ARTIST:
Like So
ALBUM:
Like So
©
2004
Systren Recordings
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Greetings! This is Aisha from Like So, a rock/soul or what I sometimes like to call “heavy soul” group from Brooklyn, NY.
Though Like So has always been in existence as a seed in my head, you can say it officially came into being in the spring of 2001 in the living room of one Aaron Magram. I met Aaron for the first time at Vassar College (I graduated from there) through a mutual friend of ours waaaay back in 1998. It was a brief, uneventful and unmemorable meeting. We met again in 2001, when introduced by the same friend again mind you, and this time it stuck. Maybe the stars were aligned or something.
We started playing and singing together in his place the day we met and have been doing so all over NYC ever since. We’ve picked up a number of fine musicians along the way we’ve had the pleasure of performing with bassist Tara Thierry, drummers Claudio Rochat-Felix and Steve Gonzalez (The Sharp Things) and keyboardist Bob Byrne. Right now, the Like So lineup includes Aaron on guitar, bassist Rich Holst (The Sharp Things), drummer Billy Gunnz and me on vocals. Now to tell you a bit about the music…
Being a child of the 80s, the music from that time has definitely had a profound influence on the music that comes out of me. I am a big fan of artists like The Police, Grace Jones, Sade, Prince, Bob Marley, Annie Lennox, Sly and Robbie and Black Uhuru just to name a few. Aaron on the other hand is into a lot of progressive rock like Yes and Genesis. Billy Gunnz is heavy into reggae and dub and loves music by folks like the Roots Radics, Eek A Mouse. Rich is moved by the music of Pink Floyd and Toms Waits. We ALL love and appreciate Black Sabbath. And so the music sounds like none of this.
It’s own kinda thing but not unfamiliar… a bit of soul, a bit of jazz, big rock riffs and booty bouncing rhythm is the core of the music of Like So. Check out tracks like “Down”, “Move On” and “Never Quite Sure” from our debut record for what I’m talking about. Speaking of the record… It is now finished. Aaron, Rich, Steve, Bob and I recorded it over two weekends at Studio G in Brooklyn, NY. On hand were superb engineers Joel Hamilton (JJ Paradise Players Club) and Tony Maimone (Pere Ubu, They Might Be Giants). They also mixed and mastered the record. It’s out now on my own little imprint, Systren Recordings. Give it a listen soon. I hope you enjoy…
-Aisha C., Like So
Called a "a top flight album" by Soul Patrol's Bob Davis, this is the debut, self titled record from Brooklyn based rock/soul band Like So.
