We just wanted to take some time and provide for you a list of who inspires us to make the music that we choose to write. Feel free to listen to any of these bands, artists, and musicians. Some happen to not be as streamlined as others, so you may have to do a little research to find a few. Hope you enjoy.

Josh:
10. Shiny Toy Guns
9. Gorillaz
8. Sufjan Stevens
7. Dear and The Headlights
6. Muse
5. This Will Destroy You
4. Eluvium
3. Copeland
2. The Album Leaf
1. Scattered Trees

Laban:
10. Dana DeBoer
9. Cole Bosworth
8. Trace Bundy
7. The Album Leaf
6. Dispatch
5. Jimmy Needham
4. Sherri Goodwinn
3. The Almost
2. Relient K
1. Josh Orozco

Andy:
10. Karen O & The Kids
9. Of Mice & Men
8. Awaken, North Wind
7. Lakes
6. As Tall As Lions
5. The Almost
4. Deas Vail
3. We Came As Romans
2. Scattered Trees
1. As Cities Burn

Hello! Welcome!

Laban here reporting to you all, I am the back-up vocalist/bass player for the band. I have been sitting around the studio for the last couple of days doing no more than reading, taking care of children, and thinking about topics that I can blog about.  

This frequent adventure all starts with a phone call. The recipient of which varies from time to time. On this particular occassion, my dad, Dana DeBoer, is on the receiving end. Rather timidly, the request to borrow his car seeps through the awkward smile that is plastered on my face (I hate asking people for favors as big as this, especially when the weather is as bad as it is currently in Denver, Colorado). Without a pause, my dad replied, “Yeah! When will you be back?”. What a generous man, my pappy! To make a long portion of this longer story shorter, my dad ends up giving us his car for the entire week with a single catch: I have to take him to the bus stop tomorrow morning so that he can catch his plane to California. 

Next comes the trip. It is about a 30 minute drive from our home of Federal Heights, Colorado (a suburb of Denver) to the vastly beautiful plains of Frederick, Colorado. So, naturally, we have an assigned DJ for every trip to the studio. This DJ’s quality will decide how much food we ration him once we get up to the studio. Here’s the scale:

Excellent - 1 bowl of cereal (milk included), 10 pizza rolls, 2 cans of soda.

Good - 1 bowl of cereal (no milk), 9 pizza rolls, 2 cans of soda that have been violently shaken.

Decent - 1 bowl, 7 pizza rolls, 2 cans of soda (1 of which has already been half-way devoured).

Poor - 4 pizza rolls, 1 can of soda, 1 empty can.

Terrible - Wood chips, a leaky drain pipe.

Upon arriving at the Studio, we take all of our stuff down to the basement and begin working. For the past couple of weeks we have been working on our EP. This same EP will be released exclusively in less than a week at a conference in Texas, and officially released online sometime this spring. So, you can imagine the strenuous days and endless nights, having produced all of the music ourselves. Because this is such a long and tiring process we would like to thank our rockin’ guitarist/technical genious, Andy. Also, this process does not require the use of all three band members, which is a large part of the reason that I have been charged with the task of writing our blog. That and i’m weird and spazzy. I guess that they are hoping this will, in some way, win over the select of our fans that actually read our blogs (which by the way, since you are, thanks). Somewhere in the midst of all this hard work we find time to take frequent snack and snuggle breaks.

Now, I wish to take this time right here to thank the band’s mutual father figure, Jake Ishmael. He is an extremely generous man who not only provides us with food, shelter, and everything that we could ever need for recording our songs, but also hundreds of valuable lessons in any and all areas of life that we could ever hope (or hope not) to face. We love him probably more than we could love a human baby. We love his human baby alot too though.

There is something very nice about stepping into a familiar home where you know you are cared for, and can record the music that you love. I hope we never lose the appreciation that we have come to know for it.

So, this is our journey. Our Endeavor. We make music because we enjoy music. And it’s worth taking care of four screaming, fighting, whining children (who I absolutely love and would take care of even if they didn’t have a studio), who take hours to finish a math worksheet in order to bring you, our audience, one of the things that moves us. It’s more than just tones, pitches, and lyrics to us. It’s our hearts, creatively infused into a tiny little wave that can be tucked safely away in your inner ear. So, please, enjoy. And thank you so very much for supporting us.

We love you all so dearly.
Salidaise.

john5280:

It all Begins Here. Most people have great talents and ideas but they all end up in the grave because they never took the chance to share with others what they love. Most of our greatness stays hidden because we are so scared that some people might not like it, but the truth is who cares because people won’t like it. That is the truth of life…if you try to please everyone wait for the perfect moment, you will never find it….. So I say sing it loud and proud

Salidaise is a trio that connected in a suburb just outside of Denver, Colorado. In June 2010, frontman Josh Rausch began to create original music with Andy Weir. “..when we first started playing we wanted to have consistency and wanted to create a unique and intelligent sound musically but also simplistic and easy to relate to,” says Rausch. At that point they began writing music anywhere they could find; in the kitchen, in the bedroom, at the church, in the office, on the stage, on front porches, and even in basements. For the following few months they created a standard for what they were looking for and to set that bar before adding feedback of other musicians. “We wanted to clarify specifically who we were and where we were going,” Weir stated. In the beginning of the following October the band found Laban Deboer. At this point the band chose to take wings and fly with the band and contribute various dynamics structurally from many viewpoints being a diverse band. The band sat on and debated for sometime to create an individualistic branding title that defines themselves through creativity and personality and found Salidaise to perfectly fit their motivational goal through music. Salidaise is actually a word that was created deriving from an adventure into the mountains one beautiful fall morning and the band was inspired by the fact that autumn was blooming. life and death, dead and alive. The guys sat down to research the term bloom and found a synonymous phrase commonly known as Salad Days, meaning “Best Times Of Youth”. Continued research lead them to find out the term was from Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra of 1606. At the end of scene one, Cleopatra is regretting her immature mistakes with Julius Caesar she says: “…my salad days, when I was green in judgment, cold in blood…”

Starry night in Downtown Denver lastnight

Houston we have liftoff.

Thanks for everyone that supports our music. PJ, our ascend family, biological families, mutual friends, hometown friends, as well as fans.

Just wanted to give everyone a accumulated focused, more centered and detailed update. Josh Rausch and I have been working on writing our own music since June of this year. Since then we have been able to dynamically structure five songs. Since then through the process we have been able to get a sense of style and game plan for the most part.

We have also gladly added to our musicianship a new guitarist, Laban Deboer. He has been excellent to write and just be creative with musically. He is very talented and has become a wonderful asset to the two of us.

For now we will continue to better improve every single area of our songs and would like to shortly begin recording. Due to scheduling, we are heavily involved with our community providing free programs teaching dance and music. With that being said, our desire is to provide tunes for you to enjoy and we will make that happen as soon as possible. Until then please get excited with us to see where life takes us.

Follow us on twitter for further updates. @Salidaise
or email us at Salidaise@yahoo.com

Andy Weir
Reporting from Salidaise