The Disappointment Choir are a indie pop duo from the South East of England. We are Katy (vocals, guitar) and Rob (vocals, synths, guitar). 

Our second album, "Vows", is released on 6 October 2017.

Saint Alexander’s Choir was founded by Ioannis Kottoros, Cantor at Saint Alexander’s Church in Palaion Faliron, in 1943 and conducted by him until 2006. However, the existence of a primary form of the Choir conducted by Agesilaos Papantoniou and then Ioannis Kottoros in succession is traced in 1930s.

Since its foundation the Choir has had an exclusive and leading position in the parish ecclesiastical music, and, like Saint Alexander’s Church, follows the eastern orthodox doctrine and comes under the Holy Metropolis of Nea Smyrni. Both the Choir and the former conductor Ioannis Kottoros have been awarded several times; 
recently, in 2005, they were honoured with the Golden Cross of Apostle Paul by His Beatitude the late Archbishop of Athens and all Greece, Christodoulos.

The Choir consists totally of men and performs the choral part during the Divine Liturgy in Saint Alexander’s Church every Sunday (10.20 a.m. - 12.00 p.m.) of its operational year, which begins on the first Sunday of November and lasts until mid-April. Additionally, it sings the “Hymn by Kassiani” of Holy Wednesday Matins (Sequence of Bridegroom, Holy Tuesday, approx. 20.30) every two years.

The main feature of the Choir is non-instrumental (a capella) polyphonic music for male voice, four-part (TTBB) and rarely three-part (TTB), created in the 19th and 20th centuries by Greek and Russian composers for orthodox worship ceremonies, e.g. the Divine Liturgy and the Rites of Baptism (Christening), Wedding, Funeral, etc. Its activity is incorporated in the 200-year Athenian tradition of Greek polyphonic ecclesiastical music as one of the last representatives of this particular kind of music. The regular and honorary members are amateur musicians, who believe in continuation of the local music tradition expressed through the Athenian school of polyphonic ecclesiastical music.

Saint Alexander’s Choir has 32 regular, normally non-paid members, except guest participations by members of other choirs.



Born in the shores of West Africa, Eric Kwabena Oppong Donkor, popularly known as 'EKOD' is a Ghanaian born Musician, Music Producer and Sound Engineer who migrated from Accra, Ghana to Calgary Alberta, Canada . 
 The name EKOD was coined from the initials of his full name (Eric Kwabena Oppong Donkor) and hence EKOD-Production. 


 He has been the winner of Best Entrepreneur for 2006 - a research conducted by Twin-Dreamers. 



 Life, Career and Style

 Born to a father whose main career was to manufacture all kinds of musical instruments, growing up as a your boy all He could think of is music. with such motivation, learning to play most musical instrument was a must. 

 In the early 2000 when personal computers were becoming more common, he was the first in the family to empty his pocket to take computer lessons.
 After a series of ups and down, he finally completed his recording studio and named it EKOD-Production, and started recording youth in the neighborhood who were termed as Underground Stars giving them a first step in their career.

 After migrating to North America, His passion for music grew year after year including upgrading his computer and sound engineering skills in the music industry while signing and playing most musical instruments including the blending of traditional African instruments like conga, djembe to create harmony at his Anglican Church Choir-BC.

 In 2015 he finally settled with his beloved wife and five children in Calgary Alberta where he continued his musical career as a sound engineer creating beats for sale and recording and producing artist from all sought of backgrounds and skills, and still maintain his fame EKOD-Production.


 Area of Specification:

 Recording 
 Mastering
 Music Videos
 Labeling
 Branding
 Producing 


 Popular Recorded Artists:

 Main Man Ble
 Tualai (Blak Vybes)
 K-Flex
 Basa Shante
 TJ


Rafik Samman studied for a Masters degree in Musicology at University de Montreal. He studied choral conducting in France with José Aquino, and Iranian percussions with Jean Pierlot. He studied medieval singing with Sequentia in Cologne, Germany
In New York, he studied ethnic percussion with Glen Velez. Finally in Montreal he studied classical guitar with Antonin Bartos, John Mills and Eli Kassner, voice with Lucette Tremblay and african, brazilian and cuban percussions with Luc Boivin.

He worked, among others, with Marcabru, La Nef, El Extasis, Les Boréades, Les Idées Heureuses, Les Voix Humaines, Ensemble Caprice, le Cirque du Soleil and Karen Young as a percussionist, singer and lutenist. He has performed several times on Radio-Canada "Les Grands Concerts" and the series "Les Goûts réunis". He has recorded with thirty different ensembles of the Renaissance, medieval and baroque music. He also recorded with Karen Young, Alain Caron, Andre Gagnon, Michel Cusson, Denis Gougeon, Sylvain Bergeron, Claire Gignac, Mattias Maute, Sophie Larivière, Camil Beslile, Catherine Hermman, Suzie Leblanc, Dan Taylor, Jean-Pierre Noiseux, Jean-Pierre Pinson, Hughes Saint-Gelais, Betsy MacMillan, Élise Guay, Éric Mercier, Vincent Dhavernas, Angèle Laberge, Isabelle Marchand, Viviane LeBlanc, Suzie Napper, Margaret Little, Francis Colpron, Sylva Balassanian, Luc Boivin etc. He has performed as soloist and chorister in an Orthodox church in Montreal. He taught drumming, gregorian chant, medieval and renaissance music for several years in various music camps. He has participated in many studio recordings of film and theater music, and demos for various artists.

He toured for 7 years and 2,500 performances around the world with Cirque du Soleil.

El Orfeón San Juan Bautista es una compañía musical y coro profesional de fundación en 2001. El repertorio lo integran obras sacras y seculares de las grandes tradiciones corales, así como piezas folclóricas y populares puertorriqueñas e iberoamericanas. Esta diversidad de músicas está documentada en una discografía compuesta por dieciocho títulos: Puerto Rico a capella (2002), Yale Institute of Sacred Music: Orfeón San Juan Bautista (2002), Reverencia (2004), El Orfeón (2005), Pura Navidad (2005), Antología: Quinto Aniversario 2001-2006 (2006), Himno al Alma Mater (2006), Pentagrama en blanco y negro: las voces de Jack Délano (1914-1997) (2007), Estampas criollas (2007), Cantos sagrados (2011), Orfeón San Juan Bautista: Cronología en música, grabaciones selectas 2001-2012 (2012), La Garita del Diablo (2013), Glorificamus te (2015), VII (2016), Antifonal (2016), Orfeón San Juan Bautista: quince años de absoluta armonía 2001-2016 (2017), Por fin llegaron (2018), distinguido por la Fundación Nacional para la Cultura Popular, y Ecos del espíritu (2022), dedicado en su totalidad a polifonía sacra del canon académico.

La expresividad, nivel técnico y constancia en la calidad de las ejecuciones del Orfeón caracterizan los más de doce recitales anuales que ofrece en y fuera de Puerto Rico. En el extranjero, se ha presentado en Yale University (Connecticut, EE.UU., 2002); Chiesa di Santo Stefano al Ponte Vecchio (Florencia, Italia, 2005); Ohio State University, Dayton University y Sinclair College (Ohio, EE.UU., 2005); Trinity Episcopal Cathedral (Florida, EE.UU., 2007); Saint Patrick's Cathedral, The Spence School y The Church of the Blessed Sacrament (New York, EE.UU., 2008); Iglesia de San Alberto e Iglesia de San Marcos (Sevilla y Huelva, España, 2010); Conservatorio Nacional de Música y Catedral Metropolitana Santa María de la Encarnación, Primada de América (República Dominicana, 2011); Sala Beethoven del Conservatorio Antonio María Valencia (Santiago de Cali, Colombia, 2012); St. James United Church y l'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal (Montréal, Canadá francesa, 2013); Harvard University y Westminster Choir College (Boston y New Jersey, EE.UU., 2014); el Oratorio San Felipe Neri y la Basílica Menor de San Francisco de Asís (La Habana, Cuba, 2015); The Hispanic Society of America y The Americas’ Society (New York, EE.UU., 2016); y el festival Rencontres chorales, por invitación de la Universidad de París y el conjunto vocal profesional francés Soli-tutti (Francia, 2022). En 2022 el Orfeón regresa a la Universidad de Yale por invitación del Yale Glee Club y su coro de ex alumnos para participar de una serie de conciertos, charlas y talleres junto a la comunidad de New Haven (Connecticut, 2022). En abril de 2023 el conjunto viajó al Simposio Mundial de Música Coral 2023 en Estambul, Turquía, como uno de 10 coros internacionales invitados. Este encuentro se considera el evento cumbre en el campo coral a nivel académico.

Como parte del compromiso de la organización con los compositores puertorriqueños y la ejecución de obras contemporáneas, el conjunto estrena música anualmente. Además, creó en 2011 el Concurso de Composición Orfeón San Juan Bautista para estudiantes universitarios sub-graduados. En marzo de 2006 la organización instituyó la Beca Abel Di Marco, destinada a la compra de instrumentos musicales para estudiantes destacados en sus ejecutorias académicas. Durante doce años la entidad lideró en el Barrio Venezuela (Río Piedras) la Escuela Coral del Orfeón San Juan Bautista (2006 al 2018), y de 2004 a 2012 la organización produjo la serie radial Mayormente a capella, única emisión nacional especializada en música coral, para Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico.

Pipe Choir is a Creative Commons netlabel featuring the music of Pipe Choir, P C III, PC-ONE, and The Marian Circle Drum Brigade.

Pipe Choir is an American alternative rock project formed in Cleveland, Ohio in 1991.  It was founded by Michael J. Bostwick as a one man project.  Pipe Choir's music is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

P C III ( Pipe Choir Three) is a musical project started by Michael J. Bostwick in 2013.  P C III was developed as a platform to showcase all of Michael Bostwick’s Onistwave compositions.  Onistwave is a genre of music developed by Michael J. Bostwick.  Onistwave is described by Bostwick as:
1)  Music created with the aim of relaxing the listener.
2)  Music of an extremely long duration (a minimum of 15 minutes).
3)  Very light handed minimal percussion is used.
4)  Punctuating cymbal crashes are not used.
5)  Is not constructed with samples or loops from external sources.
6)  Music that often includes elements of pop, rock, classical, ambient, electronic, and world music.
7)  Music composed with primarily acoustic, electric, and electronic instruments.
8)  Music that incorporates a heavy use of keyboards and atmospheric treatments.
9)  Music that often incorporates minimal but heavily layered vocal lines.

PC-ONE is a musical platform created by the netlabel Pipe Choir to showcase songs created by Pipe Choir that are considered to be too sonically different from the usual Pipe Choir sound. 
 
PC-ONE Wilderness is an collection of 13 acoustic guitar and vocal songs.
PC-ONE Division is an album of Heavy Metal songs.
 
Since 2015, PC-ONE music has been available on the independent netlabel Pipe Choir.   PC-ONE's music is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

The Marian Circle Drum Brigade is a musical project started by Michael Bostwick of Pipe Choir, PC-ONE and P C III in 2010.

According to Bostwick, The Marian Circle Drum Brigade was inspired by his love of marching band drumlines ever since he was a child. When he was in high school he tried to join the marching band but due to his inability to read sheet music was denied the opportunity.
Inspired by this memory, Bostwick conjured up The Marian Circle Drum Brigade, a virtual marching band in the summer of 2010

The Marian Circle Drum Brigade is a project that features primarily a loud high energy drumline (performed entirely by Bostwick) and is accompanied by an aggressive industrial alternative vocal approach reminiscent of Ministry’s Al Jourgensen.  The Marian Circle Drum Brigade described by Bostwick as a combination of the Top Secret drum core and industrial alliterative metal band Ministry.

The Marian Circle Drum Brigade has released one self titled six song album available on Soundcloud and Free Music Archive.  The Marian Circle Drum Brigade's music is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International.

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