Edito de C CoordsUbzorb is a San Francisco Bay Area band that fuses rock, world music and electronica with edgy, beautiful female vocals. Ubzorb's sound is influenced by Shpongle, Portishead, Alice in Chains, Ravi Shankar, Mr. Bungle and Bill Laswell, as well as classical Indian and Chinese music. Members of Ubzorb have shared the stage with many fellow musicians, including Michael Franti of Spearhead, Zion I, Billy Talbot (of Neil Young's band), DJ Cheb i Sabbah, DJ Swamp, White Zombie and Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi. The five piece band was founded by Rama and Chris Wing (mcthfg), who met through mp3.com in April of 2003. Rama was playing sitar over electronic beats and mcthfg was using tabla samples in his electronic project "walk skip run glide". The duo jammed together in Oakland, CA for about a month and soon added Cyrus Wong-Weissman on bass. A craigslist posting found vocalist Dorian Rosavox. The quartet began gigging in the Bay Area in the summer of 2003, and after a year of performing added percussionist Stephan Junca to the roster in 2004. Additional shows in the Bay Area, Nevada, Utah, and LA helped the quintet grow tighter musically, personally, and professionally. They have spent the last two years recording and producing their self titled debut album. The album features 10 original tracks, and includes an infectious dancefloor reworking of New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle." Ubzorb is looking forward to touring and supporting the new release. __________ From Reviewer Magazine (reviewermag.com), 9/11/06 UBZORB (s/t) (Cordhead Recordings) One cool tune on this record is track 5: Size Mick , the chorus: Seismic waves and Cosmic Rays/destroy the maze Cool, huh, so California. Apocalyptic visions of a California bursting at the seams, earthquakes, fire, death, destruction constant reference to May 15 something bad is going to happen then, probably in 2012. In this sort of esoteric, ethereal vein, UBZORB have come out with a self-titled CD, on Cordhead Recordings, a wonderful delight. The songs are all, at an average of 5 minutes, hypnotic jams; a dance-y beat keeps time throughout, intermingled with real drums, which adds more of a humanistic touch. Also, instead of just a modern-day equivalent of a Mellotron, they have actual instruments, a sitar, violins, etc. all played by someone called Rama. Then there is the Voice, the icing, as it were, on top of the synergy of the rest of the music. Dorian, that s what she calls herself, this woman who brings the music to life with that voice of hers. All in all a tight album; it probably will creep into some clubs here and there, albeit in remixed form; I would bet on it. Some of the better cuts include the aforementioned Size Mick , Zeus Magnet and Fogdom . There s even an interesting cover of Bizarre Love Triangle , seemingly altered to appear more of one who s in love, rather than one who s jaded and doesn t give a damn anymore. Check out more about the band by going straight to their website: (http://www.ubzorb.com or http://www.cordhead.com) -KM.