Podcaster and aspiring voiceactor. I love to use my voice to sing, develop characters, or just make silly sounds.

My podcast is now available on ALL podcast platforms including Apple podcasts, Podcast Addict, Spotify,iHeart Radio, and many more

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Originally hailing from Lighthouse Cove, Ontario, Canadian capital of the big Muskee, Jim’s parents bought him a guitar for his 8th birthday: a plywood crate from the Eaton’s catalog with a hula girl stenciled on the front. Little did they know what they were beginning- they were only hoping that he’d stop "borrowing" the neighbour’s guitar….

"Why do I do this?” I ask myself this question every time I perform. "Is this just my ego?" It has to be true that there is some ego there but it goes way beyond that. In the simplest terms it’s "I write, therefore I am." Corny, I know, but I actually hear myself thinking in song. Everything from the mundane to the serious... in my minds "ear" I hear a melody lines and music when I am pondering a problem or situation. Does that make me nuts? Maybe. Some of the songs that play in my head I am driven to share, to experience them with others. I am a song writer.
In my performances, I now have lots of songs that have a rough melody and style and a stream of consciousness. Lyrics that varies each time I play them. They are stories that are “told” on the spot as performed. My band mates says it’s their favorite part of the show. To me, it's the scariest. I either soar or painfully crash. I have to be very careful about saying something stupid or inappropriate (yes I  am human), yet these human moments result in the biggest connection, the deepest vibes and magic with the audience. It is for these moments that I write songs. So in retrospect, I am conscious, yes , but not so careful as to destroy the spontaneity.
I love doing things and going places that I am told aren’t popular or I won’t fit in. A while back I told a wrestling coach of mine that I wanted to try for the Olympic team. He laughed. I dumped him. Two years later I was a walk-on at the wrestling trials. An underdog. I finished third. One step short of a spot on the team.
In high school I had a music teacher who told me that I would never be any good. He dumped me. Three years later I was in another school, competed against his protégée in the city wide talent show and won.
I got hurt working on the oil-rigs in Alberta. A very severe secondary infection in one knee. Was told I was going to lose my leg. I still have two.
Got injured in a car accident and couldn’t play guitar for almost 3 years, but I am playing, writing and performing again for the last 20 years. I am better now than before. You never can tell how things will work out.
Yup I love proving skeptics and naysayers wrong. I love being the underdog. Not too comfortable.
As a song writer being comfortable is a curse. Too much comfort is death. I get lazy and non-committal. Not enough comfort leads to paralysis. I have to work a day job that kills time and just gives enough money to almost cover bills. Somewhere in there, is a place where I get to be comfortable enough to not be paralyzed and yet still hungry enough to want to write. I am working toward that hungry comfortable and I hope you all like my music and songs enough to help me get there.
If you see me at a show come up and say you read this. Let me know what you think about it and what you heard. Tell me how you felt.
Jim Moffatt

Singer/Songwriter/Musician/Entertainer from the San Francisco Bay Area wishing to share my music to whomever will tolerate it, 

BORN FOR BLISS members, Frank Weyzig and Remco Helbers, decided to join forces again to produce new music. Inspired by the many mysteries of our modern times: conspiracies, alien abductions, UFO encounters and other strange events, Frank and Remco searched the Internet for unusual sounds and strange recordings. These elements give shape to the StarGazing project in a very peculiar way...
 
At some point, they came across a spoken interview in which a woman claims to be abducted by aliens. This interview triggered the initial idea for the StarGazing project. The song "Stargazing", that was build around the audio recording of this interview, reflects the mood and state of mind of the woman, who is clearly emotionally affected by the experience...
 
While they were writing the music for the album, it became clear that all the songs were breathing this same strange emotion. Even the lyrics are being affected in the same way and drift seamlessly from dream to reality. After editing, mixing and placing the songs in a particular order, there appears to be an underlying storyline, the sory of a woman who seems to have lost her grip on reality. A story being told from the perspective of the woman's friend. But, is this woman really losing her grip on reality after all?...
 
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Frank Weyzig:
vocals, guitars, keyboards, sampler & programming
 
Remco Helbers:
programming, sampler, Chapman Stick, keyboards

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"The Soundtrack to the movie that hasn't been written yet... Where Syd Barrett meets Bryan Eno..." That's what fans say about Stargazing Project's debut album 'Stargazing'...


1997; Born for Bliss, existing since 1994, awakes with the overwhelming "Flowing with the Flu". The roots of this fact are placed over a decade ago. In those times the dutch Born for Bliss-members Frank Weyzig and Willem van Antwerpen created thrilling sounds together with the still cultic (Clan of) Xymox. During the early, exiting period of this electronic-wave legend (mid, till end of the 80s), Frank and Willem have been involved in this band. From this period result the first two Xymox albums which are still classic highlights.
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Since 1995 the third member of Born for Bliss is Remco Helbers. He found his way to Born for Bliss via the Dreamside and Love Like Blood on stage. With his distinguished style of playing bass, the ‘Chapman Stick’, and his unique way of working with loops and soundscapes, Remco adds a special dimension to the Born For Bliss sound.
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Together, this trio guarantees an ultimate seductive soundoutput which was proved impressively by their prereleased cd-single "Arabia" (for 'Nuclear Blast - Deathwish Office') in 1996. In the same year this single became an addicting clubhit and made it's way high into the german alternative charts. 
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We're back in 1997. 'Flowing with the Flu' marked Born for Bliss' long desired longplay-debut. "With Impressive elegance the band produced a couple of fascenating pearls. Prickling melodic changes between melancholy and dynamics along with 80s charme and 90s-scenery makes their music an electrifying experience. Already in the first week after its release, 'Flowing with the Flu' enters high into the German alternative album-charts".
 
In 1999, Born For Bliss finished the final recordings for their next album "Between Living and Dreaming", mixed at the famous Impulse Tonstudio in Hamburg by J. P. Genkel, known for his work with 'Lacrimosa' and 'Cradle of Filth'. Unfortunately, not long after the final recordings of "Between Living and dreaming", the band disintegrated due to problems with their management and record label and the album was never released.
 
At the same time Frank Weyzig disappeared from the music scene for more than a decade and during that time the master tapes for the album were laying unused on the shelves in his studio untill Frank established himself again on the horizon of alternative music with his contribution for White Rose Transmission as co-writer, band member and producer for their album ‘Spiders in the Mind Web’, released on German label Echozone in 2010. 

Echozone liked the idea to do a release of 'Between Living & Dreaming' and so in 2011 the album finally saw the light of day and the rebirth of Born For Bliss was a fact. In 2013 the band officially got back together again and subsequently released their follow up EP 'Innocent'.
 
In June 2015 Frank Weyzig completed a succesful MusicPledge Crowdfunding campaign to get funding for the new Born For Bliss album "Falling Back to Never", which was released in October 2015, together with a re-release of the first album 'Flowing With the Flu' as a remastered version with extra added remixes. 

In 2016 two EP’s, “Better Than Me” and “Falling Back”, with tracks and remixes from the “Falling Back to Never album” were released.

VASELYNE is a collaboration between Dutch singer Yvette Winkler and Dutch musician and producer Frank Weyzig. A mutual artistic curiosity gave birth to their VASELYNE project in the spring of 2011. One can safely assume that to hold tenure in VASELYNE, you'd best exhibit the deepest level of commitment to what the band stands for. Influenced by bands like Porcupine Tree and Blackfield, Vaselyne could remain one of ambient-alternative rock's most intelligent and gifted technical bands.

The departed personnel that have been assumedly ground to bits within VASELYNE tells a story in itself. Yvette Winkler was co-founder of Dutch band "Sea of Souls" (2006). You can listen to her latest work on Pieter Nooten's album "Here is Why" (2010), for which she sang some of the lead- and backing vocals. Frank Weyzig is a Dutch producer, composer and band member, known for his contribution to the original "Clan of Xymox" and his work for indie new wave band "Born For Bliss".

As always, VASELYNE continues to innovate upon their unique form of art-ambient/alternative and, at the end of the day, its actually the ease with which VASELYNE serves up this versatility, making the music go by in a flash. During Live performances VASELYNE will be joined on stage by Rina Vervoort (flute & keys) and Einar Ihle (violin & keys). 

VASELYNE has released three albums on German label Echozone: ‘Earthbound’ EP (released August 2012), their full length debut album ‘The Fire Within’ (released May 2013) and their latest 8-track EP 'In Dreams' (released October 2015).

Influences: from Peter Hammill to Porcupine Tree.
Sounds like: Dark Wave with a Glow & a load full of Soul. 

Yvette Winkler - vocals.
Frank Weyzig - instruments. 

Nicki Tedesco is a bassist/singer/songwriter/Twitch Music Streamer/youTuber from LA. Her music is punk with a pop melodic flair that includes topics such as a personal struggle with addiction to finding spirituality, and tremendous heartbreak. This is the soundtrack to your life! Check her out every Saturday 7pm PST on www.twitch.tv/nickitedesco

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