Transcript for the Piece Audio version of Chris Bocast and MJ Catalin: Global Possibilities

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Chris bocast was all set to be a rockin' guitarist. He played with rock groups in San Francisco and toured as a member of The Mission U.K. in the 1980s. He nearly broke through with A NEW WAVE BAND CALLED Tokyo Vogue that you could've slotted between Duran Duran and A Flock of Seagulls visually and musically.

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Chris Bocast has changed his hairstyle and definitely changed his music since then.

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That's from stratagem, the new album from chris bocast and Mj Catalin. After Tokyo Vogue went out of vogue, Chris Bocast began making ambient music. In 2003 he released a beatless CD called Through the Airlock, but he wanted to up the groove factor on his latest album. So he had a virtual collaboration with Romanian drummer and electronic artist MJ Catalin.

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CB....I had posted some music on a kind of obscure, more obscure site; iSound.com. ....and I listened to his stuff and I was going, “This is the drumming approach that I have been looking for for ages, where it’s, you know heavy emphasis on electronics, freely embracing effects and textures,” and so I said, “Well, you know let’s try something.” And the first thing we did was actually on Stratagem.

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The two artists never met FACE TO FACE, but you'd never know that from the ensemble feel of Strategem

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Strategem is a CD of expansive compositions, shifting through dramatic movements and dynamic electro-orchestral builds. There's a progressive rock element that you can hear in the Steve Hacket and Genesis derived cadences of To Cross the Sea of Clouds.

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Strategem has another meaning for Chris Bocast. TOWARDS THE END OF RECORDING, HE SUFFERED A HAND INJURY that put him out of guitar playing commission for a while.

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CB: That happened when the album was about 90% done fortunately, but there was one solo, when I was getting my hand back, kind of a real out there kind of a solo at the end where I was just like, “I am back!” You know. I went for a kind of abstract [WEEEOOOOOO sound from his mouth] kind of stuff and so that.. and as it turned out that was like one of my favorite songs off the record. I was pretty happy with that.

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chris bocast and mj catalin have created a bridge between progressive rock, ambient music and electronica. Their album is called Strategem released on the Divergent Arts Label. I'm John Diliberto and this has been an Echo Location, Soundings for New Music.