clockwise from top: Steve,
Jymm, Cami, and Atto.
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With one of the most spellbinding web site introductions, Darling Violetta encompasses imagery and mystique both visually and dramatically through the unique voice of their music. An L.A. band based on sheer drive and determination, these four young aspiring individuals bring talent and a thirst to an industry that strives to devour and discard. Yet, amidst this daily struggle emerges quite a musical force to be reckoned with. And all they want in return . . . is to rule the world! Taking the west coast to places it never even dreamed of, DV maintains a constant flow of positive feedback from many area publications such as Los Angeles Magazine and Music Connection. The Kill You EP released in February of this year, features already popular hits as Spoiled & Rotten and Cure. Hmm, you’d think they were just made for a Vampire now wouldn’t ya!? Well, we hustled these hard working, fun loving talents together and asked them a few questions about themselves, music, life and the dark underbelly of an evil, demon filled world! No, not L.A. or the music industry – ANGEL and vampires!
Let’s meet . . . Jymm Thomas - guitarist, originally from Louisville, Kentucky, Cami Elen - vocalist, native to L.A., Steve McManus - drums, from Calgary, Canada, and Atto Attie - bass, hailing from Mexico City. Atto was MIA
DV's critically acclaimed release,
The Kill You E.P.
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. Why is it that bass players are always the shy ones? Well, we’ll give Atto his due and chalk this absence up to his having to be home, frying up tortillas for his famous Burritos BBQ de Atto! *Joking!* But we'll forgive him, cause as a bassist, he kicks it!
If you think this article is going to be a serious one, well, you can just leave that at the door. When I started out asking what inspired them to enter the field of music, Jymm responded, "The promise of Sex, Drugs, and Mountains of Cash!" Okay, he’s not really serious. I think! (laugh) "Everybody's been playing, or singing, music since they were tykes," follows Steve. "Cami wanted to leave the world of revues she was performing in to do her own music. For the other three members, forming this band is a natural progression from previous ones." "I've always been a performer," says Cami, "and remember being drawn particularly to music because it allows the greatest personal expression." As far as their personal goals go, Jymm doesn’t wait a beat, "I'd like to be rich and famous!" Now I know he’s kidding! (laugh) For the more serious response we go to Cami, "I want to touch people's lives with our art and make a decent living while doing so!" But Steve sums it up best, "Everything has led to DV, now everyone's goal is to see it through. To what? Nothing less than world domination . . ."
Now there’s a guy with a plan! The critics have said a lot of great things about the music of DV and are very supportive, not surprisingly! One phrase that gets tossed about a lot when describing their music seems to be ‘haunting’. It is most deffinetly a quality that makes you come back to listen again and again. "Thanks! I think the biggest concern of any creative person," explains Jymm, "is not knowing how others will react to their cre
"I would say that
‘haunting’ is a
very high
compliment."
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ation and I would say that ‘haunting’ is a very high compliment. It's hard for me, being on the ‘inside’ as it were, to be objective but I do think that some things we do really seem to stay with me in that way." Cami feels like it's telling, "if you can't get a song out of your head when you wrote it yourself! We, of all people, should get tired of it first!" Steve also offers some other senerios of their style. "We get haunting, atmospheric, ethereal . . . and here we are thinking we just rock! I think it has a lot to do with the fact we're not afraid to use dynamics and shading and texture, like a painter, instead of just balls-out (can I say that?) rocking on every song." "It gets old." Steve continues, "We like to have every song be different in someway."
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