fvolution of
The Creators

EVEN though they

nicked the name

from a Star Trek

episode, The

Creators are true

originals.

“

The dynamic duo of 4 —_
Andrew McCredie

Crosstown Studios
owner Al Rodger and
musician-engincer Paul
Cassano are taking music where few musicians have
gone. Rodger describes their improvisational vocal
style as “The Everly Brothers on acid”, and Cassano delights in having an
audience heckle.

Friends for the past six years, they wrote their first song together three
years ago. Cassano was working at Rodger’s Lower Lonsdale recording
studio and fate found the ove together in a room full of instruments.

“We had a free day in the studio and we thought we'd just mess
around and experiment with different sounds,” Rodger said of The
Creators’ first steps. “We wrote our first seng together and it happened it

* minutes.”

Rodger added that the song, called the well and on The Crearors’ new
CD, is the best thing they have ever dune. ‘The improvisational chemistry
between the nwo gave both a fresh approach to music. Rodger, a 37-year-
old Penticton native, came to Vancouver in che carly 1980s and has done
it all when it comes to the lite of a working musician.

Likewise, Cassano, a 31-year-old Lynn Valley native, is a veteran of the

CREATIVE VISION:

AS

| Spring

Equinox

THE ingress of the Sun
inte Aries on March 20 at
11:54 a.m. PST heralds
the celebrative movement
from: winter into the
Spring Equinos and a new
astrological vear begins,
Happy New Year. Aries
planetary ruler is Mars.
Our passionate red neigh-
bor has a history and is
well known in Greek myth
as the God of War. Mars in
the astrology chart
describes our drive, our
energetic self, our intent
and where we assert our
will. Come celebrate with
the Vancouver Sociery of
Astrologers Sunday, March
22 between 2 and 4 p.m.
in the Alberni Room at the

NEWS photo Paut McGrath
Paul Cassano (left) and Ai Rodger have combined musical forces

in The Creaiers. A nine-song CD, beach blanket bonge, was released last week.

Lower Mainland band scene.

Both were looking for something new and different when it came to
the creation of sound, and through their first collaboration established a
musical brotherhood.

The evolution of The Creators stalled after that brief recordiag spark a
few years ago. Then last summer Rodger and Cassano decided to lay
down some tracks and see how far they could take the concept.

“We had no real direction other than we could experiment as much as
we wanted to sonically which was pare of the program,” Rodger said of
the duo’s vision,

To be sure, The Creators’ celectic sounds require an adventurous, and
open-minded, audience. But, if you're in the mood tor something origi-
nal, be adventurous.

Catch The Creators live ai The End Apri! 3, 16 and 30, at the Portside
Room Apnil 10, and at The Whip Gailery in Vancouver on May 8.

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