Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Wings Over America Listening Party 4/29 - 5/5

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THE WEEK OF 4/29 - 5/5
 WILL BE PLAYING THE NEW REMASTERED 
 PAUL McCARTNEY AND  WINGS
OVER AMERICA CD'S
24/7
 

Tuesday, April 09, 2013

WINGS OVER AMERICA 5/28/2013

 WINGS OVER AMERICA 
DELUXE BOX SET
5/28/2013
                             The original 28-track album on 2 discs, remastered at Abbey Road Studios.

                8 previously unreleased bonus audio tracks recorded live at the Cow Palace in San Francisco.

Bonus DVD featuring the 75 minute TV special Wings Over The World and a brand new short film charting the tour route in photographs.

All set within a numbered hardbound slipcase containing:
-112-page book written by David Fricke, featuring new interviews and extensive tour photography
-Exclusive 60-page photographic journal of Linda s images chronicling life on the road
-136-page replica tour book with itineraries, tour program, memorabilia, and lyrics plus 3 (10 x8 ) prints
-80-page book of drawings by artist Humphrey Ocean
-24bit 96kHz high resolution audio versions of all 36 songs on the remastered album & bonus audio tracks, accessed via a download code inserted on a card within the deluxe edition package.







Tuesday, April 02, 2013

ELM TREASON * WHO IS IT ?



ELM TREASON



BIO
ELM TREASON is the musical union of Andrew Roman and Robert Steel.
Some say that ELM TREASON's brand ought to be "new music with a vintage vibe." People like labels, but Elm Treason doesn't. Really, Elm Treason’s music is just .... well, theirs.

Okay, they're rock and roll .... but even that is far too simple to adequately sum them up.  They're acoustic. They're soulful. They're heavy. They’re smooth.
Complex, manic, foreboding and smooth are just a small sample of the adjectives that one could muster to describe the sound resonating from this Staten Island, New York duo. They’ve been together since the Fall of 2010, originally intending to be an acoustic rock duo. However, in a relatively short period of time, they evolved from a team of mad musical basement noisemakers into a full-grown “lets-do-it-all-ourselves” musical dynamo.
They have gutted the new classic rock archetype with a collection of songs that blend together influences stretching the collective soundscape past the horizon and around the moon (or the closest mountain range). Their sound is kind of alternative, sort of. Some songs are a bit progressive. Some are funky are fluffy. Some are based in roots music, some are garnished in paisley. Some rock, some glide. Some float, others roll. It's maybe a little indie-ish and overall strangely familiar. 
Truly, their vibe is quite eclectic – from bluesy rock to trippy grooves, from acoustic pop to pseudo-Brit rock; from 6/8 to 4/4; from neo-progressive to pentatonic scale heaven. It really is quite difficult to classify their music as sounding like “this group” or having the same feel as “that group.” Indeed, they have a lot of different “feels.”
This dynamic duo write, record and produce it all themselves. They are all about hooks, melody, harmonies and musicianship.
“Who we sound like really depends on the song,” Andy explains.
“Eclectic, overall…but each song is very distinct and definite,” says Bob.
A long road of music, in various forms of incarnation, led them to the end game of ELM TREASON.
Bob's previous bands included "Ambience" (playing underage in Staten Island clubs with bands almost twice their age). His second and Third bands were "Steel" and "Black Teacup Yorkie". One was a heavy metal band, the other was an acoustic based East Village coffee house group (with the same members). Steel's self-titled EP received a four star review in The Aquarian. His Fourth Band was called "Isko Suno" (a multicultural blend of rock, hip hop and trip hop). A review in the Village Voice called their music "Ethnic Groove".

As a pianist for the Brooklyn College Jazz Big Band and Small Ensemble, Bob performed at Amherst Unitarian Church in Amherst MA; at the Abrons Arts Center in Manhattan; and at the University of Connecticut in Storrs CT, for which he received a write up in a Hartford Newspaper.

Bob's credentials include: BA Music: College of Staten Island 1992; MA Music Education : Brooklyn College;  Recipient of 2011 Kadish-Millet Award for Excellence in Songwriting.

Andy has played music over the years in a few groups/projects that never amounted to much, save for some critical experience and a bucket full of memories. His partnership with his buddy, Gil, in Washington was short-lived, albeit a load of fun. His collaboration with keyboardist Matt Werning was equally short, but inspirational. Perhaps the best collaboration was with his long-time friend, Rich, in a little project called Red Ant Picnic featuring such tracks as "Sister Alice," "End Game #3" and "Innocence Then."

Mostly, however, over the course of his musical life, he had been an open-mic night, open guitar-case in the park, subway platform kind of guy.

He has made his living in audio and video production. He was a minor TV celebrity for a time in Fort Wayne, Indiana  as part of the "Shane and Andy On The Road" series on Fox. He also created and hosted the wildly popular Major League Baseball radio program "Diamond Stuff" in Northwest Ohio. He is also a professional voice over actor and has won five Addy Awards for radio commercial writing/production.

Elm Treason's debut album, "Days of Reaction" is what Elm Bob calls the "culmination of our influences, learning experiences, rites of passage and stylistic mannerisms in one big amazing collaboration. All of our past efforts led up to this moment."