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anaka
- Guitars/ Vocals/ Leader/ Song
anaka
- Guitars/ Vocals/ Leader/ Song
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Heavy Metal
» location:
JP Management (NYC)
» label: Godsend Records
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AnAkA
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AnAkA (pronounced Anna-Kuh) is a Hard Rock/ Heavy Metal band from Brooklyn, New York, USA, whose musical influences are Alice In Chains, Black Label Society, Corrosion Of Conformity, Soil, Slipknot, Down, Megadeth, Godsmack, Metallica and Black Sabbath. AnAkA was originally formed in 2000 and since then has established a fan base all over the world. AnAkA has performed and headlined world famous NYC and NJ venues such as CBGB's, The Continental, Don Hill's, L'Amour, Brooklyn Music Terminal, Count Basie Theatre, Castle Heights, just to name a few. AnAkA is a powerful live band, which can move their audience sonically, physically, and even psychologically. "AnAkA's music is rage, heartbreak, self-realization, love, honor and wisdom ... powerful music for the outlaw-thinker that is found in all of us." -- Peter Pallis, Guitars/ Vocals/ Song Writer for AnAkA. "Down Devil's Road," released Fall 2001, was the AnAkA's first studio album. Tracks off "Down Devil's Road" are still being played and requested on national radio stations all across United States and also over seas. Along with making a well respected name for themselves in the US hard rock/ heavy metal scene, AnAkA is ranked the number 1 most requested band and number 1 album on the Greek radio station CRETE FM, in turn AnAkA has built a strong fan base in Europe and has also done so in markets such as Argentina, Brazil, Pakistan, Japan, Germany and Italy. Word of AnAkA's earth shaking music and their relentlessly powerful live performances has swiftly spread all across the globe. AnAkA and their music can be found on thousands of music websites and radio stations from all over the world. AnAkA’s new 2004 release, AnAkA, "Rust & Jade," which is the bands second studio album, was Produced and Engineered by The Jerry Farley and Digitally Mastered by Dan Korneff. Both of these individuals have worked with major national acts such as Ill Niño, Breaking Benjamin, Lamb of God, 40 Below Summer and Candiria on their latest releases. The members of AnAkA strongly believe that "Rust & Jade" will show the rest of the music world what AnAkA is truly all about. AnAkA has also signed with a New York City based record label called Godsend Records and have recently picked up an edorsement deals with Halo Custom Guitars and Basson Sound Equipment. For additional band information, show dates, band pictures, contact info, and for info about purchasing AnAkA, "Down Devil's Road" or AnAkA, "Rust & Jade," please visit the band at www.AnAkA.net, AnAkA's Official Band Website, or you may E-mail the band at AnAkAmusic@aol.com. You may also visit www.cdbaby.com/cd/anaka to sample and purchase AnAkA, "Rust & Jade."
Why this name?
That’s a secret!!! ... ::ha ha ha::
Do you play live?
Yes we've played a lot of gigs and we f***'n live for it. We are a live band, we love playing live, its the best part of being a band. We feel that the most important thing as a band is the performance. The live performance is where, as artists, we can express the feelings projected in our music and the stage gives us the perfect opportunity to floor our audience not only sonically but also visually. We have played and headlined a number of shows in well known and well respected venues here in New York City and also NJ, such as, The Continental, CBGB's, Count Basie Theatre (fit 1,400 people), L'Amour, and Castle Heights, etc.
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
I think the Internet can provide bands, such as ourselves, which are trying to get noticed, with another means of getting their music out there. In my opinion, for a band to truly be worthy of being given respect, it must pay its dues as an underground band, play gigs and kicking ass. The underground rock scene is where a true kick ass band gets it's name, not the Internet, though the net may help. I think the internet provides bands with a greater opportunity to have their stuff heard.
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
YES ... AnAkA has a deal with GODSEND RECORDS but we are still looking for the opportunity to have our stuff heard by a larger population of music lovers, and we feel that can only be done with the support of a major label.
Band History:
BY: PETER PALLIS - Guitarist/ Song writer/ Leader & AnAkA Master-Mind!
Before there was AnAkA there was an idea that rang through my head constantly. That idea fueled, and inspired me to get my act together, and start thinking about forming a band. I wanted to shake the world. Since the time I started playing music, I knew what this band was supposed to sound like, and what it should stand for. Ever since I was young, creativity had always been my best friend in life. Music, in a sense, helped me to find a discipline in my life, as well as an ultimate way to express myself.
In early 1995, I started playing guitar. It became an obsession for me to learn as much as I could about the instrument, and I would practice relentlessly. One night I was practicing and trying to get a grip on my new found past time when my brother Jimmy walked into my room and told me that some guy was at our window yelling "yo who's that playing guitar!" I went to the window wondering who this guy was, and it ended up being Tony Heredia. He was a drummer in a local band, and we got to talking about metal, and our favorite bands. Tony and I discovered that at the time we lived only a few houses away from each other and he invited me to his band practice, which was great because I was a very young guitar player, and it was great to see other, more experienced, musicians play music.
Toward the end of 95 was when Karl and I became friends. We attend the same high school before that but we never really knew each other. Karl and I met through a mutual musician friend we both used to hang with. We didn't really get close until Karl started attending the same college I did. By that time, Karl who also knew Tony, had joined Tony's band.
I, on the other hand, was totally emerced in learning and creating my own style of music. It really didn't matter to me what was going on around me, it was a time of learning how to get the music that I felt within myself out. It wasn't about finding a band at that time for me, it was about looking inward and finding my music's origins. Every time I had tried to find other musicians to play my music with it never really seemed to work out because no one seemed to be willing to make the same sacrifices I was prepared to make for music. For most people, it was all about a look, a badass image, or about chicks. For me, it was about playing what I felt and pushing myself to become a better music writer.
The years passed and I kept writing and studying different guitarists and different types of music, everything from thrash metal to country music. As I wrote the songs, I could hear a band playing them in my head. As time went on, I realized that I had a knack for writing very heart felt, yet heavy music. I felt it was finally time to get a band together.
In the mean time, Karl and I would jam together from time to time and he was really the only other musician I had jammed with for a while. I can remember us jamming at first and thinking that our styles were too different and that it would never work. It just sounded too weird to me. Karl and I were around each other a lot because we went to the same college together and our friendship really grew even before the music thing clicked between us. After a while of jamming with him, a really unique style of music began to form between us. We got comfortable with each other's styles of playing, and Karl brought some really melodic bass tones into the music I was writing at the time.
Karl and Tony eventually left the band they where involved in and Karl joined up with me. We played my songs and even began writing together, which was something that was very difficult for me to do with other people. Things really started to click between us at that time.
In 2000, I had started talking to Tony about joining the band. He came down to a few practices and from the very first practice we had together, I knew he was the man for the job. It was as if he was playing the beat for the songs that I heard in my head as I wrote them. Towards the end of 2000, Tony entered AnAkA, a name that Karl found surfing the net. It was a great name because it didn't insight anything. It didn't pigeon hold us into a certain genre of music and that was key because our musical style really doesn't fall under any certain category.
At that point, AnAkA was three guys Pete, Karl, and Tony. Since I wrote all of the lyrics, the responsibility fell on me to deliver them, and at the same time play guitar. It was cool for a while but I really wasn't a singer, and we started talking about getting someone who could sing, and do justice to the music. I wasn't about to just give my lyrics away to just anyone. It had to someone who could respect the songs and understand them and there origins. The only other person that came to mind was my brother Jimmy. Jimmy had a great voice, and a very good understanding of what I was about as a person. He entered AnAkA in February 2001.
Before there was AnAkA there was an idea that rang through my head constantly. That idea fueled, and inspired me to get my act together, and start thinking about forming a band. I wanted to shake the world. Since the time I started playing music, I knew what this band was supposed to sound like, and what it should stand for. Ever since I was young, creativity had always been my best friend in life. Music, in a sense, helped me to find a discipline in my life, as well as an ultimate way to express myself.
In early 1995, I started playing guitar. It became an obsession for me to learn as much as I could about the instrument, and I would practice relentlessly. One night I was practicing and trying to get a grip on my new found past time when my brother Jimmy walked into my room and told me that some guy was at our window yelling "yo who's that playing guitar!" I went to the window wondering who this guy was, and it ended up being Tony Heredia. He was a drummer in a local band, and we got to talking about metal, and our favorite bands. Tony and I discovered that at the time we lived only a few houses away from each other and he invited me to his band practice, which was great because I was a very young guitar player, and it was great to see other, more experienced, musicians play music.
Toward the end of 95 was when Karl and I became friends. We attend the same high school before that but we never really knew each other. Karl and I met through a mutual musician friend we both used to hang with. We didn't really get close until Karl started attending the same college I did. By that time, Karl who also knew Tony, had joined Tony's band.
I, on the other hand, was totally emerced in learning and creating my own style of music. It really didn't matter to me what was going on around me, it was a time of learning how to get the music that I felt within myself out. It wasn't about finding a band at that time for me, it was about looking inward and finding my music's origins. Every time I had tried to find other musicians to play my music with it never really seemed to work out because no one seemed to be willing to make the same sacrifices I was prepared to make for music. For most people, it was all about a look, a badass image, or about chicks. For me, it was about playing what I felt and pushing myself to become a better music writer.
The years passed and I kept writing and studying different guitarists and different types of music, everything from thrash metal to country music. As I wrote the songs, I could hear a band playing them in my head. As time went on, I realized that I had a knack for writing very heart felt, yet heavy music. I felt it was finally time to get a band together.
In the mean time, Karl and I would jam together from time to time and he was really the only other musician I had jammed with for a while. I can remember us jamming at first and thinking that our styles were too different and that it would never work. It just sounded too weird to me. Karl and I were around each other a lot because we went to the same college together and our friendship really grew even before the music thing clicked between us. After a while of jamming with him, a really unique style of music began to form between us. We got comfortable with each other's styles of playing, and Karl brought some really melodic bass tones into the music I was writing at the time.
Karl and Tony eventually left the band they where involved in and Karl joined up with me. We played my songs and even began writing together, which was something that was very difficult for me to do with other people. Things really started to click between us at that time.
In 2000, I had started talking to Tony about joining the band. He came down to a few practices and from the very first practice we had together, I knew he was the man for the job. It was as if he was playing the beat for the songs that I heard in my head as I wrote them. Towards the end of 2000, Tony entered AnAkA, a name that Karl found surfing the net. It was a great name because it didn't insight anything. It didn't pigeon hold us into a certain genre of music and that was key because our musical style really doesn't fall under any certain category.
At that point, AnAkA was three guys Pete, Karl, and Tony. Since I wrote all of the lyrics, the responsibility fell on me to deliver them, and at the same time play guitar. It was cool for a while but I really wasn't a singer, and we started talking about getting someone who could sing, and do justice to the music. I wasn't about to just give my lyrics away to just anyone. It had to someone who could respect the songs and understand them and there origins. The only other person that came to mind was my brother Jimmy. Jimmy had a great voice, and a very good understanding of what I was about as a person. He entered AnAkA in February 2001.
Your influences?
Jimmy Pallis (Vocals): Metallica, Megadeth, Corrosion of Conformity, Alice In Chains, Black Sabbath, Devildriver, Killswitch Engage, Down & Black Label Society.
Pete Pallis (Guitars/ Vocals/ Song Writer/ Master-Mind/ Leader): Metallica, Black Label Society, Black Sabbath, Corrosion of Conformity, Down, Devildriver, Killswitch Engage, & Alice In Chains.
Karl Andreassen (Bass): Metallica, Alice In Chains, & Godsmack.
Tony Heredia (Drums/ Percussion): Rush, Testament, Queensryche, Alice in Chains & Metallica.
Pete Pallis (Guitars/ Vocals/ Song Writer/ Master-Mind/ Leader): Metallica, Black Label Society, Black Sabbath, Corrosion of Conformity, Down, Devildriver, Killswitch Engage, & Alice In Chains.
Karl Andreassen (Bass): Metallica, Alice In Chains, & Godsmack.
Tony Heredia (Drums/ Percussion): Rush, Testament, Queensryche, Alice in Chains & Metallica.
Favorite spot?
NEW YORK 'FUKEN' CITY ... Where the wild things are!
Equipment used:
Gibson Guitars, Sure Mics, Ibonez Bass, Tama Drums, Peavy Amps, Marshall Amps, Ampeg Bass Amps, EMG 81 Pickups.
Anything else...?
For band info, show dates, band pictures, contact info, and for info about purchasing AnAkA, "Rust & Jade" please visit the band at www.AnAkA.net, which is AnAkA's official web site OR go to www.Myspace.com/AnAkA.