Asrai Information

Asrai has been on the scene for a good time now, being formed in 1988. Tell us a little about your way through the years till this point. We (Karin and Margriet) started an all over girl band in 1985. With so many friends playing in a band you can't resist the call of making music. And because there where almost no woman playing in the scene where we hanging around that we decided to change that. We started without any experience playing an instrument we created our music with a " fresh" point of view. And after five weeks we had our first gig and that tasted for more. In 1988 we had a change of line-up and the music was getting more serious, so we decided to change the name into Asrai. Soon after that our first male guitarist entered our band. So the line-up became: Margriet Vocals, Bert-Guitar, Elfriede Bass and Karin Drums. We stayed together for eight years and recorded several tapes: The Blue tape, So clear that you couldn't tell., Love is a Lie, Live in a Package and Asrai. In that time we wanted to record an cd but Bert and Elfriede decided to leave. In short of time we found new members in Serge guitar and Leah Bass. And recorded our first album As voices Speak. We've send our cd to several record companies and the label Poison Ivy was interested, so a German release was issued. But bad luck this time, Poison Ivy went bankrupt, and for so far our German adventure. We thought it was to late to promote the Dutch version and started to write new songs for our next album. It was a crazy time, and very busy with gigs, tricks (form a record company who double-crossed us and a lot of other bands for a compilation album), work and family matters. In the meantime Serge decided to left band after four years and this time it was difficult to find a good replacement. After more than a year, trying with several other guitarists we found Rik. Now we started seriously working for our next album and met Roman (our producer for Touch in the Dark). In his studio we would record our demo (Touch in the Dark). But a month ...