Album Notes

Maybe you know the COREsong "The Angle" from the videogame 'Smackdown vs. Raw', maybe you have already listened to some tunes on MTV's 'Meet The Barkers' or 'Viva La Bam', maybe you just dig our sound – anyway here we are finally on CDBaby!

Well, we've been making music for ages. Chris and Sascha started writing and performing together at the age of 15, Harry joined them some three years later. And since then we've been making music for the sake of music. Because we love music - it's as simple as that. Undergoing different incarnations of the band and also experimenting stylistically throughout the years, we finally returned to our very first three-piece basis. Hence the name CORE.

But there is also a second aspect to the name: Making music (or any form of creative output) always implies a quest of your very own identity, of the inner potential, of the essence - of the artist's - you guess it - CORE.

The band's - and our personal - evolution has led to this band. It's the reason why we sound the way we do. We think that it's a pretty unique thing - hopefully just as unique as people are. We hope that it's special - 'cause that's what we've always wanted to do. (To be perfectly honest we've always wondered why so many bands within a certain genre sound - and look! - totally the same.)

As any band that has been around for a longer period we have experienced ups and downs. As you might know, the three of us were privileged to perform on the biggest and hippest stages, and as some of you might have witnessed, we also played shows in front of just a handful (literally!) of people. We have been signed and dropped, we have worked in some of the most amazing recording studios and we had to change in backstage-areas where not even a cockroach would take a shit. That's the trip, that's the thrill - and we're still enjoying it!

The only constant companions on our way are our love for music, the urge to evolve as a band - and YOU, people who appreciate our cordial (no, we won't write COREdial now) way of making music.

chris - harry - sascha
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