The
band Xinema was formed in Sweden 1999 by three friends:
Mikael
Askemur (Main vocals, guitar, bass and keyboards.),
Sven Larsson (Guitar, backing vocals) and
Jonas Ekman (Drums, vocals, backing vocals).
Originally,
way back in the mid 80:s, the members involved played together
in a Swedish prog band called Madrigal. At that time the music
was quite inspired by the likes of Rush, Genesis, Yes, Kansas
and Styx and was leaning heavily towards complexity and skilful
playing. During that period, many songs were written and the
band toured around in Sweden. As that band split up in the
early 90:s, the guys stayed in and out of touch with each
other during the following years, and worked together as well
as individually on many different projects. By the summer
of -98 however, the guys occasionally got together, and came
to the conclusion that re-rearranging and re-recording of
some of the older material would be a good thing to do.
One thing
led to another and in august of 2002, the band’s début,
the full-length cd ”Different ways”, was released
by Unicorn Records. In essence, with a few exceptions it’s
a compilation of the older songs from the ”Madrigal”
era. Around 2001 though, when ”Different ways”
was completed, another band called ”Madrigal”
had emerged on the web. Since the band at that time was newly
reformed, a name change was inevitable, and they decided to
go for Xinema.
The
new full-length cd ”Basic communication”, is the
first genuine Xinema album with exclusively new material.
Presenting an album of great variety and dynamics, Xinema’s
aim as usual, is to deliver a good set of relevant and consistent
songs. The band's motto is: "-A good song is always a
good song, regardless of genre.” Speaking of which,
you’ll definitely find Xinema in the rock department,
be that with an ”artful” or sometimes progressive
twist.
The new cd comes across as more powerful, articulated and
with a bit more attitude than its predecessor ”Different
ways”. This is a band that will spare no effort in the
process of maintaining their solid musical integrity, and
has always done things their own way.
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