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Black Diamond Bay

About Me


In August 2007 I put out a seven song EP (Take It Or Leave) with Sunny Lane Records under the name Krief. To play these songs live I called upon my cousin Andre Bendahan (Bass), George Donoso III (Drums) and Roberto Piccioni (Keys). The shape the songs were taking live was so much bigger than that of the recordings that we couldn’t justify not having a name for that sound. So Black Diamond Bay was born. After over a hundred shows together we started to put together what is now our debut album “Calm Awaits”. The album was tracked at home and in various studios and found its way into the hands of the one and only David Schiffman for a world class mix.
Calm Awaits is all that we wanted it to be and more, we feel blessed by it and all that surrounded it (everyone who helped us make it, the moments that inspired it etc). It’s warm, vulnerable and honest, and something we’ll hold close to our hearts forever.
We hope to see you somewhere along the way as we plan on touring this album heavily.
Calm Awaits is now available in Stores across Canada, on Itunes Canada via Fontana North (Universal) and available for order or download through maplemusic.com for the rest of the world.
Enjoy the music!
US booking:[email protected]
Management: [email protected]
Publishing: [email protected]
Quebec Booking: [email protected]
Canadian Press: [email protected]
Canadian Booking:[email protected]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/24/2006
Band Members: Andre Bendahan (Bass), George Donoso III (Drums), Patrick Krief (Vocals/Guitar), Roberto Piccioni (Keyboards)
Influences: Anything honest
Sounds Like:for better quality go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmMYGXwszx4 and click on High Qualityfor better quality go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anPog1e9M7U and click on High Quality
Record Label: None
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

The Dears Tour

As you may or may not know, we're opening up for The Dears for 8 shows  (Victoria, Vancouver, Kelowna, Calgary, Edmonton, Saskatoon, Regina and Winnipeg). We're really looking forward to the shows, an...
Posted by on Sat, 16 May 2009 14:13:00 GMT

Twitter

So, Seems the new "big thing" is twitter. I just signed up to follow Trent Reznor's and it's pretty entertaining. If you're interested in following us while we tour or in general, we'll be updating it...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:05:00 GMT

Album in stores!!!

At long last, our debut album "Calm Awaits" will be available. We're happy to announce that the record will be available in stores acrossCanada this Tuesday March 31st. The Album will also be availabl...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:30:00 GMT

Done!

So, the album is done! We're all really pleased with it, and very proud of it. This album was made on a very moderate budget (most of it in my bedroom). None of it would have been possible if the pe...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:22:00 GMT

BIG NEWS!

Though we've known all this for a while, I wanted to wait till it was actually happening before saying anything (Cause I could hardly believe it myself). Today we commence the remix of the record. We...
Posted by on Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:40:00 GMT

New myspace URL

Thanks to our friend Lindsay, We finally got the URL we wanted:www.myspace.com/blackdiamondbay Please make note of it. For the next month the old URL will be linked to this site. After the month has p...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:18:00 GMT

Hour Review

From the Hour - Montreal (www.hour.ca) July 24th, 2008 Black Diamond Bay - (Independent)   Black Diamond Bay Dave Jaffer   Knowing BDB's Patrick Krief (The Dears) as I do, I'm surprised it took until...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:11:00 GMT

Interview with the band and Patrick

A new interview is available here:The interview is divided in 2 parts: first part with the whole band, second one with Patrick.
Posted by on Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:25:00 GMT

The unspeakable nemesis

Is it wrong to mention that we have a facebook page up and running on myspace?? oops.. just did http://www.facebook.com/pages/Black-Diamond-Bay/15609641231? ref=ts We've also put up some new songs here...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:44:00 GMT