by Mahes Perera
What's your favourite song you love to listen to or may be sing, it
out loud in your musical or unmusical voice? Is it Joshua Kadison's
'Beautiful in My Eyes' or 'Jesse'? Or may be you love Unchained Melody
or Imagine. How about Can You Feel the Love Tonight? If you are nodding
in agreement then make your tracks to the Taj Airport Garden , Seeduwa,
this Sunday afternoon and enjoy the smooth sounds of Fantasy who will be
the featured band at the Sunday Brunch Extravaganza.
 With no crashing guitars or loud keyboard runs, Fantasys' music on a
Sunday afternoon is ideally suited to chase your Sunday Blues away.
What's more its a day of fun and frolic at the Sunday Buffet with boat
tours on the historic Negombo lagoon. "Beach Volley', 'Quad Bike' riding
and the much looked forward to cool dip in the pool.
Having said that, lets spool onto the music and seek the low down on
the group Fantasy. The band a quartet comprises the leader Sudath
Mannapperuma guitar/vocals, Warnajith Prasanna - keybaords,
Samantha Geekiyanage - vocals with the glitz thrown in, in the shape
of Shiromi Almeida.
"Actually we took off from where Zodiac left off, following the
tragic death of our leader Roshan Hadjee. We play the Colombo/Negombo
circuit and we have been playing for functions, dances and weddings and
having our handsful. We learnt a lot from Roshan, he was as you know a
versatile singer and we do miss him.
Of course Shiromi is new but the three of us are former members of
Zodiac, reveals Sudath who has an attractive voice for singing ballads.
In fact on a Sunday afternoon he had the guests present sing along with
him enthusiastically in his rendition of Unchained Melody.
"I love music and my repertoire contains a lot of ballads. I enjoy
singing the ballads of Elton John, Beatles, John Denver and Joshua
Kadison to name a few. Apart from ballads, my other favourites are Rock
n' Roll, oldies and country, which go down well at weddings.
Shiromi who joined us recently handles the Sinhala and Hindi songs
along with us" remarks Sudath.
Musically Fantasy the band is bound for progress since they do not
belong to the hip hop style of singing their music, but instead have
chosen the smooth, easy and cool track which is an attraction in its own
way. Catch their performance this Sunday.
Sunday Observer magazine spoke to Chathuranga Fonseka to ask the deal
about Hela Distributions' release of an EP called The Plague and Krodha
remains which is sure to take the underground industry by storm!
Hela Distributions is releasing an EP by two Experimental/Psychadelic
artists called The plague and Krodha remains. The Ep Title is "Isolation
is therapy". It is a 4 track EP which has been released.
  The two projects which are one man bands by Shalin Rathnasinghe (Krodha
Remains) and Kamal Lazar (The Plague) will be performing a small set at
the EP Launch where they will be joined by Ravindu from Sire of
Darkness. Our aim basically is promoting the two projects, locally and
internationally where 50 CDs will be released by us and also made
available through our business partnering Labels from countries such as
Slovenia, Sweden, France and Malaysia.
Hela Distributions is a Record/Distribution/Promotional label which
is mainly focused on Sri Lankan and Asian Heavy Metal. Although our
roster carries a variety of Metal artists from around the world,
Isolation Is Therepy will be the third release under Hela Distributions.
The other two releases (Sri Lankan Heavy Metal Compilation and the
Funeral In Heaven MCD) are currently sold out in Sri Lanka. Our main
focus is to promote bands and our comrades via Distribution, Interviews,
Reviews, Record deals and various other promotions.
In another Funeral in Heaven story, they have revealed their track
listing for our upcoming EP which is set to be released via Legion Of
Death Records, France. So far, artwork and recordings are still in the
process of being completed. This EP will be released as a 7" Gatefold
Vinyl format called "Daiwaye Haaskam Saha Paralowa Sapatha" with a track
listing encompassing 'The Origins Of Evil', 'Udhbhawaya', 'Abhawaya' and
'The Malediction of Veracity: Punarbhawaya'. |
