(MusicPortal.com) (04/13/05)

Edited By Michael Bennett

NEW YORK, NY, USA - The new album from chameleon-like Rockers TRANSCENDENCE, entitled "Nothing Is Cohesive," will see its official release on Tuesday, April 26th via TMG Records.

A bold and beautiful collection of post-modern Garage rockers and lush Seventies-style piano ballads that the band recorded in their garage studio just may be their best effort to date.

And that says a lot coming from this very prolific and experimental group that features the impassioned vocals of Ed Hale and the guitar histrionics of Fernando Perdomo.

"Nothing Is Cohesive" is Transcendence's third studio album, and it's raw, unrefined, and surges with a musical sensuality that is breathtaking at times.

It mixes a variety of Classic and Modern Rock styles in a surprisingly cohesive listen for how far out the band was willing to travel in their sonic explorations to achieve something completely different from last year's "Sleep With You."

"In Transcendence, you have a group of five hyperactive, obsessive, and insane guys with severe cases of ADD and an extreme passion for music, all running around trying to make sense of everything they are listening to and each wanting to create their own personal artistic statements," says Transcendence lead singer Ed Hale.

"The chances of that translating into any two albums sounding remotely similar is going to be pretty slim," Hale further explaining the wide variety of musical boundaries the band has covered in their three releases for TMG Records since 2002's eclectic world-music-meets-modern-rock debut, "Rise And Shine."

Transcendence are a tight knit collective of some of the most notable musicians from the Miami and New York music scenes.

The band was started by Ed Hale, who had already made a name for himself as part of the legendary Broken Spectacles in the mid-nineties and released a few solo albums, and drummer Ricardo Mazzi (Tereso, Prole, Fuse) through their shared interest in World Music.

They also happened to share a passion of early Seventies Rock and Pop, which prompted the infamous guitar virtuoso Fernando Perdomo (DC3, Fulano, Sixo) to join.

Soon followed multi-talented bassist Roger Houdaille (Lofi, BJ Experience), fresh out of the infamous Beach High Rock Ensemble program, who also happened to share their passion for early Seventies Glam Rock.

New York native and recent Manhattan School of Music graduate Allan Gabay (Jorge Moreno) then joined on piano and keyboards, adding a Classical and Avant Garde element to the group's already eclectic sound.

Hot on the heels of the genre-defying "Rise And Shine," which garnered the band international media and fan attention with its unique blending of multiple styles tucked into a tasty Alternative Rock style all their own (along with the two college radio hits in 'Better Luck Next Time' and 'Do You Know Who You Are), the band then released "Sleep With You," turning the musical tables with a Brit Rock swagger reminiscent of Radiohead, early David Bowie or Lou Reed.

"Sleep With You" featured the college radio favorites 'Minnie Driver,' 'Vicodin' and 'Girls.'

The relatively controversial album was produced by Fred Freeman of Dungeon Recording Studios, who had just recently completed work on another South Florida break out band, Dashboard Confessional.

It was filled with over the top Rock guitar and soaring vocals, pounding bass and drums, and sex and drug allusions galore, keenly observed by the closing statements of the CD's review in All Music Guide which gave the CD 4 out of 5 stars, "rock & roll from the Paris Hilton set, out to lunch, out of time, and unconcerned about anything but their own vanity. So yes, it's deluded and occluded, but it still rocks like nothing else out there. Get it."

The more straight-ahead Modern Rock of "Sleep With You" earned the album regular rotation on college radio stations nationwide, top ten status on XM radio ( I'm not the only one ), best Indie band in Florida from the Bigtime talent awards, national distribution, then management, then booking contracts, and charted for weeks on the Specialty Show charts throughout 2003.

But it was the single 'Superhero Girl,' released to commercial Alternative Rock radio last Summer that pushed Transcendence over the edge.

The song was added to regular rotation on stations all over the country charting as high as #5.

It also guaranteed the band feature slots in the music festival circuit including the NEMO Music Festival in Boston and the CMJ Music Festival in New York, as well as a tour of Europe during the Summer.

Meanwhile, as a flurry of buzz surrounds the coming release of "Nothing Is Cohesive," Ed Hale is now living in New York City filming a reality show while the band awaits the release of the new album.

Last November, the band released their first live DVD, "Transcendence: Live At Jazid."

And there will also be a new one-hour documentary coming out later this Spring by Journey Of Dreams Productions about the band and the making of the "Nothing Is Cohesive" album entitled "Transcendence: Everything Is Cohesive."

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