Years before officially joining VOIVOD, former METALLICA bassist Jason Newsted (a.k.a. Jasonic) jammed with Away (drums) and Piggy (guitar) at Jason's The Chophouse studio under the project name TARRAT. In 1998, the three VOIVOD instrumentalists regrouped at The Chophouse for five days of improvisational metal. These sessions produced tons of great sounds, including the initial structure of the song "M-Body" (which can be found on the VOIVOD LP "Phobos") as well as this recording entitled "One Reason", featuring the vocal stylings of Sophia Ramos. Taped a few months after TARRAT had laid down their music tracks, her vocals added a distinctive and unexpected touch of class to the original composition. Check out a two-minute clip in Real Audio format at http://www.chophouserecords.com/php/dlt.php?file=../chrmedia/audio/chr/tarrat_onereason_clip.ram
Not too bad. If this had gone beyond the "demo" stage (sound production wise anyways) this could have been huge. Pretty mainstream sounding, but still not too bad. Those fuckwits that post over at Blabbermouth don't know shit about music though.
posted March 13, 2004 20:15
