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Originally from Texas, the group formed in New York City in 1997, with Valle (guitar/vocals), Sean Donovan (keyboard, bass and programming) and Wayne B. Magruder (drums, programming and percussion). They later added Peter Gannon (rhythm guitar). With three albums released, Calla have received critical, if not commercial, recognition, including the distinction of “#1 Band You need to know in 2001” by Alternative Press...
...just roommates, but also the classmates and resident tutors next door, above and below—can sometimes feel like living in a library. Obviously the expectations aren’t even in the same ballpark, which is probably why it’s thought to be obnoxious when bass actually breaks through walls in the first place, upsetting naps and cram sessions and quiet evenings on the futon and what have...
...Bass, in itself, isn’t base. I think the low-end in music after rock has been stigmatized not just because it’s loud, but because it’s become disembodied. There’s no bass player, no one there to praise or blame but the bass itself. Yet the bass is ever more important; it’s a force of its own that literally forces attention to itself. There’s always been low-end in music, but at this point it demands proper representation. So does everything else for that...
...Ideally, then, I’d live alone in a warehouse.) The fact is that most of this stuff comes from club and rave culture, where booming soundsystems are the norm. Below a certain volume threshold, it loses effect—thus meaning—completely. Leftfield drum & bass producer Equinox makes dub basslines so deep (below 30 Hz) they’re barely audible at high volume on standard speakers. They’re meant to literally shake your body, seize your insides. And studio wizards like Foul Play used to program breakbeats that were so rapid and microscopic...
...what makes this record so unique. The music, looping beats and random instrumental coloring, plays background to the luscious vocal harmonies. A capella love song “Ambulance” is positively entrancing as the duo sing on hauntingly syncopated beats over the constant bounce of backing bass...