Tori Sparks was born in Chicago. She later lived and recorded for years in Nashville, but has always spent most of her time on the road. 

Since the age of 18 she has played over 150 concerts each year and has played in 24 countries. Her strength as a live performer lies her ability to seamlessly blend musical genres and to connect with audiences of all walks of life, be it playing for 100 people in a small club, or for 30,000 people at prestigious music festivals such as Montreux Jazz Festival (Switzerland), Bele Chere (USA); Festival Jardins Pedralbes (Spain); Su La Testa (Italy); others. She is a sought-after public speaker at professional conferences such as SXSW, WOMEX, PrimaveraPro and more, and is known for giving back to the community through music.

From 2007 to 2011, Tori put out four albums on her own label, Glass Mountain Records, featuring some of Nashville’s top musicians. In 2011 Tori Sparks moved from Nashville to Barcelona, Spain, and in just a few years had already left her mark on her adopted country. In 2018, rock magazine Popular1 put Sparks on the list of the five most important female voices in Spain; in 2019 she received the award for Rock Artist of the Year by No Solo Cine magazine; her voice can be heard in commercials and soundtracks, such as the Netflix series Sky Rojo (from the creators of Money Heist). 

Tori’s next two albums, El Mar (2014) and La Huerta (2017) were collaborations with Barcelona-based flamenco fusion trio Calamento and electric guitarist El Rubio. Their unusual mix of blues, rock, and flamenco sung in both English and Spanish started out as a side project, but quickly grew to be an international success, called "adventurous, pushing the envelope" (Rolling Stone), and “pure art” (Los Conciertos de Radio3, TV2). Their third album together, a double live album called Wait No More, was released on vinyl and double CD on Record Store Day 2019. “A flawless live album… an extraordinary fusion of styles,” said national newspaper La Vanguardia in its review.  

In fall 2020, Tori and the band released a single recorded in lockdown. “The Man Who Sold the World" was recorded at five separate apartments scattered throughout the city. Download the new single ”The Man Who Sold the World” here, and watch the new music video — half animation, half video — here. The song is also included as a bonus digital download in the Record Store Day release of the limited-edition vinyl version of El Mar, in celebration of Tori’s 10th anniversary in Barcelona.  

Now, Tori and her band are touring behind not one, but two separate live shows: El Mar Electric and Roots Music Revival. 

Two projects at once? Why not? Tori and her band are always on the move. They debuted El Mar Electric along with a live EP of the same name in 2023, in a series of not one, but five sold-out concerts in Barcelona. The show is an homage to the mix of cultures and musical styles —  Spanish, Catalan, American, Arabic, Latin, and more — that have marked Tori’s 20+ year career. She and the band took the blues, rock, and flamenco fusion show on the road in tours in Germany, Spain, and Morocco, before their travels were cut short this past summer by an unexpected injury to her vocal cords, compounded by a severe case of COVID in summer of 2023. As a result, Tori — who can usually play through anything — lost her voice completely, and had to go through six months of vocal rehabilitation before finally returning to the stage in March 2024.

Now, she’s back and stronger than ever. In Spring 2024, she and the band presented their second, separate project: Roots Music Revival. The repertoire draws on tunes from Tori’s first four albums from her Nashville and Chicago days, and reflects a return to her musical beginnings. This is a musical “revival” to be sure, in the sense that the style of music is pure Americana, but it's also a personal revival as Tori remembers and pays tribute to her musical beginnings.  These high-energy concerts show off a different side of the band, whose roots and blues sensibilities run deep.

Tori and the band will continue to tour throughout 2025 while they also begin work on their next studio album, due for release in 2026.

Tori Sparks is proud to be endorsed by D'Addario Strings since 2007, and by Thembe Fashions since 2016.

Murky Red is a Belgian based band founded in 2009, who combines elements of classic rock, prog rock, blues, stoner, and metal in their music. If their musical style was a human life form, it would be the love child of Deep Floyd, The Black Doors, and Led Sabbath. Slayer and Monty Python were the nannies.

In 2011 they signed a record deal with the Florida based record label Melodic Revolution Records, and thanks to the support of Martin Smith (they call him the seventh band member) they were able to release their debut album 'Time Doesn't Matter' in 2012, mixed and mastered by Colin Tench (Corvus Stone, Transmission Rails, Oceans 5, Coalition, CTP), who also became a seventh band member actually.

In 2013 the band got screwed by a Canadian promoter/manager. To make a long and annoying story short, this had a big negative effect on the fundraising campaign for their second album. They lost a lot of money, time and effort, but the band kept on moving and continued writing new songs. 

After a nasty period of serious illness and the loss of loved ones, Murky Red is ready to strike again with their second album 'No Pocus Without Hocus', released on October 26, 2015 by Melodic Revolution Records. Colin Tench did once again a fantastic mixing and mastering job, and he added some majestic guitar parts on 'Collateral Damage', one of the new songs on the album.

Murky Red is: 
Stef Flaming: songwriting, guitars & vocals 
Patrick Dujardin: guitars 
Luk Lantin: bass 
Rene Marteaux: drums 
Marie Vancamp: vocals & percussion 
Yolanda Flaming: keys

I'm Colin Tench and I am suddenly part of many projects. I play guitar and here is the state of play right now:
1981-1985: ODIN . We were continuously gigging for 3 years. Digital album release 2011
http://www.bunchakeze.com/Odin.php
1985: BUNCHAKEZE: was formed with Gary Derrick and Cliff Deighton of Odin. We recorded the album WHOSE DREAM? CD release 2010
http://www.bunchakeze.com/BUNCH_OF_KEYS.php
1985-2010: A 25 year break! 2010: After that nice rest, two albums from Odin and BunChakeze were finally released.
2011: Picked up the guitar again. Figured out 4 chords(Prog) and am now fully active recording with the following rather amazing and diverse bands:

CORVUS STONE: Almost totally instrumental. Progressive and atmospheric with jazz funk leanings. Our first 80 minute album was released in Dec 2012. It is now in the top 100 crossover prog releases of all time.CORVUS STONE II released September 2014: Featuring, Sean Filkins, Phil Naro and more! www.corvusstone.com
http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=39547 on progarchives
http://www.bunchakeze.com/Corvus_Stone.php

THE MINSTREL'S GHOST :with Blake Carpenter. Zoltan Csörsz Jr(Ex Flower Kings) on drums. The road to Avalon is becoming a great success! http://www.bunchakeze.com/The_road_to_Avalon.php

OCEAN'S 5 : Progressive Folk? We are a 5 piece with special guests - Pink Floyd's Lorelei McBroom and Andres Guazzelli. Album "Return to Mingulay" released October 2014. http://www.bunchakeze.com/Oceans5.php

COLIN TENCH PROJECT : With Gary derrick (BunChakeze), Vic Tassone (Unified Past) & Marco Chiappini(Oceans 5 & Gandalf's Project) + very special guest Phil Naro(Talas, Drive, Druckfarben). Classic prog and accoustic so far. http://www.bunchakeze.com/Colin_Tench_Project.php

TRANSMISSION RAILS : With Stef Flaming (Murky Red, Oceans 5), John Moulder and Special guest on drums - Joe Vitale (Joe Walsh, Eagles, CSNY, John Lennon etc)

Andres Guazzelli and Colin Tench: Progressive with a classical basis. Also an album is planned. Wish you would listen! http://www.bunchakeze.com/Andres_Guazzelli.php

Transmission Rails is an international rock music project of John Moulder (USA), Stef Flaming (Belgium) and Colin Tench (Sweden).

John started writing poetry in 1979 which developed into songwriting stints in Nashville in the early 2000’s. His work has been described by readers as some of the most beautiful they’ve ever read.

Stef Flaming who got inspired by the great classic rock bands from the 60’s and the 70’s since he was a teen, started to write his own songs which developed into a unique style, a blend of classic rock, prog and metal. Currently he is also the singer/guitarist in the band Murky Red for who he writes the music, and bassist in the band Oceans 5.

Colin Tench played in the early 80′s in a band called Odin of London, formed a new band, Bun Chakeze, now using the moniker BunChakeze. Colin is also involved in bands such as Corvus Stone (co-writer and guitarist) and Oceans 5 (guitarist).

The combination of these three talents proved a hit: John, Stef and Colin realized that they created something unique!

Special guests will appear in some of their songs.

Hello! Welcome to Tiger Moth Tales' SoundCloud page. The debut album Cocoon is out Now! https://tigermothtales.bandcamp.com/releases 
TMT is my new project and my aim is to create new and exciting Prog Rock music. Starting with Tigermoth Tales debut album "Cocoon", released by White Knight Records (Nov 27th 2014) and available now on CD from their online shop. Find audio samples and order here: www.tigermothtales.com 
And now available for download at Bandcamp: 
https://tigermothtales.bandcamp.com/releases
Thank you for any custom.

About the album: 
Tiger Moth Tales is essentially the brain child of nottinghamshire bassed musician and writer Pete Jones. Previously known for writing and performing adult contemporary music, at the beginning of 2013 Pete began work on a progressive music project. In an effort to rejuvinate the creative process he went back to the music he had listened to in his childhood with bands such as Genesis, Queen etc. Also he was taking influences from the modern progressive bands Frost, Big Big Train, Haken, and Progressive stalwarts such as Steve Hackett and Roin Stolt. 
The project took the form of a concept album, and was the first progressive music Pete had written since he was a teenager. 
"It all happened by accident really. One day I sat down to try and write a song, and ended up with the beginning of a prog song about Trumpton. I had no idea what I was going to do with it, but as I tried to focus more on conventional music, I kept getting more and more ideas about songs on childhood subjects and in my head it was all prog. It seemed there was nothing for it but to see the thing through and see what happened." (Pete)

Throughout 2013 Pete continued to write and record new progressive music and by the end of 2013 "Cocoon" the new album was complete. 

"The name Tiger Moth Tales comes from various references, one of which is from Steve Hackett who is one of my biggest influences in this field. Having written the album, i've turned on a creative tap which I thought had run dry along time ago, and i'm already working on ideas for new prog. It seemed like a good idea to have a band name as it clearly differentiates between my prog output and the pop stuff I brought out before. Also it would be nice to work with and include other musicians in future albums, so a band name feels better from that aspect too. It allows room for expantion." (Pete) 


This breath taking new album is a departure from Pete Jones' previous output, but also a return to the music of his youth and the free form ideas which used to fuel his compositions as a child. Anyone who has fond memories of their childhood will appreciate the feelings and emotions captured in this fresh, yet timeless piece of writing.

(Taken from the website, Tigermothtales.com)

Phil Naro is a Daytime Entertainment Emmy Award winning performer for singing the theme song for the cartoon “6Teen”, as well as in internationally acclaimed composer, singer, songwriter/producer and guitarist.

John Moulder is following