Corima

Bio:

Corima is a new Zeuhl/R.I.O. band from Los Angeles very influenced by Magma, Koenjihyakkei, Present (and many others). Formed in the year 2005, they started out with 4 musicians: Sergio Sanchez on drums, Juan Tarin on bass, Jaime Silva on guitar and Erik Martinez on guitar as well. They started out playing music very influenced by King Crimson and ELP. About a year later Francisco Casanova joined the band in keyboards. They remained together for about a year and a half and after that Erik Martinez was forced to leave the band for personal reasons and soon after Jaime Silva left the band as well. It was during this period that Corima found out about the Zeuhl and R.I.O. genre and fell completely in love with it. After the departure of both of the guitarists Corima stayed as a trio of keyboards, bass and drums and it happened to work perfectly for its new sound so they started composing new songs. They released their self-titled debut full length in late 2007. Their album is a 65-minute wild roller coaster of Zeuhl music with operatic vocals sung in a made-up language, odd time signatures, bombastic super heavy bass lines and insane keyboard work-outs all combined in a way that calls for a never ending explosion. Ryan Kamiyamazaki (bass) Patrick Shiroishi (sax) Andrea Calderon (violin) Sergio Sanchez(drums,vocals) Francisco Casanova(keyboards,vocals) MAGMA/ KOENJIHYAKKEI/ RUINS/ PRESENT/ UNIVERS ZERO/ ZAO/ AREA/ ESKATON/ WEIDORJE/ EIDER STELLAIRE/ GUAPO/ ONE SHOT/ HAPPY FAMILY/ BONDAGE FRUIT/ AMYGDALA/ KOREKYOJIN/ ART ZOYD/ NAKED CITY/ BERNARD PAGANOTTI/ JANNICK TOP/ VORTEX/ HENRY COW/ 5UU'S/ JOHN ZORN/ DUN/ SHUB-NIGGURATH/ POTEMKINE/ UNIVERSAL TOTEM ORCHESTRA/ RUNAWAY TOTEM/ NEBELNEST/ SOFT MACHINE/ MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA/ IGOR STRAVINSKY/ BELA BARTOK/ ARNOLD SCHOENBERG/ ALBAN BERG/ ANTON WEBERN/ CARL ORFF/ WAGNER/ BACH/ JOHN COLTRANE/ ALICE COLTRANE/ MILES DAVIS/ ERIC DOLPHY/ ORNETTE COLEMAN/ CHARLES MINGUS/ McCOY TYNER/ PHAROAH SANDERS