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Born in Flint MI (Fli City) Dominic Michael Simmons Germani 
to Gino Germani and Melissa L. Simmons of Italian and African American 
Decent with one sibling Nina R Simmons thirteen months older. Money has 
always had an remarkable spark that has egnighteted into flames from 
wanting to participate in the Olympics as a gymnasts to constructing 
designs of Angels to Dragon Ball Z, once he was expell
ed for drawing a 
absolutely beautiful Angel with boobies. The art teacher thought it was 
amazing but the English teacher was offended needless to say. Money's 
favorite quote is "There's no rappin with me I just tackle the beat" he has 
over two hundred and fifty songs completed. His sound is a twist of Meek 
Millz and Little Wayne on Crack! Money has prioritized performing in the 
Flint Michigan Juneteenth Celebration for the past six years as a simple 
way of giving back showcasing a positive rapp for the badly scorned city. 
Money entered the world of rapp after having several encounters with the 
law it became his AIR! Through hard work and diligence he has captured an 
audience of young and old, His energy and enthusiasm and stage presence is 
a must see. Off stage Money is very laid back and soft spoken which shows 
maturity. Money has also dabbled in the field of acting he rolled in the 
Broadway playwright Michael Matthews play I Need A Man which premiered at 
the Whiting Auditorium in Flint MI. Money has recently performed in Orlando 
, Fl at Club 57 West on Pine street for a two Racks competition hosted by 
Selassie of SF , CA . Money's ultimate goal is to attend college and own 
his own record label to help locals achieve their goals in Production and 
Business Management to broaden their artistic abilities., Money has also 
performed in many compititions in the Michigan area including Top Mics

Sound by the Voice of America in Washington, DC, USA

“The Roughest Draft” will always pinpoint a time in my life full with perpetual inspiration. Years have gone into developing the sounds and songs heard on this record. With the help of an anonymous world-class producer (thank you), the generosity of Expression College http://www.expression.edu/ , the power of seven extremely talented guest artists, the love from Sophia Simon-Ortiz, and the beliefs of my good friend Asier Leatxe http://www.myspace.com/asiere , I've finished recording and mixing this record in April of 2011. 

The album was recorded using a mash-up of 24-track 2” tape machines, 12-bit samplers, 4-track cassette recorders, and Protools hard-disk recording. While mixing at my home studio, Asier and I refrained from indulging in fancy digital plug-ins and processing. Instead, we used as little EQ, compression, and automation as sparingly as possible. We also ran a few tracks through my Moog modules. 

I should mention a bit more about the recording process. Songs created earlier in the album-making process began as digital demos from home, which were dumped to 2” tape for overdubs of the band and vocals. These analog tapes were then digitized over at Fantasy Studios, and the new files were further worked on digitally in Protools, where they were tweaked, added to, deconstructed, re-arranged and mixed using both analog and digital methods. Throughout the process of making this record I’ve learned many of the techniques necessary for achieving the sounds I’d needed tape for in the past. In other words, a Neve console into Protools HD has become my preferred recording medium. I obtain my sounds through careful selection and placement of microphones, and generally create my sounds “on the way in”.

I write, sing, play, compose, program, record, produce, and mix. I also own a cherry 88-key Rhodes  (and by cherry I mean it has some sweet action), which I don’t think made it anywhere onto the album. I got it from my high school in ’94 for two hundred bucks. It was a steal then. I think the band teacher felt bad that he’d stiffed me on a gig that he’d hired me out on in my 11th grade year. A few years after I’d first acquired that Rhodes, I heard that they’d also sold their Hammond organ cheap to another musically promising graduate. They probably figured the seventies were finally over. Anyway… I got the Rhodes, and it’s still sweet.

On this record, I programmed the electronic drums and synths Kraftwerk-style, i.e. manually inputting values for the pitches, event durations, etc. for every sound or sample used. For lead synth sounds (like on the melodies in “You”) I employed glitch errors as my digital oscillator source material, which I looped and sent through digital filters before mapping them out onto a midi controller. These sounds were then sequenced and recorded either onto tape or into Protools, where I‘d line up the tracks peak-to-peak. Analog synth sounds involved either tuning up some Moog modules with my Peterson tuner, or using an Ebow with my Les Paul. When sequencing in Protools, instead of relying on midi clock, I lined up tracks at sample-to-sample resolution, and stuck to tempos easily divisible by the sample rate. 

On this record, I play a grand piano, a Moog synthesizer, an Ensoniq EPS sampler, a Roland digital synth, a Casiotone, an M-Audio keyboard controller, and a Nord 3. 

My best instrument is the guitar, and on this record I used some classical, acoustic, arch-top and resophonic guitars. I am at heart however, an electric guitar player. My main guitar is a Gibson Les Paul, and I have a Guild solid-body as a backup. I only own Ampeg guitar amplifiers, but I think a Fender and a Vox might have slipped into the record somewhere, courtesy of the good folks at Expression College. 

I use analog guitar effects by Analogman http://www.analogman.com/ , Voodoo Labs, Foxrox, MXR, Jim Dunlop, Area 51, Skip Simmons, Radial, EHX, and Moog. 

Enough of the technical, and I’m skipping over the how’d-he-do-it? stuff, because who knows? That’s the art, it’s a mystery, and it just comes. I will say that I spend a lot of time imagining. …On to the music credits.

I split the bass duties with Jeff Drudge http://twitter.com/#!/JeffDrudge . We each play on about half of the songs on this album. I love the guy and he’s a great player, but … you readers may not know this, but I used to do a bit of bass plucking myself, and I enjoy handling all of the notes in my own music. With Jeff in play, you get a great band dynamic, and with me, you get the mind of the composer. I personally like both, as it’s a mixed bag; it’s the best of both worlds. 

Jaymie Arredondo plays the live drums on the record, with Ajayi Jackson http://www.facebook.com/people/Ajayi-Jackson/1018106771 sitting in for him on “Someone Else”, and with Tony Daquipa adding some tom-toms and snare fills to “Wesley Willis”. The song “Wesley Willis” was named in honour of  the world’s greatest Casiotone player, who passed away several years ago to leukemia. You can date my music by whether or not it has a Casio. The Casio was stolen last year, so there you have it: the Casio series.

Myself, with Jeff and Jaymie are / were “The Paris King Band”. We put out a record together several years ago entitled “Music To Groove To”. It is available on CDBaby.com and through itunes.com. “The Roughest Draught” is more of a solo record in that the choices in musical direction and aesthetic were mine alone. I personally have signed off on every note and beat on this record. The lyrics on this album are directly related to my experiences as a living being. That’s why it took so long, I guess. It takes time for life to happen, and self-editing should be done with a steady hand.

Khalil Anthony http://www.myspace.com/urban_folk wrote the lyrics to, and sings lead vocals on “You”. Khalil and I share lead vocals on “Vampyre Ship”, which was written by the two of us in collaboration with Karma Manifest and Leah Joy. Marversal http://www.myspace.com/marversal wrote the lyrics to, and sings all vocals on “Movie Called Madness”. Marversal and I co-wrote the music in collaboration. Harold Williams plays tambourine on “You”. Adisa McKenzie http://www.adisamckenzie.com/ lent me some chords on “Shotgun Wedding”. All other music was written and performed by me.


Douglas McQueen Hunter is a musician and prolific songwriter with many commercially recorded works.  

He has two solo albums available: “Ghosts”, which is a mix of celtic, rock, folk and trance and “In the Dead of Night”, which is a more mainstream Americana, country-rock album. He is currently working on a third album with friend and top producer Greg Friel, which is to be released in 2015.

Douglas McQueen Hunter is the singer, front-man, and guitarist of the well-known Glasgow based Scottish folk-rock band, The Picts, with whom he has played to thousands of audiences at home and abroad. With The Picts he has performed at festivals such as The Interceltique Festival of Lorient, Brittany; T in the Park, Scotland’s biggest music festival; and the Glasgow George Square Hogmanay Bash, playing in front of forty thousand people.

Douglas plays a wide range of concert types from folk gigs and celtic-rock concerts to mainstream rock and Americana shows. He has honed his skills as a performer and front-man over many years with The Picts and various other bands.

Douglas also co-founded an acoustic version of The Picts called The Court of Equity which focuses on the works of Robert Burns. He appears on their new albums “Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect” (The Songs and Poems of Robert Burns), Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 singing seven songs on each album. Douglas co-produced the albums with the talented Greg Friel, with whom he is working on his third solo album.

Douglas is also qualified genealogist (PGdip- StrathclydeUni), a Third Dan in Yoshin Ryu Jujitsu, martial-arts coach, and fully qualified GP Referral Personal Trainer. He is author of “Hunters’ Illustrated History of the Family, Friends and Contemporaries of Robert Burns”, a book which his father, well known Scottish artist Colin Hunter McQueen, conceived, designed, and beautifully illustrated with over six hundred drawings. Douglas researched and wrote the text. Over three hundred parish records were discovered in the research, bringing new light to the studies of Robert Burns and also correcting errors compounded over generations by biographer after biographer of Burns. Colin’s research and illustrations also brought to light faces of Burns’s friends which had been unknown in previous biographical works. The book was highly acclaimed by the world’s foremost scholars of Burns.

Composer, performer and producer whose music lies somewhere in the realms of Native American, World and New Age genres.  Mark's music is peaceful, haunting and healing yet expresses a continuity in the synchronicity of the spiritual and natural worlds and his orchestrations seem to transcend time and space.  Enjoy a soundscape of meditative and melodic instrumental tunes as flutes, guitars, strings, pianos and more paint tapestries of relaxation that color your senses and fill your imagination with scenes of nature on a journey through space and time that is sure to soothe the soul and renew the spirit of young and old alike. The peaceful songs on this album symbolize the cycles of life on many levels touching on philosophical concepts of creation and re-creation represented through dichotomous themes such as birth/death, morning/night and spring/winter. The resonating primary theme focuses on rebirth with the idea that the only constant is change and as each cycle ends there are always new beginnings...
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     Mark McGourley composes relaxing tunes inspired by nature and the haunting yet peaceful sounds of the Native American flute which is known to have healing powers.  He skillfully combines these melodies with orchestrations to take the listener on a meditative journey which transcends time and space...
     Mark is a seasoned performer and multi-instrumentalist with over 25 years of professional experience. He started his career performing bass guitar, keyboards and lead vocals in a variety of cover bands throughout the Tampa Bay area. For the past 15 years he has focused more on his acoustic guitar and vocal abilities and has become a solid solo act performing at the top venues along the Suncoast beaches. 
     More than 20 years ago Mark's mother gifted him his first Native American flute and he has been playing and composing on it ever since. He has written several hundred tunes largely inspired by nature and many of these peaceful songs are based on melodies created with the NA flute. His original performances feature selections which are sure to soothe the soul from his debut CD titled "Universe Dance" as well as tunes from his upcoming second album focusing on NA flute, guitar and percussion.
     In 2009, Mark  performed as guitarist with world premier NA flutist R. Carlos Nakai and multi-Grammy nominee world percussionist Will Clipman. Over the past four years Mark has performed at several NA flute festivals and events in the U.S. and his performance of “Kokopelli's Dance” is featured on the “Live from the 2010 Native Rhythms Festival” compilation CD along with many of the world’s top NA flute artists. 
     Mark has journeyed by motorhome several times all across the U.S. and has hiked very extensively throughout more than 30 of our country's most beautiful National Parks. He has accumulated video and photo imagery of all these majestic places and this year he completed production on a multi-media live show of his music synchronized with a video projection backdrop of his moving visual images of nature.
     He was selected and performed at the  2012 INAFA Convention where he premiered his "Universe Dance Visual Concert" and officially released his debut CD. He also launched his first tour of the midwest to promote this powerful live show, which continued along the eastern seaboard during the summer of 2013 and included a performance at the inaugural RNAFF gathering in the Great Smoky Mountains.
     Most recently, two songs from Mark's debut CD were nominated as finalists for the 2013 Indian Summer Music Awards (ISMA) in the Native Spirit category, along with Mark Holland and winner Jonny Lipford.  Later that year he performed guitar onstage with Grammy award winner Robert Mirabal. 
     The studio version of his music synchronized to his nature video is currently available on DVD and his second CD "Celestial Spirits" is in progress.  Mark holds a B.A. in Creative Writing and a M.A. in Education from the University of South Florida.  For more information and audio & video demos please visit Mark’s website at  www.markmcgourley.com. 

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