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sitproperly on Aug 13th 2008 Gaudia Vaisnava, Krishna Music, Krishnacore

108 unreleased demo (Krishnacore demos)

Weirdly enough, I have no idea how I came to own the unreleased 108 demo. Apparently, it was never released. But you know how devotees are, we’ll bootleg anything and everything. I think I got it around the same time that I got the Prema demo.

I remember telling Ekendra (from Shelter, now of Planet Cow) that I got the 108 demo. He told me that he played drums on it and that it was basically just him and Vraja. I believe Ekendra played bass as well. Vraja played guitar and did the vocals.

From an interview with Rasaraja (Rob Fish, 108’s vocalist after the demo was recorded):

After I had been living in the Philly temple for about three months Vraja Kishor prabhu had quit Inside Out and joined Shelter. The Shelter decided to move to the Philly temple. Me and Vraja became friends. Eventually he wanted to do something different then Shelter and he wrote some songs and made a demo. 108 actually played a few songs at a show with Ressurection (1993). The day after the show Vraja called and asked me to sing for 108. The band was Vraja, me, Zack Eller (Worlds Collide) and Ekendra dasa (the drummer of Shelter). We recorded Holyname a few months later.

The demo was in 1993 some time but it never came out. The songs were rerecorded as the Holyname record.

The demo is basically the 108 Holyname 12″. The song “Noonenomore” was held over for their second 12″, Songs of Separation.

The sound quality on this is exceptionally crappy. Sorry about that. I can’t imagine it was great to begin with, it was recorded in the basement of the Philly temple, I think.

Track listing:

1) Holyname > Grow > Gopinatha
2) Hopeless
3) Noonenomore

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Download the whole demo here.

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