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Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Ilon Art Gallery featuring Bob Marley- March 29 thru May 25
Saturday, March 16, 2019
Lucian Green
About Lucian’s songs
In January 2010, Lucian found the perfect producer for his material, Jack Setton. Together they cut two tracks, Anarchy and You Are Mine.
Anarchy is packed with attitude and an 80s throwback sound and has been featured on the UK’s Radio Gets Wild. It’s about Lucian’s struggles with being labeled, delivered with a Madonna-meets-Michael-Jackson hip-hop sound.
You Are Mine is a barnyard tale in the Miley Cyrus pop mold. It includes the line, “I love you, pop star” which is clearly something fans of teen and indie pop are already happy to shout about Lucian.
Both tracks have been heard on popular sites including Triple J Unearthed, Last FM, Jango, and Sound Cloud. Next, up for Lucian is a Jeff Buckley inspired song called Butterfly. If his first two efforts are any indication, it’s sure to fly just as high.
About Lucian himself
Lucian has always dreamed of pop stardom. He is constantly thinking of catchy melodies, hooks, jingles, and lyrics.
Lucian’s drive to succeed has seen him join APRA and other professional bodies, and push his music through websites and the iTunes store. (His love of show business has also seen him getting work as an extra on Australian TV!) Right now, Lucian is dedicated to finding a manager and a marketing deal.
As a likable, marketable image, Lucian has deep chocolate colored eyes and a clean-cut boy next door appeal.
Simply put, Lucian Green is professional, dedicated and obviously very talented. He is determined to succeed, and given his first two catchy songs, it looks like nothing is going to stop him.
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Gabrielle Roth
APACHE JUNCTION, AZ (IFS) --The KDRC MixTape Mondays Series has been a great uplifting of international women performers and artists from the archives of SDC RadioWorks, who started their music distribution on cassettes back in 1977 of various artists that we could not sign to our young Platinum Sound Records company, which was distributed by CBS/Claridge Records under Frank Slade.
The KDRC was for "Kenny's D-Town Records Company" as the compact disc was yet to be introduced and vinyl was the method of manufacture and distribution of that time.
In Hollywood California, Lee Rogers and Kenneth Howard Smith attempted to give these artists much greater exposure to other recording companies and radio stations. By the year of 1983, we decided to include artists that were way over of monetary budget and give them a lift to other recording outlets for exposure. Among these upstart groups was the Mirrors headed by the late great Gabrielle Roth.
This series also celebrates the International Month of Women Worldwide and the ratification of the 38th Amendment in the United States which to date is to be signed into law after almost 40 years.
Gabrielle Roth (February 4, 1941 – October 22, 2012), was an American dancer and musician in the world music and trance dance genres, with a special interest in shamanism. She created the 5Rhythms approach to movement in the late 1970s; there are now hundreds of 5Rhythms teachers worldwide who use her approach in their work.
Roth worked at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health and at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies. She founded an experimental theatre company in New York, wrote three books, created over twenty albums of trance dance music with her band The Mirrors, and directed or has been the subject of ten videos.
Born in San Francisco, Roth was originally inspired to dance, aged seven, by seeing a ballerina through the window of a dance school, deciding that was her vocation. She found a book that showed the ballet positions and started to practice in her bedroom, eventually coming to have ballet lessons. She attended Roman Catholic schools and listened to the music of the local fundamentalist church.
Roth described being inspired by the dance of Spanish gypsy La Chunga and by seeing the Nigerian National Ballet. She trained in traditional dance methods, suffering from anorexia during her teenage years. Roth paid for a college education by teaching movement in rehabilitation centers. Following college, she lived and worked in Europe for three years, during the mid-1960s. During this time she visited the concentration camps memorials in Germany that she had studied during college.
She injured her knee in a skiing accident in Germany and later again in an African dance class. At 26, she was told that she needed surgery and wouldn't dance again and resigned herself to the prognosis. She entered a depression and later retreated to Big Sur in California, joining a group at the Esalen Institute. She became a masseuse there. She found that her body healed itself through dance, despite what the doctors had said. Gestalt psychiatrist Fritz Perls asked her to teach dance at the Esalen Institute and she set out to find a structure for dance as a transformative process. Out of her work at Esalen, she designed the 'Wave' of the 5Rhythms approach, Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, Stillness.
Roth's book, Sweat Your Prayers, begins with an autobiographical prologue, "God, Sex, & My Body", in which she writes of the contradictions in her personality that led her to dance. She comments, "I loved to work out my body but I hated the mirrors". She notes that she was taught by Catholic nuns "with eyes trained to scan for sin"[6] and that her first dance teacher was "an old woman with frizzy dyed red hair, a funny accent, and a long thin stick" who would beat her whenever she made a mistake, initiating in Roth a severe inferiority complex. In college, she became pregnant. She found her lover insensitive to the news and had an abortion three days later.
Roth writes that she felt the importance of privacy to her kind of dance while teaching at Esalen in a room "lined with picture windows". Passers-by would stare in during sessions. Roth comments, "this was tragic, as the majority of my students were paralytically self-conscious when it came to moving their bodies." She noticed that her students had difficulty breathing.[8] Her book Sweat Your Prayers ends with her vision of spreading dance across the world, the power of movement "leading us back into the garden [of Eden], back to the earth, whole and healed, spirit and flesh reunited"
The KDRC was for "Kenny's D-Town Records Company" as the compact disc was yet to be introduced and vinyl was the method of manufacture and distribution of that time.
In Hollywood California, Lee Rogers and Kenneth Howard Smith attempted to give these artists much greater exposure to other recording companies and radio stations. By the year of 1983, we decided to include artists that were way over of monetary budget and give them a lift to other recording outlets for exposure. Among these upstart groups was the Mirrors headed by the late great Gabrielle Roth.
This series also celebrates the International Month of Women Worldwide and the ratification of the 38th Amendment in the United States which to date is to be signed into law after almost 40 years.
Gabrielle Roth (February 4, 1941 – October 22, 2012), was an American dancer and musician in the world music and trance dance genres, with a special interest in shamanism. She created the 5Rhythms approach to movement in the late 1970s; there are now hundreds of 5Rhythms teachers worldwide who use her approach in their work.
Roth worked at the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health and at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies. She founded an experimental theatre company in New York, wrote three books, created over twenty albums of trance dance music with her band The Mirrors, and directed or has been the subject of ten videos.
Born in San Francisco, Roth was originally inspired to dance, aged seven, by seeing a ballerina through the window of a dance school, deciding that was her vocation. She found a book that showed the ballet positions and started to practice in her bedroom, eventually coming to have ballet lessons. She attended Roman Catholic schools and listened to the music of the local fundamentalist church.
Roth described being inspired by the dance of Spanish gypsy La Chunga and by seeing the Nigerian National Ballet. She trained in traditional dance methods, suffering from anorexia during her teenage years. Roth paid for a college education by teaching movement in rehabilitation centers. Following college, she lived and worked in Europe for three years, during the mid-1960s. During this time she visited the concentration camps memorials in Germany that she had studied during college.
She injured her knee in a skiing accident in Germany and later again in an African dance class. At 26, she was told that she needed surgery and wouldn't dance again and resigned herself to the prognosis. She entered a depression and later retreated to Big Sur in California, joining a group at the Esalen Institute. She became a masseuse there. She found that her body healed itself through dance, despite what the doctors had said. Gestalt psychiatrist Fritz Perls asked her to teach dance at the Esalen Institute and she set out to find a structure for dance as a transformative process. Out of her work at Esalen, she designed the 'Wave' of the 5Rhythms approach, Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyrical, Stillness.
Roth's book, Sweat Your Prayers, begins with an autobiographical prologue, "God, Sex, & My Body", in which she writes of the contradictions in her personality that led her to dance. She comments, "I loved to work out my body but I hated the mirrors". She notes that she was taught by Catholic nuns "with eyes trained to scan for sin"[6] and that her first dance teacher was "an old woman with frizzy dyed red hair, a funny accent, and a long thin stick" who would beat her whenever she made a mistake, initiating in Roth a severe inferiority complex. In college, she became pregnant. She found her lover insensitive to the news and had an abortion three days later.
Roth writes that she felt the importance of privacy to her kind of dance while teaching at Esalen in a room "lined with picture windows". Passers-by would stare in during sessions. Roth comments, "this was tragic, as the majority of my students were paralytically self-conscious when it came to moving their bodies." She noticed that her students had difficulty breathing.[8] Her book Sweat Your Prayers ends with her vision of spreading dance across the world, the power of movement "leading us back into the garden [of Eden], back to the earth, whole and healed, spirit and flesh reunited"
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
Cliffrose by Savannah King: Buffalo artist traveling and writing music from her van in Arizona
By Abby Wojcik
Savannah King’s new album Cliffrose, released on March 5, features nine songs inspired by her travels in the Southwest and her experience living full time in her 1987 Ford Coachman since 2016. Originally from Willson, NY, King hopes to bring the beauty of the Southwest to Buffalo through her alternative folk music.
Accompanying the record is a 24-page book with various photos, stories, poetry and conversations that accumulated over the duration of making Cliffrose. The book is only available on King’s website, with an option for a CD and book bundle.
“I’m so excited about it,” King said. “It sorta rounds out the whole album so you can get a real feel of what was going on at the time the songs were being written.”
King has gained popularity mainly through Instagram as she captures her experiences traveling, performing and living in her Coachman van.
“I had so much support from people on Instagram who were enjoying the photos of my van in the desert and hearing about the things we were doing,” she said.
This is really where the inspiration for the book comes from. So much of King’s journey has been told visually that a book of visual storytelling seems like the perfect way to showcase her biggest project yet.
As King’s second full-length album, Cliffrose is completely different from her past work. The last album was recorded in Lockport five years ago before the Coachman became her home and before all her traveling,
“It feels like a huge step forward for me,” she said. “I feel like I’ve learned a lot really quickly being on the road. I’ve totally shifted my mindset, what I want out of life, how I think about things, how I process them and how I write about them. That’s why I’m so proud of the album. I feel like it’s me at this moment.”
Cliffrose and the companion book have been completely funded by the Kickstarter campaign that raised over $8,000 in two weeks. This money allowed King to record the album in Nashville, which King expressed her immense gratitude for.
The album gets its name from the idea that everything growing in the desert is there because it’s fighting to survive, a concept King read in an Edward Abbey book. In other words, only the strongest things have adapted to survive in such harsh environments, but these things are also so beautiful. King incorporated this theme of beautiful resiliency throughout the whole album.
She first got a sense of this kind of resiliency from her start in the Western New York music scene.
“The musicians that I know from the Buffalo music scene are some of the hardest working musicians I’ve ever encountered,” King said. “That is a really good thing to learn early on in a music career, just to be resilient and be hardworking.”
“From traveling the rest of the country and seeing all the different areas and the different mindsets,” King continued, “I think there really is something to that rust belt mentality. Like, you get knocked down, dust yourself off, get back up and try again. I think I really got that from growing up in the Buffalo area.”
Getting to be immersed in Western New York and southern deserts have given King an appreciation for both landscapes. She plans to showcase this at her June 8 CD release party at Nickel City Arts, located in Akron, NY. King will perform an intimate, acoustic listening room style showcase of her songs. Tickets are available on her website.
Savannah King is living and creating to inspire herself and others. Cliffrose combines the charm of the Great Lakes area with her passion for Southwest deserts. Listen now for a taste of the southern rust belt blend.
Friday, March 8, 2019
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