Alex Kirzhner - guitars, bouzouki, oud, drum programming
Veronica Faye - vocals, guitar, interpretive dance, keyboard, synths
Clifton Aird Hyde - bass, chapman stick, guitars, mandolin, lapsteel Kevin Garcia drums and percussions Joe Peretore - producer, engineer, sound designer, therapist
Others who had participated in AIKOSTAR: Kerry Farias - viola, auxiliary vocals Cris Luspo - guitars Carlo Ponti David - percussions Jaime Wilson - violin Emily Schafer - cello Daniel Adam - recording engineer
These people can all rattle your nuts.
Influences
Here is an abridged list:
Porcupine Tree, Meshuggah, Opeth, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, Radiohead, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Nirvana, The Melvins, anything Mike Patton does, anything John Zorn does, the Swans, Black Sabbath, NIN, Bela Bartok, Bach, Mahler, Asian court music, Middle Eastern, Latin, Russian, African, and all other world music.
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Estrogen mixed with testosterone and formaldehyde.
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"Vast dynamics, odd meters, tormenting vocals and a stick bass make this a band you will not soon forget. It kind of assaults your ears the way a female fronted Tool would." - Usounds.com
AIKOSTAR, primarily known as an aggressive melodic hard rock ensemble with a taste for extraordinary arrangements, vast intense dynamics and eclectic instrumentation, is born to its enigmatic Filipino-American frontwoman, Vero, and to its introverted Ukrainian-American artsy-fartsy guitarist, Alex Kirzhner.
The duo has engaged this project with several musicians including a good ol’ Mississippi string-pickin’ multi-instrumentalist which they found in Clifton Hyde, and a Spaniard (by way of Michigan) percussionist, Kevin Garcia. Both appear in AIKOSTAR’s critically-acclaimed untitled debut album, commonly referred as "The Gun Album".
And if that’s not diverse enough, AIKOSTAR’s musical tastes range from Mahler and Bartok to Meshuggah, Tool, Radiohead and Nobuo Uematsu, and the instrumentations range from electric guitars and bass to mandolins, bouzoukis, ouds, djembes, cellos, violas, violins, keyboards and synths.
Vero, whose voice has been described as "Maynard James Keenan having a threesome with Dolores O’Riordan, and Bjork" has also earned quite a reputation for her unforgettable primitive tribal dance simultaneous with a powerful vocal performance.
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hi AIKOSTAR, thanks for being a new friend of namast fan page! I hope you like their music and we`ll soon see you at one of their live gigs! stay tuned and have a great week!
thank you for the music, the songs Im singing
thanks for all the joy they're bringing
who can live without it, I ask in all honesty
what would life be?
without a song or a dance what are we?
so I say thank you for the music
for giving it to me.
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Great set last saturday, you have a very powerful voice and i recommend that everyone buy your CD cuz its freakin awesome. Can't wait to play with you guys again. Canada next?
hey mama .. i had a lot of fun sharing the stage with you last night .. i really luvvv the artsy rock thing you were doing last night .. it's like evanescence .. but sexier!
