Rinda : Vocal/Guitar/Drums/Song Writing/Arrangement

Bassless style.
The octave effect gives me a great bass sound and make demo sound source with MTR(Zoom R8).
Hey guys check it out!

Shape Of Your Love (demo)

This Time Next Year

American Scream

About 'Love on My Mind'

If the start of the breakthrough for Bambara was the radically reimagined sound of 2018’s Shadow On Everything (dubbed by NPR a “western gothic opus”), then the moment it truly arrived was on the cinematically riotous noir-punk of 2020’s Stray. In the UK, buoyed by the enthusiasm of 6Music DJ Steve Lamacq (who called the band, “one of his favourite discoveries of the year”), the band rose sharply, immediately selling out shows across the country. Meanwhile, back in their native US, KEXP’s John Richards echoed the same sentiment. Things were set. In fact, tickets had just gone on sale for their biggest show to date, a 1500 cap headliner at London’s Electric Ballroom.

Then…well, then same as for everyone. Shutdown, lockdown, hibernation, nothing. It was a hammer blow. But rather than rue their misfortune, the band desperately tried to turn it into a positive, immediately moving to try to make more, and – they were determined - better, music. The result is the career-high 'Love On My Mind' – a six song mini-album, mixed by Claudius Mittendorfer - that condenses all the energy and darkness that has made Bambara so compelling but rearranges them into something defiantly new.

Not that getting there was easy. With the band’s core (twin brothers Reid and Blaze Bateh, the singer and drummer, and childhood friend William Brookshire, bass) scattered across the US, they remotely pieced together an EP but as soon as it was finished, they scrapped it. In their words, it felt “dishonest”. They were striving for something new and they hadn’t hit the mark. They realized they needed to change approach so at that point they decided to reconvene in New York. Finally, things started to take shape.

By now, they had a better idea of where they wanted to head. They knew they wanted to include a couple of duets and enlisted the vocals of Bria Salmena (Orville Peck/Frigs) and Drew Citron (Public Practice). They also wanted to expand their sound palette so turned to Jason Disu and Jeff Tobias (Sunwatchers) to add trombone and saxophone respectively. They recorded again, utilizing all these new elements, sampling their recordings as they went along, in the process manipulating the sounds across the mini album. The final result is something astonishing.

Opening track, “Slither in the Rain,” all hissing high-hat and spectral synthlines, is a true statement of intent. It’s minimal and atmospheric, foregrounding Bateh’s raw vocals as he introduces one of 'Love On My Mind’s main characters, years after the events of the album are over, a lonely man who throws bottles at airplanes and dances a two-step in the pattern of a figure-8. While Bateh has always been adept at character sketches, here we are introduced to a newfound vulnerability that runs true through the entire album and causes the songs to hit on a more human level. It’s a change he readily acknowledges.

“The lyrics for Love on My Mind are a little more personal,” he admits, “and definitely more vulnerable and human. There’s more of a focus on realism. I think part of that was because I’d become zoned in on photography during lockdown. Being in NYC without being able to actually experience it made me search for representations of the way it feels to be running around in the city. And I found that in photographs. Mainly, Ballad of Sexual Dependency by Nan Goldin. This also influenced the decision to make one of the characters in the story a photographer, presenting pieces of the story through her snapshots.”

BUY LP

Bambara - Mythic Love (from the 'Love on My Mind' mini album out on 2/25)

Somersault

My Baby's Like Cigarettes

“Downbeat”, is the first single off Meanjin based grungegaze band Terra Pines’s upcoming 2nd LP to be released through False Peak Records. “Downbeat” is a steady groove of big wailing guitars, haunting melodies and sweet harmonies that explore themes of disappointment and dread, all evoking an atmosphere of meloncholy.

Downbeat

A Oes Heddwch

Tacsidermi & Sister Wives - A Oes Heddwch

Epicene

https://open.spotify.com/album/2sRozNheZDxStPGhrOCMcx?si=xaYyYMKhTyqlqLNgSPzoRw

Verse 1:
When I was young I shot, shot for the moon
And when I, I grew up, it led to gloom 
The things that, that I love are killing me
if I don’t indulge then, then I won’t sleep 
I run from, run from love and sympathy 
Yet I keep my heart up, upon my sleeve 
I make it hard for me, me and my self 
Maybe I’m too scared to change my self

Chorus: 
Slowdive to the asphalt 
Fall down I’m an asshole 
Wake up with the street lights 
Try hard to complete life 
Blood stained on my white tee 
Scrapped up over my knees 
Thorn bones grow inside me 
When the sun hits heaven finds me 

Verse 2:
Got a little devil on my shoulder 
Telling me to fold cause I’m older dancing in the dark though it’s colder 
Bought some Mary Jane then I rolled her 
Staying out late put emotion in the folder
Staying out late till the sun comes up 
Gonna go skate till my legs fall off 
Distract me from the things that I think about 
Never really thought it would go this rout 
Bury me in the garden grow into a tree water me with bourbon put a tire swing on my branches Ill go to a place where it’s painless feed me to the earth and I’ll turn into an angel

SLOWDIVE!

"Look Again" is the third single from Artsick's "Fingers Crossed" and shows quite a different side of the band. Where previous singles were uptempo punk-infused jammers, "Look Again" slows the pace to match the mood of heartbreak and contemplation. The band's Christina says: "It's about the loss of a beautiful relationship and the soul crushing realization it was your fault." The song's blend of fuzz and longing melody fits that remit perfectly, and is a great showcase for Christina's 90s influences, like Hole, Sloan and Tiger Trap. Beautiful.

Fingers Crossed

Artsick - Look Again

Mini Trees - Moments In Between

Rinda: Vocal/Guitar/Drums/Songwriting/Arrangement

I'm in band Dude six.
Perform in a bassless style.
Because octave effect gives me a great bass sound.
I make a demo sound source with MTR(zoom r8).
Actually I'm struggling with English.
But It doesn't matter!
Love music and everyone.
Thanks guys! check it out!

Shape Of Your Love (demo)

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