2nd Story Band

2ND STORY's stage ad-libbing, instrumental improvisations, haunting harmonies and ease with a wide variety of styles, not to mention Meagan's expressive and smoky vocal interpretations, have delighted college, club and festival audiences for over twenty years. Gary Loewenthal, a four year band member and a veteran of blues, rock, alternative, and Bossa Nova bands, spices up the sound with his soulful and driving guitar "licks". And along with Meagan's propulsive bass and Geoff's many guitar flavors and multi instrumental garnishes they fire up a strong melodic groove. You are not often likely to hear a band so convincingly and so expertly blend jazz forms, funky blues and world rhythms into such a tasty gumbo!!!

Louis Lamp

Anything but restrained, there is still an obvious cadence to the melodies that can be felt as well as heard, leaving the listener wanting more but not sure they could handle even a note beyond what they’ve already heard. This album both soothes and energizes the listener with a passion that has seldom been heard in any genre, let alone new age. It’s in your hands now and now it’s your turn to play a part in musical history by giving this album the attention it deserves, encouraging Louis Lamp to give more of his talent to the world in the form of more music, more albums.

William has backround in everything from classical piano to playing in touring rock bands. William has had the honor to share the same stage with artists like Greg Kihn, Eric Johnson and even Dougie Fresh.
Deciding that New Age and Film music was where his heart is, William just recently started to promote his music and the internet was a great way to express that many people who would not have normally been exposed to his work. In the short time that William has been promoting and producing new music online, he has had much success.

Dan Bar Hava

Dan writes everything, from Bartok-style orchestral scores to new age hip-hop to rock, pop, techno and dance. Dan’s music has been performed in New York (Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall), Greece, South America, South-East Asia, and Israel. He composed numerous soundtracks and served as musical director in a number of musical theatre productions. In the band RIPE, Dan and Christa have collaborated on a number of songwriting projects that have become the core sound of RIPE. Dan is also co-author on what is going to the best film since Indiana Jones/The Raiders of the Lost Arc. It’s called the Devil’s Interval.

Carr’s improvisational composition style is full of melodic lines and rich harmonies indicative of the classical influences of the American, Russian and French composers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Additionally, more modern influences as diverse as Mannheim Steamroller, Tangerine Dream, John Adams, Keith Jarrett, Cole Porter, Steve Reich, George Winston, and George Gershwin are also evident.

Aware of the meditative quality of his music, Richard has been exploring the healing side of his music. Working in the holistic community of St. Louis, Richard has developed the I AM Creative Sessions. These sessions are personal sessions in which Richard creates music for the client’s intention or focus. In essence, he creates a soundtrack for the intention.

Jobo Pooks

Guitar player since the age of ten with influences ranging from the beatles through Led Zepp, to George Benson and Joe Pass, there are far too many to mention. Most of my time now is taken up with writing and doing studio work. I built my own studio and produce my own CDs and artwork under the "Flesenge Records" label.

Humans search on and continue to find something out of nothing. The searching machines get bigger, more complicated and complication keeps the search on levels that create further complication. The observation of the scientists brings new meanings to the perceived masses and as the collective consciousness agrees, the new becomes the old. Constantly asking what the nature of reality is, the scientists play with their toys and they, along with the product of their searching; the collective consciousness, fail to see that reality only exists because it is observed as existing and it is observed through an energy that will never be measured by that which is constructed from itself, but only by that energy itself. That energy is thought. Without thought there is no thought and everything that is observed is only observed because thought makes it so. Reality is simply the observation of itself.

Mountain Mirror

Mountain Mirrors is a psychoactive blend of progressive, ethereal rock and ambient world music for a new age. Over time, you will find the sound of Mountain Mirrors expanding deeper and deeper into the spirit realm.

"This could be a classic album if the right promoters got their hands on it. I haven’t heard anyone take on this kind of music with this much success in this whole generation of musicians. I have to take you back to Doors, Jefferson Airplane, Iron Butterfly, etc. Thats not to say that what I’m hearing is outdated! Far from it. There just isn’t anything this good today to compare it to." - Neo-Zine

The Alexandria Kleztet

The Alexandria Kleztet is an exciting and innovative klezmer band from the Washington/Baltimore area. By combining traditional Jewish forms with modern influences from jazz, rock, classical, and world music, they have created a new "alternative klezmer" sound that is both unique and enjoyable. Check out their CD, Y2Klezmer.

Exciting and innovative, The Alexandria Kleztet has been combining traditional Eastern European/Jewish music with diverse influences for more than a decade. New arrangements of traditional melodies and original songs by members of the band draw upon jazz, classical, world beat, rock and other musical genres to create a unique and entertaining sound.

The band is based in the Washington/Baltimore area and has performed throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, including annual appearances at the Kennedy Center and regular concerts at the Peabody Institute. They began touring internationally in 2007 with an appearance at the Semanas Musicales festival in Chile.

Philippe Alexandre Blisle

The music of Philippe-Alexandre Bélisle started to be heard at Theater plays. He is in fact well knowned in the Montreal amateur theater community as a comedian and a musician. His most recognize work has been on "Les Perses d'Echyle", "Les Oiseaux d'Aristophane", "En Attendant Godot de Samuel Beckett", "Six Personnages en quête d'auteur de Luigi Pirandello", "Zoo Story" d'Edwards Albee" ..

"I like to think that my musical influences comes from all the great film music composers like: Hans Zimmer, Vangelis, Cliff Martinez, Clint Mansell, Eric Serra... to name a few! Those composers all use synthesizers to create their original score. Then, as budget and time permit, they translate it to an orchestrated version with poignant results."

"The fact that you cannot categorize my music without compromising it's accessibility is something that is original in itself. My music crosses established stylistic boundaries and blends flavors from various genres without becoming elusive."

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