With more influences than you can throw a kitchen sink at, s.p.o.n.g.e characterizes all that is special about the burgeoning music scene in Singapore - the ability to amalgamate and mix the love for all kinds of music. Drawing influences from Metal, Alternative Rock, Pop, Shoegaze, Folk and churning them into a carefully crafted album, “Frankel Avenue”, with 10 busting anthems, will help you fall in love with music once again.
s.p.o.n.g.e is Mohamed Rahmat (Vocalist), A. Qader (Drums), Muhammad Syairazi (Bass), Syafiq Supingi(Guitars/Vocals) and Kenneth Tan (Guitars). The band met while trudging through the drone of university life. Aspiring to move the foundations of music with a unified belief that challenging music can be crafted with a pop edge, s.p.o.n.g.e set out writing songs drawing from the experience of the everyday, but lined with considered musicianship to interest the devout music fan.
“We want people to understand the feeling we had when we first listened to our musical heroes,” says Rahmat, “As a collective, we’re so much more than our individual parts and you can definitely hear each of our unique musical influences through the songs in ‘Frankel Avenue’.”
Recorded at the Void, under the masterful hands of established producer Nick Chan, who has produced albums for I am David Sparkle, Bismuth and Amateur Takes Control, and mixed and mastered by Kamal and Laz Harris at Sound Advice Recording Studios, “Frankel Avenue” looks set to be the next local album to set the local scene alight.
The first single, “News”, begins with crunching guitars, exploding into a flurry of soundscapes, slowly easing its listeners into a melodic verse and ends with the final climatic choral chorus, its tune never once letting you go.
Songs like “For Fathers” and “Come Home” relight the embers of tired feelings long stowed away, and “Silver Stains” and “P.S. Gone” with blaring guitars and Shoegaze-type eruptions, are ticking time bombs, ready to blow minds away with an impossible eruption of song.
Already gathering effusive praise from plaudits such as youth forum, Youth.SG, and local pop magazine, Manja, which have touted the band as “The Top 10 Singapore Bands to Look Out for in 2008”, s.p.o.ng.e, with their debut album, “Frankel Avenue” in tow, looks set now more than ever, to cement themselves into the ever-changing musical landscape.
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s.p.o.n.g.e is supported by Noise Singapore and Gibson Guitars.
s.p.on.g.e uses Klotz Cables (Available at Blackwood Guitars, Singapore).
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Diorama's "Sanubariku" has been receiving airplay on Ria 89.7 FM. <br />Do help us out break into Ria Charts by requesting for the song.<br />Help from fellow local unsigned/independent bands are greatly appreciated!<br /><br />Diorama<br />
Hey Guys and Gals, <br /><br />Knightsfall have just finished mixing one of songs from our upcoming EP. Its entitled the "Sweetest Thing (myspace version)". Appreciate it if you could take some time off to listen to it.<br /><br />If you do like the song, please go dedicate this song to your love ones. Treasure your love ones ya.<br /><br />Stay tune for our Debut EP launch which will be out in Late MAY.....<br /><br />Love ,<br />Knightsfall
Hey guys, I took photos of the band during WeekendTRIP: Noise Edition. Do view the photos over at: http://soft.com.sg/forum/gigs-concerts/114114-weekendtrip-noise-edition-photos.html Feel free to use the photos, as long you follow the Terms & Conditions stated in the first post of the thread in the link above. Cheers, Shiro
hey dude's & dudette's!!!!! We're just uploaded our 2nd original, its one of our ep track.. Its Called: FAIRYTALES WHERE COFFINS ARE REGARDED AS CASTLES
Hope u guys could take afew minutes off and listen to it..We really really want ur comment...so as to do a reflection and get better...we're also gonna re-record The Alchemist and another 3tracks soon....Most Probably We're Launching Our Ep in June if Everything goes as Plan...
We REALLY HOPE TO HAVE UR SUPPORT as We are quite new in the scene.. And we appreciate it if u guys could be there for us throughout our journey in the music scene...
PS: We Enjoy Doing What We're Doing Now. We Enjoy Performing, Performing and Performing. We Want To Have An Out-Of-This Country Experience. We Want To Leave An Impression And Make Everyone Loves Our Music.
We are headbanging to your music too. We are happy to have been given this opportunity to work on your album. Frankel Avenue is gonna do great. I will be there at the album launch. All the best.
Much regards to all of you,
Kamal Mahtani Sound Advice Recording Studio www.soundadvice.com.sg
Selamat Hari Raya to you guys too! We're really sorry that the tickets have been sold out, but you guys can still buy our cd when it comes out yeah? Thanks so much for the support!
Hey there. We've uploaded our new demo! Do spend some time checking it out. Much appreciated. And do give us some comments about it. We accept both BAD and GOOD ones. Thanks! :D
HEY EVERYONE, Team Salad Days and *scape are bringing to you our last gig, part of the Confessions series! Come and enjoy some awesome music on 13th of September, Saturday!!!
Fire Away, Samson! and The Nerves were selected after grueling rounds of auditions, so be sure to come down and support them. If you are a fan of Amateur Takes Control, Trella or Postbox(or all 3), this is a great chance to catch all of them in action!
Tickets can be bought at the door for $5. Also, make sure to check out our shirt and EP (proceeds go to Boys' Town and *scape Co. Ltd.)! Shirts are now selling at $15, while the EP (with a free Gibson guitar pick!) is selling at only $10. You can also get them all at a discounted price of $23!!
If you want to order shirts or have any other enquiries, feel free to email us at team.saladdays@gmail.com!
hey thanks bro. been a long time since 2005 yea? haha... hey cool. i wanna check out your gigs sometime. all the best! dun worry about delays. what's important is you do the album properly and don't skimp on quality to chase deadlines. :)
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