Sunchild - California Honey

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2009
Time: 42:08 
Size: 96,7 MB 
Label: Self-Released
Styles: Rock/Blues Rock
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Take It Down - 3:01
 2. You Keep Me Floating - 3:51
 3. Last Time You'll Fool Me - 4:01
 4. With My Morning - 4:09
 5. Vagabond Parade - 5:20
 6. You're No Angel - 4:10
 7. River Queen - 3:09
 8. You Keep Me Floating - 4:47
 9. Darker Side of Sunset - 5:09
10. Letter to a Friend - 4:24

Musicans:
Donavon Frankenreiter - Guitar;
Matt Hamilton - Guitar;
Tristan Michael - Bass,Vocals;
Scott Owen - Guitar, Keyboard,Vocals;
James Rhinehart - Drums.

Sunchild (they took their name from a William Blake poem) was formed in 1996 by guitarist Donavon Frankenreiter, who had already earned international renown as a pro surfer. A love for the waves is another thing the band members hold in common. "Surfing is our second passion, next to the band," Tristan says. "It can be a spiritual activity; you working in concert with nature, and I'm sure it translates on a subconscious level to the music." "We can definitely find ourselves getting transported by the music, when you're with four other people connecting inside it," says Scott. "We all really feel what we're doing. But it's not an aimless jam. Like surfing, there's a discipline holding it together." Donavan's ability on a board has been the subject of numerous surfing films, TV shows and magazine articles, and he remains a vital force in the sport. But Sunchild's music has been his primary focus since he started playing with Scott, Tristan, co-lead guitarist Matt Hamilton and drummer James Rhinehart, the band's most recent addition In May of 1997, not many months after they came together, Sunchild recorded its first album, "Barefoot and Live," which pretty much describes how the album was done at LA's The Mint club. Scott says, "That album was mainly songs we had come into the band with. What we're writing now is much more of a cohesive band effort, with everyone contributing to it. It's the music that gets us off, and it's great to be able to share that feeling with our audiences. It feels like it is music that's coming around again, with female artists like Sheryl Crow really pushing it forward now. It seems like it's getting hip again to be meaningful and accessible." "Our music is just based on our own experiences, on the life we know," Tristan says. "A lot of the music we love was fueled by a more volatile era. We're not going to pretend that's our lives. We're not going to go out of our way to sound obscure or overblown. It isn't so much that we have a message to get across as a mood. Our main thing is to generate some emotions that our audiences can relate to, and that they leave feeling better than when they came in."

California Honey