Published: January 11, 2010 10:07 PM EST
By: Isaac Davis Jr., MBA (Juniorscave.com)
New Music Spotlight January 2010 Edition
Oridium
Music Now Artist/Band Spotlight Weekly Series
Oridium Photo taken by MPSharp Media!!
Recently, our Webzine spoke to lead vocalist Lea Garcia of Oridium about the band's music and what fans can except from the Indie Rock band in the coming years. Lea spoke fondly about being in a band with her brothers (Aaron and Garon (twins)) and longtime friend Jonathan. She also discussed some of the band's influences, highpoints and lowpoints of their career so far, and their origin. If you want to listen to a band that can rock a house down, then Oridium is going to be a crowd pleaser. Check out what developed in this spotlight.
Isaac: I just listened to one of your songs titled, "Frivolous". What was the inspiration for making this song and your new album?
Oridium: Well, the lyrics for Frivolous were taken from a time in my life that I was going through a break-up as well as seeing some of my friends going through the same type of situation. It's a very passionate song and I guess you can say a lot of venting! (lol) It's about a girl who has been taken advantage of and cheated on realizing that she deserves much better, and she basically flips the switch on the guy to where now he is the one being walked all over.
Isaac: Who were your influences?
Oridium: We are a very versatile band so our influences vary. I know at the time I was listening to Sara Barelis, Avenged Sevenfold, Bullet for my Valentine, and some classical music as well....
Isaac: What do you consider to have been the highlight(s) and lowpoint(s) of your career to date?
Oridium: Wow... I would have to say highlights would definitely be playing at the Whisky A Go Go three times, playing in Vegas (and losing some money), releasing our CD, "From Ashes", being selected by many different radio stations, signing with our PR team, and personally me making it through a major surgery I had in October.
The lowpoints would have to be one of our cars catching on fire, several cancer scares, our grandfather passing, and having to stop playing shows while I had the surgery and started recovering.
Isaac: Brief history about your background plus the style of music you play.
Oridium: Well, if you didn't know, Aaron (guitar), Garon (bass) and myself (singer) are brothers and sister. Aaron and Garon are fraternal twins and had been trying to form a band for a very long time. Music runs in our family. They went trough many different combinations but couldn't really find other people with the dedication and determination it takes to form and stay in a band. So one day jokingly my mom suggested that they try me on the drums. Aaron was playing guitar and singing at the time. So I tried the drums and we got another guitar player and made a little run like that. Due to me getting tendentious and some other issues we stopped playing.
After a year of normal lives the three of us got together to form another band but figured I'd sing since I've been singing since I was a little girl. My boyfriend at the time had a twin brother who was our roadies for the first band. His twin Jon had wanted to play the drums for quite some time. I mentioned it to Garon and he gave Jon a beat...the rest is history! As far as our style of music, we describe it as heavy melodic rock.
Isaac: How easy is it to gets gigs for you as an artist/band? What is the live music scene like in your area?
Oridium: Getting shows in our city is very easy; most of the times we don't even have to search for them. People or venues will contact us and give us dates to play. It's the places out of state that we haven't played that I have to hound and hound and hound! lol Sorry! But once we are welcomed to play somewhere we are always invited back with open arms. The music scene in San Antonio, TX is pretty good but there are bands everywhere. I think it's going to be the next Austin!
Isaac: What do you think of the state of Indie music at the moment? Do you listen to radio much at all? Has the Internet helped music grow or hindered it in your opinion?
Oridium: I think we all love Indie music. It takes so much talent and courage to put your music out there so every band has our respect even if it isn't our cup of tea. And I believe that the Internet has helped music. Now days bands are making it on there own without a record label; basically, cutting out the middle man.
Isaac: If you could create a fantasy band - what would be the line-up and why?
Oridium: Well I don't know what the boys would say to this but I would have to keep my current band because I love my boys...but I would definitely add Robert Pattinson on key board or keytar! Which ever he preferred!!
Isaac: What CD's do you currently have available and where can they be purchased from?
Oridium: The CD that we have out is called; "From Ashes" and you can purchase it on I-tunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, and CD baby.
Isaac: Where can fans access your music, videos, blogs, and anything else about you online?
Oridium: We just wanted to thank you all for your support and prayers during my surgery. Thank you for being patient and stay tuned because 2010 is going to be a great year!
