Without the usual knowledge of our instruments we took our first musical footsteps. And started June 1985 the all over girlband Twins No Twins |
Conny - drums |
Elfriede - bass |
Karin -guitar |
Margriet - vocals |
Margriet, Marja and Karin Fire 1985 |
Hester and Diana Fire 1985 |
Margriet Karin Marja Hester |
- Vocals - Guitar - Bass - Drums |
Margriet Karin Elfriede Conny |
- Vocals - Guitar - Bass - Drums |
After just five weeks of being together, we played our first gig and we had a taste for more. The music we were making was sober and emotional, especially because of Margriet's vocals, and it wasn't long before we could be seen regularly on stage. However, a few months later Hester decided to quit the band and Diana joined for a short time, after which she passed the drumsticks to Conny. Marja also decided to leave the band and a short time after that we met Elfriede...a moment we will never forget. It was time to herald a new beginning of wild times rocking on stage, and so in December 1987 we became.... Asrai |
The Asrai are small, fragile, female beings who turn into a puddle of water when they are captured or exposed to sunlight. This makes them unreachable. We felt this was a good representation of our music. |
When Conny left the band, Karin decided to play the drums instead of the guitar and our first male guitarist entered the band. Many gigs followed with the same line-up for eight years. |
We recorded several demo tapes |
The Blue Tape |
So clear that you couldn' tell where the water ended and the air began |
Love is a Lie |
Live in a package |
Asrai |
It was now that we wanted to record a CD, but Elfriede and Bert decided to leave the band, and for the last time we went to the studio and recorded the tape for As Voices Speak. Soon afterwards we found good replacements in Serge on guitar and Leah on bass. |
Margriet Serge Leah Karin |
- Vocals - Guitar - Bass - Drums |
Margriet Bert Elfriede Karin |
- Vocals - Guitar - Bass - Drums |
We finally recorded our first our first cd As Voices Speak |
It wasn't long before we were noticed by Michael Zoller from Poison Ivy Records and a German release of As Voices Speak was issued. However, Serge's career had taken off, so he left the band, but this time it wasn't so easy to find the right replacement, but eventually, Jos took over as the new guitarist. We also wanted to explore and deepen our music, so we started searching for a keyboard player or a second guitarist, and this was when we discovered Rik. |
Margriet Rik Jos Leah Karin |
- Vocals - Guitar - Guitar - Bass - Drums |
JHowever, Jos became so successful with his other band, Grendel, that it was difficult for him to combine the two bands, so only four of us played on the next CD. We met Roman Schoensee and we decided to record the next CD at his studio, the beautiful Lake Studio. Unfortunately, a short time before we went to the studio, Leah became ill and we asked Martin, a good friend and brilliant bass player, to fill in for her until she had recovered, and thus we recorded our demo. By now Transmission records was interested and gave us the opportunity to record the album with a larger budget and one of the better mixers, Sascha Peath. We also wanted Roman to be our producer. Sadly, before we went to the studio for the second time, it became clear that Leah wouldn't recover enough to play the bass a lot, and she decided to leave the band. Then a friend of ours, Manon, heard our demo, and before she even realised what was happening, soon there were five of us rocking on stage. The line-up remained this way and the five of us went to the Beautiful Lake studio and Excess Studio with Hans Pieters, and recorded our next CD, Touch In The Dark. |
Manon Martin Karin Rik Margriet |
- Sytnh - Bass guitar - Drums - Guitar - Vocals |
Touch in the Dark and the single Pale Light |
