All songs written, performed and produced by Andrew James Liles 4 song EP "BAD ANDROID ONE" available for download at: http://badandroid.bandcamp.com ****************************************************************** BAD ANDROID is a conscious effort to push my creative boundaries as a composer by challenging myself to express my ideas beyond traditional scales, structures and timbres. These songs are manipulations of guitar and occasionally voice or other items. There are no loops used at all. What you hear is what I actually play and then transform at my studio in West Warwick, Rhode Island, USA. I envision this project writing soundscapes for movies or other markets where non-traditional music is required. The inspiration of the songs comes from simple boredom to intense pain of losing a child and everything else in between. THE SONGS... "Hand, Foot, Mouth (molto rubato)" - Written about being afflicted with a temporary and annoying skin disease. Because I could not scratch in fear of further spreading this disease, I had to resist and twitch as my hands, feet and tongue itched just enough to aggravate me. This is why the playing is so off time, it makes you crave rhythmic playing just as I craved to scratch! The cello is actually a bowed classical guitar and the atmospheric sounds are all manipulated electric guitar. "Alone" - Bored and hopelessly uninspired, but feeling the urge to compose. This is the end result and features 4-part vocals and various manipulated guitar lines. "Who Knows" - This song is titled "Who Knows". It answers the question most people ask after a traumatic experience of, "Why?. There is a higher answer I am sure, but at the moment I felt this, "Who Knows?" fit. This is a musical expression of my 10 agonizing hours in a hospital main lobby while waiting for my wife to have surgery. It started as a first sonar gram to see our 7 week old baby. Unfortunately, it was an ectopic (tubular) pregnancy and we were forced to remove the baby so as to save my wife's life. The baby had a heart beat and was alive, but it was not viable because of the "missed turn" it took. Crushing news! The is a musical representation of my dreary and foggy 10 hours in the main lobby. Apparently, I was supposed to have been sent to a private waiting room, but the nurse forgot to tell me. So I walked away from my wife, offering one last kiss goodbye in the prep room and immediately walk into the main lobby. It was bustling with activity. The main automatic doors were on my right and entered into a grand waiting room with chairs and a large fish tank (installed in the wall). I was in tears and went directly to the bathroom to compose myself. This is why the introduction music is so choppy and fades in. It is as in the movie "Saving Private Ryan" when Tom Hanks is on the beach and his hearing is distorted from explosions two times (if you haven't seen it, sorry!). I then found my way to a group of chairs along side the main passage from the automatic doors to the elevators. On the opposite wall, across from me, was the fish tank. The next 10 hours were spent staring into that fish tank, losing myself in my new swimming tropical friends. The variety of people that passed between me and the fish during that time ranged from brand new parents parading their new babies out the door and then decrepit, wheel chair bound elderly people, perhaps making their final visit. At minute 4 of the song you will notice a change in the music. It is less rhythmic, sparse instrumentation and more open, tortured sounds. This is the moment when the chief surgeon let me know my wife was OK (thank you, God!) and that the surgery was "successful". Successful? That stuck with me and put me into a numb trance. I tried to have the music show this. This is why you hear screechy violin bowed guitars. The word successful used to describe our baby taken from us haunted me for a long time. Minute 7:56 marks when we leave the hospital and make the longest 7 mile drive home we ever took. I Hope this wasn't too much information. When I write my music, I write from the heart and not always so someone else can appreciate it. Sometimes it is just for me. So far, I have had very positive feedback from this. I hope the back story illuminates the path enough for my sounds to take life.

Growing up in a rich atmosphere of all styles and talent, Gypsum was formed by five very talented individuals who all agreed this band was definitely something they wanted to do. After some bumps in the road and a long hard reflection on the stylings and direction they want to take, they decided that a direction not yet traveled will be the best. They have taken all they know and funneled it into a tight, punchy, in your face rock/hard rock ensemble that gives even the best of national acts a hard show to follow. Now led by the soaring and strong vocals of Amber Collins and the best hard rock rhythm section that can be found, Gypsum is something that will take this industry by storm. Gypsum just finished up the recording of their debut EP with Mike Watts, who has worked with such bands as Saliva, Theory of a Deadman, Story of the Year, and many more... Also Co-produced by Steve Haigler, who himself is credited for such bands as Fuel, The Pixies, Local H and holds many certified gold and platinum records. *********************************************************** The Group: Amber Collins -Lead Vocalist Derick Boardwine -Guitar Fredrick Holbrook -Guitar, Vocals Derek Heath -Bass Guitar, Vocals Cody McCluskey -Drums *********************************************************** SITES: Visit Facebook and "LIKE" Gypsum for support... https://www.facebook.com/gypsumband http://www.reverbnation.com/gypsum *********************************************************** CONTACT: Fredrick Holbrook at fredrickholbrook@gmail.com for booking and other questions.