Voyeurists, you are.
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The Shadowboxes are;
Rahza - guitars
Liz - drums, percussions and loud things
Mr. Gemini - bass guitar
Azy - keyboards and broken gadgets
Avex - vocals and pieces of paper

We are a band made up of very eclectic music fans. Liz for example, listens to Melody Gardot and Stacey Kent, and Muse, a lot. Mr Gemini usually jams in his earphones on his bass to Alanis Morissette's records from the 90s. Rahza the guitarist actually really likes to pretend he's Pharrell Williams on drums. Avex just sings anything - currently while we're writing this, he's humming the melody from Jay-Z's 'Holy Grail'. Azy, while not playing keyboards with us, composes for film and is currently writing with conductor Tadaaki Otaka of the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Yes, we think he's a freak too.

Melbourne is where we all grew up in and the idea of the band formed in 2008 after Avex moved back from a short 'Sydney' phase and decided that Melbourne brings out better "emo" thoughts therefore better music (LOL). We love our single-origin coffees and we love Avex for ocassionally taking us to nice fancy restaurants because he manages one himself at night. Beers from all regions in hidden outdoor pubs all around Melbourne is where our music come from - and technically we can't use our music as legal documents because most the time they're written while we're under the influence.

Everyone in the band plays and write with various other bands but Avex & The Shadowboxes as a unit perform only at secret gigs around Melbourne to invite-only crowds of 20-30 close friends and acquaintances a few times a year. We love our friends, we like to entertain and this is how we like to thank them for their support for our art. The after-gig (drunken) sexual innuendo-laced conversations we have with our fans usually turn into guitar riff and lyrics ideas the next afternoon. We thank you for your beautiful minds.

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Act One, the debut full-length from songwriting duo Marian Hill, was written and produced in its entirety by Jeremy Lloyd (music/lyrics/production) and Samantha Gongol (music/lyrics/vocals). The multi-talented duo, who have been collaborating in one form or another since high school, have shifted the classic paradigm of a woman on a stage and a man with a piano to a woman on a mic and a man with a laptop -- and the results are seductive and vivid. Tempting paradox with a blend of blues and bass, acoustic and digital, classic and modern, Marian Hill have arrived.

Two years ago Sam and Jeremy wrote and recorded “Whisky” over spring break in Jeremy’s parents’ basement. When they released it for free on Soundcloud later that summer it was the only song they’d written for the project, and in a little over a year’s time they had recorded their first EP in a bedroom, amassed millions of plays on various platforms, sold out shows across the country and featured in high profile commercials. They signed to Republic Records in early 2015, released the Sway EP, and settled in to write and record their debut album over the course of the following year with a plan to push their unique sound to its fullest potential.

For the first 50 seconds of “Down” you might think you’re at a supper club in the 1920s, but when the bass drops out of nowhere you couldn’t be anywhere but 2016. Act One then takes you on a journey through the complexities of modern relationships, with each song inhabiting a specific and charged relationship lyrically, melodically, and sonically. “I Know Why” constantly transforms and reinvents itself as the vocals grapple with a secret while “Mistaken” is the hardest of sax trap with a classic songwriting backbone. “Same Thing” is the saddest part of the album, a haunting ballad depicting serene resignation of a doomed relationship, but castanets rise from the ashes as “I Want You” closes out the night in a pure moment of optimistic electricity, a glance across a crowded room that changes everything.

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Im Elly :)
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Studying Jazz Vocals At University.
Hope you enjoy my interpretations!!!
Only covers at the moment, Until Holidays.
Hopefully then I can Bring up some originals.
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