READ► Out of the Vault | "The History of American Jazz" A nostalgic and reminiscent concert performance by the celebrated Bill Fallon Sextet | Produced 1959

HIStory
Take a blues lit, story-ville tour of "The History of American Jazz", a nostalgic and reminiscent concert performance that was developed, arranged, and conducted by heart and soul jazz musician, Bill Fallon (1925-1986), native son of Westborough, a small New England apple orchard town, located 34 miles west of Boston, Massachusetts. 

In October 1959, Bill and his locally popular jazz sextet - a rich, colorful blend of percussion, key, string and brass - performed a wealth of blues-jazz standards and melodies to a large audience in the small town of Hudson, located just outside of Framingham, MA, in collaboration with the local Chi-Rho Society. 

BILL FALLON & HIS SEXTET
Bill Fallon - Conductor, Piano
Al Cardoza - Drums
Frank Casceli - Clarinet and Alto Sax
Bill Garcia - Clarinet and Tenor Sax
Frank Garcia - Trumpet
Ray Harpin - Bass
Tom Mealey - Trombone


CONCERT MISSION
The purpose of this performance was not only to entertain an eager audience and inspire youth, but to pay tribute to the notable African-American of musicians and song writers who gave birth to the music genre of Jazz, as well as those who kept it alive and ever evolving across the generations. 

New jazz hybrids appeared on the scene when fused with multiethnic music that widened the genre's wingspan and migration throughout the nation. It rode the rails and river steamboats, branching out from its U.S. birthplace in New Orleans, on up the Mississippi River, out to St. Louis, Kansas City, Chicago, Memphis, New York City and beyond.  


HISTORY OF AMERICAN JAZZ: AN EDUCATIONAL TOOL
It was Bill Fallon's wish that music teachers and students, composers, arrangers, musicians and jazz enthusiasts alike find this historical volume of music entertaining as well as educational.  

This volume of music is rich in its exploration of the many elements of the art form and stuff of life that go into quality, life enhancing music making. It is in this endeavor that we, the Fallon family, help make Bill's dream come true.


LOST TREASURE FOUND
The reel-to-reel recording of "The History of American Jazz" concert was discovered in the late 1990's in the attic of the Chapman family Westborough home. We will be forever grateful  to "Chappy" who recorded and preserved this concert performance, a long lost Fallon family treasure that had been lying in wait for its rediscovery. 

This jewel of music was faithfully brought back to life and partitioned into 22 tracks by friend, musician and sound engineer, Doug Benroth (Audio Visual 7), who made it possible for us to share this enjoyable volume of music with all of you in WAV audio file format. 


DEDICATION
We are forever grateful to our beloved mother, Marion, and leader-of-the-band father, Bill Fallon, who instilled in us the immense love of music. Keep it live! ~ Paul, Kathleen, Nancy and the entire Fallon Family

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Biography
Albums	
As a solo artist, Jelena Radan has released a debut album "Nije kraj" in 2003, a live album of fado music "Moja potraga za fadom" (My research of fado) in 2005, and in October 2006 her sophomore album "Novi dan" was published, all of these with the Scardona label. The album "Nije kraj" has earned her two nominations for the Porin musical award. In May of 2008 Scardona released a DVD/CD „Fado na Peristilu – Da Vida Quero Os Sinais (I want signs from life)“, thus immortalizing a concert performed with her musicians Joško Tomić, Mario Stojan, Nenad Miškec, Matko Petrić,and Mario Bavčević, in September of 2007 at the famous Peristil in Split, Croatia.

In 2013 she released her third studio solo album "Voyage" which is in four languages (Croatian, English, Portuguese and French), produced by Edi Cukeric and published by Menart. In early 2014, the album was nominated for European award Impala for best album of indie music. "Voyage" was nominated for best female vocal performance, and has received the National Porin Award for best visual design (B. Sekulic and Creative sheep).

The authors she works with are Anita Valo and Meri Jaman from the Meritas, G. Bošković, M. Trošelj, A. Šerić, R. Martin, I. Prajo, A. Kunštek… In October 2012, she released the first single Sjeti me Se, Ljube (Remember Me, Love).

Concerts "Voyage", organized by the Zagreb Concert Management held in Klovicevi dvori and Tvornica kulture in Zagreb.

That same year an album for children "Place for Me" has been completed in collaboration with the Breza from Osijek, where Jelena signed lyrics for five songs.

Musicians she now performs with under the concert name Voyage are Miroslav Navracic on accordion, Emil Gabric on violin, Ivan Gazibara on double bass, Josip Konfic on drums and percussion, and Tomi Novak on guitar.

Beginnings

Jelena began her musical journey and quest for her own sound already as a teenager, singing with several bands including Faust, Inner light, Contesa Nera, Funky Town, performing in clubs of Zagreb, as well as in many TV shows of the time (Crno-bijelo u boji, Dobri ljudi, Hit HTV...). Later on she broke new ground as a solo artist singing in the "Sarajevski krug" musical, which took her, together with other performing colleagues, some 40 strong, to the famous Lisinski Concert Hall a dozen times, to virtually all national theatres in Croatia, to the Theater den an der Wienne in Vienna, Austria, as well as stages in Scotland and America. This material has been recorded on a studio album entirely finalized in the Austrian studio of Linz, Austria, both in Croatian and English language, "Sarajevski krug" ("Sarajevo circle").
Her first national breakthrough as a solo artist was her performance at the Melodije hrvatskog Jadrana Festival in 2001, where she appeared in a tailcoat and ragged jeans, with her rendition of „Ruže venu same,“ penned by the legendary Zdenko Runjić. There she received an award for Best Newcomer. This launched a string of appearances at various festivals, where she presented her insightful songs, and earned numerous awards for her interpretation.
The song that remains her personal anthem to this day is „Leti do snova“ (Bulić-Dodig) from 2003, which version in Italian s titled «Prendi la vita.» The latter reaffirms the Italian style Jelena brings into her expression and interpretation.

About her music

In her work, Jelena follows some simple rules: a dignified approach toward music, and creating sonics and performing songs that express her own sentiment. She greatly appreciates the musicians, authors, music arrangers and producers she works with, whose work and expertise help her present herself in her very own style and breathe life into her songs. 

Collaborations

Together with her musicians, in the summer of 2006, Jelena participated at the Liburnia jazz festival in Opatija, Croatia. In 2008 she also performed at the Siscia Open Jazz & Blues Festival. In the bill of illustrious cooperation there is also the famous Parni Valjak band. Participating with her band in the Vlatko Stefanovski & Miroslav Tadić Croatian Tour increased her visibility as well. She performed with the well-known jazz pianist Matija Dedić, who was also her special guest in December of 2005 at her concert of fado music in the concert hall of Tvornica in Zagreb, Croatia. Her albums record collaborations with Marijan Brkić, Dejan Orešković, Saša Bulić, Ines Prajo, Arjana Kunštek… 
A fortunate collaboration with the exceptional tandem Meri Jaman i Anitom Valo (the famous Meritas) has outgrown the mere composers-performer relationship and become a true jewel of concert attraction, with a unique joint program under one title, „When tomorrow comes“, which presents, in an interesting manner, their direction in music, their love for songs and authors and performers who have been their major inspiration. 

Jelena and her fado

Already involved in the traditional Portuguese sound, Jelena started her fado tour titled "Moja potraga za fadom" (My Research of Fado) by the end of the summer in 2005. She presented her new musical direction – a story in music, starting from her intimate world of experiences and listening to the music, wherein she comes to love the fado sound, and growing into actually story-singing to the audience, expressing thus the impregnation with the state and the feeling of saudade, yearning and pain. Concerts inside the famous Diocletian's Palace, in the Cathedral of Trogir, theatres of Šibenik, Zadar, and Rovinj, in the Tvornica concert hall in Zagreb, in culture centers and other appropriate scenes, like those in the cities of Rijeka, and Osijek, as well as the one at the Peristil, in the city of Split, but also the concerts yet to come, only confirm what she already knew – that there is a demand for beautiful music, and that the audience can truly appreciate her intimate and immediate sound.
On this great journey her greatest support comes from the translator Dean Trdak, helping her with pronunciation and understanding Portuguese language and culture. 
On the wings of the American promotional tour with Meri and Anita from the Meritas duo, whereby they presented their joint concert program «When tomorrow comes», a surprise call from Mr. Hoji Fortuna came at the right time, and Jelena was invited to perform her fado in New York. The outstanding guitar player Beledo from New York took over the guitar, and Meri and Anita, presented their unique songs to the audience in the Big Apple, providing a grande finale.


In early 2010, she accepted the invitation of the Director of Ballet Theatre in Zagreb, Irena Pasaric, and together with the ballet company became part of contemporary ballet „Variations in f.ado minor“, choreographed and directed by Hugo Viera, together with her musicians Josko Tomic and Mario Stojan within the play they performed fado live. 

The premiere of Femme Fadal - Dream of Amalia Rodrigues, the images of shadow theater, directed by Morana Dolenc was in May 2012 at the theater KNAP. This is a piece which combines a shadow theater and puppetry with fado performed by Jelena Radan accompanied by Pedro Abreu on guitar. 

When tomorrow comes

The concert program headlined by Meri Jaman, Anita Valo (the Meritas) and Jelena Radan, grew out of a spontaneous and sincere desire to share with the audience the songs, authors and performers that have been their greatest source of inspiration. When put together, the common feeling they share, and their quite different but evocative voices and distinct ways of performing, an interesting musical treat is created, charged with emotional resonance. This is done with ample support by the musicians, Tin Ostreš, Dejan Orešković, and Zdeslav Klarić, comprising the backup Meritas band. In the past two years the audience has had numerous opportunities to hear them in the splendid atmosphere of the friendly Bulldog Club in the downtown Zagreb, and thus enjoy their special concert program.
In the fall of 2008, Meri, Anita and Jelena took a promotional tour in the United States, following an invitation by Lauren Olane, who organized the entire tour. They performed in clubs in Detroit and Chicago. Follows a feature at the Kalamazzoo radio station. They then traveled to New York, where Jelena gave her own fado concert together with the guitar player Beledo, due to the invitation by Mr. Hoji Fortuna. Meri and Anita provided a wonderful closing to the concert by presenting a few of their own songs. The entire tour experience will be remembered for a long time. 
Within CNN's special show at the end of 2008, there was also a special feature by Ivana Dragičević-Veličković, a HRT journalist, wherein she includes an excerpt with their impressions on the atmosphere in America on the eve of the elections, as a reflection on the Barrack Obama victory.

Other relevant data

Jelena participated at the International Festival of French Chanson in 2000, where her rendition of a French tune earned her the first prize. Curiosly, Jelena took part in the Croatian version of the “Brother Bear” cartoon ("Legenda o medvjedu") wherein she sings a Phil Collins number, originally performed by Tina Turner. She also recorded a song for the cartoon „The Prince of Egypt“, previously sung by Ofra Haza.
The album cover for „Nije kraj“ contains a sticker with Braille writing for blind people, and the booklet for her album „Novi dan“ contains an entire page written in the same Braille symbols. 
The video for the song Nije kraj (Bilandžić-Matić) is performed using the symbol language for deaf people. 
In  2005, together with Edi Matić, she started a traffic security campaign, especially aimed at young drivers. 
In 2007 she was approached by the Croatian Ministry of the Interior (MUP), with an invitation to join a campaign titled «„Manje oružja, manje tragedija“ (Less guns, less casualties) (a joint effort by the MUP and the UN Police Department)», in which she participated with her colleagues from the Meritas band. This led to recording the song „Čudesan svijet“ together. 
In 2008, following an invitation from the „Ja volim životinje“ (“I love animals”) project leadership, under the direction of the singer-songwriter Lea Dekleva, she joined forces with other likeminded musicians and recorded the „Nema isprike“ song as a part of the band-aid.
In the company of her friends from the Meritas group, she participated in the Zemlja bez granica manifestation (The Land Without Borders), which the Breza association from Osijek has been organizing for many years now. In 2008 this commendable manifestation under the seasonal title of «Kao oblak», transformed itself into Zeda – The Land of Children, inside the walls of the fort Tvrđa in the city of Osijek. Numerous children, teenagers, and international artists directing the workshops, partook in creating the Land of Children on the streets of the ancient downtown Osijek. The idea was drawn directly from Jelena's, as yet, unpublished story „Rejna Zum u Zemlji djece“, the main advocate for it being Suzana Vargović, the project manager and director of the Association.
In 2007 and 2008 she accepted the invitation by the Croatian national television to participate in the music show Zvijezde pjevaju (Singing With The Stars), which she appeared in the first and the second season of the series.
She is also a regular in the singers group for the new HRT's music show titled The Evergreen, which went on air from January the 3rd to February the 21st of 2009. 
For the first time in her career she appears as a member of a professional jury in the RTL show in search of new talents, titled Hrvatska traži zvijezdu (Pop Idol).

News

In 2014 she published her first novel for children, "Zeda - Rejna Zum in the Land of Children", published by Algoritam.






Kia Hei Moon began as a Folk duo under the title The Moon and The Knight made up of of Kia Hei Moon (singer/songwriter) and Gawain Davey (singer/pianist) and has since expanded to include other musicians. The set is made up of all original songs composed by Kia Hei Moon (ft. Gawain Davey) and carries the storytelling traditions of the folk and ballad genres with poetry rich lyrics and sounds. The vocals and songwriting have been likened to artists such as Joni Mitchell and Jewel, with tight harmonies and unique melody structures. Kia Hei Moon shares intimate stories of love, forgiveness and belonging:  those universal experiences of our shared humanity. Woven together by soaring vocals, luscious harmonies, piano, violin, bass and at times drums, this collaborative will take you on an emotive journey of the soul.

Featuring:
Kia Moon (composer) on lead vocals 
Gawain Davey (co-composer for selected songs) on second vocals and piano
Bridget Graham on violin
George Gardiner on guitar and bass
Mark Gilligan on drums
Rohan Vicars on back up vocals (selected songs)
Ellen Brown on back up vocals (selected songs)

EdTech NOW covers real world uses of education tech in the K-12 classroom. The podcast is designed to be teacher-friendly and useful to school administrators who are deciding on the technology to use in their classrooms and schools.  We also look toward the future, examining how tech is changing education and education careers. The podcast is sponsored by Stackup. (http://stackup.net) 

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Predators – Radio Telescope [ovnicd0013] (Ovnimoon Records / Goa Records)



Title:	Radio Telescope 

Artist:	Predators 

Label:	Ovnimoon Records, sub of Goa rec 

Catalogue:	OVNICD013 

Format:	2 Panel Jewel Case CD / DDL 

Barcode:	881034501387 

Release:	May 2011 



TRACK LIST 



1 Planet X

2 Electronic Machines

3 Mystery Signals

4 Object5 Wake Up

6 Arecibo Message (feat. Psukoy) 

7 S.U.N. Project - Shanghaied to Paradise (Remix)

8 Radio telescope

9 Toxic

10 Nordlysh



Artist Notes:

Radio Telescope is the 2nd Full Album from Predators
PREDATORS is a Greek based project which was born in Athens by Andreas and Stavros (aka Dj Dr.Insekt) Kamenidis. Stavros started djing in 1991 and after 5 years developing and mixing different styles of music,psychedelic trance won him over. 
He is also playing every Tuesday live dj sets on http://www.life892.com webradio and works with http://www.di.fm webradio in which you can find many of his sets.He studied sound engineering and movie editing and he is now working in both while making music and djing. Andreas started making music in 1997 when his passion for electronic music took all over him!!Till then Stavros was teaching him the Techno philosophy and he was hooked.After that psychedelic trance came into his life and made him start making his own music!In the meanwhile he studied sound engineering & music techonology and in 2000 he released his first album called "Predator" (No1 in sales) under the project name Legion Of Space.After that he had a solo career for a couple of years till the end of 2002. So in January of 2003 they decided to share their knowledge in electronic music and they created the project PREDATORS.They have already released tracks in several labels & magazines such of Etnicanet, Kagdila, Geomagnetic, Warp Brain, Hinowa, SUN Project, Revolve, Freeze & others.Their debut album named 'COSMOS' released in November of 2008 from the US based record label Geomagnetic.tv.
info.predators@gmail.com 
dr.insekt@gmail.com 



Label Profile: www.myspace.com/ovnimoonrecords 

Ovnimoon Records is a new label founded in 2010 based in Chile as an independent sub-label of Goa Records. Ovnimoon is the visionary producer whose name sake the label was based upon. All the music released with this imprint has passed his approval as true high quality gems of psychedelic goa trance. Expect only the top shelf selections worthy of the best collections and praised by the most noteworthy DJs in the world. www.ovnimoonrecords.com 

Goa Records is now a well established label founded in 2006 based in California/USA. Focused on finding the very best of the worlds leading psy-trance and goa-trance hits and compiling these into a highly commercialized package suitable for mainstream distribution outlets. Expect a steady stream of high quality, cutting edge releases from this already amazingly popular new label. www.goa-records.com www.geomagnetic.tv 



CREDITS/CONTACT INFO:

Distribution by Psyshop & Geomagnetic Distribution
(p) and © www.Geomagnetic.tv
http://www.geomagnetic.tv/news/ovnicd013
info@geomagnetic.tv

Baroque, Bonzai, Future Focus recordings

Vasili started producing at a young age (13) with a strong interest in electronic music.
He taught himself how to be able to express his deepest emotional feelings by playing the notes on his synthesizer, which eventually made him caught up with Trance.

In 2004 he participated in an InternetDJ community for which he produced a track called 'Priceless Jewel' which was dedicated to his Mother to show his gratitude and respect.
His track reached the New York InternetDJ community chart in no time.

Inspired by big names and producers like Thrillseekers, Jan Johnston, Euphonic, Above and Beyond, Elles de Graaf to name a few, he is now setting foot to take part in the scene to share his music to the world.

Vasili has just finished his track called 'Alive' containing the legendary work of Dead Can Dance that made the world shake with their spiritual and goosebumping sounds back in 1988. Vasili is taking everyone back to the future to experience this once again.

His debute single has been released at Apocalypse Recordings, the home of the massive Norwegian duo Lemon & Einar K (known from hits like Hope, Anticipation).

“There’s no reason to make bad Pop music”, says Pavel Shalman, the band’s violinist. Living Transit reinforces this statement with their music, the foundation of which is Soul, enhanced by other elements like funk, swing, pop, topped with jazzy solos, creating a personal style called: “Dynamic Soul”. 

The members of the band come from four different countries, and collectively share over a hundred years of musical experience. With an unusual all acoustic formation consisting of vocals, violin, cello, contrabass, piano and drums, they take the listener through exciting soundscape with lyrical strings, funky grooves and sexy rhythms, appealingly contrasted by clear elegance and technical refinement. The “crown jewel” of the ensemble is their singer RONJA*, who captures the audience with her amazing voice, skillful dancing and her extravagant outfits.

This wide musical array from one genre into the next, yet always remaining soulful is a metaphor for a musician’s life. Always on the road, constantly moving, but still being the same person. That’s what the name of the band is projecting: Living Transit. 
(Peter Stenitzer)

"Sexy, sophisticated, stylish & soap bobbly concert - WOW!" (Facebook Fan)


RONJA* (Otto Lechner, Carole Alston, Luis Ribeiro, Kadero Ray) – vocals
Pavel Shalman (Russkaja, DelaDap, Wr. Tschuschenkapelle) - violin
Raphael Preuschl (Bob Mintzer, Wolfgang Puschnig, Jim Black) - contrabass
Markus Gaudriot (Marianne Mendt, Hans Salomon, Toni Stricker) - piano
Silvio Berger (Fendrich, Ambros, Chaka Khan, Joe Zawinul) – drums
Gudula Urban (Extracello, Salzburger Festspiele) – cello


Katie’s smooth poetic vocals bring life to her sass & sauce styled Indie Folk music.
 Mixed in with both reggae & country licks, Katie & the band will have your audience moving with a fine festival swagger in no time, 
singing along as they go.

The past decade Katie has performed at many festivals & venues around Australia & N.Z.
Supporting big name acts such as - Gomez, Kate Miller Heidke, Toni Childs, Dragon & Anna Coddington.

Katie Richards and her band are a fun, energetic all original team that will help make your festival sound awesome!

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