Music:
Member Since: 4/5/2005
Band Members: John Koviak: Music, Words, Production.
My Music: It is me, but it's not all about me... It is quality - not quantity, It is a feeling that seeks to connect and stir, It is the death of apathy, It is not just another means to an end.
It is you...
Influences: Dreams, soulful & amazing people, constancy, music that stirs it ALL up:
Joy Division, The Chameleons, Depeche Mode, the Cure, Dead Can Dance, VNV Nation, Lowlife (Scotland), [:SITD:], Tears for Fears-The Hurting, Frederyk Chopin,
Nicolo Paganini:
Beethoven, This Mortal Coil, New Order, Killing Joke, The Clash, The Cult (Dreamtime & Love), Massive Attack, Echo and the Bunnymen, Delerium, Front Line Assembly, Sasha, Puccini, A Flock of Seagulls, Cocteau Twins, Wumpscut, Clan of Xymox-(Medusa), Zbigniew Preisner, Howard Devoto, Terry Hall, Dominic Appleton, Wolfsheim, Decoded Feedback, The Thompson Twins, The Bruch Violin Concerto as performed by Shlomo Mintz, Anastasia (Macedonia), 4AD (pre-1991), early Van Halen, AC/DC, Rush, Bowie, Queen, Johnny Cash, Elvis, Bobby Vinton, Patsy Cline, The White Stripes, Kult (Poland), Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley, Brendan Perry, The Abecedarians, Peter Murphy, Loyalty, honesty, laughter, tears, looking inwardly without fear, your brightest light and your darkest shadow, synchronicity, noise, finding silence from the noise, world history,
war, peace, The experience of growing up as a Polish-American, The Warsaw Uprising, WWII
"Love demands Sacrifice"
Authors: Neil Gaiman, J.R.R. Tolkien, Henryk Sienkiewicz, David Deida, Yeats, Eckhart Tolle, Norman Davies, The Little Engine that could, Traveling to new places, photography, Poland, Eastern Europe, Oslo-Norway, Athens-Greece, WGT-Leipzig, profundity, wisdom, and humour wherever it may be found.......Carl Jung, Oscar Wilde, South Park....etc,
supernatural experiences, the imagination of a child, astrology, archetypes, chakra's
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FILMS:
Braveheart, Quills, Gladiator, The films of Krzysztof Kieslowski, The Count of Monte Cristo, Before the Rain, The Name of the Rose, Boxing Helena, Onegin, The Red Violin, Malena, Gloomy Sunday, Underworld, Equilibrium, American History X, Jacob's Ladder, Ghost Dog, Fight club, Black Hawk Down, Stalingrad, Leon - The Professional, Mad Max, Green Street Hooligans, 300.
Lightning storms, Thunder, the Arizona desert, People who create, the changing of the Seasons, old Violins, Mad Libs, Creatures of all kinds, DJ'ing, dancing, HEMI engines & Mopar Muscle Cars ;) World cup football (soccer), things that fly, the Sun and the Moon, Voices, the Heart,
Eyes.
All of the above mentioned influences finds a place, great or small, somewhere in the creative process.
Sounds Like: Buzzsaw synths descending like an angry swarm of bees, blistering beats, apocalyptic choirs, a swirling cloud of rainbow-colored butterflies, a bedtime story, the gates of heaven, the bowels of hell, falling in love, a broken heart, gregorian chanting, beer barrel polka, & screaming.......just feel it.
Type of Label: None
