To listen to more of my collaborative work, go to:
https://soundcloud.com/cutleri
https://soundcloud.com/littlebones
https://soundcloud.com/plasticshores
https://soundcloud.com/the-grind-4/sets/carpe-diem


“Engages with discourses of memory and nostalgia...a relationship to history, and to artistic tradition, is a central factor in the way the music means. Shaffer chooses to employ a well established, ‘folk’ creative lexicon. She combines its signifiers according to a grammar of her own making, however, one of a decidedly modern, culturally self-aware cast. This applies equally to her musical materials, her performances and her lyrical content. She plays mandolin, some violin...and she sings; stylistically, it is clearly located in a folksong tradition, but it’s a curiously mid-Atlantic one. There are obvious elements of Americana, but a lot more than a nod to European sounds, and there is a gleeful affinity for the expressive potential of dissonance (as in the keening ‘Keen’). Her words are mysterious, delicately balanced possibilities of meaning, often clearly yearning in character, but also disturbing (‘I lost my limbs/ while you were sleeping’), and not without humour (‘Keeping my bloomers on for now’). ‘Pinwheel’ applies cut and paste techniques to Shaffer’s materials, in a brief outbreak of experimental folktronica. For me though, the creative highlight is ‘Gnarled’, where a simple, austere, unaccompanied vocal arrangement is shot through with astringent harmonies that remind me of the arresting opening to Rose Kemp’s Golden Shroud (although it’s a lot less mental, unsurprisingly). This is a lovely, thought-provoking set of recordings.”
-Oliver Arditi (www.oliverartditi.com)


"Ms Shaffer is based in Brooklyn/USA and records with mandolins and violins along with nice harmonies. It is the perfect music for rainy days in autumn! If you're listening to her music, you will not think that she is from the USA. The sound is in the tradition of Scandinavian singers and songwriters! Lean back and enjoy!" 
-KALTBLUT Magazine (http://www.kaltblut-magazine.com/)

"Om jag hade fört någon slags geografisk statistik över hamnarna vi besökt är jag ganska säker på att Brooklyn skulle hamna i topp. Den här gången åker vi med på en vegetationstät och akustisk resa, där vindarna från mandolinen och violinen styr farten."
-Skogsgospel (http://skogsgospel.blogspot.com/)

As SoundClouder of the Day, 10/7/11 !!! :
http://www.facebook.com/soundcloud/posts/202913026447241
https://twitter.com/soundcloud/status/122402383560056835
http://soundcloud.tumblr.com/post/11149579423/scotd-jessie-shaffer

Totore es un mago experto en el arte de la transmutación, sus melodías oníricas y espaciales inmediatamente te llevan a sentirte completo, como si estuvieras de vuelta en casa.
"No hay límites más que los que nuestra mente quiere mantener, nuestra esencia se mantiene intacta por más confusión y miedo que nuestro mundo pueda generar en nosotros..." 
La verdad que Totore transmite es que somos seres perfectos e ilimitados.

Totore usa la tecnología y sus sentimientos más elevados para expresar lo que él considera su misión de vida.

Metal Blade Records history by Dan Slessor:
Founded upon owner Brian Slagel's enduring drive to find great bands and get their music out to as many people as possible, since 1982 Metal Blade has brought wave after wave of powerful, innovative, and often genre-defining music to the ever-hungry metal masses. It is this ethos that has seen Metal Blade build up a stunning and diverse catalogue, weather the various storms facing any independent label, and in an age of declining record sales boast the most successful years of its existence as it strides into its fourth decade.

What perhaps makes this achievement all the more notable is the fact that Slagel never even intended to start a label. Working in an LA record store and writing for various publications, Slagel was acutely aware that many great bands in the local metal scene were being ignored, and he decided to release a compilation of tracks drawn from these ranks. "There were a lot of really good bands and I was just bummed out that nobody could hear them. It just seemed like I could help them out and have some fun at the same time, and that compilation was the first Metal Massacre," he states. Collating tracks from then unknown bands including Ratt, Bitch, Cirith Ungol, and Metallica amongst others, the compilation sold out immediately. "How important is Metal Blade to our career? They're only the reason we are enjoying the worldwide success we have today," states Metallica's James Hetfield. "Without Brian's openness to some raunchy teens with a crap sounding cassette tape we would be who knows where, and playing who knows what!" With the popularity of the tape spurring Slagel on, the first seeds of Metal Blade were sown. "After the success of those compilations I just started putting out records of bands that I was friends with, but without ever really intending it to be a label at all," he explains. "After I put out four or five releases I started to feel like something was happening, and I decided to quit the record store and quit college and see where it went."

Battling through the first few lean years, when the label consisted solely of Slagel working out of his mom's poorly ventilated garage in the San Fernando Valley, it gradually grew in both revenue and stature. Within a few years Metal Blade would go on to release the debuts of Slayer, Armored Saint, Trouble, and Corrosion Of Conformity amongst others, fanning the flames of the burgeoning metal scene and launching careers of bands that would go onto reap global success. "Without Metal Blade, there is a damn good chance we never would've made it out of L.A," says Slayer's Kerry King. "That was the one bit of luck we needed. You can be the most awesome band on the scene, and if no one notices you, you don't catch on. And Brian Slagel is still one of the biggest metalheads I know!" This genuine love and devotion to metal is central to the relationship many of the artists have with Metal Blade, and King Diamond credits much of its relevance and strength to this passion. "I refer to it as having 'boots on the ground'," the mighty Dane states. "It's not like a major label where some people might be into what you're doing but a lot of them just see it as a job – there's a genuine love for metal there. Through staying true to that and doing their own thing they've carved out a very specific niche that they control, and as an artist it's wonderful to be a part of that."over the years. Clearly without those people we couldn't do what we do, and to everyone out there who has helped us along by being a fan we are so very grateful to you."

Read more: http://www.metalblade.com/us/about-us/

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Brady is a Texas country music singer/songwriter/producer/publisher/musician and talent scout living in Denver, Colorado. Brady has 2 CD's to his credit. One produced in Texas and one in Nashville. Brady is hoping to record his 3rd CD after being in a hiatus from the music business for the last decade. It's actually been over 10 years since Brady recorded his second Nashville produced CD and Brady is really looking forward to recording some new original material soon. Brady is also a distant relative of Mae Boren Axton who co-wrote "Heartbreak Hotel" with Tommy Durden/ Elvis Presley and became Elvis’s first PR lady. She was also known in the music industry as the ‘Queen Mother of Nashville’. Mae's son was singer/songwriter Hoyt Axton who co-wrote songs such as "Joy to the World", "Jeremiah was a Bullfrog", and "Della and the Dealer". Hoyt was also a famous actor (Gremlins). Mae was trying to help Brady in Nashville in 1996-1997 and encouraged Brady up until the time of her passing in 1997. Brady has also worked with and co-wrote songs with Howard "Crockett" Hausey who co-wrote "Honky Tonk Man" which was recorded and made popular by country artists such as Johnny Horton and Dwight Yoakam. Howard Hausey took Brady under his wing in the early 90's and encouraged Brady up until the time of his death to never give up on his dream of trying to make it in the country music business. Howard was Brady's biggest mentor and was a big supporter of Brady as a country music singer/songwriter. Brady has also worked with Sonny Christopher who introduced Brady to Howard Crockett in 1993 and is not only a huge supporter of Brady but is also a close friend and co-writer. In addition, Brady has worked and co-written songs with Jon Rutherford, Todd Payne, David Samuel Thornton a.k.a. D. Sweeter as well as many others over the years. Brady co-wrote a lot of his original material with his close friend, manager and co-writer David Samuel Thornton a.k.a. D. Sweeter. Sadly Dave passed away Feb. 14th, 2009. Brady co-wrote over 200 songs with Dave between 1991-2008 and Brady hopes to showcase more of those unrecorded original songs co-written with Dave on his next CD due out sometime in 2018 titled "Rocket To Stardom Flipside To Fame" so be on the lookout for that.

Hotflush is a record label launched by Paul Rose aka Scuba in 2003. Its early period was spent as a central part of London's Bass Music scene which exploded in the mid 2000s, although the label has always been difficult to pigeonhole musically and recent output has focused on Techno and House.

Underworld are Rick Smith and Karl Hyde. Their peerless first album - dubnobasswithmyheadman - was released to universal acclaim in 1994. In the thirty years since that mould breaking debut, the band have established their reputation as one of the most groundbreaking and important electronic acts of all time, one that constantly pushes creative boundaries, twists genres and refuses to stay still. In those thirty years, their music has soundtracked approximately 100,000,000 nights out, and the mornings after. In the past year alone, Underworld have played live in front of over half a million people all across the globe.

My Blues stuff: <a href="http://soundcloud.com/Blu3sman" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Blu3sman</a>

KALW is local public radio from the San Francisco Bay Area. Tune into 91.7FM or find some of KALW's fine programming here, from shows like our nightly newsmagazine Crosscurrents. And check out the sounds from special projects like Audiograph, which is out to capture the sonic signature of the Bay Area. 

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