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Biografía

X LEVITATION CULT is the new band from singer/songwriter Joie Calio. In addition to his work in XLC, Joie is also the bassist/singer of the California power trio, dada. Why X LEVITATION CULT? Because a band needs a name, but there is more to it than that. The band is the mind???s eye of alternative rock singer/songwriter Joie Calio with the studio help of Portland based producer/guitar player Rob Daiker. ???I met Rob a few years ago when his manager recognized me at a concert and suggested we try recording together, he thought we???d be a good musical match. He???s a kick-ass guitar player, and an amazing writer??? says Calio. The recordings caught the ear of Baria Record???s President, Eugene Bari. ???When I started writing these songs in Seattle, I wanted to do something that was a bit different from what I had done with dada, and not the same singer/songwriter thing I had done on my first solo CD, The Complications of Glitter. I wanted this to be a bit more rocking, sort of Weezer-ish, but still influenced by like, early Bowie.??? Why call it X LEVITATION CULT? ???A friend of mine gave me the idea after I told her about a big levitation party I was at on New Year???s Eve???for real, it was weird.??? * * * * * Joie states that he's wanted to be a musician since he was 14 years old, saying that his first musical influence was three girls that used to baby-sit him, "sort of like hippie go-go girls. They were cool." He attended the same high school in Saratoga, California as Michael Gurley, with whom he would later have a decade long musical partnership. The two played in rival high school bands and then worked briefly together before splitting and making their separate ways to L.A. Joie moved to Los Angeles in the mid eighties to "do the rock star thing" and played in a number of L.A. bands. Daytime jobs included a stint at the Musicland store in the Sherman Oaks Galleria and 4 1/2 years in the mailroom at Geffen records.

Álbumes

the complications of glitter

Canciones