Cardamon
Cardamon is an atmospheric rock-band from the Netherlands. Go to www.cardamon.nl for more info or check us out at www.myspace.com/cardamon
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
Early 2004, Thomas Kalksma and Koen Romeijn from renowned Death/Thrash metal band Detonation came up
with the idea to form a new band. But not just another metal band, the general idea was to form a band in which
Thomas and Koen could experiment with more mellow and laid back music and explore the rock genre as well aside from their usual heavy metal style. The decision to search for a "clean singing"
vocalist was therefore easily made. The first ideas and song structures that were written, were obviously way too melancholic
for typical metal vocals....;)
A short period of time later, the band ran into Floortje Donia, who knew Thomas and Koen from years before. Thomas was aware that Floortje had been singing in a band before, and asked if she was interested in joining the band.
After doing a short try-out session with Floortje, it became obvious that this was going to work for the band.
During the following months, Thomas, Floortje and Koen came together a couple of times to work on basic songstructures and general song ideas. From these sessions, 3 melancholic songs were created and recorded at Thomas' home studio. When producer Hans Pieters heard the material, he insisted that the band recorded those 3 tracks in his proffesional Excess studio. In the meantime the decision was finally made to name the band "Cardamon".
Bass player Patrick Velis joined the band in the meantime, while Guitarist Bikker left Cardamon already due to personal affairs. In March 2006 the band finally found a suitable 2nd guitarist in the person of Kevin Storm. The band has now set their minds on recording a full-length album in 2006, and doing as many shows as possible to gain experience.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
Yes. Anytime, Anywhere.
Your musical influences
Most our influences stem from metal.
But bands such as Katatonia, Anathema certainly inspire us to push the boundaries
What equipment do you use?
line 6 guitar amplification, marshall cabinets, Koch bass heads, too much to name
