Review Fix Exclusive: Vox Rea’s Kate Kurdyak Talks Dose Me Up And More

Review Fix chats with Vox Rea’s Kate Kurdyak, who discusses the band’s new single, Dose Me Up, as well as their creative process and goals for the future.

Review Fix: How did you get involved in music?

Kate Kurdyak: Our grandmother was a music teacher and she set the foundation for our love of music and words. She used to look after Lauren and I when our parents were at work and she taught us to read and to play classical music. I don’t think we’d be musicians if it wasn’t for her.

Review Fix: What’s your creative process like?

Kurdyak: It’s ever evolving but usually starts with a chord progression to set the tone. Most of the time the words and music come all at once after that. That being said, the magic often happens outside of the process in the sense that the best songs come when you let go of any formula and just let the music speak for itself.

Review Fix: What inspires you?

Kurdyak: I’ve been really into german philosophy lately… the existential abyss and all that. I think a lot of our music is inspired by questions without answers. What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to be free? There’s something about poetry and art that cuts to the core of those kinds of questions.

Review Fix: What does music mean to you?

Kurdyak: Music means everything to us. A life without music is no life at all.

Review Fix: How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard you?

Kurdyak: Cinematic soundscapes dripped in harmony, water and wine ?

Review Fix: How are your live shows different from your studio work?

Kurdyak: The harmonies between all of our voices are featured pretty heavily in our live shows so there’s a density to the layered voices all singing together that you don’t hear quite as much in the studio work. 

Review Fix: What inspired your latest single?

Kurdyak: A melancholic kind of nostalgia for our childhoods.

Review Fix: What are your goals for the rest of 2020?

Kurdyak: Release as much music as possible!! 

Review Fix: What’s next?

Kurdyak: We’re working a lot on the visuals for the music and we have a video for Dose Me Up coming out very soon.

Review Fix: Anything else you’d like to add? 

Kurdyak: Like, follow, subscribe ;)

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Patrick Hickey Jr. is a full-time Assistant Professor of Communication & Performing Arts and Director of the Journalism program at Kingsborough Community College and is the chairman of the City University of New York Journalism Council. He is the Founder and Editor-In-Chief of ReviewFix.com. He's also a former News Editor at NBC Local Integrated Media and National Video Games Writer at Examiner.com where his work was mentioned in National Ad campaigns by Disney, Nintendo and EA Sports. Hickey was also the Editor-In-Chief of two College Newspapers before he received his BA in Journalism from Brooklyn College. Hickey's work has been published in The New York Daily News, The New York Times, Complex, The Hockey Writers, Yahoo!, Broadway World, Examiner, NYSportScene Magazine, ProHockeyNews.com, GothamBaseball.com, The Syracuse Post-Standard, Scout.com and the official sites of the Brooklyn Aces and New York Islanders. His first book, The Minds Behind the Games: Interviews With Cult And Classic Video Game Developers was released in April 2018 and is chock full of interviews with legendary developers. His second book in the series, The Minds Behind Adventures Games, was released in December 2019. His third book, The Minds Behind Sports Games, was released in September 2020. His fourth book, The Minds Behind Shooter Games, was released in March 2021. The Minds Behind Sega Genesis Games and The Minds Behind PlayStation Games were released in 2022 and The Minds Behind PlayStation 2 was published in January 2023. Hickey is also a contracted comic book writer, currently penning his original series, "Condrey," as well as "The Job," "Brooklyn Bleeds" "Dem Gulls" and "KROOM" for Legacy Comix, where he serves as founder, owner and Editor-in-Chief. Hickey Jr. is also a voice actor, having starred in the 2018 indie hit and 2019 Switch, PS4 and Xbox One release, The Padre (also serving as English language Story Editor), from Shotgun With Glitters. The sequel, The Padre: One Shell Straight to Hell was released in February 2021- Hickey also served as a Story Editor and Lead Voiceover performer. He has also done narration and trailers for several other titles including The Kaiju Offensive, Relentless Rex and Roniu’s Tale. Hickey is also the lead voiceover performer on Mega Cat Studios’ upcoming title WrestleQuest, responsible for nearly 90 characters in the game, as well as Skybound's Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood, where he voices both Dracula and Renfield, as well as several other characters. He also stars in Ziggurat Interactive’s World Championship Boxing Manager 2, where he performs the VO of nearly every male character in the game. He also worked on the Atari VCS’s BPM Boy.

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