Rock and roll is reborn in Anapamu, a southern California band following in the footsteps of Pearl Jam, Lenny Kravitz, and other hard charging bands.
Anapamu frontman Troy Attaway drives the band with a voice that is stunningly unique and urgent. "I met Troy in August of 2006. I was hanging out in a local coffee shop where Troy was working. He had his 10 minute break and busted out his acoustic and started singing. I was stunned. I immediately knew I had to work with him." Around the same time Troy similary met Tom Harbeson, an ace session drummer from Seattle. Victor pulled in Doug, who he knew from a previous band, and Anapamu was born.
Anapamu is a Chumash Indian word meaning 'Rising Place'. "We want to lift people up with our music, even as we tackle intense emotional lyrical matter," according to Troy. "I like to think of bands like Alice In Chains that went into some dark places but they always seemed to be indicating a light at the end of the tunnel."
"It seems like rock music is making a comeback, which I'm really happy about, and it seems like there's a little more diversity getting through to the masses which is good. There was a period over the last couple of years where every band had a singer who sounded like a 30 Seconds to Mars wanna-be, and they were all afraid to play guitar solos. Now there's bands, especially out of Southern Cal who are doing something different, like 'Poets and Pornstars' or 'The Cavalry' ," says Victor. "I think one thing we bring to the party is a real true grooving rock rhythm section. So many bands, when they record, they take the drums and snap everything to a grid, and sometimes the guitar parts as well. It just totally loses the groove, but it's perfectly in time. We've always like bands like the Stones who have a 'tight but loose' philosophy."Anapamu is based in the beach town of Santa Barbara, but consider Souther Cal in general to be home base. Victor elaborates: "We do everything out our band's studio in Santa Barbara. It's a good setup and we have a great live room. We're still dialing it in and it's working out really well. We did the first recordings in May/June, and we're doing our second set in September."
