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Karmacoda

Illuminate

About Me

It is a simple objective really; create music to reflect the emotion of a specific time and space in the modern world.
After a year-long hiatus working in the studio, San Francisco artists Karmacoda return with their highly-anticipated third album, Illuminate. The album features 12 fresh tracks and represents a major move forward for the group, containing songs with strong hooks, melodies and an engaging evolution of their groove-laden electronic sound.
Launched as a collective effort between songwriters, Brett “B.” Crockett and Heather Pierce in 2001, Karmacoda laces their electronica/trip hop foundation with elements of rock, pop and jazz, creating truly addictive sonic recreation. Outfitting themselves with the turntable magic of DJ Rafael Acevedo, Eric Matsuno’s hypnotic bass, B. on vocals, guitar and keyboards and the soaring lead vocals of Heather, Karmacoda’s vibe is immediately engaging, particularly live.
Illuminate, which was mastered by Andy VanDette (U2, David Bowie, Moby, Garbage, Smashing Pumpkins) at Masterdisk, NYC is currently being presented to the music industry for radio, label and licensing opportunities.
History / Discography:
The summer 2001 release of Karmacoda's debut Reco mended garnered an overwhelmingly positive response and a happily surprised Karmacoda began receiving inquiries as to when the new group would perform live. Because Karmacoda began primarily as a studio project, the challenges and limitations of playing the material live were not a primary concern during writing and recording. Following the formation of the full, performing core of the band, Karmacoda's live shows quickly became popular throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, grabbing the attention of local promoters and clubs and a burgeoning fan base. By integrating a live VJ who creates real-time custom video projection, the band's musical vision was not only being heard but literally seen. The music on Reco mended was heavily featured in film and television soundtracks and won several music awards including the 2003 IMG Music Award for best independent song used in film and television for their track Swan.
Karmacoda's second album Evidence was released in August of 2003, receiving critical acclaim, being extensively featured in film and television and winning several independent and international songwriting awards. With the release of Evidence Karmacoda's international exposure and fan base began to grow exponentially leading to hundreds of thousands of visitors per month to their site, with nearly half originating from outside the US.
In 2004, Altered Evidence: Late Night Remixes, featuring remixes of the tracks on Evidence was released to additional critical acclaim and extensive international sales, particularly through downloadable music stores such as iTunes.
In 2006, Karmacoda began exploring the new realm of writing film soundtracks by contributing songs and scoring the entire soundtrack for the full-length feature Voyeur. 2006 also saw the band completing their groundbreaking new album Illuminate.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/1/2005
Band Website: karmacoda.com
Band Members: Heather Pierce: vocals
B.: vocals, guitars, keys
Rafael Acevedo: DJ, Turntables, keys
Eric Matsuno: Bass

Influences: Massive Attack, Tricky, Radiohead, Portishead, Everything But the Girl, Zero 7, Air, Morcheeba, Alpha
Sounds Like: Massive Attack, Tricky, Radiohead, Portishead, Zero 7, Morcheeba, Lamb, Thievery Corporation, Air.
Record Label: Sola Musa Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Make LIke Mine Video in Production

We spent last week filming the new video for Make Like Mine from our album ILLUMINATE.  We'll be using Brazilian animator Luis Feldens (who did our Skylines video) again.  We're very ex...
Posted by Karmacoda on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 07:54:00 PST

We have a new remix CD

It’s called Lux Life: Illuminated Remixes.We think it’s pretty cool, you can buy it all over the internet. Thanks,Karmacoda...
Posted by Karmacoda on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:40:00 PST

Coming soon...

Our new remix album Lux Life:  Illuminated Remixes will drop in March! Featuring 12 all new remixes of the songs on our new album Illuminate, Lux Life spans the musical genres from electronica, ...
Posted by Karmacoda on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:35:00 PST

New Skylines Video Posted

We're proud to announce our all new music video, Skylines. Skylines is the second single and video from the new Karmacoda album Illuminate.  The video, directed by San Francisco-based director an...
Posted by Karmacoda on Wed, 30 Jan 2008 04:32:00 PST

CD Release Party

We're playing tomorrow night in San Francisco at our CD Release party. If you're free, come on out. xo, Karmacoda...
Posted by Karmacoda on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 10:45:00 PST

Karmacoda on Anji Bee's Chillcast

The Chillcast with Anji Bee has released a 1 hour special feature on Karmacoda via podcast on Monday April 2nd. The feature highlights music from all 4 Karmacoda CDs, focusing primarily on Illuminate...
Posted by Karmacoda on Thu, 05 Apr 2007 01:13:00 PST

Karmacoda Radio Interview

 Illuminate:  Thank you to everyone who's listened to the new CD and sent us so many positive comments.  Radio: Check out the transcript of a recent Karmacoda radio interview here!...
Posted by Karmacoda on Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:47:00 PST

Preview the New Album Illuminate!

For a limited time, until the album is released you can now preview samples of all 12 tracks from the new Karmacoda album Illuminate. The CD will be released on March 5th and be available online at s...
Posted by Karmacoda on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 12:07:00 PST

New CD coming in March

Hello everyone,The new album Illuminate will be released in March.We will be putting up a preview here, a sort of Illuminate Radio, for you to check out the new album before you grab your copy.B....
Posted by Karmacoda on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 02:36:00 PST

Latest Happenings

.. .. December 15, 2006    Karmacoda Newsletter The Latest News for December Sneak preview of the new Karmacoda Album New song "Turn" from Karmacoda's new CD "Illuminate" fea...
Posted by Karmacoda on Sat, 16 Dec 2006 11:54:00 PST