Biography
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Years Active
2010 – present (15 years)
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Members
- Natalie Koskinen (2016 – present)
COL are raised from a deep sense and intriguing will to express, to develop and to portray emotions and feelings brought up from all misery and misfortunes stages in life engraved in music and lyrics.
In 2009, after Carlos D'Água and Gonçalo Brito having been free from other musical commitments, they decided to give birth to a common old wish creating their own musical project. They found each other sharing identical tastes, ideas and musical concepts, allowing COL to arise organic and cohesively. They quickly start to explore and record various sound notes and the project began to gain creative expression in early 2010, urging the need to enrich the band with more elements.
The quest for new musicians took quite a long time, revealing itself a very challenging integration process due to the absence of symbiotic relationship between the candidate’s profile and the band’s scope. However, it was possible to join two more members, Luis Barroso on the guitar and Jorge Rocha on the bass. Despite their lack of availability to work as part of a group and their musical discrepancy style with the band, they were still able to slowly feed the mechanics of the band.
A year later, COL owned a significant tracks’ portfolio deserving already a better record quality. Therefore, during the winter of 2012, and with the participation of Gonçalo Correia on drums, Jorge Rocha on the bass and Luís Barroso on the guitar, the band enters in studio for the first time with the intention of recording an EP.
Regrettably, time was playing hard on the band and COL was expected to record all tracks in one week, turning up to be a huge time challenge and impossible to finish everything as they would have thought to. In the meantime, several attempts were made to return back to studio but time incompatibilities and different interests have begun to come up between the members of the band. The lack of time and commitment of the newest members with the rest of the band, led them to leave the group. COL is reduced again to its founders, Carlos D'Água in the voice and Gonçalo Brito on the guitar. However, as per the saying “misery loves company” and a few months later Carlos D’Agua decided to leave Portugal and move to Norway where he is settled now. The inability to work together in person did not dissuade them, continuing to work and keeping alive the essence that brought them together.
In 2016, COL emerges from this “warm distance” existence and seeks again to complete their line up in order to finish the recordings started in 2012.
They began to think of a female voice that could add a lyrical tone in some of their tracks and come into contact with Natalie Koskinen. Soon, they realize the growing empathy and complicity of ideals between all, which has led to a more formal invitation and Natalie stops being a mere guest and becomes part of COL as a new member.
Despite this new acquisition, in order to complete the basic line up required by the band, it would clearly take more musicians. Thus, and keeping in mind a new alignment, the invitation extended to the guitar player Carlos Monteiro, who accepted immediately taking part of this project and quickly COL decides to act, reframe and finishes the tracks that had previously been recorded in Studio.
In the summer of 2017, the band and some invited musicians meets in Portugal, at Quinta Dimensão studio one more time to complete the four tracks that comprise their first album. João Bacelar, together with the band, performs new captures and pre-mixes the songs. However, the final mix and mastering of the album are only fully executed in January 2018 by Déhá and COL, at the Forbidden Frequencies studio located in Belgium.
Without any further delay, the band starts to look for editing and promoting their work, approaching several labels.
After gathering some bids and feedbacks they have decided to sign contract with Naturmacht Productions which have released “Each failing Step” in April 2018 through Rain Without End.
With a brand new album in the market and positive reviews on their first work, the band has now time to continuing their search for a drummer and a bass player in order to complete their line-up. In June 2018, COL welcomes a new member at their core and Paulo Bretão joins the group on the bass.
"COL will continue to explore the endless cycle of Life and Death that begins or ends with the collapse of light …until the misfortunes of Life overwhelm them in an eternal darkness."
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