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About Me

Where does one go today to find music that isn't bland? Music that doesn't emphasize good looks more than musical talent? Music that doesn't..suck? Enter...Convaria. Your ticket away from the norm. Influenced by bands like Rush and Dream Theater, Convaria utilizes and emphasises instrumental talent to drive musical inspiration and composition. Transgenre songwriting shines the light of Prog right through the canvas, using styles of rock and metal, but also using polka and circus themes. The band began an just a few jams between Mike DeCrescenzo (Drums) Nick Holder (Keyboards/Percussion/Vocals) and Adam Manahan (Guitar). The group thought they might have had some potential. But where is a band without a bassist? (besides The White Stripes) After previously experimenting with another bassist, and one bassist being taken, and few bassists in their middle school at all, the group settled on drafting Andrew. Andrew turned out as a great fit to the band, and Convaria came to be. The name comes from roots of Latin and English. Varia is plural for Varium, which is Latin for "change" or "different". Con is the English prefix for "together". And so, you have "different things together". Disclaimer: This music is not perfect or error free. This is only a first draft. Please bear with us as we continue to make better material. Hope you enjoy!1. Phase 2, 2. Finale 3. Peruvian Skies (Dream Theater)I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

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Member Since: 1/3/2006
Band Website: freewebs.com/convariaband
Band Members: Nick Holder- Lead Vocals/ Keyboards/ Rhythm Guitar Adam Manahan- Lead Guitar/ Back-up Vocals Cogswell- Bass Guitar Mike DeCrescenzo- Drums/ Percussion
Influences: Rush, Dream Theater, Coheed and Cambria, Metallica, System of a Down, Guns N' Roses, Vixx, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Trantatlantic, Ourselves.
Sounds Like: What you wish your band sounded like.... and then some.
Record Label: Nick's Basement Inc.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Spirit and Body

HO HO HO merry late Christmas. Once again Convaria delivers an energetic song full of complex melodies with driving drums and almost beautiful lyrics. This song is about a man that is in a car crash a...
Posted by Convaria on Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:52:00 PST

Jeans Instability

Merry Christmas from Convaria. This song is recently recorded for you on this day. Jeans Instability is based on minor chord changes with a chorus effect accompanied by Nick's voclas with a cathedral...
Posted by Convaria on Mon, 25 Dec 2006 11:27:00 PST

NOVEMBER NOVEMBER NOVEMBER

November is the month of the CONVARIA one year anniversary. And we would like to thank all of you for being their behind us in just the begining of our succesful journey as a progressive alternative b...
Posted by Convaria on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 06:32:00 PST

Mid September Update

It is September 13th. We played a show a week ago with Green With Envy and New Breed. Many fans could not make it to the show, but we have had great feedback from some kids there, and maybe we'll get ...
Posted by Convaria on Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:28:00 PST

DETOUR

Mike: I guess we will write a new blog for a new song. This song is a lot more structured than Phase Two, and we are more proud of it. We decided to not show off and wank so mu...
Posted by Convaria on Sat, 08 Jul 2006 08:19:00 PST

Phase Two

This song might require explanations. Nick originally came up with the main riff. We all jammed with it, then Cogswell made this polka bass line for it. So we decided to use polka as a big part ...
Posted by Convaria on Sun, 19 Feb 2006 10:47:00 PST