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- Aural Reports – Music – C Weeklypage 1 – C Weekly
- ‘¢ Azeda Booth: A Japanese enclosure of some kind?
- Pixies magic – Music – Entertainment – theage.com.au

Aural Reports – Music – C Weeklypage 1 – C Weekly
C Weekly – Mar 29, 2007
We started up a website with that name and it ended up that everybody went to that website instead of the Stallings USA site. We just kind of went with it. The Dragonslayer is like a death-metal or black-metal guitar for the guys who play the hard stuff. Most of the guitars we build are custom-shop guitars. We have several guitars—the Exploder the SSG and the SSP. The Dragonslayer is probably our most popular guitar. We have another one called the Dungeonmaster… And most of the guys I know want to sleep with their guitars rather than their girlfriends. We make guitars for real musicians guys in bands recording artists. Some of the guys are into death metal; they’re only going to want a radical guitar. We make a couple of lines for those guys. But because we want to draw in the other musicians playing blues and more common types of music we went with the more traditional body shapes too. Essentially we make guitars for all types of players. Most of my custom-shop customers come from Europe.

‘¢ Azeda Booth: A Japanese enclosure of some kind?
Gauntlet – Mar 29, 2007
The result is an extremely textured borderline-ambient sound reminiscent of Aphex Twin and Sigur Ros. “ur music’s been pretty well-received across fans of different genres” says band member Marc Rimmer. “I’ve had people from death metal bands and hardcore bands that were on the same bill as us who said they totally loved it. But then there’s people who usually like pop music that totally hate it. “As hard to pigeon hole as their music can be it’s an equally futile endeavor to attempt to pin roles on the members who comprise the Calgary-based Azeda Booth. Band members Hossack Chris Reimer Myke Atkinson Mike Wallace Morgan Greenwood and Rimmer swap instruments like spit at a homecoming dance. Aside from Hossack’s vocals the only real consistency is in their prevalent love for Jay-Z… “ur music’s been pretty well-received across fans of different genres” says band member Marc Rimmer. “I’ve had people from death metal bands and hardcore bands that were on the same bill as us who said they totally loved it. But then there’s people who usually like pop music that totally hate it. “As hard to pigeon hole as their music can be it’s an equally futile endeavor to attempt to pin roles on the members who comprise the Calgary-based Azeda Booth. Band members Hossack Chris Reimer Myke Atkinson Mike Wallace Morgan Greenwood and Rimmer swap instruments like spit at a homecoming dance. Aside from Hossack’s vocals the only real consistency is in their prevalent love for Jay-Z. Not surprisingly this artist adoration comes out very little in their music.

Pixies magic – Music – Entertainment – theage.com.au
The Age – Mar 29, 2007
A bit in Spanish a bit in English sacred here profanethere. What was he up to? Where would this lead?Well they would keep all this weird stuff but just keep makingit catchier. Surfer Rosa used a song like Something Against Youwhich was basically pop chords delivered as death metal withFrancis screaming gibberish. Then he went into something like Bone Machine where hedelivered a kind of surrealist’s manifesto as spoken word oversparse drums and bass. But then there was River Euphrates in hismystical falsetto again which was fast becoming a trademark andit’s classic Pixies although we didn’t know that yet. And wedidn’t know that they would keep writing nasty little pop songs youcould whistle into another lifetime altogether. Looking back now and listening to all this bizarre magic onceagain it’s like the Pixies were some kind of tremor and that theaftershocks keep on hitting.