{"id":148479,"date":"2010-08-07T15:24:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socancom100stg.wpenginepowered.com\/crash-karmas-creation-was-meant-to-be\/"},"modified":"2010-08-07T15:24:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T15:24:00","slug":"crash-karmas-creation-was-meant-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/crash-karmas-creation-was-meant-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Crash Karma\u2019s creation was meant to be"},"content":{"rendered":"

Les traductions pour les articles avant l\u2019automne 2013 ne sont pas disponibles pour le moment.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amir Epstein<\/strong>, the one guy in Toronto\u2019s Crash Karma who didn\u2019t come from a multi-platinum-selling Canadian rock band, wasn\u2019t intimidated about playing his songs to ex-I Mother Earth singer Edwin<\/strong>, ex-Tea Party drummer Jeff Burrows<\/strong> and ex-Our Lady Peace guitarist Mike Turner<\/strong>, even if, \u201ctruth be told,\u201d he says, \u201cI Mother Earth influenced me heavily as a musician.\u201d<\/p>\n

The bassist, who earned his credentials as principal songwriter in the jam band Zygote, says he had full confidence in what he originally played for the guys at Turner\u2019s recording studio, The Pocket. \u201cI sat down with an acoustic guitar and played 24 songs,\u201d Epstein recounts. \u201cThey didn\u2019t have names, they weren\u2019t finished and they didn\u2019t have lyrics.\u201d<\/p>\n

No one rushed into starting a band. Turner had his studio and played in Fair Ground, Edwin was three albums into a solo career and Burrows was an on-air host at CKUE The Rock in Windsor, Ont., and a frequent session player. Epstein was actually finishing law school \u2014 in Australia. \u201c[The project] would go into hibernation during those periods because we were all doing other things,\u201d says Turner, who ended up producing the self-titled album. \u201cIt was definitely something we approached gradually. It was like, \u2018We\u2019ve got a weekend, let\u2019s work on this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Epstein, now back in Toronto for good, and Edwin would congregate at The Pocket; Burrows would take a morning train from Windsor and get back in time for his radio shift. \u201cWe\u2019d grab a guitar and go, \u2018Well, that\u2019s cool, how about let\u2019s arrange it like this?\u2019 It was done on the fly. We started to do drums when we were still finalizing arrangements,\u201d says Turner.<\/p>\n

As they continued to work on songs, such as the psychedelic \u201cAwake,\u201d a recent Top 10 radio hit, and \u201cFight,\u201d the empowering second single, they realized they had something, an amalgamation of all their personalities, pedigrees and signature styles. Of course, that might have had something to do with Epstein writing songs with the others in mind. \u201cEven when I was singing, I\u2019d imitate Ed to see how that would sound,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

As Crash Karma emerged as a band, the four started behaving like one, including undertaking a tour in March\/April. \u201cWe\u2019ve all known each other a long time and respect each other enough to listen,\u201d says Turner. \u201cAnd Amir was so open. He more or less said, \u2018Hey guys, I love what you do. Do what you do with this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

While Epstein never had \u201cnew-guy syndrome,\u201d he does admit it\u2019s kinda cool to be in a band with one of his favourite singers. \u201cWhat a voice,\u201d he says of Edwin. \u201cHearing him sing a melody I\u2019d written, it sounded a bit like I Mother Earth but it was my song. It was really trippy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New band on the block<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-non-categorise"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uat.socan.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}