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#1341461 - 04/28/12 03:32 PM
Ayurveda Changes Name: Becomes Photoreal
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newsman38
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Ayurveda Becomes Photoreal
Mike Parker, Diwas Gurung, and Dan Halperin of Ayurveda [debuted] their new band, Photoreal, at Castaways on Saturday, April 14. “It’s a big change of musical direction,” said Parker. “The two other members of Ayurveda decided to go on to do non-musical things.”
Ayurveda came together in 2004 and Parker had been the drummer for the past six and a half years. The band spent an enormous amount of time away from home. “We lapped the country several times,” said Parker. “For some reason we were more popular on the West Coast. For the last three years, until last September, we were on the road more than we were home.”
Parker described Ayurveda as basically a progressive rock band, while Photoreal is a pop band.
In addition to being more electronic than Ayurveda, Photoreal will have a light show, something the old band never did.
While every member of Photoreal will be building their own loops, there will also be interconnections among the members, so that one can trigger the sounds made by another.
“I’ve always been interested in this technology,” said the drummer, “and for the last two or three years Dan has been incorporating it [in his bass playing] for Ayurveda, but we didn’t go to the extreme. Diwas has always had an interest in music technology. All of us are interested in making music, not just playing an instrument.”
He said that the greater use of electronics allows each band member to work out full songs on their own and then bring them to the other band members so that they can deconstruct them and refine them.
“Ayurveda” is tradtional form of medicine in India that promotes what might translate as “wellness,” making sure that healthy people stay healthy.
Parker said that Ayurveda’s music always had a positive and even spiritual message. “But it had a hard edge, which somehow falls under the shadow of doom and gloom,” he said. “When you put a distorted guitar into it people get the wrong idea.” All members of Ayurveda had musical training and their music was very complex and “not necessarily easy to digest,” according to Parker. It did not leave much room for improvisation. The Photoreal approach, in contrast, will.
Photoreal has every intention of becoming as popular as Ayurveda was. They plan to tour as heavily as Ayurveda did and may begin to start building their reputation in Europe while doing only high profile shows in the U.S. They have already been able to secure booking all over the country based on the proven track record of Ayurveda.
Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 12:00 am | Updated: 9:27 am, Sun Apr 15, 2012.
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