New Members, Less Drama

This last year has been an interesting one. We made a whole lot of friends, and I managed to make some enemies as well. I am surprisingly ok with both, thats how life goes and so I choose to embrace that fact.
We've seen some talent come and go, with great sadness. People that I hope to someday work again with, in some form. We've also parted ways with the type of people that you will never, ever see perform or work with the band again. Ever.

Life is too short to spend time on people who don't deserve it, thats a life lesson I wont soon forget.

So say hello to the new recruits Matt Kelly (keys) and Alexis Von Kraven (drums).
There is soo much talent between these guys, and so its humbling to share the stage/rehearsal space with people that inspire like they do. Its a statement on their charactor and their abilities.

I've been working with Matt for a few months now, and i cant ever remember being so excited to work on music with another individual.

Awaking State, since the beginning, has been about me making music. The band is about delivering that music to the people and the fans out there.
So its a change, but a pleasant one to have a partner to work with on making the music. Matt is just that fucking good.

Check him out in his Project Deviation outlet as well, very talented guy working with other, non-awaking state talent. Definitely something worth checking out.

So there's some dirt for you.

-kent

Gear: Meet the x8 - part1

I wanted to take a moment to introduce you all to a friend of mine. We have this whole 'committed non-sexual life partnership' thing happening, its actually pretty hot.

-k.

The start of some new music......

So myself and Matt Kelly our AMAZING new keyboard player decided to take 30 mins and quickly track some new sounds....heres what we did! The start of some new music, im totally digging it personally....we'll see where it goes! There is no name for it, and no telling how it will end up, but for now it is what it is :)

http://www.awakingstate.com/sept28_10.mp3

Comments may win you some free shit, so lets hear what you think!

-k.

Awaking State.com is NOW ONLINE!!!

We are very happy to announce that the new Awaking State.com website is online!!!
We will be taking the next week to fix any issues and adjust some of the content, but its nice to have a fully functional site.We love the site wide media player, we've stocked it full of tunes from the library for you guys/girls.
We added some really great remixes and also a preview of some of whats coming on the Cities Burn Down EP!

Search around, enjoy yourselves!

-AS