Zinovia - The Gift Of Affliction 2013 | en
1) Formed in 1994, The Gift was initially a side project of the Dead Souls, Nuno Gonçalves and Miguel Ribeiro’s band at the time. The evolution from one project to another was natural, as they felt the Dead Souls sound was limited by their instrumentation (guitar, drums and bass)and they wanted to experiment with new sounds and explore new musical paths.
In September 1994, Sónia Tavares, Nuno and John Gonçalves, Miguel Ribeiro and Ricardo Braga enrolled in the Bar Ben Music Competition in Alcobaça and took second place in the competition, to everyone's great surprise, given the band’s short time...
What began as a one-off split 45 by songwriters Greg Cartwright (The Oblivians, Compulsive Gamblers, Reigning Sound) and Coco Hames (the Ettes, Coco Motion) quickly evolved into The Parting Gifts. "I thought, I'd write a song, Greg would write a song, we'd record them together, and that would be that," says Hames. "Luckily, Greg's prolific awesome switch was on, and we got this whole record instead." Offers Cartwright, "I was just so impressed with how easily things went that I was inspired to write more material for the project." And so we have their debut full-length on In The Red....
There are eight bands using the name:
1) A Crossover Thrash Metal band from Huntington Beach, California. They formed in the mid 80's and were all Hispanic members. They released one demo record entitled Peace through Violence in 1991 and one full length record called The Damnation of Humanization in 1992.
http://www.myspace.com/afflictionmusic
2) Turkish melodic death metal band. They have two albums named "One Reality" and "Execution Is Necessary."
Web site: http://www.afflictionsite.com
3) French anarcho-punk band. The Music is free from rights. Lyrics are based on so many things like revolution, animal rights, feminism, etc.
4) German death metal band....
The Gift Machine is a Psychedelic Folk band formerly based out of a small town called Anacortes on an Island called Fidalgo in northwestern Washington State. As of the year 2008 the gift machine is based in Vista, Ca.
The Gift Machine is the main vehicle for the songwriting of Dave Matthies, but has featured many different people over the years. Past members include Karl Blau, Phil Elverum (the Microphones, Mt. Eerie), Brian Malloy aka Amigo, Nate Ashley, Alex Parrish (Dame Dulce), Lisa Jackson (the Crabs), Steve Moore (Stebmo, Laura Veirs, Mount Analog, etc.), Jeremy Hadley (Vellela Vellella), and many...
