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reflection

About Me

This is my real band, check us out!
Videos!:
The Gaslight Anthem "Navesink Banks" cover
Josh Ritter "The Temptation of Adam" cover
Reflection - Across Wires
Bio:
reflection is the culmination of my solo writing/recording projects of the last few years and today. being an artistic outlet, the only real goal is to produce genuine music with passion and meaning. this is my work, i hope you enjoy the product as much as i enjoy the process.
as a side note, please visit my purevolume page to hear additional songs, especially my older material. thanks!
*demos are available. if you would like a copy, please message me with your address and i'll mail one out to you. donations are graciously accepted if you can afford to help out. anything is appreciated. just click the button below.*
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full artist biography:
well, let's see, truth be told, this whole thing started a long time ago. it was somewhere around ten years old when i started playing my dad's acoustic guitar just for the fun of it. i really had no idea what i was doing, i still don't totally claim to, but over time things started to come together. i'd read something here or there, learn a song from a book, or sometimes just stumble upon something familiar while just messing around. all i knew then was that i loved playing guitar. eventually, after a couple years, original songs started to make their way into my practice routine. about the same time, i was straying away from the alternative music i'd pretty much grown up on until that point, and finding my way into the punk scene. point blank, mxpx pretty much changed my life. after seeing them play a show in march of '99, i finally had the direction i'd been lacking. since then, i've gotten into many different styles of music, strayed away from those roots, but all the while kept the focus on the fact that i had found a true love for music and that i wanted it to be a part of my life. at that point, my long time friend ashley and i were hard at work on our music and band, exit 37. it was after countless bassists, and drummers, and disappointments trying to get exit 37 out of the practice space and onto a stage that the project was eventually abadoned. after that set-back, and about a year or so of pretty dark downtime brought on by several events in my life, i decided it was time to do something about this, all alone if i had to. and so, though the seeds existed for a very long time, reflection was officially born with the new year, 2005, almost as a resolution that i won't waste anymore time. thanks for reading, and i hope you enjoy the music i make.
-mark
booking/contact: [email protected]
AIM: allstarme717
(this profile was created using thomas myspace editor v3.6 ).

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 03/01/2005
Band Website: http://www.purevolume.com/areflection
Band Members: mark radak
Influences: the day to day
Sounds Like: everything that intrigues me about music
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Videos!

Hey, just wanted to let anyone who reads this thing know that I posted some videos of me doing two covers and one original song on the page. I know that's not much of an update for this page, but it's...
Posted by on Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:43:00 GMT

The Notary!

Well, I just realized that I never posted a blog about the proper band I'm in, The Notary. That would explain a lot of the absence in my attention to this project. So for anyone who thought I was done...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Dec 2007 22:55:00 GMT

new song, "still life"

hey everyone, just wanted to write a little post to let you all know i put a new song up today called "still life". there's a little story behind it, so if you're interest, please read my next post. t...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:57:00 GMT

about "still life"

so i wanted to write a little post as a note about the new song i posted today, "still life". it's entirely instrumental and a little repetitive (though i hope not in a bad way!), as you can as hear. ...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Sep 2007 20:28:00 GMT

new song, new banner

well, i found some time today to record a new song that's been bouncing around in my head for a little while now. it's call "morning light," and it's up in the player for anyone who wants to have a li...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 15:25:00 GMT

new song... finally!

well, it's been a while, but i found the time to finish up a new song called "deep." bad news is myspace is being a bitch and won't let me upload it right now. good news is purevolume will. so if you'...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Mar 2006 22:26:00 GMT

isn't it sad?

isn't it sad when the day to day things that you could care the least about take so much away from the things that bring you the most joy? i just want to say thanks to anyone who reads this blog, or w...
Posted by on Mon, 30 Jan 2006 21:25:00 GMT

summer vacation

so i indulged a little this summer... that's what summer's for: vacation. actually, i did do some traveling, but i also had to take a break to figure out where i wanted to go with this. ashley's no lo...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Aug 2005 01:04:00 GMT

the news this week

well, let's see, it's about time for an update. lots of cool stuff is in the works. new songs just need to be recorded and then i'll have them up for everyone to listen to. it's been getting put off d...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Apr 2005 20:17:00 GMT

updates for early march...

soo, who's going to see the juliana theory this weekend?? and we got copeland and lovedrug coming at the end of the month... holy shit, i'm gonna be broke... anyways, on to the news, i've been work...
Posted by on Tue, 08 Mar 2005 23:58:00 GMT