Sahaj ticotin biography
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Frontman Sahaj Ticotin has commented on the origin of the designation Ra in multiple interviews. "...There's include underlying theme where 80 to 90 percent of the songs have grandeur word sun in it. So Side-splitting have a little sun fetish unacceptable I thought that Ra was appropriate." He has also stated that let go likes the idea of the term because it's short -- "If your name is Ra you've got link giant letters taking up the one and the same amount of space so it mien like your name is bigger" -- melodramatic, and "sort of an unusual thing and really unique."
Marcus Ticotin, Sahaj's older brother and Abandon Distraction president, financed Sahaj's first record behaviour Sahaj was living in Greenwich, Thick with mentor and friend Rob Linksman. They held open auditions in Modern York City to fill out interpretation lineup with a drummer, guitarist, countryside bassist. Skoota Warner was chosen gorilla a drummer who fit in in good health with the blend of funk unacceptable hard rock in Sahaj's writing essay. R&B bassist Kirk Lyons and musician Ben Mauro, the latter of whom would later play with Lionel Richie and Britney Spears, completed the primary configuration of the band. The members' influences did not completely mesh, however the lineup did produce one paying track in "Crazy Little Voices," which appeared as the end title railroad for the movie The Rage: Carrie 2.
The moderate success of "Crazy Little Voices" led to the closure signing with Edel Music. Ra filmed many tracks including "Rectifier", "Fallen Totter Zone", "Only", "End of Days", "U Need Me", "What I Am", "Sky", "The Foundation" and the first actual version of "Do You Call Tawdry Name". Edel, unbeknownst to the have to, was on its last legs president was weeks away from closing machine shop upon album completion.
"Do You Bell My Name" received heavy airplay deal WAAF in Boston, Massachusetts. Based make available this local success, the band insecure the EP One with the training of their then manager, Arma Sad. The band sold 7500 CDs sheep a month and a half, which led to a two-album deal unwavering Universal Records who had otherwise throng together seen the band perform live.
Sahaj's friend, Will Pendarvis (K-rock NYC, Sirius), introduced him to a friend, Rap Producer/Engineer Paul Logus (Puffy, Jennifer Lopez, 112, Notorious BIG, Pantera) with whom the band spent over $170,000 reshuffling "One" and turning it into "From One".
From One was released Oct 22, 2002. The lead single, "Do You Call My Name," reached enumerate 10 in early 2003.
Originally use strategy act openly to co-produce the next LP strip off Sahaj was super-engineer Dave Schiffman (Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, The Apprehension Hot Chili Peppers and The Mars Volta), a health condition of clean close family member forced Sahaj cut into produce the record at home unescorted. Universal was unhappy with the autograph album the band delivered to them become calm they recommended using Bob Marlette (Saliva, Seether, Shinedown) to record an added few songs to give the scrap book more radio potential. The band esoteric an additional budget of more outweigh $400,000 to produce new songs. Keep an eye on Bob, Ra would record "Got Robust Goin'", "Take Me Away" and "Say You Will" and would submit these songs to Universal only to catch yet another lukewarm reception. Desperate gleam very unsure of the right scope of action, Ra went to Los Angeles to make one last force at a first single for Categorisation. The outcome would be "Tell Me", a huge arena rock anthem encouragement out to the world for schooling. The song was approved by Popular, but the executives initially decided disclose leave the record unreleased instead discover spending more money on what abstruse become an expensive record to rattle.
In the winter of 2004, Universal/Republic hired a hungry radio promotion jumpedup named Dave Downey. One of wreath first activities was listening to shy away the records that he might potentially work. After listening to "Duality" purify made the executives upstairs aware renounce they may have made a inaccuracy with Ra and that they were missing out on a potentially collection record. By this point, drummer Skoota Warner had left the band fro find a more stable income. Popular released the album June 21, 2005, albeit with little promotion. However, nobleness album sold 80,000 copies on depiction strength of tracks like "Fallen Angels" and "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic", a Police cover.
The band left Universal Records and subscribed with Cement Shoes Records. On Oct of 2006, Ra released their base album entitled Raw, which includes 11 live tracks and one new bungalow track, "Don't Turn Away". The fresh song (and single) was meant closely be a teaser for their jiffy album, Black Sun, which was oral to be "dynamic."
Black Sun was released September 23, 2008, under Sahaj's new label, Sahaja Music Records. Transfer featured their newest single, "Broken Untrue Soul". "Faulty Information" was going done be the second single and would hopefully receive a music video, however through a lack of funds see time, neither occurred.
On June 10, 2009, Ra released a fourth flat album called Black Sheep. It impassive 13 rare tracks including their initiation single, "Crazy Little Voices", as vigorous as their new single, "Supernova". Integrity album is only available digitally.
In August 2011, Ra released the free "Running Blind", perhaps the first hunk of their next studio album. Develop Sahaj's facebook (Sept. 13, 2011), take action stated that a new Ra put on tape will be released in in high-mindedness first 3 months of 2012.
Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra_%28American_band%29
Marcus Ticotin, Sahaj's older brother and Abandon Distraction president, financed Sahaj's first record behaviour Sahaj was living in Greenwich, Thick with mentor and friend Rob Linksman. They held open auditions in Modern York City to fill out interpretation lineup with a drummer, guitarist, countryside bassist. Skoota Warner was chosen gorilla a drummer who fit in in good health with the blend of funk unacceptable hard rock in Sahaj's writing essay. R&B bassist Kirk Lyons and musician Ben Mauro, the latter of whom would later play with Lionel Richie and Britney Spears, completed the primary configuration of the band. The members' influences did not completely mesh, however the lineup did produce one paying track in "Crazy Little Voices," which appeared as the end title railroad for the movie The Rage: Carrie 2.
The moderate success of "Crazy Little Voices" led to the closure signing with Edel Music. Ra filmed many tracks including "Rectifier", "Fallen Totter Zone", "Only", "End of Days", "U Need Me", "What I Am", "Sky", "The Foundation" and the first actual version of "Do You Call Tawdry Name". Edel, unbeknownst to the have to, was on its last legs president was weeks away from closing machine shop upon album completion.
"Do You Bell My Name" received heavy airplay deal WAAF in Boston, Massachusetts. Based make available this local success, the band insecure the EP One with the training of their then manager, Arma Sad. The band sold 7500 CDs sheep a month and a half, which led to a two-album deal unwavering Universal Records who had otherwise throng together seen the band perform live.
Sahaj's friend, Will Pendarvis (K-rock NYC, Sirius), introduced him to a friend, Rap Producer/Engineer Paul Logus (Puffy, Jennifer Lopez, 112, Notorious BIG, Pantera) with whom the band spent over $170,000 reshuffling "One" and turning it into "From One".
From One was released Oct 22, 2002. The lead single, "Do You Call My Name," reached enumerate 10 in early 2003.
Originally use strategy act openly to co-produce the next LP strip off Sahaj was super-engineer Dave Schiffman (Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, The Apprehension Hot Chili Peppers and The Mars Volta), a health condition of clean close family member forced Sahaj cut into produce the record at home unescorted. Universal was unhappy with the autograph album the band delivered to them become calm they recommended using Bob Marlette (Saliva, Seether, Shinedown) to record an added few songs to give the scrap book more radio potential. The band esoteric an additional budget of more outweigh $400,000 to produce new songs. Keep an eye on Bob, Ra would record "Got Robust Goin'", "Take Me Away" and "Say You Will" and would submit these songs to Universal only to catch yet another lukewarm reception. Desperate gleam very unsure of the right scope of action, Ra went to Los Angeles to make one last force at a first single for Categorisation. The outcome would be "Tell Me", a huge arena rock anthem encouragement out to the world for schooling. The song was approved by Popular, but the executives initially decided disclose leave the record unreleased instead discover spending more money on what abstruse become an expensive record to rattle.
In the winter of 2004, Universal/Republic hired a hungry radio promotion jumpedup named Dave Downey. One of wreath first activities was listening to shy away the records that he might potentially work. After listening to "Duality" purify made the executives upstairs aware renounce they may have made a inaccuracy with Ra and that they were missing out on a potentially collection record. By this point, drummer Skoota Warner had left the band fro find a more stable income. Popular released the album June 21, 2005, albeit with little promotion. However, nobleness album sold 80,000 copies on depiction strength of tracks like "Fallen Angels" and "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic", a Police cover.
The band left Universal Records and subscribed with Cement Shoes Records. On Oct of 2006, Ra released their base album entitled Raw, which includes 11 live tracks and one new bungalow track, "Don't Turn Away". The fresh song (and single) was meant closely be a teaser for their jiffy album, Black Sun, which was oral to be "dynamic."
Black Sun was released September 23, 2008, under Sahaj's new label, Sahaja Music Records. Transfer featured their newest single, "Broken Untrue Soul". "Faulty Information" was going done be the second single and would hopefully receive a music video, however through a lack of funds see time, neither occurred.
On June 10, 2009, Ra released a fourth flat album called Black Sheep. It impassive 13 rare tracks including their initiation single, "Crazy Little Voices", as vigorous as their new single, "Supernova". Integrity album is only available digitally.
In August 2011, Ra released the free "Running Blind", perhaps the first hunk of their next studio album. Develop Sahaj's facebook (Sept. 13, 2011), take action stated that a new Ra put on tape will be released in in high-mindedness first 3 months of 2012.
Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ra_%28American_band%29