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Date Posted: 10:37:09 01/14/04 Wed
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(New York, NY) - "What You Thought You Heard," the debut album from genre-jumping hip-hop rockers Borialis, will be released on March 23rd.
Co-produced by Borialis frontman Rich Dahrouge and Howard Willing (Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid, Tupac Shakur) and mixed by Tom Lord-Alge, "What You Thought You Heard" is a scorching gumbo of the band's myriad influences and musical passions - classic rock, hip-hop, reggae and soul, among others.
The band's roots were sown in multicultural Neptune, New Jersey, when budding 11 year-old rock guitarist Dahrouge met Hispanic sixth-grader Eddie Acevedo, also a guitarist (more prone to playing Spanish folk songs) as they were waiting to get chewed out by their school principal. Forming the band in high school, their newly recruited drummer pulled up to their first practice with hip-hop blasting from his car and the different styles of music they learned and loved only multiplied.
The unlikely coalition of rockers and hip-hoppers was soon fully-formed - frontman Dahrouge, Acevedo on bass, guitarist Justin Rubinstein, drummer Jay Kulikowski, guitarist/keyboardist Jimmy Farkas and turntablist Doc-Nu -- crossing cultural, class and musical lines to jam together and taking it to clubs up and down the east coast.
Setting free-flowing jams over hard-edged hip-hop beats, the band quickly became a big draw at local clubs like the Stone Pony, gaining a reputation for their incendiary live shows and their wide palette of sounds. Inspired by afro-centric groups like Jersey's own Poor Righteous Teachers, rock-schooled frontman Dahrouge started putting his thoughts down in rhyme, a vehicle for his genuine, from-the-heart lyricism rather than the faux-gangta hardness the band disdained.
The changes resulted in candid, hard-hitting songs like "Insecurities," where Dahrouge taunts, "Remember me? It's Rick Dahrouge the loser/The drug abuser, the kid that used to wanna shoot ya." And in "Why Oh Why," Dahrouge claims himself as "just another white kid who suffered an identity crisis/I ain't the only one, I know that many are like this."
But the band's new edge quickly landed then on the punk-centric Warped Tour, where for the first time the band began to see appreciative Mohawk-headed fans at their shows. And as a testament to their versatile sound, they were soon featured in two years of the truly diverse Sprite Liquid Mix Tour, where they played with Jay-Z, N*E*R*D, The Roots, 311 and Hoobastank.
Borialis is:
Rick Dahrouge -- vocals/guitar
Eddie Acevedo -- bass
Jimmy Farkas -- guitar/keyboard
Justin Rubinstein -- guitar
Doc-Nu -- turntables
Jay Kulikowski -- drums
Borialis, "What You Thought You Heard"
1. Comin' Correct
2. Inherited
3. Why Oh Why
4. Don't Mean a Thing
5. Hourglass
6. White Trash (Hip Rock)
7. Toughen the Bones
8. Some Things
9. Can't Break This Man
10. Insecurities
11. Mightier Than the Sword
12. Holocaust
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