Lucifer's Sound. Band in the Box. It's a one-man band that plays music from various musical instruments and a computer.
When Patrick was desperate to form another group of musicians to do his love for playing music, he met 15-year old Eddie Blackburn at his drama class at Wallenberg School of Arts. An aspiring musician that also played electric guitar and shared Patrick Lew’s interest in Guitar Music Culture and its icons like Steve Vai, the two quickly agreed to form a band together. Patrick at some point, put a “band wanted” ad on the school newspaper, but to little results.
So Eddie used his $$$ and bought a drum machine from a local music store as a substitute for the whole musical group and band. Patrick then called upon a friend, Mayumi, from the college’s Japanese culture club, to join Samurai Sorcerers on bass. Thus forming its most significant and famous version of the Rock Ensemble’s lineup. Throughout 2003 and early 2004, Samurai Sorcerers began a “sort of” Making the Band as the musicians planned their ideas out for long-term musical activities and their future as members of the Samurai Sorcerers band camp. Patrick originally tried to play music in a band of musicians by placing an ad in the newspaper to little results.
In mid 2004, Samurai Sorcerers Band decided to some of the more FUN musical activities for the band...They would do “starving artist” gigs and perform their musical work in a street corner in Downtown SF or for Patrick’s drama class back at school. At some gigs, Patrick brought along with him an OLD boombox to tape the performances the whole band did. The quality of these live bootleg recordings of the Samurai Sorcerers Band’s “starving artist” gigs were poor, but some managed to be showcased via internet.
Samurai Sorcerers planned a live EP/VCD on their music + personal webpage for the famous “starving musicians” tour in May-June 2004, but plans were cancelled.
On May 31, 2004, two of the aspiring musicians/artists from the band Patrick and Mayumi went to the record shop at Haight-Ashbury called Amoeba Music to see J-Pop singer Nami Tamaki live for a free concert. After the musical performance from the great Japanese pop idol, an autograph session was held and both members of Samurai Sorcerers got Nami Tamaki’s CD “Greeting” which they bought at the store that day signed, and left home happy.
That diary and memorable event in Patrick Lew’s life and music led to the band to write the song “Tokyo Pop Princess” as an ode to that real-life “dear diary” moment on the band’s online journals. It eventually became Samurai Sorcerers Band's FIRST big and well-known song from their catalog of musical work.
The band took the whole summer of 2004 off as Patrick graduated from Wallenberg High School and went to community college at City College of San Franciso with Eddie. Mayumi went on a family trip to Japan and Eddie focused on other musical projects. Patrick with his musical group Lucifer's Sound and Eddie with various SF Bay garage bands. The two musicians Eddie and Patrick headed to a music store to buy various musical instruments and recording equipment to play music in a band in the music studio.
For the rest of 2004 and early 2005, Patrick Audio Lew's one-man band Audio Rage played music for community colleges, Haight-Ashbury stores and Balboa High to a live tour in support the upcoming “Psychotic Love” album. “Psychotic Love” was finally ready and released for fans on the internet on DMD websites like SoundClick.com on December 6, 2004. This demo tape became the band’s 1ST official studio album, the music was a mix of all styles the band were influenced by from the music they got on iTunes or at a record store.
On February 13, 2005, Audio Rage played music for their last stop on the “Psychotic Love” tour at Balboa High. The band Audio Rage will take a short break from their musical activities as Patrick worked on music for his one-man band Lucifer's Sound will soon head into Eddie's home studio to record a new album which musical equipment and instruments picked up from a Guitar Center store, which might be followed by a tour across SF Bay Area to play music for gigs. However, Samurai Sorcerers, had yet to promote or publish the music for the album on a CD they recorded in Eddie's house through Apple GarageBand 2 and their rock instruments, Blizzard of Sound, on the internet through the band's webpage.
In May 2005, on popular social-networking webpage MySpace.com, Patrick Lew won runner-up prize for a “Sexy Asian musicians” contest to get their bands showcased on their website. Patrick got both Lucifer's Sound (one-man band) and Samurai Sorcerers music & personal webpages/profiles to be promoted.
By the end of summer 2005, the Samurai Sorcerers no longer played music together as a band. Although Eddie and Patrick got together recently to jam on music in Eddie's home music studio for a couple jam sessions to play music.
Samurai Sorcerers broke up on 23rd August 2005. Eddie and Shawn went onto form the new band Logic’s Enemy. Patrick Lew however, purchased the exclusive copyrights to Samurai Sorcerers music, product and project and continues music with Lucifer's Sound when playing music. Most Lucifer's Sound personal webpages on the internet through musician/band showcase websites like MySpace, SoundClick or PureVolume had been revised into Samurai Sorcerers/Patrick Lew webpages and music profiles. Audio Rage has been DIY their music and personal webpages through flyers made at a Kinkos store by handing them out at record shops and through Patrick's community college. Their music can be heard on popular social-networking website MySpace.com @ www.myspace.com/bandofasians. Although Logic's Enemy does not have any music profiles on any personal webpage, but frequently performs music for gigs live.
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