The Italian reggae band Mellow Mood formed in 2005. Over the past few years, they gained widespread recognition and became one of the most important acts of the European reggae scene.  They performed at some of the most important music festivals worldwide, such as Rototom Sunsplash (Spain), Eurockéennes (France), California Roots (USA) e Jamming Festival (Colombia). Since 2015, they run the independent record label La Tempesta Dub.

I've been playing Didgeridoo and Mouth Harp for 30 years. I've been producing music for about 10 years. I've been in various bands and traveled around a bit with my music. I'm now re-inventing myself yet again so please stay tuned (pun fully intended!).

PARTY HARD is a project conceived in 2005 by Don Ciccio with the aim of combining music from clubs around the world in a show, mixing typically African, Latin American and Caribbean sounds with those of the clubs in New York, London and Berlin. Since then, PARTY HARD has regularly toured Italy and Europe. PARTY HARD is also a radio show broadcast on Ciccioriccio, one of the most important radio networks in southern Italy. The collaboration began with Don Ciccio and Congo in 2017 and PARTY HARD became, in addition to being in the shows in the clubs and on the radio, a beatmaking team with the aim of giving life to their own musical productions in line with what is the philosophy of the project, ready to deal with international clubs. In 2017, from the collaboration between Don Ciccio and Congo, PARTY HARD, began to grow as a beatmaking and music production team to which over time Mattia Grassi (Producer), Romeo Marchi (Sound engineer) and Hansy Lumen (Video artist) would join.

Damian Robert Nesta Marley, also known around the world as “Junior Gong” and more recently as “Gongzilla” was born in 1978 to parents Bob Marley and Cindy Breakspeare, Miss World 1976.  As a young adult, he developed a passion and a gift to speak for those who cannot always speak for themselves. A self-proclaimed ‘Spiritual Revolutionary’, Damian has worked assiduously to carve his own niche in music history and to add a new perspective to the Marley legacy for the 21st century. 

At the age of 13, Damian began performing in a group called “The Shepherds” which comprised of Shiah Coore (son of Third World guitarist Cat Coore) and currently a member of his band, and Yashema Beth McGreggor, daughter of reggae singers Freddie Mcgreggor and Judy Mowatt and then began touring with his brothers, Stephen, Ky-mani, Julian and Ziggy. 

By 1996, Damian had already made his stamp as a different kind of Marley when he released his first solo album “Mr. Marley”, a heavily dancehall-influenced album produced by his brother Stephen Marley.  His second album “Halfway Tree” was released in 2001 by a major record label and showcased Damian’s unique gift for blending dancehall, reggae and hip-hop styles.  This album won Damian much recognition and remained on the Billboard Top Reggae Album Charts for 158 weeks and earned him his first Grammy for Best Reggae Album in 2002. 
While honored by this recognition by the global music fraternity, Damian continued to work in the studio, laying the groundwork for the tracks that would become his highly anticipated album, “Welcome To Jamrock”. The lyrics in this album presented Marley as a true spiritual revolutionary, as he used his talent to evoke a spiritual change while trying to enforce a better way of thinking.  He is described as “rhyming with the conviction of a street preacher with the intellect of a university economist”.  

Damian’s hit single “Welcome to Jamrock” was listed as one of the Top 100 Songs of the Decade by Rolling Stone, and at the 2006 Grammy Awards, he won Best Reggae Album and Best Urban/Alternative Performance for Welcome to Jamrock. Damian is the only Jamaican reggae artist in history to win two Grammy Awards on the same night. He is also the only reggae artist to win in the Best Urban/Alternative Performance category at the Grammy Awards. The New York Times called Welcome to Jamrock the “best reggae song of the decade.” 
Welcome to Jamrock led the pathway to Damian’s critically acclaimed collaboration with Nas for 2010’s much lauded album “Distant Relatives” – a project which explored the relationships between reggae, hip-hop and Africa. The album title refers not only to the bond between the artists, but the connection to their African ancestry, which inspired the album both musically and lyrically. USA Today referred to the album as a “potent and often provocative collaboration” and by Rolling Stone as “an Afrocentric winner.” The album debuted at Number 5 on the Billboard Top 200 Album Chart and Number 1 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, Rap Albums and Reggae Albums charts, with Billboard heralding the album as “a dynamic hybrid.”    

The Distant Relatives Tour kicked off in 2011 and saw Damian traveling and performing for thousands of fans all over the world, including South America, Europe, The United Kingdom, The Caribbean and North America.  

Damian continued to cross musical boundaries in 2012, as he went on to partner with Skrillex for their groundbreaking track “Make It Bun Dem”, which Rolling Stone called “a monster mash up of dubstep and dancehall” and has led to several remixes of the original version.  Damian recently released two other singles; “Set Up Shop” and  “Affairs of the Heart” which both received widespread airplay. 

Damian continues to tour with his band all over the world as a way of entertaining and healing as he continues to spread the message for those whose voices cannot be heard. He is working with his brothers Stephen and Julian under their Ghetto Youths International Label, to discover, develop and sign gifted artistes by applying their musical talent and vast experience to create new and different styles of music.  

Damian is currently in the studio working on his upcoming solo album.

Sean 'livin on a welfare prayer' McNulty: Geet/Vox
Tom 'barbeque sampson' Gowan: Geet/Vox
Ben "Good fungi" Rose: Bass/Vox
Anetta "day-old pizza box" Nevin: Drumbs/vox

Orka is a musician, singer songwriter and teacher whose passion lies in spiritual development, ritual artistry and ceremonies. 
In her journey for the past 14 years, Orka has explored the ceremonial, spiritual and healing aspects of the concept of Singing Circles. Her ground breaking project, 'Orot', established together with Uria Tsur, has taken this work to another level.
 
Orka’s interest in interactive work with the audience lead her to explore ways of bringing these qualities of healing and deep spiritual engagement to a full band on-stage performance, thus creating her project “Forestt”.
This project, based on Orka’s writing and composing, embodies the joint vision Orka and her band mates had - to create a world of sounds that generates heart opening and mind altering experiences, just like singing circles do.  
 
Orka has worked with hundreds of women, both in her voice workshops, and in the 'Medicine Women's Choir' that she established, where she aims at inspiring the voice of the 'new feminine' to open up, take the lead and share both strength and vulnerability.
 
After many years of performing internationally with these projects, topping the charts in Israel, giving a TedX talk and taking an active role as a woman leader in her community, Orka is now ready to launch her  SOLO project on which she worked as the world changed.
 
Orka is 39 years young, a mother of toddler twins, based in Israel, and in love with life!

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