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Acoustic battle of the bands 'The Project' commences Tuesday night with style

Joel Crabtree

Issue date: 1/26/06 Section: Style
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SIRENS - Madison Bollinger, on bongo drums, Sarah Richardson, vocals, and Jocelyn Emery, on guitar, of Glosoli, perform the final act of Java Jive's
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SIRENS - Madison Bollinger, on bongo drums, Sarah Richardson, vocals, and Jocelyn Emery, on guitar, of Glosoli, perform the final act of Java Jive's "The Project."
With the start of the spring semester, the new season of Java Jive: The Project has followed. At the first round of The Project, Jocelyn Emery, Sara H. Richardson and Madison Bollinger collectively known as Glosoli, and solo artist David Sprague all advanced on to the next round.

The Project is a musical competition with less emphasis on the competition and more on the music. The winner of the project will receive some studio time to help develop their ability to perform.

The final two acts to perform on Tuesday night, Sprague and Glosoli, happened to be the judges' favorites.

Sprague went onstage with just his guitar, and his intensity separated him from the rest of the performers. He played a little more furiously than the rest of his competition, which seemed to give him an edge in the end.

Glosoli, however, were the only three females to perform all night. Unlike the rest of the acts at the project, Glosoli brought a djembe player to provide a different element to a traditional style of performance.

They performed covers of "Wonderwall" by Oasis, Gavin Degraw's "Chariot" and Amos Lee's "Keep it Loose, Keep it Tight."

Glosoli vocalist Richardson was a little worried about the originality of her performance at first because they only perfomed cover songs. In the end, things worked out for the group, and they'll be joining Sprague in the next round of the project.

The competition started with five acts performing a mixture of original and cover songs. The opening act for the night was Binary, a guitar-slinging duo who performed two original songs. The group members, Jonah Bruce and Geoff deBree, started the night off well. They brought some original material to the stage, which was refreshing.

The only point of concern that Binary ran into was redundant lyrics. They lamented phrases such as, "Why do they care?", "Everyone hates us" and "Why don't we just take over the world?" The lyrics were repeated several times, and after a while became somewhat difficult. The two clearly have a future, though. As Bruce pointed out, they will be featured on a compilation CD of East Coast acoustic acts.
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