 Ricardo Estrada-Banjanero of Reconnaissance performs Friday night at Klondike. Photo by Tommy Penick
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by BEN HOSTETTER
Intern Lifestyles Reporter
Charlotte band Reconnaissance made its way to Boone to introduce fusion metal and thundering rhythms Friday.
The band joined Appalachian State University student, aspiring musician and junior graphic arts and imaging technology major Rachel “Raimee” Haycraft at Klondike Café.
Ricardo Estrada-Bajonero, guitarist and sophomore secondary education major, founded the band when he was invited to showcase his musical arrangements in a Charlotte battle of the bands competition.
He then
joined with high school friend and vocalist Topher Westbrook,
eventually adding bassist Travis “Boomer” Stevens and drummer Ryan Guy.
Reconnaissance
swept the local competition and has since played at Charlotte’s Tremont
Music Hall and various underground venues.
When asked the musical influences of the band, Estrada-Banjonero responded with “everything.”
The musical
tastes of the other members vary, as the rest of the band listens to
everything from ‘60s and ‘70s music to ‘80s hair-metal.
Though
Reconnaissance’s songs come from a fusion of many different musical
influences, Estrada-Banjonero’s goal is to “give each song a different
subgenre of metal."
Banjonero
said the band’s song, “Dying Day,” came from listening to a combination
of Jay-Z, Flobots and Bullets For My Valentine for an entire month.
When asked what the future holds, many responses reflected Westbrook’s “if it goes somewhere, it goes somewhere.”
At their Klondike performance, Haycraft opened the show and played piano.
Haycraft met
Estrada-Banjonero at the Hillel-sponsored “Passover Seder” event last
year and has been playing and collaborating with him since.
From Asheville, Haycraft is interested in writing, drawing, painting and most recently, performing her own music.
“I’m an
artist by trade and my way of life, that the idea of being able to
express myself in this new medium, I think of it as art,” Haycraft
said.
Haycraft’s sound, by the combination of voice and piano, has been compared to the music of Evanescence’s Amy Lee.
For more information on both Reconnaissance and Haycraft, visit myspace.com/reconnaissanceband and myspace.com/justinandraimee.
Photo by Tommy Penick | The Appalachian
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