A daya daga cikin yankuna na Amurka a Livonia (Michigan), daya daga cikin mafi kyawun wakilan takalman takalma, jama'a, R & B da kiɗan pop, Sunansa Is Alive, ya fara aikinsa.
A farkon 1990s, ita ce ta bayyana sauti da haɓakar alamar indie 4AD tare da albam irin su Home Is in Your Head and Mouth by Baki.
Layin ƙungiyar da ke canzawa koyaushe ya ci gaba da canza sauti kuma. Warren Defever da tawagarsa sun binciko pop mai haske da rana. Musamman, wannan yana da alaƙa da kundi na 1996 Stars, da kuma aikin R&B (2001) Wata rana My Blues zai rufe Duniya.
A cikin 2000s, sun haɗa kiɗan su tare da tasirin Afirka da Asiya akan kundi na 2007 Xmmer.
Sunansa Yana Rayayye ya kai ga babban nasarar sa a cikin 2010s, yana haɗa sautin ƙarfe mai nauyi tare da kyawawan sauti mai tsabta akan kundin ra'ayi Tecuciztecatl (2014) da Tsarin Haske (2016).
Rikodin farko na rukunin sunansa Raye ne
Multi-instrumentalist da furodusa Warren Defever ya fara yin kiɗa tun yana ƙarami. Lokacin da ya kai shekaru 10, ya koyi yin rikodin sautin namun daji.
Ya kuma yi amfani da tarin rikodin ɗan'uwansa don ƙirƙirar gajerun guntu, waɗanda suka haɗa da kunna piano da guitar.
Ya fara amfani da laƙabin sunansa yana da rai a cikin 1985 yana makaranta. Da yake karɓar sunan aikin kiɗan nasa daga bayanan tarihi, ya yi rikodin waƙoƙin farko guda huɗu a cikin wani tsohon ginin ƙasa tare da mawaƙa Angie Carozzo.
Yayin da yake koleji, Defever ya sadu da mawaƙa Karin Oliver, wanda, tare da dan wasan kwaikwayo Demian Leng, ya shiga cikin jerin farko na kungiyar.
Mutanen uku sun fitar da kaset da yawa don Tashin hankali, Postrophe kuma na yi Jima'i da Allah. Defever ya aika waɗannan ayyukan zuwa ga wanda ya kafa alamar 4AD, Ivo Watts-Russell. A 1989, ya yanke shawarar shiga kwangila tare da sabon rukuni.
Watts-Russell da John Fryer na Wannan Mortal Coil sun sake haɗa rikodin ƙungiyar, wanda ya haifar da kundi na farko mai cikakken tsayi, Livonia (1990). Ƙungiyar ta nuna kasancewar kyawawan muryoyin murya, waƙoƙi masu ban sha'awa da kuma gita masu sauti na sabon abu.
A shekara mai zuwa, membobin Home Is in Your Head sun faɗaɗa Sunansa Yana Raye don haɗawa da mawaƙa Denise James, Karen Neal da Melissa Elliott, da mawaƙa Jymn Auge.
Sautin band din shima ya canza. Yanzu, maimakon ballads a kan gitatan sauti, ƙungiyar ta yi samfurin waƙoƙin da aka yi amfani da su kuma sun yi amfani da gita na lantarki.
Waƙar Zazzagewar Har yanzu tana Ci gaba da kallon kallo an nuna ta akan waƙar sautin zuwa Cameron Crowe's Jerry Maguire (1996).
A cikin 1992, Sunansa Is Alive ya fito da EP Dirt Eaters, wanda ake kira Defever's most-oriented work. Sautin band ɗin ya fara faɗaɗa tare da sakin 1993's King of Sweet and Mouth by Baki.
Kundin farko shi ne ƙayyadaddun juzu'in samfuran samfurori, demos da waƙoƙin da ba a fitar da su a baya ba, yayin da na biyun ya kasance mai fa'ida saboda 1960s reggae, jazz da ilhamar pop.
Sakamakon haka, Mouth by Mouth ana kiransa albam mafi ban sha'awa na ƙungiyar ta fuskar salo. Kusan wannan lokacin, Lang ya bar ƙungiyar kuma sabon ɗan ganga Trey Many ya maye gurbinsa.
Sauran ayyukan Sunansa Rayayye ne
Yayin da martabar Defever a matsayin mai ƙira ke girma, ya raba gwaninta da iliminsa tare da makada irin su Grenadine, aikin Tsunami na Jenny Toomey da Mark Robinson na tashin hankali.
Defever kuma ya taimaka wa wasu makada, kamar Liquorice (wanda ya yi rikodin waƙoƙi akan lakabi ɗaya kamar Defever) da Tarnation.
Defever ya ci gaba da yin rikodin: Duniyar Robot da Control Panel. Ya kuma kafa fasahar haɗin gwiwar Time Stereo tare da abokiyar ƙuruciya, mai zane da mawaƙa Devin Brainard.
Wasu daga cikin ayyukan Time Stereo sun haɗa da fina-finai, littattafan canza launi, da fitowar kaset kawai. Sun yi aiki tare da wasu makada da yawa: Gimbiya Dragon Mama, Crash, Godzuki, Sabon Inabi da Sansanin Surutu.
Fitowa iri-iri na ƙungiyar
Sha'awar Defever daban-daban sun rinjayi fitowar ƙungiyar ta gaba, Sunansa Is Alive Starson ESP (1996). Ya ƙunshi waƙoƙin da aka yi rikodin tare da Matthew Smith na Outrageous Cherry da Mark Kozelek na Red House Painters. Sautin ya kasance hade da mutanen pop da dub.
A shekara mai zuwa, mawaƙa sun fito da Nice Day EP, wanda Defever ya yi wahayi zuwa ga 1960s rock da R&B. Kundin ya nuna Lovett Pippen da wasu masu fasaha daga Starson ESP.
Pippen ya yi aiki sau biyu tare da ƙungiyar Sunansa Yana Raye akan kundi na Fort Lake (1998). An kuma rubuta aikin tare da sabon mai gabatarwa Steve King.
Shi ma ɗan ƙasar Livonia ne kuma a baya ya yi aiki tare da ƙungiyar Funkadelic da Aretha Franklin. Hazakarsa ta haɗe daidai da funk, rai da dutsen fasaha na gargajiya.
A wannan lokacin, Pippen, bassist Chad Gilchrist, da ƙarin mawaƙa Scott Goldstein sun shiga ƙungiyar cikakken lokaci.
Bayan fitowar Always Stay Sweet a cikin 1999, Sunansa Yana Rayuwa ya zama duo wanda ya ƙunshi Defever da Pippen, ma'auratan sun fitar da kundin R&B guda biyu: Wata rana My Blues za su rufe Duniya (2001) da aikin duhu a daren jiya (2002). ). Kundin Last Night shine aikin ƙarshe na ƙungiyar akan alamar 4AD.
Duk da haka, duo ya sami wasu hanyoyi don inganta kiɗan su, tare da Time Stereo yana fitar da CD da yawa kamar Cloud Box (2004), Leaf Club, Brown Rice da The Detroit River.
A cikin 2005, Ypsilanti Records ya saki CD-R SummerBird mai cikakken tsayi kuma waƙoƙi da yawa daga sakin sun bayyana akan UFO Catcher, ƙayyadaddun LP da aka saki ta lakabin Jamusanci En/Of.
Sabbin dalilai na kungiyar sunansa Raye ne
A ƙarshen 2005, Sunansa Yana Rayuwa ya fito da Raindrops Rainbow EP a matsayin teaser don Detrola. Kundin ya sabunta sautin pop na ƙungiyar kuma fitaccen mawakiya Andrea Francesca Morici (Andy FM).
Shekaru biyu bayan haka, ƙungiyar ta haɗa tasirin Afirka da Asiya cikin kundi mai cikakken tsayi na gaba, Xmmer. A cikin 2007, album ɗin Sweet Earth Flower ya bayyana.
A cikin 2010, ƙungiyar ta fitar da ƙayyadaddun bugu na fayafai 10 na waƙoƙin da ba kasafai ba, raye-raye da gwaji. Daga cikin fayafai har da album din The Eclipse, wanda daga baya aka fitar daban.
Koma ƙungiyar zuwa rikodin
Ƙungiyar ta dawo a cikin 2014 tare da babban abin yabo na Tecuciztecat, wasan opera na dutse wanda prog rock da pop Bubblegum suka yi tasiri.
Mawakan sun haɓaka wannan tsattsauran sautin tunani-pop tare da Tsarin Haske (2016). Ƙwararrun ƙungiyar ta zo ne bayan tafiya zuwa babban Hadron Collider a Switzerland.
Iyakantaccen sigar dijital na kundin ya haɗa da Black Wings, tarin demos, remixes da zanen murfin.
Ƙungiyar ta kuma fitar da jerin abubuwan sakewa a cikin 2019 da ake kira All The Mirrors in the House (rakodi na farko 1979-1986).
