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Welcome to the Rooke
Website Your Atlanta musical supplement for all things
whimsical, fantastic, intellectual, dramatic. |
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All Rooke recordings are now available on CD. |
Rooke's music is an original blend of rock and
folk harmonies, with a mature sensibility in the structure and content of the
lyrics. We don't try to over-moralize, and some songs are downright frivolous.
But there are deeper undercurrents of love, relationships and passion that
run through many of the lyrics. Our live shows are energetic without being
frenzied, with a lot of audience interaction and a focus on shifting the
spotlight onto different members of the band at different times. The style of
the music is fluid around a common core. Most of the members of the band switch
instruments throughout the set, each bringing their own style of play and
technique on the different instruments to the overall sound. This provides
variation in the texture of the music without changing the essential weave.
With 4 different singers, different songs are given different styles by the
choice of lead singer and the complex harmonies that have evolved throughout
the life of the band. Sometimes a different person will sing lead on a song
normally sung by another member of the band in order to shake things up a
bit, and provide a new dimension or perspective on the melody and lyrics. Our intended audience is really a more
sophisticated and/or more alternative crowd...people who are looking for a
different sound than what they will hear on the radio, but still want
interesting and catchy melodies, harmonies, and musical compositions. We
don't sacrifice quality on the altar of distinction...we don't do grunge or
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Rooke Recording New CD for 2006The working title is Star Chart. Band members include Dave Cater, Andy Fleming, Jayme Caspall, Jim Peliksza, and Steven Sams. Hopefully, we will get a guest vocal in there as well from Jimmy Rose. Here's a breakdown
of the tracks on the CD in roughly the correct order, subject to changes: Don't
Forget to Breathe
(Sams) Take
Me (for a Walk) (Cater) Venom
& Frost
(Fleming) Make
It Real (Sams)
Eclipse (Sams) Skrim Punch Flybot (Cater) Here I Come (There You Go) (Fleming) The New Song (Sams) Chat Room Girl (Cater)
Invocation (Crosa) How Little We Know (Sams) Resurrected (Fleming) As you see, Andy has written a lot for this CD! We're very excited about that. Also, we are featuring a song from Robyn Crosa again, one of our favorite writers and a former member of the band. Want to take a listen to a recording session? Check out Venom & Frost or Resurrected.
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Steven Sams recording new CD, Echo...finished the writing stage and heading to the studio to record this winter, expecting a 2006/2007 release. Here's a breakdown
of the tracks on the CD in roughly the correct order, subject to changes: The Author Said I Spy You're Always Getting Ahead of Yourself Too Pretty for Me Jade Complement Dark Star Storm The Curse On the Other Side of the Waterfall Decomposition I Spy (Revisited) Echo It's actually the story of Echo and Narcissus told rather indirectly through a series of songs meant to convey the mood of the characters in the Greek Tragedy.
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Rooke releases Lexicon
on CD
Tired of
not being able to get older EPs like Lovely or Monopoly Music on CD? Well, we've
put those two EPs together along with songs from compilations such as Silver Green, I'll Be Your Girl (acoustic), Get What You Want, and Mirage, the never-before-released Just the Same
as well as the Christmas single, All My
Heart This Night Rejoices, 13 songs in all-- this CD is available
on THIS site or by coming to concerts. Click on our SHOP link. Holiday
cheers! |
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