ARTIST: LIVA
TITLE: Requiem
FORMAT: CD
LENGTH: 48:51
EAN CODE: 5425019570064
RELEASE DATE: April 10th, 2006 (Benelux + France), April 28th 2006 (Italy)
GENRE: Symphonic Metal
LABEL: self-produced / Hardebaran

MARKETING AND PROMOTION:

* Promotional CDs will be spread out to all relevant magazines, webzines and radio stations
* Advertising in major specialised magazines and websites

SELLING POINTS:

* Astonishing media feedback (a.o. "Sublime! 9/10" - Rock Hard France)
* Multimedia section with the video clip "Tuba Mirum" performed with a classical orchestra
* High level of excellency of classically educated musicians

WEBSITE:

www.livaband.com

Management & Promotion
info@hardebaran.com
www.hardebaran.com
0032/2/269.27.74

Requiem

BIOGRAPHY:

Liva is a Heavy Metal band formed in Sherbrooke, Quebec (Canada) in 1997. The originality of the 
band is based on the fusion between different Metal genres (Black, Death, Power and Thrash) and 
Classical music. This results in an entity that is fresh, exclusive and powerful, yet still recognizable 
by many, which allows the band to reach a broader audience. Even those who have never been 
attracted to Heavy Metal music before, appreciate Liva's originality. As a matter of fact, Liva 
stands out among other bands on account of its soprano vocals, viola and the fact that the lyrics are 
in Latin. Indeed, this combination never fails to attract attention and has earned the group several 
distinctions among which a Mimi Award (Montreal International Music Initiative) in March 2003 – 
rewarding artists with the most versatile appeal toward music lovers regardless of race, gender, age 
group and cultural background. Before that, Liva won the Relève Black Hard contest in 2001.  
Many live shows were performed by Liva in the province of Quebec. In the past, the band played in 
their hometown Sherbrooke for example, supporting Voivod in 2000 and Gorguts in September 
2001. Liva also appeared at the Extreme Weekend Festival in Montreal (June 2002), featuring 
bands representing the future of Heavy Metal music in Quebec. In September 2003, they were on 
stage in Montreal as the added attraction for the one and only Canadian appearance of Nightwish. In 
2004, Liva shared a stage with Amorphis and in 2005 the band supported Therion. Moreover, the 
French CBC has broadcast a live performance of Liva on both its FM and Internet Bande à Part 
programming (www.bandeapart.fm). During this live show, Liva was accompanied by 13 classical 
musicians. The band's first EP has been available in record stores since 2001 and right from the 
start, some of its songs appeared in many radio stations' top 10 charts, including the song "Dies 
Irae" that made it to number 1 on CFAK and on Bande à Part on the Galaxie channel. In 2002, the 
band independently produced their latest album "Requiem" and had it distributed throughout 
Canada by Outside Music. A live orchestrated version of the song "Tuba Mirum", which is also 
featured as a special multimedia video clip on the album "Requiem", will appear on the limited 
edition sampler DVD that will be presented at Montreal's Spectrum on the 24th of March 2006 in 
order to celebrate Bande à Part's fifth birthday. In other news, the public broadcasting channel Vox 
asked Pier Carlo to be part of their program "Vox Estrie" in October 2005 and, in November of the 
same year, Catherine Elvira finished first of her category (Master's degree) at the N.A.T.S. 
(National Association of Teachers of Singing) contest and second in the overall categories 
(Baccalauréat, Master's degree and Doctorate). Having been in contact with Hardebaran since the 
autumn of 2004, Liva is now ready to distribute "Requiem" outside of Canada.

LINE-UP:
Pier Carlo Liva – composition / guitar / baritone vocals, Catherine Elvira Chartier – viola / electric 
viola / soprano vocals, Sébastien Breton – drums, Simon Roy-Boucher – bass


DISCOGRAPHY:
"Liva" self-produced MCD (2001)
"Requiem" self-produced CD (2002-2006)

Distributed in France by ACROPOLE RECORDS

Distributed in the Benelux by BERTUS & HARDEBARAN

Distributed in Italy by ANDROMEDA