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Band collaborates in kitchen
By CAMERON HUBBARD
The Red & Black
Singing in the shower
is nothing new.
In fact, according to
San Francisco’s
Exploratorium, the spot
is popular partly due to
the bathroom's ability to
balance volume, reverb
and bass.
Trances Arc frontman
Eric Toledo took the idea
to anew room the
kitchen.
Though the acoustics
changed, Toledo said his
voice was just the same
when the band set up to
record its new album,
“XOXOX,” in a 19th cen
tury trolley station in
Atlanta.
“This place was kind of
like Willy Wonka’s
Chocolate Factory,” said
guitarist Michael Dorio.
“It had no sound-proof
ing. It had no limits.”
“XOXOX,” out March
25, is the first full-length
record from the Atlanta
based band playing at
Tasty World tonight.
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When: 10 p.m.
Where: Tasty World
Price: $5
For Dorio and the
other members, the
album is a condensed
representation of how far
they all have come.
“We’ve been writing for
so long in other bands.
We all have so many tal
ents in writing,” he said.
“These songs came across
as big, huge not just
melodically and sonically,
but also the insides of
them were full of so much
nostalgia and persever
ance and what it takes to
maintain artist-ship in a
band, and what it takes
to stick around.”
Dorio said the writing
process for Trances Arc is
a collaborative effort.
To find new ideas for
its music, the band takes
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and infuses different
aspects into its songs to
create something new
and different, Dorio said.
After forming at the
University about two
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years ago, the band went
on to record a demo that
experienced some suc
cess. However, the mem
bers are still balancing
day jobs and their music.
“The day that we
don’t have to go to
work, to me, is when my
band will be successful,”
Dorio said. “It’s never
been about money. It’s
always been just to be
able to play music and
have people be inspired
by it.”
In the meantime,
Dorio said the band
plans to play the South
by Southwest festival in
Austin, Texas, which it
played last year.
“I wouldn’t be sur
prised if next fall, next
winter we were thinking
about tracking some
more songs or even
making another
full-length record,”
Dorio said.
Coffee, beer merge
with ‘Wake-n-Bake’
By JENNIFER PAXTON
The Red & Black
In a college town where
both coffee and beer are
revered by many students,
the seemingly unattain
able combination of the
two causes a celebration.
For Athens-based
enterprises Terrapin Beer
Cos. and Jittery Joe’s
Coffee, the two have
mixed to release their very
own “Wake-n-Bake Coffee
Oatmeal Imperial Stout.”
Students of legal age
can purchase the coffee
enhanced beer at its
release party tonight at
Transmetropolitan.
“It’s a celebration of the
beer coming out,” said
Dustin Watts, vice presi
dent of sales and market
ing for Terrapin. “It’s a fun
time. There will be plenty
of beer.”
As far as the rest of the
party goes, prizes such as
Terrapin Cos. T-shirts and
raffle tickets also will be
offered to attendees.
Wake-n-Bake is the
winter selection of the
Terrapin Monster Beer
Tour, a limited release
series of high-gravity
beers. High-gravity means
a higher alcohol content,
and this one’s at a hearty
8.5 percent as compared
to the norm of about 4
percent, Watts said.
According to Terrapin’s
Web site, www.terrapin
beer.com, the blended
concoction is a “full-bod
ied imperial stout with fla
vorful coffee taste and
aroma black as night,
this coffee stout is thick,
rich and full of flavor.”
Terrapin and Jittery
Joe’s worked together to
find a suitable blend of
premium coffees from
Costa Rica, Guatemala
and Zimbabwe for the
drink, and its sans-alcohol,
all-coffee sibling.
The beer-making pro
cess calls for malts, in
which grains are roasted,
and account for the darker
color in the beer. These
malts offer a slight coffee
taste to begin with, Watts
said.
“A lot of times you’ll get
coffee stouts that are just
all coffee. Being able to
build a blend specific for
the beer allowed us to
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just attracted to the fact
that it was about spoken
word.
“One of the dominant
aspects of our culture now
is hip
hop, rap,
poetry. I
won’t say
it was
the rap
of the
time, it
was a
real
spectacle
sport, if
you will.”
Not
even the
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buzz surrounding the
movie fazes Washington,
he said.
“I’ve been in this busi
ness too long, that’s all
gravy, you know what I
mean?” Washington said.
“For me, the joy is mak
ing the film and finding
people that respond. The
Director’s Guild, which is
the toughest audience
(screened the film last
night). They gave the film
a standing ovation.
“You have to sort of
keep an even keel. I’ve
been around too long (to
pay attention to hype),”
he said. “You can’t get too
high, can’t get too low.”
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enhance that coffee pro
file,” he said.
Watts said the craft
beverage was released
originally a couple of years
ago, but it’s only available
once a year.
It will be available
throughout the winter
months in Athens only
while supplies last, so fans
of the drink are encour
aged to stock up, accord
ing to Watts.
The coffee blend is
already being sold at all
Jittery Joe’s locations,
select package stores and
through Terrapin’s Web
site.
Terrapin is familiar to
local residents as a
renowned beer company
in the Southeast, and
Jittery Joe’s has won over
many coffee-loving
Athenians.
“It’s unique to see a
micro coffee roaster and a
micTo brewery coming
together and producing a
product,” Watts said.
Washington in the role of
Tolson, was produced by
Oprah Winfrey.
“She was there when
we needed her, and sup
portive in every way, and
kept the ball moving,”
Washington said. “It was
her baby long before it
was mine.”
Washington said the
decision to act in the
movie was out of financial
necessity.
“It was strictly to get
the money. Basically the
studio said, ‘lf you’re not
in the film your budget is
this. If you’re in the film,
this is your budget.’ They
sort of back you into a
comer,” he said.
“These aren’t vanity
projects. I’ve had great
success as an actor. I have
no desire to direct myself,
that’s the last thing I
wanted to do. To get these
kinds of stories, I have a
lot of box office clout,”
Washington said of acting
in both films he has direct
ed. In terms of switching
characters from movie to
movie, Washington said he
had little difficulty start
ing anew.
“As soon as I finished
‘American Gangster,’ I
dropped it on a Monday,
and Tuesday I was getting
started (on ‘The Great
Debaters’). There’s no
Frank Lucas in my
Mel Tolson.”
