Oral Compensation was founded by and is operated by Bean, who began her soul exposing song writing at a very young age.
After struggling along for several years in various cover bands through the inherent biased and somehwat sexist beliefs held by some in the music industry. By 1998, Bean found her home in a genre mixed with punk, hard rock, progressive rock, flavours of goth at times, and definite flavours of metal. Her style is a mix of angry, biting lyrics, and menacing guitar riffs.
In 2006, she began her own project, which was the birth of Oral Compensation.
"My husband is the one that came up with the name for the band," says Bean with a smile. "The minute I heard it, I knew it was the perfect name for my band. He had one definition, and I had an entirely different meaning to the name, and of course I am just enough of a bad girl, to not really give a damn what definition you think I mean."
She means it too. Seldom will you meet a more hard core rocker chic then Bean, from her now white and electric blue hair (which changes regularly), to her tattoos and piercings, to just the way she carries herself.
Bean began recording with her frist producer in October of 2006, and without the luxury of having a full band at the time. The first song she recorded was "Because of You" (English Version), which was a song she had written only the night before recording. Recorded by Roger Mowat of Jam Factory Studio in Port Coquitlam, BC, Bean played the rhythm guitar part, and sang the lead vocals, while Roger played the lead guitar part, the bass part, and sang back up vocals.
After recording three songs together, along with writing "Givers & Takers" together, Roger joined Bean and her first band full band was formed in early November of 2006.
Bean played with this group, and used Roger as a producer, until July of 2007, when differences in the band members goals for the band forced them all to part ways.
Instead of Bean allowing the band's momentum to slow down, Bean has been performing as a solo artist, hiring professional musicians to play with her as a band.
Every song was written by Bean lyrically, and only one song was not written by her musically, although she did write the melody. "I've always taken pride in the fact that I wrote all my own music. The lead guitarist would always have free rein on his input, but I was the one that came up with the lyrics, the melody, the chord structures. Sometimes I will sing the idea to my guitarist. I would tell him the sound we needed and we would work on it until that sound was achieved."
Bean's song writing abilities make her a strong contender in the world of female rock and even steps it up a notch. Her sound follows no one and is quite unique unto her own. If asked who Oral Compensation sounds like you would have to judge it on a song by song basis; sometimes having a Bif Naked feel, other times Garbage, and still other times Hole. None of her songs sound the same giving Oral Compensation a diverse sound of a little punk, a lotta hard rock, and a flavour of metal.
When asked what her plans are for Oral Compensation in the future she smiles and replies "To take the world by storm."
Their new producer is Doug Fury, who has produced and is lead guitarist for Bif Naked. The recordings first recorded by the Jam Factory were not radio worthy quality, which created a bit of a set back for the release of Oral Compensation's first full-length CD, entitled "Linen," but they still plan to have it released in 2008.
They receive regular airplay on PHC Radio, which is a web station based out of Edmonton, Alberta, and will soon be played on the CBC Canadian Satellite Radio.
With a tour of Alberta scheduled in February of 2008, and a tour of Vancouver Island, British Columbia in March of 2008, this group has a full schedule of shows. They'll be rockin' your city real soon!
Their six song disc "Breakin' Through" is available now for $5.00 plus shipping and handling. For purchasing details, send a message to the band. Don't miss your chance to own this CD, it is the only version of "Givers & Takers" that will ever be recorded or released.
Want Oral Compensation to rock your pub or function? For booking information, send an e-mail to: [email protected]
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Oral Compensation would like to thanks each and every person for their comments and kind words, and especially for all of your continued suport! we love you!!
Logo art work is thanks to the beautiful work done by Riki Kay Middleton of Riki Kay Illustrations.
This site is more popular then we ever imagined it would be. Bean will always continue to administer this site, and will always answer everyone back that leaves comments or sends messages. From time to time there are so many replies to send out though that it takes a bit to get back to people. Please don't be offended. Just be patient. We love you all and of course would be nowhere without you!! Thanks for being our friend!!!
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