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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.
In 1989, Michael Gurley was in the band "Louis and Clark" with Louis Gutierrez and the bass player was fired. Michael recommended his old friend Joie for the job. The combination clicked and Michael and Joie remained with the band, Lewis & Clark for about two years, recording one EP "Hollywood Capacity Maximum" in 1990.
When the Louis Gutierrez joined Mary's Danish. Michael and Joie spent a year working on their unique dual lead vocal approach and writing songs to fit the format of not a folk outfit, but an acoustic band which would evolve into the band dada.The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano was the scene of the very first dada show (when dada meant one less than a trio) when Michael and Joie opened for Mary's Danish in 1991. Then a friend of Joie's from Geffen records told him she knew the best drummer in town, and Phil Levitt joined the group. The trio premiered later that year at a Hollywood club called Lingerie.
Within a year they signed to the (then) cool I.R.S. label and began recording the CD Puzzle. The single "DizzKneeLand" set the alternative radio movement - just then hitting it's stride - on fire, and quickly migrated to mainstream rock and pop stations. The third single "Dim" further solidified dada's reputation as a band to watch. Puzzle sold over a half million copies and made a number of critics "best of year" lists. Sixteen months of constant touring followed, both as headliners on the club circuit and as openers for Sting (USA), Crowded House (UK), and Depeche Mode (Portugal). After sixteen months of constant touring the group came off the road towards the end of 1993.
By the Spring of 1994, dada was back in the studio recording their next release. American Highway Flower was released that September. It had a harder feel, both musically and lyrically, than it's predecessor reflecting the band's evolution from a studio to a touring band. The single, "All I Am" , spent 8 weeks on the charts, topping at a respectable, if unspectacular, # 27. Money problems at I.R.S., compounded by compressed nerves in both Gurley's elbows, cut short promotional efforts in February 1995. The album quickly fell off the charts.
DADA fared no better with their third release, El Subliminoso in April 1996. I.R.S. records was on it's last legs by this time, and folded just as the band was winding up the first leg of the tour. A lack of promotional support doomed the CD to obscurity before it could get started. A pity, as El Subliminoso was perhaps the group's most artistically complex and satisfying offering.
DADA signed with MCA records in 1997 and completed an abbreviated tour of New England and Mid-West America with many shows, selling out and several lasting over two hours, it would seem that dada has answered the critics who questioned the group's popularity and durability.
In August of 1998 the first single from the self-titled fourth CD, the Gurley/Calio penned, "California Gold," became the most added new single on radios stations across the nation. The fourth CD received generally favorable reviews as did a 33 city national tour. Touring plans for 1999 were abruptly put on hold and then cancelled as MCA's parent company Seagrams was bought by the French Company Vivendi. Soon dada, along with a host of other artists found themselves without a label. A final appearance before 14,000 fans at Norfolk Virginia's Harborfest on June 05, 1999 marked dada's final appearance as a group (at least for now) and dada was officially put on hiatus.
In the meantime, Joie Calio had decided that he needed to start over and pursue his muse alone and unfettered. This entailed a move to Seattle. After a year of songwriting and downtime with his family he had crafted 30 songs and secured a solo publishing deal. It was time to begin recording and marketing his songs once again.
Slowly things began to move forward again. A three song demo with Perfect Circle drummer Josh Freese was produced in the Spring of 2001. Shortly afterward a chance meeting with Portland based producer and guitar wizard Rob Daiker began an ongoing association which lead to the single "Stupid Songs About Love" which was released as a promotional item by MCA to industry tastemakers and was featured on WKOC-FM. It garnered immediate acclaim; enough for MCA to green light more studio time which resulted in four additional songs, recorded under the project/band name "Candy Apple Black": . Habit Forming, Morning Sickness, All The Days, and I Can Count On You To Bring Me Down.
The next step was to let the rest of the world in on what was going on. The website www.joiecalio.com was activated on March 7th, 2002 and three of the songs shared on MP3.Com. The songs on MP3.Com met with a favorable reception with several thousand downloads and even some modest airplay.
Tired of demos, Joie Calio decided in the early summer of 2002 that the time was finally ripe to record a full length CD for commercial release. . A six month effort resulted in a disc of more personal acoustic disc than the earlier efforts. 2002 Also wrapped up with a reunion concert with dada band mates Michael Gurley and Phil Leavitt.
With the hiatus formally broken more dada gigs followed with increasing frequency . First in California and then the midwest, finally resulting in a 51 city tour that stretched from Tempe Arizona, to Boston Massachusetts and most places in between. Along the way a live recording was produced at the Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana CA, which became dada's first live recording since the Westwood One broad cast in 1993, entitled "Official Bootleg Vol 1." In the course of this tour Joie's solo CD "Complications of Glitter" also finally escaped from the studio and out onto the merchtables and online stores. Met with universal acclaim from those who heard it, the CD comprises 11 songs from the previous years "In The Pocket" sessions. Individual songs from the CD began to be showcased in the dada shows as the tour drew to a close. This set the stage for an eleven date midwest and mid atlantic tour of Joie Calio performing as a solo artist with Gregory A. Haldan January 2004. Renewed touring with dada in support of theirfifth studio CD "How To Be Found" began again in the spring of 2004.
Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
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.
In 1989, Michael Gurley was in the band "Louis and Clark" with Louis Gutierrez and the bass player was fired. Michael recommended his old friend Joie for the job. The combination clicked and Michael and Joie remained with the band, Lewis & Clark for about two years, recording one EP "Hollywood Capacity Maximum" in 1990.
When the Louis Gutierrez joined Mary's Danish. Michael and Joie spent a year working on their unique dual lead vocal approach and writing songs to fit the format of not a folk outfit, but an acoustic band which would evolve into the band dada.The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano was the scene of the very first dada show (when dada meant one less than a trio) when Michael and Joie opened for Mary's Danish in 1991. Then a friend of Joie's from Geffen records told him she knew the best drummer in town, and Phil Levitt joined the group. The trio premiered later that year at a Hollywood club called Lingerie.
Within a year they signed to the (then) cool I.R.S. label and began recording the CD Puzzle. The single "DizzKneeLand" set the alternative radio movement - just then hitting it's stride - on fire, and quickly migrated to mainstream rock and pop stations. The third single "Dim" further solidified dada's reputation as a band to watch. Puzzle sold over a half million copies and made a number of critics "best of year" lists. Sixteen months of constant touring followed, both as headliners on the club circuit and as openers for Sting (USA), Crowded House (UK), and Depeche Mode (Portugal). After sixteen months of constant touring the group came off the road towards the end of 1993.
By the Spring of 1994, dada was back in the studio recording their next release. American Highway Flower was released that September. It had a harder feel, both musically and lyrically, than it's predecessor reflecting the band's evolution from a studio to a touring band. The single, "All I Am" , spent 8 weeks on the charts, topping at a respectable, if unspectacular, # 27. Money problems at I.R.S., compounded by compressed nerves in both Gurley's elbows, cut short promotional efforts in February 1995. The album quickly fell off the charts.
DADA fared no better with their third release, El Subliminoso in April 1996. I.R.S. records was on it's last legs by this time, and folded just as the band was winding up the first leg of the tour. A lack of promotional support doomed the CD to obscurity before it could get started. A pity, as El Subliminoso was perhaps the group's most artistically complex and satisfying offering.
DADA signed with MCA records in 1997 and completed an abbreviated tour of New England and Mid-West America with many shows, selling out and several lasting over two hours, it would seem that dada has answered the critics who questioned the group's popularity and durability.
In August of 1998 the first single from the self-titled fourth CD, the Gurley/Calio penned, "California Gold," became the most added new single on radios stations across the nation. The fourth CD received generally favorable reviews as did a 33 city national tour. Touring plans for 1999 were abruptly put on hold and then cancelled as MCA's parent company Seagrams was bought by the French Company Vivendi. Soon dada, along with a host of other artists found themselves without a label. A final appearance before 14,000 fans at Norfolk Virginia's Harborfest on June 05, 1999 marked dada's final appearance as a group (at least for now) and dada was officially put on hiatus.
In the meantime, Joie Calio had decided that he needed to start over and pursue his muse alone and unfettered. This entailed a move to Seattle. After a year of songwriting and downtime with his family he had crafted 30 songs and secured a solo publishing deal. It was time to begin recording and marketing his songs once again.
Slowly things began to move forward again. A three song demo with Perfect Circle drummer Josh Freese was produced in the Spring of 2001. Shortly afterward a chance meeting with Portland based producer and guitar wizard Rob Daiker began an ongoing association which lead to the single "Stupid Songs About Love" which was released as a promotional item by MCA to industry tastemakers and was featured on WKOC-FM. It garnered immediate acclaim; enough for MCA to green light more studio time which resulted in four additional songs, recorded under the project/band name "Candy Apple Black": . Habit Forming, Morning Sickness, All The Days, and I Can Count On You To Bring Me Down.
The next step was to let the rest of the world in on what was going on. The website www.joiecalio.com was activated on March 7th, 2002 and three of the songs shared on MP3.Com. The songs on MP3.Com met with a favorable reception with several thousand downloads and even some modest airplay.
Tired of demos, Joie Calio decided in the early summer of 2002 that the time was finally ripe to record a full length CD for commercial release. . A six month effort resulted in a disc of more personal acoustic disc than the earlier efforts. 2002 Also wrapped up with a reunion concert with dada band mates Michael Gurley and Phil Leavitt.
With the hiatus formally broken more dada gigs followed with increasing frequency . First in California and then the midwest, finally resulting in a 51 city tour that stretched from Tempe Arizona, to Boston Massachusetts and most places in between. Along the way a live recording was produced at the Galaxy Theatre in Santa Ana CA, which became dada's first live recording since the Westwood One broad cast in 1993, entitled "Official Bootleg Vol 1." In the course of this tour Joie's solo CD "Complications of Glitter" also finally escaped from the studio and out onto the merchtables and online stores. Met with universal acclaim from those who heard it, the CD comprises 11 songs from the previous years "In The Pocket" sessions. Individual songs from the CD began to be showcased in the dada shows as the tour drew to a close. This set the stage for an eleven date midwest and mid atlantic tour of Joie Calio performing as a solo artist with Gregory A. Haldan January 2004. Renewed touring with dada in support of theirfifth studio CD "How To Be Found" began again in the spring of 2004.
Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.