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My name is Pal. This page contains information about me and samples of my music and recordings. My primary instrument is guitar, but I also dabble on bass and drums. I moved to the Boston area in October 2003 to pursue my interest in music. I’m currently recording some of my own original songs but am also looking for a new band. My previous band was Sentient End. I’ve also recorded with two other bands in the past - first with Some Band and later with the Red Hot Mammas.

I listen to and am inspired by a wide variety of music ranging from jazz to blues, hard rock to heavy metal, and acoustic music to traditional folk. I am always looking to expand my knowledge of music and technical ability.

A few notes on the songs posted. Killing Floor is my version of the classic blues tune. I recorded all the parts for this song in 2002 using rudimentary equipment. It was my first serious attempt at recordig, so it’s a bit rough. It will give you a good idea though of my abilities on bass and drums.

Snow Day is a funky song I wrote with my college band, Some Band. It was recorded in 2002 by Lloyd Sallisbury at his Flatrock Studios in Moosup, CT. My friend Ethan Phelps was a huge help to me in working this song out and he also came up with the fast section at the end of the song.

I wrote Surface and Remember with Jill Sakidovitch. Jon Clark played bass on Surface, the drums were performed by Jeremy Gustin. All vocals on these two songs were by Jill. I performed all instruments on Remember.

Love Is Like A Song is about love and reminiscing about a relationship that has come to an end. I wrote it quite some time ago but it took me a long time to record it completely. I play all the instruments and sing on this one.

I recorded, mixed and produced Sentient End’s EP. You can download all four songs on the Sentient End homepage. Definitely get in touch with me if you want to discuss a recording project.

Ever since I can remember, I always loved music. Growing up, there was always music in the house. From classical to jazz, Hungarian folk music to progressive rock, something was always playing. To this day, I really can’t stand a quiet room. I need to have music around me. By the time I started high school, I was obsessed with the blues based rock bands of the 60’s and 70’s. I could not get enough of bands like Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, and probably most of all... Led Zeppelin! Once I learned that much of these bands’ inspiration came from older blues songs, I began traveling backwards in time to find the source. The trail led me to John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, and other, even more primitive roots music.

It was around this time that I started heckling my parents for a guitar... without any success. It took a few years of squandering my time and money on video games to realize that if I wanted a guitar, I was going to have to get serious about buying one myself. I began saving every dollar I came across and when I was sixteen, my dream came true. I was able to buy my first guitar (with my parents’ help of course). Thus began my journey.

It was a very rocky start. I could not afford lessons and spent many frustrating hours trying to learn from books. I didn’t make any substantial progress until I was in college. It was there that I met my roommate and friend Ethan Phelps. I learned a lot from Ethan and started my first band with him and fellow friends and students "Muffler" Michael Kostiuk and Doug Seitz. We formed Some Band in the fall of 1999 and continued writing and recording songs until our breakup in the fall of 2002. Our material ranges from heavy riff based guitar rock to punk rock to funky jamming. While at Uconn, I also played guitar in Red Hot Mammas, from 2001 to 2002. The Mammas tunes are a blues based jam rock sound that allowed for a lot of soloing all around and helped me with my improvisational skills.

While I was unemployed all summer during 2003, I spent a lot of time practicing, learning, jamming and playing open mic nights with my friend JD. I was becoming more and more serious about music and decided to move to Boston. It took me a while, but I eventually formed Sentient End with Jill Lancraft in 2004. We wrote 12 songs together and recorded an EP of four songs. The band broke up in September of 2006.

My goal is to keep practicing, work on new material and find fun people to play music with. I’ve been listening to a lot of folk and roots based music lately. I’ve also been working on some jazz as well. Only time will tell where I’ll end up musically speaking... I just hope that I’ll be able to absorb as many different types of music as possible and shape my own unique style and approach.

I’ve also started recording other bands recently. Hopefully these are the first steps towards fulfilling my dreams of having my own record label and studio.