Audrye Sessions is a San Francisco Bay Area band.

http://www.myspace.com/audryesessions

Ryan Karazija : Guitar/ Vocals

Michael Knox : Lead Guitar

Alicia Marie Campbell : Bass

Alex Feldman : Drums

Audrye Sessions features

Anton Patzner : Violin/Keyboard

New Year's Day perforemed live at Live 105 Soundcheck in studio session with Aaron Axelson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbWPVmlb4Bo
Ryan Karazija : Guitar/ Vocals


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Popscene Live Review in Owl Magazine.

Minipop & Audrye Sessions @ 330 Ritch 1/25/2007

Outside of 330 Ritch, Popscene's slim and wasted show-going usuals were found lining the brick walls on Thursday, January 25, temporarily warming themselves with twiggy arms and cigarette puffs. It's a night right for mingling and moving, the perfect ambiance for the sounds of Audrye Sessions and Minipop.

It may have been too early to celebrate Valentine's Day, but the two local bands have enough romance and lush to have you melting for days.

Oakland's Audrye Sessions opened the show with "Perfect Sometimes" and it was love at first listen the second lead singer Ryan Karazija's silken vocals projected across the starry (dim-lit) sky (ceiling). His graceful voice exudes all the lushness appropriate of a movie screen climactic kiss.

It's hard not to fall in love with the East Bay band, especially since they're all so ridiculously good looking. Guitarist Michael Knox is particularly adorable. Even behind the boxes, drummer Alex Feldman was noticeably handsome. Alicia Campbell had the boys wide-eyed, their throbbing hearts mimicking the pounding of her bass strums.

The Sessions played "Paper Faces," "Relentless," and their new single "She Had to Leave" which you can often hear making its rotations on Live 105. Though their songs are delicate, they're played with an energy that's far from weak and often unseen in indie music. Violinist Anton Patzner (who played his last show following this one) gives new meaning to classic rock, as he 'rocks' the 'classic' instrument with impeccable precision.

As an added bonus, Lead Singer Scott Allbright of fellow local band Poor Bailey joined in on a song sharing a mic with Karazija.

Take note: Audrye Sessions are your new favorite unknown indie band. But take hold quickly, because it looks like this band won't be underground for too long.

San Francisco darlings Minipop followed. The mellow mood was set with blue lighting and pretty faces. Meek and petite singer Tricia Kanne, in a mini-dress and tights, often held her slender frame behind a keyboard or guitar, giving the audience little movement or interaction.

Though her shyness was evident in performance, the band revealed their strengths in song. Minipop delivered tunes such as "New Hope," "Generator," and "Like I Do." Drummer Lauren Grubb's clashes were appropriately on beat with a strobe light. The men in the band added vigor to the soft music with their hearty stage presence and burly facial hair. Unfortunately, Minipop's energy did not match up to the openers. The songs are tender and are definitely listen-worthy, but the honey-smooth style may be too sweet and thick to swallow live. Minipop is best for slow dances and Eskimo kisses.

If you're looking for love, you need not look further than Audrye Sessions and Minipop.

- Robbie Salapuddin


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http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2007/07/a_few_days_ago_audrye_sessions.php

June 30. 2007
Better Than: Staying at home alone, writing hopeless letters to your ex, crying for hours, then finally humping your pillow until you pass out.
Download: Most excellent Audrye Sessions music video.

Out from under a silk sheet of piano and whispered vocals, Audrye Sessions’ drummer, Alex Feldman, popped the audience awake with a danceable boom, boom-tat, boom, boom-tat. Several girls in the front row rocked and sang and almost reached out for Audrye Sessions’ lead singer Ryan Karazija. Bassist Alicia Marie Campbell rolled in the basslines, guitarist Michael Knox sang out over the top with mountainous melodies, and stage right, a vilonist and cellist swept across it all with a harmony breeze.

Karazija whispered the first lines of the band’s set: “Look what you’ve started, so fess up, just fess up / Is this what you wanted, so fess up, just fess up.” Okay Ryan, I’ll fess up: your show was indie-fabulous.

It was a sold out show packed to the walls with zealous teens and fashionable twenty-somethings, all listening to a kind of pop that hangs like a museum painting. It was an interesting contrast to the Bottom of the Hill’s Toon Town interior: crooked mirrors and picture frames, checkerboard floors, and a bathroom wall so saturated with band stickers that it looked like a giant copy of the Sunday comics.

The bassist, Alicia Marie Campbell, garnered the attention of the male portion of the audience that night. Pardon my 80’s rap lingo, but that girl is fly. I interviewed several guys in the front row who reported that Alicia was totally checking them out. That, of course, is impossible because she was obviously checking me out.

The show marked the release of Audrye Sessions’ new album, Braille. The CD cover is made of paper and decorated with embossed braille-esque dots. I’m not sure if there were any blind people in the audience, and I don’t know what the artistic significance of the album’s title is, but the Blind Guys Association of America (BGAA) released this official statement: “Audrye Sessions rocks my face!”

Occasionally, the band crawled back under those silky sheets of droning piano and amorphous melodies, just enough to throw a bit of sandman sand into the crowd. But just as your eyes began to sag, the band would kick back into a rocking anthem and crash into a splatter painting of guitars and stage lights. At their best, Audrye Sessions’ tickles and jingles the body, making you want to simultaneously freak dance and snuggle with your teddy bear.

Random Detail: After the show there was literally a line of guys waiting to meet bassist Alicia Marie Campbell. Whatever, she totally wanted me.
By The Way: You can pick up a copy of their new CD here. Also, they are playing the Wild 94.9 party on July 3rd at Kelly’s Missionrock.

--Tyler Callister