We're a young Indie Rock band from Pittsburgh PA, consisting of an eclectic group of artists who aim to provide a transcendental musical experience to music enthusiasts everywhere.     

We're a sextet comprising of - 

James Cain (Keys/vocals)
Asir Arif (Lead guitars/vocals/Pipa)
Joe Cochran (Lead vocals/guitars/ukelele/violin/various)
Jackson Marcrum (Drums/percussion)
David Truman (Lead vocals/guitars/keys)
Pat Fabila (Bass/vocals)

Each of us individually bring in different experiences stemming from versatile musical backgrounds, and we fuse elements of blues, jazz, rock, reggae and psychedelia into the collective sounds you hear from The Mellophants.  

We've released our debut Ep 'This Rock Rolls' online late summer 2014, and we're currently working on our first album. We're also planning a tour for this summer and looking forward to doing more live shows in the coming months. We're currently unsigned. Feel free to join our mellophonic journey by staying updated with us on social media and tagging along to our future events!


I am the creator and speaker of As I Speak. Walls of guitars, infectious melody and cathartic lyrics

Vilelmini Katsi is a new talent in the Greek musical scene. Her first CD “ Into the Dark” is already published and it contains four new lovely songs. Vilelmini was born in Athens on March 9th, 1978 and she comes from a long line of music loving extended family from Preveza. She has been delving into music since she was 5 years old and she has studied piano and harmony in various musical schools including in Athens and Preveza and now she is learning classic guitar. But all her song are from her heart and from her soul! She has studied under several music instructors of notoriety and she has played in several music quartets. She has also studied computer science and marketing although music remains her real love and passion. Now she lives in Preveza where she works at a bank while writing music and promoting her work through the internet. The “Into the dark” is the first track of the CD album with the same name. All songs are composed by Vilelmini and orchestrated by George Bousounis, a member of the group AMMOS, who has worked with a lot of famous Greek artists. The album contains four songs and it was produced by onlinerecording.org. One of the songs in the album, Celtic Rain will be featured in Antigoni Katsouri’s new CD. The CD can be found in selected record stores in all over the Greece and via internet at http://vilelminikatsi.bandcamp.com and www.revernation.com/vilearrproductions

Vilelmini on 06/26/2012 appeared in the European Musical Festival in Preveza after which she published her new piece called “ Aroma Elladas ( Smell of Greece ) " that Giannis Nikolaou ( an ex member of the band Lathrepivates ) singed this song . Her second collaboration was with the guitarist and ex member of the greek band NULL, Achileas Diamandis , for the track with the title " i feel you "

Vilelmini had wrote also the track for the Preveza's Carnival Women’s parade , theme song to celebrate an old Preveza tradition.

Her last musical composition is in collaboration with the other composer for the “imake Preveza” a documentary film promoting Preveza in Italy.

Vilelmini is planning to continue her talented work in collaboration with other musicians and her dream is to give her music for soundtracks. On july 28th make a new collaboration with Angel studios and Charlie ( ARR ) from indaba , who had made a great jobs such as Aaron Francis, Ryan Boss and Nick Sanders , for the track " come back " " Elements" and "Rivers" . in the track come back that she plays the piano and ARR is playing the wonderful guitar!!! From then they are together and make a wonderful music and soon they will be release their new rock cd! You can find their music at www.reverbnation.com/vilearrproductions

Vilelmini's music is available at http://vilelminikatsi.bandcamp.com

And their music is also available at http://vilearrproductions.bandcamp.com State of mind by vilearr productions Vilelmini and Charlie https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NP1Lv-6A92Q Thank you all so much for supporting me Thank you so much my ARR.... Vilelmini's covers on youtube .... 1) kate Bush - Wuthering Heights https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HymzjkOB3XY 2) Europe- the Final Countdown https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bXT7IS2kBIU 3) Vangelis Papathanasiou-Chariots of fire https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7pZmvTwKK4g 4) Paul Mariat- My Love is blue - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JH42e5CxD44 ♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪♫♪ 

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