ION INDIE MAGAZINE August 2014, Volume 3 | Page 61

top of chops, but while they all can individually shine, they don’t step all over each other. Their music
prowess is well contained inside the delicate intricacy of the songs. They complement each other
perfectly. The balance of catchy riffs and complex soloing makes you forget that there’s no lyrics. The
music does the speaking to you—which is what this band’s goal has been from the start. These
instrumental songs, most of what you’ll be hearing on the first CD (which is being finalized now), are the
culmination of 26 years of Charlie’s own writing. He’s found the right combination of musicians to bring
forth his vision of how these songs should always have been played. With that. He’s also quick to tell me
that the new stuff that they are working on has its own life, and they can’t wait to get to record the newer
stuff as well.
I ask about the songwriting process for them. He says that the new stuff that we’ll be hearing soon comes
from a complete collaboration between the three of them. Mike states, “One of us will throw an idea out
there, and we’ll see if we can turn it out…make it grow.” John adds that they’re never sure where
something might lead. “The past couple rehearsals we’ve had, we’ve all shown up with a little piece of
something we had and we’d try to
work out some of the ideas…get a
feel for the piece; maybe a
foundation. There was one thing that
Mike came with, what I envisioned,
or what I thought it was going to turn
into just form jamming. It wound up
having this groove to it that I didn’t
think it would,” Bosi states. “This is
the cool part about it—it’s totally
organic.” Charlie says, that while
this was originally a project to get
his songs that he’d been writing out
there, it’s now become a musical
vehicle where they write in a
collaborative way. “Through this
process, we kinda know what we’re
all about now—we know each other’s
capabilities. So we’re writing to our
strengths and we’re gonna create.
So the future music? I don’t know
what it’s gonna sound like—but it’s
gonna be substantial.”
Since these songs are obviously
lacking in lyrics. I ask them if during
the writing process or even for an
existing song, is there ever a lyric
that they think might fit—or should
be a part of the song?