Tympanic

Artist Information

Biography

Music can soothe even the Savage Beast. Yet, once in a blue moon, the very same Savage Beast can be found gyrating in a funk induced frenzy, rarely seen in today's modern hipster living. Enter Ottawa's Tympanic, a Disco-Rock hybrid of Boombastic proportions, who are handing out tickets to a Turbo-Groove filled Paradise.

Drawing from diverse influences that range from Jamiroquai to Roots to DMB, Tympanic's music has grown into the soundtrack for today's Saturday Night Fever.

So go on, crack a beer, touch the people around you. Laugh. Mingle. Connect. Add Tympanic. The heads bop. The hips shimmy. The smiles swell. Viva La Revolucion.
Dance Suckas!

Instrumentation

Troy Lajambe - Vocals and Acoustic Guitar
Charity Corbett - Backup Vocals and alto sax
Murray Matheson - Bass
Carlos Constantino - Drums and Backup Vocals

Discography

Tympanic demo released Sept. 2007
Have A Drink and Stay A While released July 2008
Plums 3 song EP coming March 2011

Links

• MySpace
• Facebook
• Twitter

Audio

• Boogie Rhythm
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• Latin Load
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Lyrics

• Chaos
• Real
• Boogie Rhythm
• Daytona
• The Grave

Video

Tympanic - Latin Load (September 2009)

Illegal - BMS

Illegal - BMS

Photo Gallery

Press

• Band lays down signature sound [+ Show ]
  

  July 18, 2008 Most bands will tell you there is nothing easy about making an album — especial...July 18, 2008
  
  
  Most bands will tell you there is nothing easy about making an album — especially the first one.
  
  But if you can survive the intense recording schedule, technical frustrations and inevitable bickering that ensues after spending too many hours locked up with your mates, the final product might just be worth it.
  
  For Dylan Shields, lead guitarist with Ottawa rock, pop, funk quintet Tympanic, putting in 15 hour days for a week straight to hammer out the album Have A Drink And Stay Awhile, was as fun as it was exhausting.
  
  “It was a lot of work, for sure, but we figured if we can get through an hour-long show putting all our guts and heart out there, we can do this studio thing and still stay friends,” Shields says.
  
  In its earliest days, Tympanic consisted of drummer Carlos Constantino, sax player Charity Corbett, bassist Murray Matheson and singer/guitarist Troy Lajambe. The group performed around town for a couple years and earned fan support and a smattering of industry cred, thanks to successful ventures into competitions such as Ottawa’s Supernova and Rock Resolution competition put on by The Bear radio station.
  
  But last year they decided to bring Shields on board to give Tympanic a “more powerful sound.”
  
  Then, after making it to the third round of The Big Money Shot, put on by Live 88.5, and picking up $5,000, the band thought it time to make something people could take away from their live shows.
  
  The 13-track, debut CD is meant to showcase the wide variety of styles and influences the band draws upon. Some of the members are adept in jazz instrumentation, while others were schooled on straight-up rock.
  
  Geography also plays a factor in Tympanic’s signature sound because, as Shields puts it, “everyone is from everywhere.” Shields is a hometown boy, who happened to meet Corbett out east in Nova Scotia where she’s originally from. Lajambe hails from Sudbury, Matheson is a Manotick native and Constantino is from Brazil.
  
  The varied influences of Dave Matthews Band and the Red Hot Chili Peppers— even Radiohead — are evident in the first few songs. The themes run the gamut from the usual catchy tunes of love and loss to sharp political commentary, especially about our neighbours to the south.
  
  “Our influences might be a little too obvious sometimes,” says Shields. “But we also work really hard not to be just sound-alikes and to bring our own flavour to the music.”
  
  

Setlist

Originals include:
High Dub
Real
Latin Load
Mes Amis
Daytona
The Grave
Chaos
Cows
Boogie Rhythm
Save My Soul (Down)
The King
Big Daddy
Space Shaft
Lick the Nickel
Sambucca
Roll Away
Nacho Soul
Dodge
and more...

Covers include:
Message in a Bottle
Use Me Up
Doin' Time
All Along the Watchtower
Gin and Juice
What I Got
Faith
Exodus
Santaria
Twist and Shout
and more...

We are a versatile band that caters to the bar owner's wants. We are able to play 3 sets with a mix of originals and covers, but we prefer to play one or two sets of originals and "signature covers".

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