OnlineRock Founder Visits Sierra Leone to Address Leaders of Country's Music Ind
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Strikes Relationship with Ballanta Academy of Music BELMONT, Calif. – September 7, 2007—As founder and head of OnlineRock, a music community providing musicians with the tools and services needed to promote their music, Steven Beck has been called upon by the U.S. State Department to spearhead efforts in developing countries to foster and expand their music industries. After a trip to Sierra Leone in Africa this June, Beck struck up close ties with the Ballanta Academy of Music in Freetown. He recently donated an Alesis Fusion 6HD Keyboard Workstation to the academy so its students can learn, play and compose music using digital technology.
INVESTORS
CUT AND RAN earlier this year when Augustus Pokerback, supremo of
Tundraducks Records, announced the signing of maverick solo artist,
founder member of the Jazz Butcher Conspiracy and guitarist
extraordinaire Max Eider. Eider's 'landmark' new album, Max Eider III:
Back in the Bedroom, is scheduled for release on October 1.
'It is a matter of record that Mr Eider's two previous solo releases
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has assured me that was just bad luck.
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music and lyrics were written by front man Craig Wildenradt, which took
a solid ten months to compose. A month was spent in the recording studio
and five months went into mixing and mastering the project. After the
work in the studio was complete, the band began performing live in
support of the release.
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Texas has long been a hotbed for country music artists. Ricky Lynn Gregg
had number one hits in the early 90's, Neal McCoy is still riding the
charts and new girl singer Sunny Sweeney, who recently landed a major
record deal in Nashville, all claim Longview as home.
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demonstrates the impact this group is having on the pop/rock scene.
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flute, Tuvan-style vocals and an array of stringed instruments.
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Spanish documentary film Becoming Aware), to the ethereal, otherworldly
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along with the pulsing rhythms of tracks like 'There's A Hole In My Earth'
and 'Heaven's Escalator'. Lanterns of Midnight is truly the sound of a poet
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