QUBENZIS:

Engineering, Song writing, performing: Ricky Maard (expecting the other members to surface soon)


Recorded with:
Apple Mac G4 Cubase SX, Peak (Mac), Ableton (mac), Windows98 PC - Cubase VST, Sonic SoundForge, Clavia Nord Modular, Roland Super JV1080, Roland Digital Delay SDE-1000, Mackie 1202-VLZPRO, Yamaha MV1602, Roland PC - 180


Special Thanks:
To Paul Vedant (australia) inspiration and for helping out with the Internet project, DJ Loopez (UK) inspiration and feedback, DJ Fly Fluss (Toys/Marbella) inspiration, feedback and for believing in QUBENZIS from the very start, Jonathan (psychedelic trance DJ, Barbados/Japan) for inspiration, invaluable advice reg. frequency sound shaping and mixing (where are you?)


Description:
On this album most songs are based on a straight kick with the syncopated back beats lingering behind or 'inside' the sound.

Short Bio
As a 10 year old Ricky took battery lessons (drums) where he picked up the basics from an elderly old-school jazz drummer who, unfortunately, had a slight drinking problem. The latter became the reason for Rich to quit after two years. Bought a bass-guitar few years later and started slapping it together with a drummer and a keyboardist. The first band was borne (still in school age).

Brought up in a prosperous late 70's Sweden, he had access to music technology from the very start. In those day's even the garage bands where well equipped with everything an aspiring musician/composer could dream of.

Experimenting with audio and music technology, also in traditional studio environment, has always been a part of his life. He made theatre music and environmental effects, for radio stations as well as performance groups in Scandinavia. Played with bands as a bass player, studio jobs or keyboardist gaining experience from a world of rock as well as electronic music. Embarked different set-ups like playing live synth together with DJ's, or as an effect/melody keyboard player with bands ranging from rock, funk and Celtic music to reggae and ethnic.

QUBENZIS
was born in the mid, late nineties. Probably acquiring the Nord Modular was the real trigger. Opening the gate to a world of multifaceted electronic sound shaping. Qubenzis found an original dimension of musical symbolism which is shared with the two new albums XEN BREAKS and Cosmic Embryo Electronica

Story:
Music brings even the unpracticed mind for a ride into the universal realm of harmonics. Harmonies based on the octave system, reoccurring in the nature sciences like chemistry, physics, metaphysics, astronomy as well as in the Tao I Ching and in genealogy. If one include the binary way of handling data (computers) we realize that only now (modern times) science might have realized what the old masters like Lao Tse tried to tell us all the time.