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North Shore band releases second CD

IF jazz-infiised funky rock is
your bag, a dive into Breathe
Underwater’s second inde-
pendently released CD could
well refresh the spirit.

Dino DiNicalo, fon Roper and
Frank Baker work out theit *collee-
ve screwing around process” with
some raw, live-off the-Moor panache
on Unédeliever

Dino, a North Shore resident, and Frank first
worked together in an akiernative funk band called
Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Frank spent time with other
rack and jazz projects before linking with Dino.

Dino sings, plays bass and harmonica for
Breathe Underwater. Frank pounds the skins.
Together they're a tight rhythm section. With Jon
joining in’ on guitar and vocals, the group cuts 2
path of focused intensity on its lacest disc.

The trio admit to a plethora of influences. What
makes the mix?

Said Dino, “You're asking a guy who has way
too many influences. ‘That's why the first CD was
so screwed up. You could say that I really do like
certain bands like Zeppelin or Stone Temple
Pilots or Ben Harper, but I don’t think you can
find them in the CD.”

Said Jon, “I'm really intluenced by certain

guitar players and
writing: wise, right
now I’m really into
the band Too] and I
like all the
Soundgarden stuff. I
still play a lot of
jazz, fusion stuff and
straight-ahead and I
like Indian music.”
For his part Frank
went through a heavy 1980s
influence.

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ferent styles and drummers and |
try to make the ideas or feels work.

“We really get to play what we want to in this
band. For rock music F've alw: ays admired the
Police, especially being a three-piece band.”

The adv antages of a three-piece configuration
extend beyond the money saved sustaining a
band on the road. Frank describes it this way: “I
actually went through a lot of anxiety with
Breathe Underwater. With every band P've
worked with I’ve always had up to five pieces
going through a P.A., and here to have just a gui-
tar, bass and drums with vocals over top, I
thought i it was going to be weak or we're not
really going to get the ideas across to the people.

NEWS phote Mike Wakefield
DINO DiNicolo, Jon Roper and Frank Baker, collectively known as Breathe
Underwater, can be heard on their second funk-rock CD, Unbeliever.

Bur it didn’t happen that way. I chink this is
great. You get closer personalities.”

Dino sees the benefits of the basics in terms of
the strength of connections made with his band-
mates. “After being in Mr. & Mrs. Smith and
being with five peopic in a band, it is hard to find
people thar vou vork with, never mind being
friends, but actually being z able to communicate
musically in a way so that something can be pro-
ductive rather than destructive. I know the place
where it can be destructive.”

Watch for the group's video for the track
Come Tomorrow, shot with Sean Frewer and
Moving Pictures Productions in January.

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