The Mountainous is an experimental ambient post-rock band consisting of guitarist Jacob Bennett of Mobile, Alabama and composer/programmer K. Gautier of Jackson, Mississippi.

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It was while studying to be a nurse that singer/songwriter Roxanna witnessed first hand the healing power of music. Sitting bedside with a patient suffering from dementia, she sang gently to the elderly woman, who was no longer swallowing. “She looked into my eyes and for the first time, I saw her smile. And she began to eat,” Roxanna says. “The doctors were amazed.”
It was while studying to be a nurse that singer/songwriter Roxanna witnessed first hand the healing power of music. Sitting bedside with a patient suffering from dementia, she sang gently to the elderly woman, who was no longer swallowing. “She looked into my eyes and for the first time, I saw her smile. And she began to eat,” Roxanna says. “The doctors were amazed.”

After becoming an RN in Toronto, again, Roxanna sang each night to a young man battling cancer while enduring a regimen of caustic treatment. When he was at last released from the hospital, the man’s father—with tears in his eyes—said to her, “My son is better because of the way you sang to him.”

With that, she realized that music, like medicine, is a great healer—and destiny would take her down a different path. “When I saw patients return to health, I knew my music could be useful in this world. Pursuing my dream as a singer was the happiest moment in my life,” Roxanna says. “There’s a quote from Shakespeare that goes, ‘If music be the food of love, play on.’ I like to put my own twist on it: ‘If music can heal your soul, it can also heal your body.’ No matter where you are from, what language you speak, music has the ability to soothe, revive and foster hope. It is truly universal, in any language.”

That theme is pervasive across the 13 songs comprising Roxanna’s debut album “Exotica,” released via RoxArt Inc. With a rich tapestry of velvety ballads and rousing, robust pop anthems of healing, forgiveness and strength—accompanied by the grandeur of string orchestration and jazz, Spanish and flamenco influences—the sensual songbird has certainly found her calling. 

The collection is produced by Mark Portmann, who has worked with pop royalty Celine Dion, Josh Groban, Barbra Streisand, Annie Lennox and Christina Aguilera. He offers, “People want to hear real talent, real voices and real stories—something that changes your life. Roxanna’s music does that. She will give you everything you ask for. It’s a daunting task for anyone new in this business and she tackled it like a warrior.”

Among highlights of “Exotica,” “Close Your Eyes,” co-written by Portmann and Lindy Robbins (Celine Dion, Backstreet Boys, Nick Lachey), is a consummate nurturing love song offering a sky-scraping vocal tour de force as Roxanna sings, “Close your eyes, I’ll be here til the sunrise, and your dreams come to carry you far from sorrow.” She notes, “This song is such a parallel for what I saw as an 
RN, when people endure tough times and you want to offer them hope. I sang two takes of the lyric and we knew it possessed everything I felt in my heart.

”Beautiful Rose” is another radiant refrain, which Roxanna wrote in honor of her mother, who died in early 2013. “Her death stopped me in my tracks, but I knew she wanted me to push on, which gave me strength to pursue my dream with all the more determination. I’m only sorry I had to send it to her in Heaven.” Adding another celestial element is accompaniment by both the Prague Orchestra and trumpeter Chris Botti. 

And “Here With Me,” again featuring Botti, is based on a poetry book that her dad gave her mom some 44 years ago: “She marked her favorites by placing a rose or a stamp or some keepsake between the pages.” Roxanna took verses from her mother’s most beloved poems and translated them from Farsi into English. 

“Exotica” is previewed by the Latin-flavored “Unforgotten,” which Roxanna wrote with Portmann. It’s based on the true story of her great love leaving her standing at the altar in 1999, six days before the planned wedding. “There was my gown staring at me. I couldn’t walk past a flower shop. I was embarrassed and heartbroken,” she says. The devotional to sadness, like all of her songs, is threaded with hope, accompanied by a sumptuous music video lensed by Matthew Rolston. Playing her paramour in the clip is “Days Of Our Lives” actor 
James Scott.

The album also includes two covers made popular by Julio Iglesias. “Only You”offers an English translation of his “Como Tú,” while she delivers “El Amor” in Spanish. “Julio… the most sensual, luxurious, vulnerable sound in the world,”Roxanna purrs. “I want to be the female version, bringing passion back to contemporary music. Enough about bad romance and hate and war. Music should be easy on the ear.”

In fact, she speaks from experience, after spending her youth surrounded by strife. Roxanna was born in war-torn Iran. She turned to music for balance and calm as a child, phonetically mimicking the English-language hits of Olivia Newton-John—who, with Iglesias, is her muse. By the late 1980s, she settled in Toronto. 

Roxanna then enrolled at Winston Churchill Collegiate, mastered English, focused on music classes and joined a choir. She notes, “It opened my heart so much more. I was able to catch up with the Western world.” Then came nursing school, and her RN degree from Seneca College in Toronto. “I loved helping people heal their bodies as I healed my heart,” following her failed romance. But while rewarding, Roxanna says, “I continued to believe there was something more… something else.”

Ultimately, it was the relative of a hospital patient who asked why she wasn’t pursuing entertainment professionally—and offered the missing ingredient: financial backing. Roxanna then contacted producer Portmann and sang Aguilera’s “Lift Me Up.” In a moment, their bond was sealed.

Now, two years later, “Exotica” is ready for the world. “I look at this experience like cooking a delicious meal. It takes time for everything to come together just right. I can’t wait to share my songs as a testament that time has a way of healing everything. When you find the strength to make a change, love and forgiveness and healing are around the corner.”

For more information on Roxanna, please visit her official website:
http://www.roxannamusic.com
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For more information on Roxanna please contact Chip Schutzman at Miles High Productions:
chip@mileshighproductions.com or 323-806-0400.

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DJ Samuk Zucoloto iniciou sua carreira em 1998 tocando House e o popular underground que dominava as pistas da época em São Paulo.
É notável sua maestria em mixagens longas e trabalhadas com muita criatividade e vigor, cada um de seus sets é uma nova experiencia nas diversas pistas que conduz com frequência com sets que trazem o novo juntamente com clássicos do Techno e Tech-House.
Com apresentações em clubes, festas especiais e programas de rádio em São Paulo e no interior ao lado de grandes nomes da cena eletrônica Samuk Zucoloto vem se firmando como um dos principais nomes da cena underground atual.
Samuk Zucoloto é mentor do projeto “Underground Project” na Zona Oeste de São Paulo atraindo fãns de todas as regiões de São Paulo e interior em suas edições mensais. 
Em studio Samuk juntamente com o Dj e produtor Wander Sá criaram o “GROOVE SHOCK” com tracks disponíveis no Beatport & JACK'N GROOVE Junto com Ricardo Rabacallo.


DJ Samuk Zucoloto started his career in 1998 playing House and the popular underground that dominated the tracks of the time in São Paulo.
His mastery of long mixes is remarkable and worked with a lot of creativity and vigor, each of his sets is a new experience on the different tracks that he frequently leads with sets that bring the new together with Techno and Tech-House classics.
With presentations in clubs, special parties and radio programs in São Paulo and in the countryside alongside big names in the electronic scene Samuk Zucoloto has established himself as one of the main names in the current underground scene.
Samuk Zucoloto is mentor of the “Underground Project” project in the West Zone of São Paulo, attracting fans from all regions of São Paulo and the interior in his monthly editions.
In studio Samuk together with Dj and producer Wander Sá created “GROOVE SHOCK” with tracks available on Beatport & JACK'N GROOVE Together with Ricardo Rabacallo.

Using my copy of Cubase Artist 6.5, I string together some simple harsh electronic music in my spare time. Hope you like it! And do offer polite, constructive criticism where it seems needed. I do want to improve, vastly. My inspiration comes from Ayria, Die Form, Hocico, Funker Vogt, Suicide Commando, Grendel, Aesthetic Perfection, Unter Null, bands like those. And, though I often don't like to admit it, sometimes I quite like Kesha as well. I'm embarrassed, but, it's out there now! I would like to progress to a sort of darker, electronic pop/dance sort of thing someday when I have the skill.

Hi! My name is... Spaceydude. I am a metal/rock/flamenco/classical musician. I play guitar, bass, keyboard, piano and I program drums. I do many covers and originals, though I wont upload many originals for lack of copyright on my own work. I am in a band with a drummer friend of mine, and I might upload some of my music with him eventually. If anyone actually listens to my older uploads you will hear my sound and playing getting better and better, this is partly because I get new gear every once in a while. I still plan on getting a few more gear updates in the hopefully near future. And come to think of it I should give credit for my profile image. I did not make it. It is the cover for and album by Bluetech called "Prima Materia" and I am rather fond of the album and the picture. Any further questions will be answered as asked.

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