Elucidation's newest song, "No Apologies," has just been released as an MP3 single on CDBaby.com at this link: http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/elucidationband5
"No Apologies"
It is an anthem of self-empowerment about being who you are, regardless of what others
think. It features a strong female hard rock vocal by Athena, awesome
guitar riffs by Rick, a crankin' drum beat by David and a cool bass
line by Paul. This is the FLAC file version of the Whole Song (not "sample" like the tape recorder icon says). "No Apologies" is programmed to play as soon as our home page is opened.
MP3 and FLAC versions of "No Apologies" are also
available for streaming on Sound Cloud's Elucidation Band page: www.soundcloud.com/elucidationband/no-apologies-flac and www.soundcloud/com/elucidationband/no-apologies-mp3
Elucidation's music will soon also be available on CD (just one more song to go!). We expect to have that released by the end of Summer 2013.
Classic Rock Resurrection with Attitude
"Elucidation" is new twist on classic
rock featuring music composed by
Richard Barcellona with lyrics by Athena Vienna. The first six songs were recorded with Richard
playing multiple guitars including bass, and a drum machine (plus keyboards on a couple of songs), with Richard and
Athena alternately singing lead vocals. Elucidation's music is Classic Rock & Hard Rock. Lyricist Athena comes up with
most of the song ideas*; Richard is the musician, engineer, and
producer who brings the ideas to life. David joined the band in 2010, and played drums on "Break From Being Broke" and "S.O.S. (Save Our Seas). He also designed our band logo and helped design and edit our band photos. Bass guitar player Paul Ruiz de Castilla began playing bass with the band in October 2012. Paul will be playing live shows with us, and will play bass on recordings of our new songs. Elucidation already have 9 songs completed; the newest, "No Apologies," features Paul on bass. Our song S.O.S. (Save Our Seas) is now available for purchase as an MP3 on cdbaby.com (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/elucidationband3), as is our pop-rock "Beatlesque" classic song about world peace "Soldiers Armed with Love," (http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/elucidationband4), both of which you may also listen to (stream) on the second page of this website. We are working on one more new song, "Showdown"** which will also feature Paul on bass and is expected, to be completed and released by the end of June 2013. We expect to release our CD No Apologies shortly thereafter in Summer 2013. Additionally, Elucidation was recently invited to sell through a new website for independent artists only, soundkicker.com, where all nine of our songs are also available as MP3 downloads. It is also a great place to check out new bands and artists.
Richard and David (along with John Keith, who is featured on bass on the
track "Soldiers Armed with Love") were in several bands in
the late 1960's, including The Band with No Name (Richard &
John), American Revolution and Edge. Their main hit was "Shape
of Things to Come" with American Revolution. If you Google their
names you can find some stuff (David's last name at that time was
Novogroski). Richard also had a major hit album "Outlaw"
with his band Actor, which was released on the Vertigo label in
Europe in 1980, but never released in the US as Vertigo was bought
out. Richard also engineered many band's songs in the 1970's and
1980's. Richard and Athena Vienna have been
writing songs together since meeting in 1994, and originally were
going toward a female artist type of thing with their first four songs:
"Spinnin' My Wheels", "Skeletons in My Basement", "Space", and "No Rest or
Relief". Getting married and having a baby and regular 40-hour-a-week
jobs slowed all of that down.... Then in 2008, they decided to do more
of a duo/group thing, and got David to join them on drums! At first they were calling the band "Swift Kick,"
but before they could buy up the domains, a couple of bands appeared on
the net with that name, so we had to come up with another one--so we
are now "Elucidation" (meaning to make clear or shed light
on, especially thru explanation).
Our new bass player Paul Ruiz de Castilla has experience playing both rhythm & bass guitar in the heavy metal band "All Is Lost." Elucidation is from Los Angeles, CA, USA.
*Exception is "Remembering." Richard composed the music and lyrics, some of which were modified and added to by Athena.
** Song lyrics for "Showdown" are included on Lyrics Page II of this website. This song is about the first night of Athena's outragoues true adventure story featured on page 6 of this website.
If you like our music, please "like" our Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/elucidationband
All nine of our songs (whole songs) are available for streaming on SoundCloud in FLAC and MP3 formats:
http://www.soundcloud.com/elucidationband
& available as MP3's for streaming and sale on http://www.soundkicker.com
You may also read the song lyrics while you are streaming the songs as MP3 files from our Music X-Ray page: http://www/musicxray.com
Enter artist name Elucidation Band in search field and our page will come up.
To be added to Elucidation's mailing list, please send e-mail to manager@elucidationband.com
To Contact Band for business opportunities, please send e-mail to manager@elucidationband.com
For correspondence/comments to Athena Vienna, please send to athena@elucidationband.com
Home Page: Band Photo, Bio, Newest Song Link
Page 2: Song Links
Page 3: Band Photos and News
Page 4: Lyrics Page I
{Break From Being Broke, No Rest or Relief. Skeletons in My Basement, Soldiers Armed with Love, Remembering, Space, Spinnin' My Wheels}
Page 5: Lyrics Page II
{S.O.S. (Save Our Seas), No Apologies, Showdown}
Page 6: "Three Strange Days"
(Athena's outrageous true short story)
