The Conscious Underground

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1.                   What's your name? My name is Allan Agard and I am a song writer with reggae group, The Conscious Underground.

2.                   Where are you from? Currently I reside in Canada but I was born on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.

3.                   Tell us how your journey has been from your beginnings until now. The musical journey has had a few challenges and is to be expected. However, those challenges have also lead to great moments and breakthroughs. Without struggle and sacrifice, there is no victory.   

4.                   Tell us about your musical style, influences, ... Musically, we are from diverse backgrounds including jazz, rock, pop, folk, reggae and R&B. But we focused on reggae because of the spiritual elements contained within the music. All music that is conscious comes from divine inspiration. Our musical influences include but limited to, Santana, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Bob Marley, The Police, Third World, Burning Spear, Bruce Springsteen and many others.         

5.                   What has been your last project? Currently we are working on a new single entitled “Never Ending Struggle”. We hope to release the new track in the coming days. The inspiration for the track came from the current political climate and the global struggle for human rights.

6.                   And the next thing you have planned?  We plan to put out a total of 5 singles as the bedrock of The Conscious Underground. Currently with the new single coming this week, we are at 3 of 5.  

7.                   Upcoming concerts, events .... We have been doing a lot of radio interviews in North America and Africa. When we have the 5 song bedrock solidly in place, we will commence live performances at various festivals to create greater awareness of The Conscious Underground. This is all in line with our plan to release an album in 2019.

8.                   Links of interest https://www.africanexponent.com/bpost/4799-the-conscious-underground

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My name is Sergii Pylypenko. I was born in small town in Ukraine. In 2011 I moved to Toronto, Canada. My creative life started developing around 16 years ago, when I was at school and fell in love. At first I started writing poems, then my class mate showed me couple of guitar chords and I started developing guitar skills. Since I started playing guitar I began to write songs and sing them. With time I wrote a bunch of songs and I had a strong wish to record them someday. In Ukraine i did not have a chance to do that due to numerous circumstances, but when I moved to Canada my intentions became real. I learnt Cubase, then finished Independent Music Production program in college, got more knowledge in music industry and music production. During the last 5 years I've been constantly improving my engineering, production, songwriting skills. I hope you can tell it when you compare my first album "Lifemarks" with my last album "Revival". For the moment I have released 3 albums "Lifemarks"(2015), "Who Cares"(2016), "Revival"(2017)", singles "Take it back uncle Sam", "I can't take my eyes off you", "Here is my heart". Currently working on a joint album with my friend Fiz Nik. It's going to be 7 songs album in altrenative rock genre. In spring, if there is no changes I will shoot my first video for an unreleased song.

I don't give performances yet, as it's hard to get right people together and I personally don't think that I "fit" the stage. But who knows...perhaps some day. My influences are: Pink Floyd, Rock of 80's, anything that has a good melody; also I like power metal (Stratovarius, Helloween), gothic rock (Within Temptation, Nightwish), Therion; some pop singers as Josh Groban, A-Ha, etc. I like mostly old music from 80's, 90's.

I have not developed my musical style. It depends on my mood in the moment of creation. I don't want to put limits on my music. I just create what I feel.