product is the work of Arman Christoff Boyles and Scott Rader. They first started working together on music in 1990 while studying Audio Recording in Los Angeles. Throughout the 90s they collaborated on many projects, but it wasn't until 1999 that Arman had outlined a road map to create fully realized concept albums.
"On Water" was a concept album based on a sailor's life during the American Revolution. Self-released in 2000 it was a critical success, but had limited distribution. Nonetheless the process had been worked out for making and recording music on the band's terms.
In the same spirit of exploring the human condition through period pieces, product explored church vs. science with Aire, their 2003 release, based on the life of Galileo.
"The Fire" focuses on art, politics and war. Based on the complex world of Nero and the price of arrogance.
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This is what happened. Scott and I were finishing up "On Water"
and were sitting in a Dennys in LA. Scott had french toast with all bacon,
with an egg over medium (I know this, because if you go out to breakfast
with Scott, any day of the year, that’s what he eats). We had been
playing and recording together on and off for 9 years, but never had released
anything for the public and suddenly were in the awkward position of having
to choose a band name. So we were doing what you do when choosing a band
name, making long futile lists of silly things, when suddenly outside
the window of our booth we saw a homeless man walking across the street
with the word "product" written on his back. I said, "how
about product?". Scott said, "I can live with that. But, only
if it's lower case." We both liked the understatement of the word
and depending on the context it could be profound and ironic especially
in the world of music making.
Arman
