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"Promised Land" released by StickySweetSounds Records (Sun, 27 Sep.)
"Promised Land" is now available for free download from StickySweetSounds Records, an online label that is the brainchild of foodshelterandclothing's Bong Tan. The album contains remastered songs from the original track listing and includes 3 remixes from SSS Records' resident DJ/producers light$leep3r and the Roadside Bums (plus a special ambient-metal fix of Gaia courtesy of Nervegasm).
COLD FUSION UPDATES! (Tue, 11 Sep.)
Cold Fusion is a low thermonuclear reaction that generates hydrogen from water. If replicated and mass-produced, a table-top set-up can be used to help solve our energy woes. A prototype is documented in a video by cool dude, Michael Raines. Check it out in myMultiply
The Hard Water sound in the EP Promised Land is quite simply "rock in a backdrop of electronica". These are tough times, and I use the expression to justify how especially volatile the band scene is in the Philippines today. Sure, there is a "band scene" but it's still the same supergroups who's got connections playing the same superficial themes. The countless struggling quartets die out due to lack, literally. And become duets or even better - one-man bands.
But you also rap and do spoken word. How does that fit?
Promised Land discusses some of the issues that our world is facing at present. And due to this collective purposiveness of the album, some songs had to be written the way it sounds on the record. Like, there's no way the convictions in "Stop Now" could ever be captured quite the same way if it were written as a verse-chorus-verse.
Any new upcoming work?
The good thing about being independent is the freedom from timelines or equally, the pressure of sonic expectations from a management or audience standpoint. But, yes there is upcoming work. And it gets a lot more exciting too because there's already some talk of local collaborations that would result to a jazzy and more hiphop vibe in the next record. So keep those seatbelts within range.
Bio
Hard Water started out as a punk-metal outfit called Duterium. With members from underground greats Rubberduckies and Death by Stereo, the music is described as explosive, subversive, and a welcome change to mainstream Philippines’ ailing formulaic sound. With global perspectives and Celestine inclinations, the band is a believer in human enlightenment and such imminent technologies as cold fusion and other low thermonuclear reactions.
Owing up to the highly unstable hydrogen isotope of the same name, Duterium annihilated and became Hard Water with Kordero taking full accountability.
Sounding more oxymoronic as before, Hard Water is a "throwback to the future of rock ’n roll" as boundaries blur faster than the communist nations embracing capitalism.
Retaining the spunk and sensibility of Duterium, Hard Water adds heaping spoonfuls of electronica, spoken word and rap to its true DIY ethic. The result is as hard as water can get.
