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<strong>Supporting two solo CD releases</strong>, and Founder/owner of <strong>Music e-zine IndieByte.com</strong>, Sandy is an independent singer, songwriter and composer from St. Louis... her original songs draw life from the rich crosscurrents of <strong>acoustic folk-rock, pop, and jazz music.</strong> The result is vibrant, current, original music with an emotional and timeless feel...her unique approach to this voyage of fantasy is a solo act that continually ascends. In an interview and review of her album, <strong>The Renegade wrote:</strong> "Sandra Phillips brings a unique sound and vision to the St. Louis music scene, and to the national New Age scene at large. She is worthy of industry attention."
<p><strong>This is the story of Baldwin IV, the leprous king of Jerusalem during the Crusades in the 12th century. Born in 1161, he became King at the age of 13 and died in 1185 ,aged 24. In that time there was no cure for leprosy. The album's highlight is his great victory at the battle of Montgisard (Tel al-Safija) in The Holy Land (1177). With a small army of 500 Crusader Knights against an enemy(Saladin) with an army 50 times greater in numbers. </strong></p><p><strong>The Knights Templar were the elite fighting force of their day. However, not all of them were warriors. The mission of most of the members was one of support -- to acquire resources which could be used to fund and equip the small percentage of members who were fighting on the front lines. Because of this infrastructure, the warriors were well-trained and very well-armed. Even their horses were trained to fight in combat, kicking or biting the enemies. One of the key battles in which this was demonstrated was in 1177, at the Battle of Montgisard. The famous Muslim military leader Saladin was attempting to push toward Jerusalem from the south, with a force of 26,000 soldiers. He had pinned the forces of Jerusalem's King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem, about 500 knights and their supporters, near the coast, at Ascalon. Eighty Templar knights and their own entourage attempted to reinforce. They met Saladin's troops at Gaza, but were considered too small a force to be worth fighting, so Saladin turned his back on them and headed with his army towards Jerusalem. Once Saladin and his army had moved on, the Templars were able to join King Baldwin's forces, and together they proceeded north along the coast. Saladin had made a key mistake at that point -- instead of keeping his forces together, he permitted his army to temporarily spread out and pillage various villages on their way to Jerusalem. The Templars took advantage of this low state of readiness to launch a surprise ambush directly against Saladin and his bodyguard, at Montgisard near Ramla. Saladin's army was spread too thin to adequately defend themselves, and he and his forces were forced to fight a losing battle as they retreated back to the south, ending up with only a tenth of their original number. The battle was not the final one with Saladin, but it bought a year of peace for the Kingdom of Jerusalem, and the victory became a heroic legend.</strong></p><p><strong>Credits: </strong></p><p><strong>The song Montgisard was composed, arranged and played entirely by Jack Langevelt, with the exception of the guitar parts.They were played by David Dexter. </strong></p><p><strong>KEYBOARDS: Hammond XB2, Roland JV 1010, Roland U 110, Korg iX 300, Korg X5DR, Yamaha DX 11, Yamaha SR 15, Emu Proteus </strong></p><p><strong>BASS and DRUMS: Roland and Korg bass&drums </strong></p><p><strong>Jack Langevelt</strong> </p>
<p>So it's been a while since we've been here....great new updates to the site :D</p><p> We're going to add some new teasers, still can't add any wiht vocals as we're currently searching for a new singer...but feel free to let us know what you think.</p><p> </p>
Here we are, on imusicscene. Checking things out. Pretty cool.
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<p>Syntopia Music & Rapster - The Video Can`t Be Stoppin now on iMusicScene.</p><p>On May 8, 2007 "CraveFest" began accepting music videos from over 700 signed and unsigned artists around the world.</p><p>Syntopia Music & Rapster are one of the top 5 Video`s in the Catergory "Unsigned Electronic" with her Video " Can`t Be Stoppin"<br />Nominate for " Best Video, Best Song and Most Original Video. </p><p>Enjoy now the Video.</p><p> </p>
<p>A Bassist,Vocalist,Songwriter in the Blues genre. His career spans over three decades playing with many icons of the Australian music scene, including household names in Oz such as Richard Clapton and Renee Geyer, as well as international artists John Mayall, Tobin James (USA), Kevin Mark (CAN), Maurice Richard Libby (aka..White Boy Slim ) (CAN) and many more.<br><br>Throughout each decade he has achieved many rewarding milestones. Each one taking him to a higher and more enriching stage of his musical journey. <br><br>He has performed at Australia's major venues and Blues festivals. Henry's music has been performed by a Big Band Orchestra at the world famous Sydney Opera House, as well as showcasing in several movies. The 80's saw him achieve Heavy Metal Chart success in USA and Europe as well as running his own record company.<br><br>In the year 2000 he rediscovered his roots and the reason he started playing music in the first place: His love for The Blues......Having paid his dues, he now plays the Blues with sincerity, passion, and conviction in his own unique style.<br><br>There are three cds available at the moment. The first "Time Is A Teacher" (2000) the second product "Heat Of The Moment".(2004)..and now the latest 2005 release Prisoner Of Desire. Make yourself familiar with them!.<br><br>On August 17th 2007 Henry was officially inducted into the American Blues Hall Of Fame as Ambassador For The Blues from Wollongong, Australia !!.
<p class="blogSubject">White Boy Slim </p><p>Below is an extract of WBS's blog !</p><p>I enjoyed having the opportunity to perform with him during my Canadian tour and also the privelege of playing bass on some of his tracks from his new CD :</p><p class="blogTimeStamp"> </p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" class="blog" id="blog">..> <tr><td width="10"> </td><td><p class="blogSubject">i DON'T WRITE MUCH, BUT... <br />Category: <a href="http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.viewCategory&FriendID=31465970&BlogCategoryID=15"><font color="#003399">Music</font></a> </p><p class="blogContent">The new CD, "aka Whiteboy Slim" is now unleashed upon an unsuspecting world. It has 14 songs (approximately 58 minutes, as if that matters) and has guest appearances by Australian Blues great Henry Correy, and drummer extraordinaire Michael Libby, and my friend Eric la France on guitar. It will soon be available on CDBaby.com and fatbluescat.com among other places.<br /><br />The second Cd release party will be at the Gaslight Saloon in Regina on December 16, much fun and revelry will follow</p></td></tr></table>
<p>glad to be here</p><p>welcome to all my bruds ("brud"="bud"+"bro") </p>
<p><font size="4">THE STORY OF TRIBE PENDRAGON <br /></font></p><p><font size="4"><font color="#ffcc00">SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM FOR MUSIC LINK<br /></font>Well it all started just over a year ago. An idea that took a little while to grow, but somewhat like a bushfire, which starts from a single spark, it fanned itself into a mighty and all consuming being. <br /><br />“In a Heartbeat”, even the name of the project proclaimed it’s self and became inescapable. <br /><br />My first experience with a ‘music site’ was Soundclick.com, where I discovered the fantastic ability to record a track in my studio, upload it to the site and within a few hours see that people on the other side of the world were listening to my song! </font></p><p><font size="4">One of my favourites, because of the exchange of reviews on songs between members, became a site called Mixposure. Before long I had become an ‘old hand’ at the OMD game and was active everyday on the ‘forums’ exchanging ideas and reviews with a multitude of diverse musicians. <br /><br />Some of these folk were absolutely brilliant, playing music that was of an astounding quality .The most incredible fact to me was, they were all unsigned independent musicians! I suddenly realised that I was NOT alone. <br /><br />The first moment that I started to realise what we had on our hands with “In a Heartbeat”, was after completing the song “Calling the Spirit” as an “over the internet workshop” project on the Mixposure site. <br /><br />About 20 members of the site worked together over the Internet to listen too, and add comments, on each and every move of the faders in my studio. Mix after mix [I think I would have done at least 30 altogether] was pulled apart, analysed, commented on and generally beaten into a final mix that the majority felt had the sound we were after. <br /><br />Bearing in mind that some of the members were listening on average equipment, while others were using top of the range studio gear, the end result was amazing. From this combination of talents we achieved a remarkable thing…. a sound that worked everywhere! <br /><br />During this process one of the participants, Lady Leeta or Tamera, from the other side of the planet in the USA, suggested that a violin would sound really good in the piece. Tracy Lundgren [music composer] was adamant that it should be a Native flute sound. Me, I liked both ideas, so I went looking for samples on the Internet of the sounds we were after. <br /><br />It was then that it hit me, there was a real, living, breathing Native American flute player right there on the site we were working on! Going by the musical name of Earthsongs, Arthur Kills Straight was the very best player of the instrument that I had ever heard! <br /><br />No violin player on site though, so I went looking on the Internet, and low and behold came across Ian Cameron [efiddler.com] one of the most stunning players I have heard in all my years of hanging around with folk and gypsy music players. What was more Ian has an online business where he will record violin parts to tracks that you send him and sends back a “naked” violin track for mixing. I have to tell you, this blew me away! <br /><br />All of a sudden the scope of what could be done musically was no longer dictated by who happened to be available at a local level. What’s more is that the standard of playing was World class. Incredible! <br /><br />I had become aware that there was a growing number of musicians collaborating over the Internet using Mp3 128 kbps files. While the music itself was often really good, the production values often let them down. When I realised that I could work with Mp3’s as my GUIDE tracks and that the final files I worked with could be 24 bit data, [which is the music industry standard quality] either sent by mail on a data CD or transferred over the net using Yousendit.com and a broadband connection, I felt that somebody had just handed me the keys to a Very Sacred Place. <br /><br />Thus began my search for musicians to create a full album of high quality music, over this amazing thing called the Internet. A drummer in Germany, another in the USA, violins and cello from Canada, a percussion creator from the UK, keyboard players living hundreds of kilometres away…. sitar…tabla, the list goes on and on. <br /><br />Combining these wonderful players with the local group that I was in at the time, the entity now known as “Tribe Pendragon” was born. <br /><br />Along with it came the realisation that we were about to create a WORLD FIRST, the very first album ever to be created over the Internet, using players who had never met, never spoken with each other and certainly never played music together! <br /><br />One of the early members to appear was Tracy Lundgren, a songwriter and singer living in Newcastle [Australia] a four-hour journey from my studio in Canberra. <br /><br />Tracy first contacted me to tell me that she was drawn to some of the songs that she had heard the original ‘Tribe’ do on an earlier album “Message Stick”. She said she felt that what we were writing about struck a chord within her. When I went online and had a listen to HER work, that chord became a whole lot more complex and musical! <br /><br />I just love her song writing and she has the most stunning vocal ability’s. Truly magical. <br /><br />I was at that time finishing an album of “Sacred Chant” music, which eventually became ‘Divine Nature’ [Ninewells Music] with an amazing singer Natalia Christiana. <br /><br />I asked Tracy if she would like to collaborate on a couple of tracks. <br /><br />She would email me these fantastic track ideas, some complete and others in an embryonic state. <br /><br />At that time I was in a strange place with my own writing, I hadn’t written any English lyrics for ages [Sanskrit words are great but…] I was in that dark place all writers know…the dreaded block! A very scary, soulless, ego sapping, land of fear. Maybe I had ‘lost it’, maybe it was never really there, maybe all I had been doing was being grossly self indulgent with my time and the very limited funds that were our income. <br /><br />Thanks must go to my partner Nancy who goes every day to a government job, to earn the money for us to survive on. I have dedicated the song Beautiful Friend [written by Jukka Malmberg,] to this fantastic woman. <br /><br />Tracy later would play me the most beautiful of songs, “Mother Me”. <br /><br />Again I was hopelessly, musically in love. I was becoming more and more aware that something really special was happening. <br /><br />For much of my life I have believed in the concept of synchronicity, one event leading inexorably to another. To some, a rather fanciful concept, to me a phenomenon that time and time again has appeared in my life. <br /><br />It was as if this album HAD to be born! Don’t get me wrong, it was no easy process, there were times when I would not sleep for 18 hrs, sitting zombie like in front of my ancient CRT monitor, hacking files into sync because Id forgotten to tell a musician half way across the planet to give me a ‘header count’ to synchronise the files with the backtrack. <br /><br />At one time I was on Skype with Peter Generous [don’t you just love that name?] a great drummer in the USA, ‘beat boxing’ an idea and choosing snare and bass drum sounds over a computer telephone line! Two studios thousands of miles apart on opposite sides of Planet Earth, in perfect harmony [though a tiny bit out of sync,] Peter is the drummer on several pieces, including being the ‘kit’ player on Peace Child. <br /><br />Things were also happening at a local level. I approached two musicians that I had worked with on their own albums, asking if they would like to work on this project. So entered into the fray, Ernie Van Veen[Child of the Wind] a brilliant acoustic ‘roots’ guitar player and Donovan Gall, one of Australia’s premier drummers. <br /><br />With the musical input from these and others, the album started to take a ‘shape’. <br /><br />All of the songs and instrumentals were from a wide, genre defying sound scape. The combination of Ian Cameron [violin] Arthur Kills Straight [ Earthsongs] Ernie Van Veen [acoustic guitars/slide] Tracy Lundgren [keys and vocals] Donovan Gall [drums] John Coates [Bass] myself [vocal and harmony] and Natalia Christiana [vocal] along with the multitude of other musical contributors [see credits], allowed the sound of Tribe Pendragon to emerge. <br /><br />From where? Who knows. <br /><br />That esoteric question is still beyond my understanding after 30 yrs of recording music. </font></p><p><font size="4">JUST UNTILL WE CAN UPLOAD SOME MUSIC, HERE IS A LINK TO OUR SOUND:</font></p><p><a href="http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=764305"><font size="4">http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=764305</font></a><br /><br /><font size="4">David Pendragon </font></p>
<p>New Song with Rapster and Margot Du Bois " The Way It Goes" <br />My new Collab with Rapster and Margot in a Hip Hop Style. Thanks to Joe and Margot for the wonderful Vocals and Lyrics.</p><p>The Video to the Song you can see on Rapster`s Page </p><p> </p>
<p>Around the year 2000 I discovered that some people actually liked my singing voice. After becoming aware of that there`s been no stopping me. Thanks to the many people from all over the world who like to collab with me and send me mp3`s to sing to, I now have well over 100 presentable songs behind me and dozens more in various stages of completion......I rarely compete or enter contests, nor do I try to sound like anyone else. I generally write my lyrics from life and sing them. I rarely if ever sing other people`s lyrics as I can only feel what "I" feel. If you`re looking for a song full of words, then you`ll probably be disappointed, because I say, "Why write a book, when you can say it in a sentence?" I`m very happy to be uniquely and uncontrollably me.. I hope you enjoy what you hear.</p>
<p>Here`s a list of my wonderful collab partners since 99/2000...I`m so lucky to have them to work with..xxx Thankyou to all of them..</p>
<p>Some of the people that I made music with in the past ..My good friend, the late "Clint Warwick", original bass player with "The Moody Blues" and along with "Danny King" (of the Birmingham band, "Danny King and The Dukes" also founder member of "The Moody Blues"
was the inspiration for my song "Paper Lanterns" ...Other wonderful friends and collab partners from the past and present .... steve pearce... sheck... lennie... bigmoon... bop... timmymacdd... jack miller... mixmaster mark... tfolie... jako2k... zauberflute... music1961... Joemagic... kemox... gatchman... g. francis... psyspyder... universalfreedom... dealsaxgtr... herman... rob james... plat... 12T... brodo... robaire... abbeyroad... xiabram... naughtyhill... bombstar... wilhelm... vectorstation... ensoniq... tomben... mart... biggjohn... bop... hawkeyez... snowy... kjell... harry c... mikula... cppmusic... gub... dbm... (Those people were all members of the now defunct "Rocketnetwork", "The Rocketears"...... More recent people are,:- Teecee... ZIGGma... Steve Dinsmoor... Dirt Settlers... D Form... Lil Drizzy... Syngularity... Uncle fester... Violent... Tom KIng... Ratman... Yerrickl... Loren Risker... CBS Productions... Pete Consodine... Dace... Blue Tom... JDK... Sisters... Mick Wilson... Shedman... Beeswing... Jeff and Derek Southerland... Emocion... Khalil... Texas Jake... Talent A.D...Artificial Earth... Syntopia... Nigel Potter... WhereWolf... Rob Grant... Gary Carciello...Allen Warren... last, but always first... My wonderful partner in love, life AND music, RAPSTER... Sorry if I..ve forgotten to mention anyone here.................... ................................................................................</p>
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<p>It ain`t about perfection, it`s about soul, and TRUTH. :devil:</p>