songs of their career.

"The album became the most self-expressive batch of songs we've ever written," de la Osa reflects. "Almost every single one of them was written about something we went through during that pandemic time."

"The Comeback Kid," with its space-cowboy stomp and western sound effects, became a musical mission statement: a battlecry from a band that formed in Boston, moved to Los Angeles, and weathered a host of challenges — from lineup changes to business deals gone south — over the course of six acclaimed albums. "Somewhere To Be" became a guitar-driven march worthy of Oasis, kickstarting the album with bold declarations like "I don't care about
the money; it's all just paper to me." De la Osa wrote about her search for stability with "Meditation for the Housebound," a psychedelic rocker punctuated by blasts of brass, and Beguiristain measured the distance between real life and the echo chamber of the internet with the jangling "Big Blue”.

For all its fiery futurism, Apollo 6 also nods to the musical roots that first brought de la Osa and Beguiristain together. The two met as teenagers in Miami, where they grew up within the same working-class Cuban community. Bands like Oasis, Beatles, and The Who became their mutual favorites, soundtracking the pair's relationship with a mix of guitar grandeur and pop melody. Apollo 6 is rooted in the same musical balance, but it also embraces an updated range of influences. The ambience of musique concrète, the witty angst of The Kinks' Lola Versus Powerman, the psychedelia of Noel Gallagher's Who Built the Moon?, and the unforced cool of French pop all inspire Apollo 6's unique sound, and Aloud doesn't recreate those influences as much as assimilate them into something sharply unique.

Apollo 6 is the sound of silver linings — a booming, boldly assured album created in a time of uncertainty.

The music of Eddie Japan has always existed in the spaces in between. It’s the elegant noise and cinematic melody that thrives in the slashes that bind genres together, allowing the celebrated Boston cinematic-pop septet to elicit a spectrum of genres – new wave, pop-rock, glam, indie, alternative, plus that new retro-pop sound that has yet to have a name – over the course of one tightly-knit pop song. 

Eddie Japan has been a magnetic force since its inception, buoyed by a soaring, dramatic sound that sounds nothing like anything else in the city it calls home. To some, Eddie Japan has commanded the stage – winning the 2013 Rock And Roll Rumble; resurrecting the music of The Cars with the iconic Rock and Roll Hall of Fame band’s keyboardist and synth pioneer Greg Hawkes; and amassing a cult following around New England. To others, Eddie Japan has commanded the screen – 2019 single “Summer Hair” was included on Harmonix’s digital music festival game Fuser; and breakout 2015 single “Albert” was featured in Rock Band 4, launching countless musicians and guitar hopefuls around the world while the track generated over a million plays, and counting, on Spotify. 

But what Eddie Japan does best, perhaps, is command attention, from the Boston Music Awards to New England Music Awards, The Boston Globe to WGBH, to headlining shows and tours with The Motels, The Fixx and Ultravox’s Midge Ure. Spring 2023 album Pop Fiction proves the Eddie Japan story is still unfolding, like new chapters to your favorite novel.

Songwriter, Composer, Guitarist, Producer

I would love the opportunity to collaborate.
All of my songs are ready for vocals.
Additional instrumentation welcome
Please E-mail me at charliebozza@gmail.com
#charliebozza, #charliebozzamusic



- "One of the best songwriting outfits in New England music today." - Ryan’s Smashing Life

- "Finely wrought, lushly layered pop that sounds effortless in its execution." - The Boston Globe

- "Textured melodic rock, that fizzes with an energy that becomes increasingly difficult not to let yourself wholeheartedly sink into." - Americana U.K. 

The Rationales are a five-piece band from Boston.  Mixing power-pop with alternative, teeming with hooks and harmonies, and layering their sound with hints of Americana and indie rock, The Rationales have drawn high praise both locally and internationally. After breaking onto the Boston scene with their debut EP The Going and the Gone the released their full length CD, The Distance In Between in 2011 (with the support of their fans via a successful Kickstarter campaign). "Distance" was met with great reviews and airplay. In early 2012 The Rationales release their new single... "Radio". 

MELLOW BRAVO is a Rock n Roll band out of Boston Massachusetts. RiPPER is a brand new EP, 100% FREE - 100% ROCK N ROLL for our friends....
Keith Pierce - Vocals
Jess Collins - Vocals / Keys
Jeff Fultz - Guitars
Andrew Doherty - Guitars
Seager Tennis - Bass / Vocals
Dave Jarvis - Drums
Engineered by : Benny Grotto (Mad Oak Studios, Allston MA)
Mastered by : Jay Frigoletto (Mastersuite, NH)
Released by : Mad Oak Records / Small Stone Recordings / Chief Sammy Strut


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