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Contributing
writer - Terri Simons
Christopher Földi: I’m on vocals and guitar, and we
have Shara Földi on keyboards, Scott Földi on guitar, Rayanne Turek on
bass, State of Being has existed in some shape or form since
the early nineties. The five of us have been playing together since
2003. We find we do most of our writing as a response to
frustration – either as a rant or a release. Thematically -
psychology, sociology and science If people are checking us out for the first time, they
should definitely check out “Haywire.” We also have a 2-CD set of
"Haywire Remixes" done by various artists. The remixes take on
quite a different approach from the original versions. For our previous CD, “Implosion”, we wrote about
15 songs and recorded 11 of them. For “Haywire”, we wrote at least
40 songs to ultimately record the best 13. It was definitely a more
perfection-driven process. We’ve never been prouder of any record. When writing songs, often one of us starts an idea and
another picks it up where they left off. We know how to finish each
other’s thoughts. For example, I thought we had finished the lyrical
content of “End of the World” (last song on “Haywire”). While I
was laying the vocal tracks in the studio, we found we needed another
verse, which Shara quickly penned while I continued recording. The same
thing happened with Scott on “Beneath the Skin”. SynthCleveland (www.synthcleveland.com)
is an area electronic resource group that I occasionally help out with.
The group has released several Opening for some of our favorite bands like Pigface,
Thrill Kill Kult, and The Church. I think the best is yet to come
though. The new record is continuing to open some doors for us. Locally,
we scored rotation on WBWC with “Levity” and "Take Me
Away". We've recently gotten some minor commercial airplay around
the U.S. - most notably KUPD Phoenix where I did a live interview
recently. Shara Foldi: A recent semi-amusing story was our show
in New York City this past summer. On the upside it was a dream-gig,
hosted by Legends Magazine at a cool club in Manhattan, on a Saturday
night, and the prime slot on the bill. On the down side, our vehicle
broke down right outside the club, right in the middle of Manhattan! We
could either traumatize over it, or load our gear in, call AAA, put on a
damn great show, and deal with it in the morning. We did the latter and
had a great night. Afterwards other bands helped us get back to where we
were staying, since we were down our main vehicle. This story goes on
and on and on, and you wouldn't believe - from the expensive repair in
Manhattan, to the delayed return home and missed work, to another
break-down middle-of-nowhere-PA because Manhattan put the wrong part in!
The saga continued and we finally got back to Cleveland Wednesday night
when we should have gotten back Sunday night! That was a trip! Visit our website at www.stateofbeing.com.
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