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Thing Mote, sono una band nata a Verona a fine 2006 (precisamente, ed involontariamente, nel giorno di nascita di Jimi Hendrix, che sia un segno?). 

Thing Mote sta a significare "luogo di ritrovo". Non ci poteva essere nome migliore per definire lo spirito della band. Il luogo di ritrovo non è da intendersi in termini fisico-spaziali, ma va inteso in un significato più astratto e ampio. Una condivisione artistico-musicale che non prescinde e, anzi, ha una componente fondamentale nella socialità interpersonale dei componenti, dando al gruppo una dimensione che si potrebbe definire "familiare". 
Per quanto sia odiosa la categorizzazione in generi chiamano quello che fanno con il nome di Alternative, che è di fatto un non-genere, proprio per questo tentano di dargli una definizione attraverso l'unione delle loro differenti esperienze musicali, la sovversione delle strutture classiche del Rock e la loro visione espressiva.
Il primo EP, Mote EP, autoprodotto, esce nel 2010 e contiene i primi tre pezzi inediti della band. L'anno successivo, pubblicano un nuovo EP, di cinque canzoni inedite, sempre autoprodotto, dal titolo Scratches from the ground above, accostato dalla stampa a Nirvana, R.E.M., White Stripes, Vampire Weekend e Pixies. Questo rappresenta una maturazione nella scrittura delle canzoni, che segnerà l'inizio di una strada verso una maggiore consapevolezza musicale. 
A Settembre 2013 esce Stabstrings - A Genuine Acoustic EP, quattro canzoni (due inedite) in cui per la prima volta decidono di cimentarsi con sonorità acustiche, tra Radiohead e Simon & Garfunkel, accompagnati da un malinconico violoncello. Registrato presso il The Box Studio di Francesco Tomè, l'EP è recensito positivamente da vari siti del settore tra cui Rockit.
Nell'Ottobre 2014 pubblicano un mini EP composto da tre canzoni: un inedito, una versione elettrica di un pezzo presente in Stabstrings e una reinterpretazione di Lucy in the sky with diamonds dei The Beatles. Alive in the sky with no reason, questo il titolo, segna il ritorno su sonorità cupe, distorte e a tratti stoner. Anche questo EP è stato registrato presso il The Box Studio.


A Gennaio 2016, accolgono con piacere l'invito a partecipare all'iniziativa "Rivalutare il Dimenticato" dell'associazione culturale H-Key. L'iniziativa ha come scopo quello di rivalutare, appunto, brani storici del periodo della Grande Guerra, coinvolgendo musicisti di qualsiasi genere, e di accendere i riflettori sui luoghi di importanza storica ma abbandonati o semplicemente dimenticati.
I Thing Mote hanno scelto di riarrangiare "Addio Padre e Madre Addio" del 1916 e di girare il video nelle trincee della Lessinia. Questa canzone segna inoltre l'inizio della collaborazione con il produttore Jacopo Gobber che ha curato il loro primo album Robokiller. 

I Thing Mote hanno suonato in vari locali e a vari eventi della Provincia di Verona.

La band è composta da:

Fabio Dai Prè, batteria
Pietro Donnarumma, basso
Giuliano Fasoli, voce e chitarra 
Tommaso Zanardi, voce e chitarra

“Understanding the order of time is important to anyone hoping to manifest a dream,” says Valerie June. “There is a time to push, and a time to gently tend the garden.”

Since the release of her 2013 breakout Pushin’ Against A Stone, June has been patiently at work in the garden of song, nurturing seedlings with love and care into the lush bloom that is her stunning new album, The Order Of Time. Some songs grew from seeds planted more than a decade ago, others blossomed overnight when she least expected them to, but every track bears the influence of time. See, time has been on June’s mind a lot lately. It’s the only constant in life, even though it’s constantly changing. It’s the healer of all wounds, the killer of all men. It’s at once infinite and finite, ever flowing with twists and turns and brutal, churning rapids that give way to serene stretches of placid tranquility. Fight against the current and it will knock you flat on your ass. Learn to read it, to speak its language, and it will carry you exactly where you’re meant to be.

OKeh short history: 

OKeh was founded by Otto K. E. Heinemann when he set up his own recording studio and gramophone record pressing plant in New York City in September 1918. Heinemann formed the name of the record label "OKeh", from his initials.  OKeh began by issuing popular songs, dance numbers, and vaudeville skits similar to the fare of other labels, but Heineman also wished to experiment with music for audiences neglected by the larger record companies. OKeh produced lines of recordings in German, Czech, Polish, Swedish, and Yiddish for the USA's immigrant communities. In 1920, Ralph Peer's recordings by African-American blues singer Mamie Smith were a surprise smash hit for Okeh. The company perceived the significant, little-tapped market for blues and jazz by African American artists. Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Bix Beiderbecke are only a few names of jazz greats that have recorded for the label. By 1926 Columbia Records bought the label and kept it running into the 60's with jazz and R&B recordings. 

In 1994, Sony Music reactivated the OKeh label as a new-age Blues label. Okeh's first new signings included Keb' Mo, Popa Chubby, and Little Axe. By 2000, the Okeh label was again retired, but in 2013 it will see its re-launch as a jazz label once again.

Management:
American International Artists, Inc.
Cynthia B. Herbst, President
+1 (518) 686-0972
Cynthia@aiArtists.com

Much like songbird Edith Piaf, Madeleine Peyroux spent her teenage years busking the busy streets of Paris. Just like the ‘little sparrow’, Madeleine befriended the city’s street musicians and made its Latin quarter her first performing stage. Years later, Peyroux would cite iconic Piaf as an influence on her music and record a rendition of the classic La Vie En Rose, soulfully capturing the tune’s romanticism and melancholy.
 
Born in Athens, Georgia in 1974, Madeleine “grew up in a house filled with music” and from an early age “instinctively realised music’s soothing power” but it was her teenage years in the French capital that turned the childhood notion into an all-consuming vocation for life.

Young Madeleine moved to Paris with her mother in 1987 following her parents divorce. “To soothe me during the upheaval”, she recalls, “I was given a guitar and took to playing in the streets almost immediately.”

Thirty years after her formative busking days Peyroux is the proud curator of nine beguiling albums and an accomplished performer with sell out worldwide tours under her belt. Her atmospheric version of Serge Gainsborough’s La Javanaise was used in the soundtrack of Oscar Winner The Shape of Water and her countless accolades
include the coveted BBC International Artist Of The Year honour.
 
Madeleine’s thirst for creative exploration is unfading and her willingness to face creative challenges remains as solid now as it was three decades ago.

With endearing passion and great curiosity the unstoppable genre-defying virtuoso continues her search for the good and examines life with the treasured William Congreve belief that Music has charms to soothe the savage beast.
 
Madeleine might attribute her success to “mostly luck” but to the industry and loyal fans alike, it is the immense talent and utter dedication to her craft that shines through.
“Peyroux is a tremendous talent and almost a total intuitive” reflects Larry Klein, “she has the capacity to get the magic. When she sings and plays her guitar, great things happen.”

The Strypes are 4-piece rhythm and blues band hailing from Cavan, Ireland, formed in 2011 by Ross Farrelly (lead vocals/harmonica), Josh McClorey (lead guitar/vocals), Pete O'Hanlon (bass guitar/harmonica) and Evan Walsh (drums).

The group has spent the past 18 months launching their explosive R&B assault on the clubs and festivals of Ireland, the UK and Europe, viciously hammering out a no-nonsense blues repertoire drawing from the songbooks of Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Slim Harpo and more with the passion and venom of British blues groups such as Dr. Feelgood, The Yardbirds, The Rolling Stones and The Animals. 

Having already been met with critical acclaim from greats such as Jeff Beck and Paul Weller and been tipped by NME as the No. 1 new band to watch, it seems things can only get better for The Strypes.

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