ARTIST: Bosola
TITLE: RE:EP
LABEL: Self Released
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 199kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 23m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-00-00
RIP DATE: 2006-09-28
Track List
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1. Leaky Aura 3:24
2. Antibiotics 4:26
3. State Of Illfitting 5:06
4. The Nickel 4:09
5. Unau 5:58
Release Notes:
http://www.bosola.org
http://www.myspace.com/bosola
With RE:EP, Bosola outline their iconoclastic blueprint for a new rock. Not just
your standard three-piece, Bosola draws up, and sometimes denies, their varied
heritage. Each member has been involved in music since childhood having grown up
in the house of a music teacher. Guitarist/vocalist Tickrangler cut his teeth in
Hong Kong Virus, a hardcore/experimental band that now sounds entirely
contemporary. Grandpa Scorpion, the bandÆs drummer, is an alum of NY slow-core
legends, Alger Hiss. Bassist/vocalist Eli Machine has spent time in new
wave/goth bands like The Change and has most recently performed Glenn BrancaÆs
Hallucination City. The band continues to evolve their sound drawing congruent
yet divergent influences from Don Caballero, Jesus Lizard, King Crimson, Ruins,
and Fugazi. The songs plough a sonic landscape of odd time signatures, distorted
strains and angular, collage-like arrangements.
For this first outing, Bosola selected Wharton TiersÆ FunCity (Helmet, Sonic
Youth) studio to record. Finding an immediate rapport with Wharton, Bosola
pounded out five complex and fully produced songs in three hot days in July
2005.
The selection of songs also show the various sides of the band and moves from
the abrupt odd-times of Leaky Aura to the more wistful State of Illfitting. The
band is intensely interested in jamming and the music community and brought in
Tim Byrnes of The Friendly Bears who lends his trumpet playing, William Bredbeck
on musical saw, and the widely denounced Sri Usted Taco Leg who donates his
tabla talents. Each addition was purposely done in two takes or less to keep the
feel spontaneous. Similarly, the band has a tradition of creating ôperishableö
songs which are quickly assembled jams meant to be played only once or in this
case memorialized on RE:EP. The band explores a larger sonic palette on this
recording û evident in FredÆs expanded drum kit as well as AliÆs use of an
electric version of the traditional Turkish saz.