Xistance

The Xistance - Heart of Midlothian CD was recorded throughout 2002 and released in 2003.

The band started out making electronica style music under the name Terra3. At some point in time Dean Gaudoin was brought in to add live bass tracks, and then I was recruited to add some guitars.

Obviously this style of music was quite a bit different to what I'd been playing previously with Titanium and other bands... so my task was to try and add my own trademark guitar style, but without totally changing the nature of the project. This was a bit of a challenge at times, but I think it was worth the effort, because in the end we achieved a fairly unique sound, covering a wide variety of different musical genres.

An other aspect of this project that I enjoyed was that, for once, I could just be 'the guitar player'. In most of my other bands, I had been the main (or only) songwriter, band leader, organiser and financier... but with Xistance all I really had to do was learn the songs and show up with my gear, ready to play.

We had a lot of fun with this project, doing photo shoots and making videos of the rehearsal & recording process - some of which you can see on the video page on this site.

Links:

Official Website: xistance.info
Mp3.com.au: mp3.com.au/xistance
Buy the CD from Chaos Music

Heart of Midlothian

Band:

• Christine Cestnik - vocals
• Wade Saliba - drums, keyboards
• Dean Gaudoin - bass
• Dave Hargreaves - guitar

Tracks:

1. A Long Time
2. Flesh
3. Domain
4. Alice Dee
5. Muse
6. Did I ask?
7. Wake for air
8. Holding Back Time
9. Total & free
10. Sanctuary (lost)
11. Maybe when