2010 March 3 » Flip Side to Music

ELISE

Mar 032010

Elise
Interview by: Tracy Lewis

I would like to introduce you all to a singer from my home town!
Her name is ELISE.
I have had the pleasure of hearing her sing at a local festival and i can tell you this girl has got it!

TL: How long have you been interested in being a singer?

E: I have wanted to be a professional singer ever since I was young. My father and uncle are both musicians and songwriters, so I grew up in a musical family. I have always enjoyed singing with my dad and brother, and during the past 10 years we gradually began writing and recording songs together. Even though I have been writing and performing music for a long time, I only began seriously promoting my music in the past year.

TL: When did you first perform for a audience?

E: Does my mom count as an audience? Just kidding! The first time I performed for an audience was at the Bright Firemen’s Festival in my Indiana hometown. I was eight years old and I sang “Blue” by LeAnn Rimes. My father’s band was playing at the festival that year, so I performed the song with them.

TL: Who would you say has influenced you the most?

E: My parents have influenced me the most. My mom has always supported me and told me I can do anything I want in life, and my dad has been encouraging my career in music ever since I can remember. His former band, Dixie Hiway, was a big influence in my brother and I deciding to write and record music together. We would watch my father and uncle record at their studio and perform their songs live around the Cincinnati area and Nashville. Even though Dixie Hiway was in the country genre, my brother and I were greatly influenced by my dad and uncle’s passion and drive for pursuing a career in music. My greatest “outside” musical influences are the Black Eyed Peas, Rihanna, Muse, The Beatles, Beyonce, and the Dixie Chicks.

TL: What genre would you classify your music?

E: Pop-Rock / Alternative / Hip Hop

TL: Where have you performed? And out of those places, which would say was the most memorable?

E: I have performed at various dance clubs, bars, festivals, restaurants, and country clubs in the Cincinnati area. My most memorable moment was at a restaurant/bar in Cincinnati. When I was finished with my set, a woman came over to me and told me she was very inspired by one of my original songs and was wondering if I could mail her a CD. To have a perfect stranger come up to me and tell me that my music meant so much to her really made me feel like I was doing something positive with my talent. It was the first time a stranger had been that enthusiastic about my songs, and I will always remember it.

TL: Do you have any cd’s out and if so what are they called?

E: I do not have an album out right now, but I am currently working on completing my first full-length album.

TL: Where can your music be purchased?

E: My only song available for purchase right now is my single “The Silent Ranks” which can be purchased for 99 cents on my MySpace page: www.myspace.com/eliseofficialmusic

TL: Where can our readers go to find out more about you and hear your music?

E: To listen to my music and learn more about me, visit my MySpace page at www.myspace.com/eliseofficialmusic (and please add me as a friend!).

TL: Any news or upcoming gigs you would like our readers to know about?

E: I do not have any gigs currently scheduled, but stay tuned for future events on my MySpace page! I am currently looking for bookings in the Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana Tri-state area. If you know of any openings, please message me on MySpace!

TL: Where do you see yourself/career in about 5 years?

E: In five years I hope to be signed to a record label, writing, recording, and performing music that offers a refreshing new sound to fans around the nation (and the world!). I want my songs to continue earning the response, “I’ve never heard anything like that before.” God willing, my musical career will grant me the opportunity to be a positive role model in the public spotlight.

Flip Side to Music wants to thank you for this interview, and we wish you much success!

Rhythma

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Mar 032010

Musician, lyricist, songwriter, and producer, Sean Michael Imler AKA Rhythma, traveled through Europe for over 6 months with his guitar and a 4-track machine-composing, singing, performing, and recording when he was just 21. He began the fusion of his artistic and musical talents in Santa Cruz, California, while he was an art student at UCSC and an African hand drum student of Arthur Hull’s. Heavily influenced by African traditions he became an mbira player, studying with every master from Zimbabwe that came thru the area. He also played marimba for five years with the Kuzanga ensemble. Sean Michael continued to compose music, all the while absorbing and integrating the rich and diverse rhythms of the Santa Cruz World Music scene.

Sean Michael’s influences spring from his youth in Hollywood, where he began playing classical piano at age 8 with the encouragement of his mother, who held band rehearsals in their living room and earned a living wage singing in LA nightclubs. As a teenager, he bought a nylon-string guitar on which he practiced classical music, and demonstrated an early aptitude for fusing diverse styles by learning songs by the Misfits and Minor Threat (and playing these same strings in a punk band). Sean Michael’s influences now range from classical Middle Eastern music to South American and Caribbean derived slave music to the 1980s gothic, punk, and ska that characterize his own Southern California roots.

Sean Michael spent years learning and refining the technical aspects of tracking and recording before releasing his first self-titled CD, Rhythma, in 2005, which is comprised entirely of music he wrote, played, sung, and recorded.

On his 2009 CD, Between the Lines, he collaborated with cellist Harry Gilbert, a member of the eco-folk-rock quartet, Sagewing, and the Composers Ensemble in Los Angeles. For this CD, Sean Michael has also teamed up with Gary Kehoe, drummer, and Marcel Menard, percussionist in the Santa Cruz based band, Sambada; Boris Burtin, keyboardist for the Bay Area Jazz band, Code Name Jonah; and Charles K. Brown, a singer/songwriter from Nashville.

Between The Lines
Can be purchased at:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/rhythma2
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/between-the-lines/id306884378

Rhythma crosses the boundaries of rock, folk, pop, jazz and Americana and combines this with lyrics that inform, challenge, and attract audience members who are interested in social change and alternative media. In the tradition of the traveling storyteller or griot, Sean Michael’s lyrics are driven by, wrapped and re-wrapped in rhythm, revealing complex, continuously shifting perspectives.

When he is not composing, collaborating, or performing near his home in San Jose, Sean Michael works as a prototyper for Yahoo! and performs all over the United States on his acoustic guitar. Imler prefers alternative venues like resorts, cafes, festivals, and campground gatherings, where listeners are willing to engage the part of themselves that is playful, relaxed, and open to transformation.

You can learn more about Rhythma and here his music at:
http://www.rhythma.com/
Rhythma Facebook Page
http://www.myspace.com/rhythmarecords
http://www.youtube.com/earthcub

CD Review of “Between The Lines”
By Tracy Lewis

This very upbeat cd really was a pleasure to listen to!
In these times when everyone is stressed out by daily life happenings its nice to be able to turn some music on and just unwind.
The dictionary defines rhythm as: the regular recurrence of an action or function, as of the beat of the heart. And I believe that music is the rhythm of the heart, soul, mind and body.
This cd brings that all together and really creates a euphoria of feelings, emotion and a connection that one can relate to in these times! My personal favorite i think is “Island Of Misfit Toys”.
Be sure to check it out, and see if it doesn’t lift your spirits!

The Pixies

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Mar 032010

The Pixies
Article Posted by: Debbie Stevens
Original post by Festival Hall at:http://wots-on.info/whats-on/?event=Pixies_at_Festival_Hall_Melbourne–Melbourne–VIC–Australia–000A1c0–Live_Music–2010-03-21

Pixies @ Festival Hall, Melbourne
When: Sunday, 2010/03/21
Where: Festival Hall – , Melbourne, VIC Australia

Sunday 21 March 2010

The Pixies came to Australia for the first time ever in 2007. Back then they played to thousands of people at the V Festival along with a couple of sideshows in Melbourne and Sydney. They also played a miniscule show to only 350 people at the Northcote Social Club in Melbourne, pre-V Fest. (Even Jarvis Cocker was there). Afterwards, Frank Black was last seen strolling across the street to the ATM like ANY NORMAL HUMAN BEING! Evidently he’s with NAB.’

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of their classic 1980 album, Doolittle, Pixies – Black Francis, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering- have embarked on a very special tour – ‘The Doolittle Tour’ – which arrives in Australia in March 2010.

“We wanted to do something special for Doolittle’s 20th anniversary,” Black Francis said, “and we thought this was a good opportunity to play all of the songs from that album, something we don’t normally do at a regular gig.”

It’ll be part of “The Doolittle Tour” celebrating the 20th anniversary of the classic album Doolittle (1989), which was the second full-length release from the band. Black Francis, Kim Deal, Joey Santiago and David Lovering will perform all of the songs from the album as well as related B-sides.

Here’s the Doolittle track listing:

1. Debaser
2. Tame
3. Wave of Mutilation
4. I Bleed
5. Here Comes Your Man
6. Dead
7. Monkey Gone to Heaven
8. Mr. Grieves
9. Crackity Jones
10. La La Love You
11. No. 13 Baby
12. There Goes My Gun
13. Hey
14. Silver
15. Gouge Away

Pixies ‘Doolittle’ tour dates:

Sunday March 14 – Sydney, Hordern Pavilion
Thursday March 18 – Brisbane, Convention Centre
Saturday March 20 – Melbourne, Festival Hall
Wednesday March 24 – Adelaide, Thebarton Theatre
Saturday March 27 – Perth, Belvoir Amphitheatre

The Pixies manged to capture a sound that has been compared to artists such as Blonde Redhead,The Breeders, Dinosaur Jr.
If you listen carefully,you will hear a subtle touch of David Bowie, something I could easily get used to!

Their music video-
“Velouria”

The Pixies – New Music – More Music Videos

Album › Bossanova

Tracks
01. Cecilia Ann
02. Rock Music
03. Velouria
04. Allison
05. Is She Weird
06. Ana
07. All Over the World
08. Dig for Fire
09. Down to the Well
10. The Happening
11. Blown Away
12. Hang Wire
13. Stormy Weather
14. Havalina

You can read their full biography at: http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/pixies/artist.jhtml#biographyEnd