Growing up together, the boys of AKUDAMA have become masters of creating thoughtful, eclectic & eccentric rock music. Self-taught melodic savant Blake Charleton began writing music with brothers Calvin and Cayce Pia 7 years ago while still attending High School in a small town called Weston, Connecticut. After several years of hiatus spent traveling, learning, and absorbing life’s infinite inspirations, the trio of young-twenty-somethings reunited in 2008 in Brooklyn to reboot the project. With the recent addition of bassist Andrew Pertes, the group has become an active and aggressive force in the NYC indie-rock scene, and has proven to be a strong touring act throughout the Northeast and Midwest. The live show is relentlessly engaging. The band's creative ambition is unlimited, consistently proven with their self-recorded/released “Free EP of the Month” series, which, after 11 months and 11 releases, has resulted in a remarkable catalog of music.

AKUDAMA’s sound is a collage of musical inspiration; the explosiveness of Broken Social Scene, the vivid production of Doves, the lush harmonies of the Zombies, the lyrical depth of Wilco, the pop-precision of the Shins. The result is a sound that is undeniably their own, focusing on the craft of song, not gimmick. After all, it is about the music— and AKUDAMA makes that abundantly clear. The band has made their entire catalog available for free streaming and purchase at www.akudama.bandcamp.com Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.