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LSA
Genre: Electronic
Region: Northern California

	Description		Biography		Influences
Aliza Grant AKA LSA (Life’s Sole Apprentice) is a multi-talented musician/programmer/engineer that creates her music with keyboards, guitar, sampling, and various vocalizations. On Bits And Pieces Aliza decided that she wanted to give everyone a collection of her music that spoke to her very best efforts, showcasing her diversity. What you will hear on this CD is an amalgamation of sounds emanating from guitars, keyboards, voices, natural sounds, and some vocals. What it all boils down to in the end is a wide presentation of electronica, trip-hop, and downbeat. If you like music such as this you will find Bits And Pieces to be a real chill out experience with plenty of variety that allows you to get into a groove, and a most consistent and pleasant one. There is something universally about music like this, I find it very uplifting and relaxing at the same time. By sampling sounds of life, nature, and our surroundings in general, then mixing it electronically with layers of keyboards and various sounds that shifit from one demension to another, it makes for a ambient surrealistic expereince that one has to engage in to find out what it means to them personally. One of the best tracks is “Underwater Blues.” I love the guitar with the reverb and the cool keyboards that sound like they are melting all around the other instruments and sounds. Its futuristic yet grounded in basic guitar chords for a foundation. I like the way LSA takes one idea, and then builds and joins several sounds around it. It’s a clever adaptation of the tools at hand and most definetly one of the best tracks on the CD. Similarly the next track “Cricket” is mostly sythesizer, in varying degrees the keyboards are used to build a composition, its something you could imagine hearing playing in the background of a science ficiton movie. This music is not devoid of emotion and feeling as one may think, its very colorful and full of life. “Jesus Loves Me” features vocals and a prolific message which is a step away from the what most of this album is about. Only the artist knows how personal the instrumental runs in every track is and you can try to read between the lines as you go along but its best to just feel what you it makes feel, then it becomes your own interpertation what each title means. All I can say is give this CD a spin, let yourself become enveloped in all the sounds and draw your own conclusions. © Keith "MuzikMan" Hannaleck-http://www.muzikreviews.com Home Page

Bits and Pieces
2005

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Title

Duration

Price

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1.	Cloud 9	4:14	$0.89

2.	Maybe I Can Help U	3:02	$0.89

3.	Jesus Loves Me	4:29	$0.89

4.	Herdsmen	3:39	$0.89

5.	Offkilter	3:18	$0.89

6.	Raindaince	4:05	$0.89

7.	Underwater Blues	3:37	$0.89

8.	Cricket	3:48	$0.89

9.	Open Your Heart	3:23	$0.89

10.	Ice Age	4:35	$0.89

11.	Born Into Bondage	3:57	$0.89

12.	Bounce	3:39	$0.89

13.	On the Rag	5:23	$0.89

14.	House You	4:51	$0.89

15.	Take Me Serious	4:11	$0.89

Bits and Pieces
Genre: Electronic
Release Date: 10/15/2005
15 Songs

$9.99 (Physical CD)

$9.99 (Download CD)

earBuzz Review:

LSA, from Sacramento, submits what the liner notes denote as a collection of tunes that was a struggle to complete. There is no evidence of struggle audibly. The first track, "Cloud 9", has a popcorn perpetual keyboard pattern with quick ride and bell like whispers. The rolling quality of the tune is consistent throughout the album - most tracks experiment around foundation grooves. Track 9, "Open your Heart", is one exception (one of two tunes written by Jormah Lohr). The track includes some of the only vocal performance - and the combination is compelling - vocals have the tone of Hutcheans - which is appropriate seeing that the music bed has a dance/euro quality to it. Although LSA's support has a more ethereal quality, nowhere near pop. The long mp3 clip here, "Jesus Loves Me", begins with fluctuating analog key elements - followed by recitation of the Lord's Prayer to acid beats. Vocals are subtle and relaxed - intimate, by Jormah. Lyrics, 'you said you loved me, but you don't know my name, you said that Jesus loves me, but he don't know my name'. LSA showcases guitar playing and interesting music revolving in track 5's "Offkilter" - single coil guitar lines arpeggiate between two chords and make way for a medium upbeat Sealish groove. The final track, "Take Me Serious", again showcases LSA's application of melody and chord to a single line acoustic guitar - again, moving into a medium beat that features gentle piano patterns and string patches. There's a lot here - relaxing and atmospheric with 15 tracks and a full hour of artistry.