“It’s been a few years since I’ve focused on being a “player” but my involvement with www.totonetwork.com has made me realize how much fun this kind of music can be. In the meantime I’ve been busy making movies like “Local Color”, “Senior Skip Day“, “Payback”, “Spykids” etc. I’m looking forward to doing more of this and I thank you for your support.”

Recorded just prior to 9-11 this collection of songs features some the most famous and talented musicians of this generation:

Greg Bissonette – Drums (currently performing with Ringo Starr)
Luis Conti – percussion (from Dancing with the Stars and James Taylor)
Paul Jackson Jr. – Guitars (from American Idol)
Jimmy Johnson – bass (from James Taylor)
Abraham Laboriel – (the list is too long)
Eric Marienthal – sax (Chick Corea, David Benoit)

Recorded and mixed by Tom Vicari

All songs composed and produced by Chris Boardman

Chris Boardman on myspace

Chris Boardman’s blog

Apparently later in the evening, Imre was singing the verses while laying on the floor by the piano. He was singing, then he got up and walked out the door down the hall while still singing and grasping the microphone. Something was really strange. After Imre didn’t return, the engineer looked outside and behind the studio in the field was Imre still singing and holding the microphone. The engineer tried tugging the microphone cord, but he was scared. The engineer went on to say “I wasn’t sure what to do, I didn’t know if he was a sane man.”

I asked the engineer how he thought the upcoming release was coming along. He said, “it’s coming along, slowly but really good. There’s so much different stuff, each song is like a movie, really interesting project to be working on.

Keep a watch on this band, they’re incredible…and I mean it!

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The Cost is thirteen tunes that are constructed to last. One play will never be enough. These are the rock/pop tunes that radio used to deliver into the car radio and then the car would begin to move faster and the volume would be turned up and the people in the car would all feel all right. Really.

Produced by Mark Meisel and Bob Becker of Detroit’s Counter Clockwise Music, these guys have a knack for being able to bring all the good stuff in a tune to the top where it belongs. It took over a year to reach this point of completion but the smiles seen all around are so worth it.

The Cost is the third release by New York City’s Tim Young. Filling out the band is New York native Sand Edwards on drums. Tim and Sand play all the dives on 9th avenue in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan. On this release producer Mark Meisel added electric guitar and keyboards. Also Rick Becker on electric guitar on the final track, ‘Renegade,’ which also appeared originally on Tim’s sophomore release, Red in 2005.

Dave Davis of Sound Images in Cincinnati, Ohio mastered The Cost.

The Cost will be available at CD Baby and at timrocksweb.com which is the official website of Tim Young Band.

More information will be posted here as the release date nears.

It seems that everything took an uplifting turn in 2006 when Gunnar and Amethyste started to collaborate more extensively on several projects ranging from Trance – Dance to Ambient. They finally decided to meet in February of 2006 in NYC, then shortly after their first meeting, Gunnar came to spend 3 months in the USA focusing on music composition and production. Their love for each other fueled the creation of Amethyste’s debut CD titled “Ethereal”. Gunnar’s extreme composing ability really showcases Amethyste’s soothing and dreamy ample vocal range. The beautiful music that Amethyste and Gunnar Spardel create have been heard in radio stations in Europe as well as many internet radios. Ethereal warms the heart and shines light upon their acclaimed and distinctive style of music.

MUSIC QUOTES
Delicate and sublime with a stirring of ecstasy dancing over a driving powerful intoxication is what you will find if you listen to Amethyste’s masterpiece – “Ethereal“. If you listen to the album from start to finish you will first encounter silky washes of sound with ethereal vocals. Floating on air is the feeling that Amethyste creates as soulful and ethereal voices of the mysteries above and below soar across an ocean of stars into a celestial downtempo mood. “Ethereal” goes beyond inspiration to new levels of creativity where modern technology and ancient longings collide. At times it is crystalline perfection and at others the warm sounds completely surround you enveloping you in a dreamy haze. Behind the scene of “Ethereal” is also the magnificent composer Gunnar Spardel, who lays down a set of deep ambient beats that creates a tantalizing ebb and flow of exotic sexy moods as a magical calm is unveiled by a journey within the smooth grooves. Amethyste is one of the most profound influences over mainstream Chill out artists, through a new, innovative artistic panache.
- AMAdea Records, BULGARIA

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A veteran producer and musician, Randy Rigby, first outlined this concept to me a little over six months ago. In short the idea was to create “soundtracks” for wine tasting and wine related events. One month ago the new label, Harvest Road Music, debuted with their first release, “Uncorked – The Sounds of Wine Country.”

For those of you reading this from outside our area that are not wine drinkers, it’s a BIG industry in California. As in nearly $55 billion a year.

Harvest Road Music is located in San Luis Obispo, CA which is in the heart of California’s third largest and fastest growing wine region. The entire county has a population of about 257,000 and our wine industry generated just under $3 billion in 2006!

When I moved to the area in the 1970’s there were two to three wineries in the area.Today there are something like 250!

With the wineries came more wine related events (Paso Robles Wine Festival, Hospice du Rhone, World of Pinot Noir, Zinfandel Festival, Roll Out the Barrels, Harvest Festival), more good restaurants, hotels and, thusly, more gigs for our local musicians.

My band, The Cliffnotes (I’m a “weekend warrior”) has tripled our booking just in the last year.

Bearing all this in mind, and the fact that from Washington to the Mexican border, there are approximately 10,000 wine tasting rooms, doesn’t The Sounds of Wine Country sound like a good idea to you?

It did to me. That’s how I became the label’s resident, “Marketing Genius.” The reaction to the first CD has been overwhelmingly positive and besides the tasting rooms signing up to have our counter top retail display, several of them want to make bulk purchases so they can use the CD as a premium for their wine club members.

We also get to discover and showcase new artists (like the stunning Nataly Lola on the Uncorked CD) and assist wineries and their related events with handling their live music bookings.

To top it off, how many times do you get to sell 10,000 copies in one fell swoop? I’m gonna have to make myself a new belt.

Stay tuned, I’ll use this blog-o-sphere for updates on the Harvest Road to Wine Country.

John Rhys Eddins of Blue-Power and his take on Fredrik and the Band BluePower review

Tor Ottesen of Blues World his take on and interview with Fredrik Halland 2006 interview

Previous Press release on Guest Music Bloggers

FSH Band Takes Europe

Johnny Vance and The Outsiders

The blogs are abuzz this morning with exciting news regarding this Rock Band! Along with their new name, you’ll be happy to know they have an all new line-up so be prepared to rock out in 2008.

The Johnny Vance Band has consistently been one of the most well-known bands in the NorthEast as well as Cape Cod since 2005, but recently the group has gone through significant changes in their lineup.

Johnny Vance remains the face of the band as the lead singer. Les Kuipers is steadfast on lead guitar and Anthony DiNoia remains on drums, however, the band lost its bassist in December 2007. Their replacement is a familiar face to the group. Tracy Ferrie, the new bass player, alsoof Stryper fame, is a friend of Johnny Vance and his active, driving force has endeared him to all members of the group.

“Cape Cod” is like nothing else. “Every time we play here it becomes a memorable event” Johnny said. “And each time we play, we try and make the show bigger than the last.”

All band members are back on Cape and will open their 2008 season with a show at “Casino Wharf”, performing Saturday, 2/16 at 9:30 p.m. The performance is a milestone for the group because they will no longer be the Johnny Vance Band. The band will now perform as:

Johnny Vance and The Outsiders

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I first played the keyboards at the age of 10 and was soon dabbling with Korgs and Rolands. Later, when the first Korg arrived, I was commissioned to produce music for fashion shows, which lead me down the path of producing dance-orientated and non-vocal music. More recently I have been involved in a number of TV theme projects and the occasional DJ spot mixing well-known dance tracks with my own.

I have produced music for a variety of uses, drawing from an interest in a wide range of musical styles. My record collection and inspiration includes Groove Armada, Air, Royksopp, Lemon Jelly, Portishead and Django Reinhardt.

For more information go to:

Esrom Records

James Hariman Official Website