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​Port MacNam is a college rock band formed out of a trio of Ben Macarell, Yushi Portwood, and Cameron Narimanian from hosting Ithaca College’s Open Mic Nights. The group is a collaboration between Cameron’s (guitar/keyboard/vocals) material under the two groups the electronic rock of The Trinity Project and the heavy metal project Soul From Body, Ben’s (bass/saxaphone/guitar/vocals) music Ben Macarell, and Yushi Portwood (drums) under Yamaguchi. The group also plays a variety of genre blending covers of metal, electronic, rock, soul, and pop, ranging from the likes of Ozzy Osbourne to A-ha and Bruno Mars as well as material from both Cam’s and Ben’s projects.
The band spent a majority of the February and March writing and demoing their EP themselves.  After finalizing their demos, the band then recorded their EP on April 9th at with Chris Ploss at Sunwood Recordings in Trumansburg, New York.