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Joe and Barry met in 2003, near Portsmouth, when they both started studying a BTEC in music together. After completing the course in 2005, they remained good friends even when Joe moved back to Birmingham. Joined by a love of music and sport, using both as an excuse to meet up as much as possible. Over the years they have played music together on and off, whether it was local gigs in Birmingham or recording new music. Due to the distance, playing new music was difficult to do regularly. In 2019, they recorded a 4 track EP. It was released in March 2020 and gives an introduction to the current line up of Hope Street. 

Early into the Covid lockdown in 2020, Joe and Barry, now both armed with recording software, started sending demos to each other. They quickly realised that they had a collection of songs that they were happy with and started working towards recording the 11 track album Silence & Chaos, scheduled to be released in December 2020. Uploading the songs as they were individually finished to Soundcloud and Instagram and receiving mostly good comments from the online community, 

Hope Street are looking forward to the future and are already working towards their next project.

Hope Street are Joe Tibbits on guitar and vocals, with Barry Harman on bass. String arrangements an some piano sections are by Steve Tibbits. We hope that you enjoy listening to our music. If you do, please follow us on our social media accounts. Thanks for listening!

Hope Street are an Indie/Rock duo from the UK.
Joe Tibbits (Vocals and guitar) and Barry Harman (Bass Guitar)

Many of the songs also feature piano and string arrangements by Steve Tibbits.

I'm bassist, guitarist, composer. one-man instrumental band from Japan. 
Influenced by such varied Artists as deftones, TOOL, ISIS(band), Alcest, LUNA SEA.
For fans of alternative-metal, atmoshepric-metal, post- metal, blackgaze.

BaとGtを弾くメタル好きDTMer。1人バンドでオルタナメタル、アトモスフェリックメタル、ポストメタル、ブラックゲイズ辺りのインスト曲を作ってます。ルーツはLUNA SEA。deftones、TOOL、ISIS(band)、Alcestが好き。

- Bob Garaffa 😎🎤🎸🎸🎹 (Lead and Bkng Vocals, Lead and Rhythm Guitars, Bass Guitar, Mandolin, Keyboard Synthesizers, $Drum Sequencer Programming and Percussion)
- *Kevin Newton 🥁 on Drums. 
- Produced by Bob Garaffa
 Formerly of the New Jersey band 'Amphibians'
A great band from New Jersey, a wonderful band that’s going to be around forever.” Don Dixon, REM/Counting Crows/Smithereens producer* “ A sixties British sound with cool guitar riffs. It’s nice to hear a song that sounds happy without being saccharine”. Jerry Harrison, Ex-Talking Head, Garageband founder (Advisory board member along with George Martin, Brian Eno, Steve Lillywhite etc.) and producer, review of “New Day” *
'New Day (I Feel Alone)' by Amphibians
https://on.soundcloud.com/Zjcj7
 Progressive rock with brilliant melodies” Billboard Magazine “ * When a band’s from Jersey you expect alot and the Amphibian’s power pop definitely delivers.” Yahoo Music/Listen *“Any one of the songs I heard tonight would make a great hit single.” Aquarian Magazine “Interesting and catchy, you guys understand that rock is groove-oriented. I loved the songs! Great job and congratulations!” Musicians Network * ‘They combine styles such as rock, dance and pop with the drive, ambition and determination shared by few songwriters.” Steve Zuckerman, freelance writer, Rolling Stone and other music publications.
Amphibians dig back to simpler times when vocals were key, melodies integral and lyrics from the heart. They mix this with a progressive backbeat for an appealing new sound unlike any other. Their offering is unique in its freshness, a change and yet preserving valid elements from the past. In a word-EVOLVING. The Amphibians’ track record speaks for itself and gives an indication of their enormous popular appeal. The versatile songwriting team of brothers  Bob and Fred Garaffa hail from Central New Jersey and also perform vocals, guitar and bass in live shows. They have fine-tuned their act at many NYC area clubs including the Stone Pony, CBGB’s and the Bitter End. *Garageband's Chart Success: Achieving three top five songs: 1)“New Day (I Feel Alone)” reaches #2 out of all genres combined in Garageband's Final Countdown (out of tens of thousands of submissions). "New Day(I Feel Alone)" also reached #1 in power pop and #1 out of 9,699 in the rock genre. 2) "Cabane de Dounier" by Amphibians 
https://on.soundcloud.com/tMvRc
 #3 and rising in groove rock and #5 of 3,147 songs in the rock genre. 3) "Hangin' On" by pop/rock side project Galactic Inner Groove reached #3 out of 15,665 songs in the pop/rock genre. CREDITS: *‘Artist of the Week’ by Billboard Talent Net on their first week * “New Day (I Feel Alone)” Reaches #1 on BTN three different times * Included on The Best Of Billboard Talent Net’s “New Talent Spotlight” CD * First and Second Prize, Musicians Network Songwriting Contest * Mid-Atlantic Song Contest winners *Four Billboard Magazine Songwriting Awards * Recognized by ASCAP Songwriters Workshop *“New Jersey’s Best Rock” CD, released by WDHA 105.5 FM, Dover, New Jersey *Finalists in Paramount's "Sol Goode" soundtrack contest.* Two songs chosen for United Nations UNESCO New Songs For Peace Project. REVIEWS: * “A great band from New Jersey, a wonderful band that’s going to be around forever.” Don Dixon, REM/Counting Crows/Smithereens producer* “ A sixties British sound with cool guitar riffs. It’s nice to hear a song that sounds happy without being saccharine”. Jerry Harrison, Ex-Talking Head, Garageband founder (Advisory board member along with George Martin, Brian Eno, Steve Lillywhite etc.) and producer, review of “New Day” * Progressive rock with brilliant melodies” Billboard Magazine “ * "When a band’s from Jersey you expect alot and the Amphibian’s definitely deliver the goods!!!"

I have played and recorded in international settings, a multitude of percussion instruments, guitar, bass, harmonica, some flutes, keyboard, and if you push me - a very fine jaw harp.

In fact, if I break it down.... I just love to offer-up music, in a living room, a bar, a concert hall or an intercontinental, interactive satellite coordinated concert. 
  
I became fascinated with percussive sounds from around the world… especially African and Latin American rhythms. I fanatically traveled the world collecting anything that you could bang, scrape or hit.
What I learned? Border customs people really don’t appreciate the true value of handmade African caxixi shakers or a Brazilian berimbau. They just want the serial number.
More importantly, a single clicking or ringing sound in a song can make or break that song.
  
I toured Canada, USA and Europe and recorded many “world music” albums (before it was called that), with my late, musical soul mate, Dario Domingues. We played in grand churches, the water reservoirs under Munich, on an island where 100,000 doves were released at the climax of our performance, the first-ever “simulcast”, live satellite, intercontinental concert and then, the humbling experience of being involved in Berlin, in front of 500,000 people, for a series of anti-apartheid concerts featuring ‘Sting’.  For our 'world music' efforts, we were awarded the Deutscher Schallplattenpreisan (1983) accolade by the Deutsche Phono-Akademie, an association of recording companies of Germany that recognizes outstanding achievement in the music industry.  
What I learned? Music is truly a universal language. Around the world people are drawn to music. Of course, different strokes for different folks! 
Whether you play in front of a half-million people in a field, or 10 people in a bar, your role as a musician never changes.  
 
“Dream of the Drum” – I was commissioned to compose and conduct a score for 40+ percussionists from all corners of the world... Jamaican fire dancers, Trinidadian steel drummers, Japanese kodo drummers, African djembe players, military drummers,... the list goes on.
What I learned? The language of music respects no geographic borders. 
Also, never start your outdoor concert, with a lone Native Elder's rain drum song. The drum's magic works!
 
I helped build three innovative recording studios plus, my current production studio. I academically taught musical acoustics and production for several years.
What I learned? All the mathematics and physics in the world can’t replace a good ear.
 
As a producer, I've had the wonderful opportunity to work in great studios in NYC and Nashville with amazing session musicians such as: Eric "Roscoe" Ambel - best known as lead guitarist of Steve Earle’s band the Dukes; Dan Baird of the chart-topping 'Georgia Satellites'; guitarist extraordinaire, Warner E. Hodges, founding member of 'Jason and the Scorchers'.
What I learned? Great musicians tend to be humble but they sure have opinions! In Nashville, I was bluntly told -"No, I won't raise the tom level - in country music, we use toms for holding our bourbon glass." I never did get the toms louder.
 
I spent many years as President of the Ottawa International Jazz Festival and met some of the greatest musical geniuses in the world.
What I learned? "Man, if you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know."
 
Music for jingles on radio and TV. Documentaries.
My personal favourite was coming up with suitable music for the mating rituals of pigs or, how to create 60 minutes of Arctic wind sounds for the movie 'Never Cry Wolf'.  
What I learned?  You can tell an entire story in a 29.5 second radio jingle and music is the glue that holds a great video together.

A new sound is on the horizon. I start recording it in 2026. Watch this space.
 
STEALTH.

 Thank you everyone for your support over the years! 

Shine on!

Gary Von Pink

https://www.youtube.com/@pinkart/videos (My art cnannel on YouTube)

https://www.instagram.com/houses_of_pink/

This is my new youtube channel with my songs follow me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9iSMmuaMoE

We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of dreams.





Multi instrumental player, Composer and Producer.
Owner and teaching at Rock Total in Woodbury MN.
 Dear el-magico: We are pleased to inform you that the Akademia Board has decided to officially induct you into the Akademia Hall Of Fame for having created a musical repertoire that is truly original and for talent, hard work and perseverance deemed worthy of the highest recognition.  Effective August 10, 2023, your status in the Akademia Hall of Fame has become fact and your place in Akademia history permanently anointed. Congratulations on this extraordinary achievement, which was granted to less 1% of Akademia award winners through the years. Hall Of Fame inductees will also be honored in person at next year's Gala Event on May 18, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. We are pleased to provide you with the link to your official Akademia 2023 Hall Of Fame certificate:
https://www.theakademia.com/gala2023/ElMagico-HOF.html
We applaud your outstanding lifetime achievement! We look forward to providing you with many important updates in the days ahead. 
The Akademia Music Award in the category of Ambient / Instrumental Album for 'Enigmatic Journeys Chapter 2 of 4' in the June 2023 Akademia Music Awards!
June 2022 Akademia Music Award for Best Ambient / Instrumental Song for 'Mecatan, The Mango Road'  
 2022 AKADEMIA OUTSTANDING LEGACY AWARD for having built a musical repertoire that the executive team has deemed timeless and important to future generations. This is a rare honor bestowed by our organization, 2021 AKADEMIA RISING STAR AWARD for “exceptional talent and perseverance in the field of music during extraordinary times”. May 2021 AKADEMIA winner BEST Ambient/Instrumental Song “Omuamua”2020 Akademia ARTIST VISION AWARD for ”exceptional talent, originality and vision on the field of music”2020 AKADEMIA Ambient/Instrumental Best Album for FORGOTTEN PROPHETS “It is the opinion of The Akademia Board that this work represents an important contribution towards the diversity an advancement of the global music community”

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