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Congrats to TCP-UP for having the Mixposure Song of the Week! TCP has been around Mix since the early days and continues to produce some of the best progressive music available by any band. you can visiy their main Mixposure page here and here some more amazing tunes!
TCP is a progressive band that met right here on Mixposure late in 2007. The spontaneous collaborations which first took place on this site were not only rewarding, but quite unlikely without Mixposure as a key connection point for us. We consider it a success story.
Formed early in 2008, TCP began it's effort to create compelling progressive rock drawing on all eras of this phenomenal brand of music. After realizing the right elements were in place, a creative chemistry began in the ensuing months that culminated in the completion of our first album, The Way, early in February 2009. This resulted in signing with 10T Records who released the album in May 2009.
Once out of musical hibernation over the summer of 2009, we began the follow-up album, Fantastic Dreamer, putting the final touches on in February, 2011 . Both albums are readily available at many popular online stores (e.g. Amazon, Best Buy, Barnes & Noble) and download sites (e.g. iTunes, Napster, eMusic) in many countries. Music reviews are here.
Henry narrated our Center Stage presentation on Mike K's show this November 13, 2010. It previewed some of the material on Fantastic Dreamer. If you didn't catch it, you can listen here to this segment of the show.
Thanks for listening!
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TCP is...
- Henry Tarnecky - vocals, lyrics, keyboards, music
- Blake Tobias - keyboards, bass, music
- Jack Wright - guitars, drums, music
- Glenn Arpino - keyboards, music
Congratulations to Brian Brooks for being Mixposure's Artist of the Month!
Making his first appearance in a post war, post industrial London - an era which straddled a time of immense change and upheaval between the old and the new - Brian's first thoughts were that he was glad he hadn't been born a few years earlier.
Initially classically trained, experiencing blues and rock & roll in the early 1960's was, for him, equivalent to Saint Paul on the road to Damascus. He cut his teeth in the London club scene during those halcyon years of the mid to late 1960's - as an audience member and occasional performer in venues such as Les Cousins, on Greek Street in Soho, listening to and learning from legendary musicians such as Davey Graham, Wizz Jones, Bert Jansch, John Renbourn and John Martyn.
Moving to New York in 1968, he studied painting, drawing and photography and threw himself into the musical world of clubs, festivals, concert halls and the college circuit. During this period, in addition to a partnership in a successful live music club in Greenwich Village, with occasional acting in tv and film, he toured in every State of the Union except Hawaii, spending time also in Canada and Mexico and working with such luminaries as Spider John Koerner, Son House, Andy Warhol, John Lennon and Chuck Berry. In addition to playing on the folk circuit in places such as Gerde's Folk City, Cafe Wha'? and The Gaslight, he was also in one of the first bands to regularly perform in Hilly Cristal's CBGB's, on The Bowery, sharing the stage with Blondie, Talking Heads, The Ramones and Television whilst recording on the Adelphi label.
Returning to Europe in 1979, Brian toured and exhibited internationally, playing mostly in celtic bands and recording on the Highway and Topic labels.
In the mid 1990's he relocated to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where he worked with some excellent musicians and technicians, along the way assisting Sir George Martin on his film "Rhythms of Life".
So far, as a solo artist, Brian has completed a five-track EP entitled "Paint the Town", followed by a full twelve-track album entitled "Everything Takes Forever". Before leaving Brazil he recorded three tracks for an EP entitled "Hold On To The Night".
Curently, he is hard at work on a new full album with the working title "Time & Tide" which is partly a result of a collaboration with Italian producer Alessandro Manni, alongside tracks produced in his recently-refurbished home project studio.
These days, Brian mostly divides his time between music, painting and photography.
In 2005 Brian received a Masters degree in painting and hopes, one day, to get to Hawaii...
<p><span>Dysangelic from the Stockholm area are debuting on Sliptrick Records with the full length ‘The Dysangelic Principle’, recorded at Solna Studios with Mike Wead (The Haunted, Edge of Sanity, Candlemass, Mercyful Fate and King Diamond amongst the other not-to-miss bands he worked with).</span><br /><br /><span>The Dysangelic Principles features 8 tracks of pure, undiluted Scandinavian Metal the way it’s got to be. The Album currently available on Spotify, will soon be re-published through all platforms worldwide and available on CD as well. Feel free to check the </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/dysangelic" target="_blank">Dysangelic FB Profile</a><span> for further details.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: small;">Circle Circus is a Beatlesque type song idea that popped into my head. I recorded the basic tracks so I could hear it and stimulate some production ideas. It's finally all fleshed out with the help of DrC. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">Since the lyric is a jab at the current political antics in the USA, I felt it needed a Circus type intro atmosphere so DrC worked his magic and wah lah....here it is! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">DrC did the drum programming and all keyboards/Dixieland horns....recorded at his place. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">I did the rhythm guitar, Mind Bender guitar, bass, lead guitar, and all vocals....recorded at my place. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-size: small;">We co-produced and DrC mixed it.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Enjoy!<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">Farrell Jackson<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.mixposure.com/pages/iaudio/song_id=30388</span></p><p><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><strong><a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/mixfiles/">The Mix Files</a></strong> <span style="font-size: large;">featuring</span> <a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/Brian_Brooks/"><strong>Brian Brooks</strong></a>,</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large; color: #00ff00;">Premiers during Saturday Night Rocks, Feb. 2<br /></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/Brian_Brooks/">Brian Brooks</a> - a kind-hearted human and most excellent musican - is our guest this week for <a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/mixfiles/">The Mix Files</a>. There is great conversation with Brian, and naturally, some of his outstanding music. It's quite a fun time. Please join us in <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/?t=mix_chat">chat</a> (that's a link, btw).</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/Brian_Brooks/"><img style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" src="http://www2.mixposure.com/image.php?mode=band_image&band_id=2399&width=290" alt="" width="290" height="437" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/Brian_Brooks/">Brian Brooks</a></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/mixfiles/">The Mix Files</a> is a 1 hour pre-recorded segment which features conversation with - and the music of - a different Mixposure.com artist each week. The Mix Files airs during <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/?t=mix_chat">the *live* Saturday Night Rocks Radio Show</a>, here on Mixposure's <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/?t=mixstream_radio">MixStream Radio</a>. Saturday Night Rocks is *live* from around 8 PM EST US and goes till at least midnight... Saturday Night, of course. <a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/mixfiles/">The Mix Files</a> *usually* airs between 9:00 and 9:20 PM EST. Please join us in <a href="http://www.mixposure.com/?t=mix_chat">chat</a> (that's a link, btw).</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;"><strong><a href="http://www.mixposure.com/?t=mix_chat">Saturday Night Rocks</a></strong> and <strong><a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/mixfiles/">The Mix Files</a></strong></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-size: x-large;">Have some fun... <span style="color: #00ff00;">be there</span></span></em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/mixfiles/"><img src="http://www2.mixposure.com/image.php?mode=photo_image&band_id=5243&image_id=7818" alt="" width="400" height="306" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;">Appreciation to <a href="http://www2.mixposure.com/Buddrumming/">Buddrumming</a> for The Mix Files' banner</p>
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