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Electronic duo Cling now have their music at We7, here at Atom Sounds we highly recommend that you stop on by and check out their tracks, just click the banner below to be taken to their page for some audio delight

We7 is a website that supplies free music to the consumer and still provides a stream of revenue to musicians.

Being a member of We7 costs you nothing, your tracks will be DRM free forever, and the artists will get paid.

We7 will now feature music from internationally successful artists including Bruce Springsteen, Westlife and Foo Fighters and top selling British talent such as Mark Ronson and Kasabian.

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For those following developments on Project Overseer Productions main Artist Section (known as POP) will be pleased to hear that the long awaited upgrade is taking place.

Improvements include a better general layout with easy access to members musical creations, also a better chart system, forums (general and personal) … better photo gallery presentation, Press Kit, Chat Rooms (just use your Artist name login, not password to enter) … future live reviews events like POP’s old `Friday Night Live` will return again to these fully featured chat rooms.

Also for the first time is full HTML page editing, and ALL members have VIP features, a small charge is made for extra space if needed, though most find what’s offered free fine.

Each Artist has many shop features to choose from, and by using PayPal, paid downloads of many file types as well as CD sales are possible as standard.

Coming soon is the return of POP’s Arcade games, more than 450 fun games that will become part of the main Chart system.  These are only a few of the features on offer to talented Independents looking for a good home to showcase their works, and don’t forget … POP Artist have the bonus `interlinking` POP SPACE to extend promos, and its FREE!

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Article Tags>> | Downloads | forums | games | Independent Music | mp3 | music | new features | POP | project overseer | Project Overseer Productions | upgrades | Video

“Yampapaya” is the extraordinary result of a collaboration between two artists from different cultures: David James Hoffman, an American singer and songwriter, and Augustin Bizimana (Bixas Liberatore), a singer and songwriter from the Congo. The group’s roots go back to 1984 when David James Hoffman followed his father, an American diplomat, to China where he formed a multiracial group with Eastern, Western and African musicians known at the time as “Beijing Underground”. Sponsored by the Chinese Society for the Development of Culture and Art and by the Chinese Philharmonic Society, the band did a number of highly successful tours around China, devolving the proceeds to the Chinese fund for the handicapped. After this experience David started to focus his multiethnic style more directly on Africa with lyrics in English, French and African dialects such as Lingala and Swahili. The group was soon defined as a “musical melting pot, full of energy, melting together harmonies and rhythms of different continents”. In 1986 David moved to Hong Kong where he continued his “musical laboratory” first calling his band “Afrozilia” then “Ado” and finally “Yampapaya” (which in Thai means “spicy mixed salad”). In 1990 David moved back to the USA, feeling the need to embark on new projects with musicians from Cuba and south America and experimenting with new rhythms and harmonies such as the Zouk, Calypso and Reggae. In 1994 the group transfered to Europe and took up residence in Italy where they are now promoting their original musical style which ranges from soukous to funk and from reggae to rock. With the participation of artists and instruments from America, Africa, Italy and Cuba, Yampapaya is the living proof that music is limitless and without frontiers.

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Article Tags>> African soukous | funk | reggae | rock

The “Fabryka” project began at the end of 2004, when Stefano Milella (programming, air-fx, bass guitar, synth, acoustic and electronic drums), Tiziana Felle (voice, guitars, bass guitar), Giovanni Chiapparino (piano, synth, bass, drums, accordion, vibraphone), Agostino Scaranello (bass), and Pasquale Luisi (visual maker) first got together. Although still in its early days, the band is already highly considered and has taken part in the main shows of the music scene. The project aspires at the harmonious blending of acoustic and electronic music, of refined and improvised visuals, all performed or re-created on stage. It is an attempt to merge reality and fiction, fairy tales and facts, words and metaphors. “Fabryka” could be defined as the “moment” in which the different facets of a single expression manage to live together. The band’s name is taken from a Kieslowski documentary film, but it is also inspired by the idea of art as a ‘factory’, an assembly line where numerous little “pieces” are carefully assembled into a final product which does not openly reveal its underlying components: as so often happens in art between thought and expression, feeling and showing, imagination and production.

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Article Tags>> down-tempo | electronica | experimental | POP | trip hop

Andrea Celeste was born in Pontedera on the 31st of August 1986. When only 11 years old she started giving her first public performances and took up the study of classical singing and piano under the guidance of M. Vittorio Scali. Her talent did not pass unnoticed and she was invited, while still an adolescent, to share the stage with some of the most important national and international Gospel projects and singers such as the St. Jacob’s Gospel Choir directed by M. Massimo Bracci, the Joyful Angels directed by M. Vijay Pierallini, and the American singer Cheryl Porter. In 2002 Andrea won a scholarship for the International Gospel Seminar in Castelbrando where she shared the stage with Mario Biondi and Cheryl Porter. It was Cheryl Porter herself who, in 2007, asked Andrea Celeste to join Vox Box, Cheryl’s new project, which gave its debut performance alongside Gianni Morandi (one of Italy’s most popular artists) during his concert in Bologna. A tireless professional, Andrea Celeste pursued her studies to improve her vocal technique and attended numerous workshops with Maestros such as: Terron Brooks, Ashley Davis, Huntley Brown, Michael e Regina Winans. At the same time Andrea was also very busy in the recording studios, lending her voice to various gospel, R&B, soul e jazz projects, and participating in mainstream events such as the Milano Gospel Festival for 3 years in succession (a dvd of the festival’s greatest moments was distributed throughout Italy by the newspaper “Il Giornale”).

In July 2007, Andrea started work on her first solo album. Produced by Roberto Vigo for the Philology label, “My Reflection” is the long-awaited debut of this young talented artist who wrote the music and the lyrics of the songs and then entrusted them to outstanding performers: Gianluca Tagliazucchi (piano), Dino Cerruti (double bass), Rodolfo Cervetto (drums). This album can boast the collaboration of some of the greatest names in Italian Jazz as guests: Roberto Izzo, Stefano Cabrera, Marco Moro, Filippo Gambetta, the incomparable Dado Moroni (co-author of the song “Real”), Riccardo Fioravanti, Enzo Zirilli, Pietro Leveratto and Andrea Pozza. The result is a delicious jazz, dressed in velvet and embellished by the voice of this splendid artist and her capacity to balance, with rare elegance, mellow tones and extraordinary power.

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Article Tags>> acoustic | easy listening | jazz | soul

Gianni Rosini was born in Gioia del Colle (Bari) on 31.05.61, in a family that was already contaminated by the music virus; the evidence lying in the splendid performance of his mother, Vera Greco, in “Ie te vurria vasà”. Right from the start Gianni and his brother Mario, runner-up with “Sei la Vita Mia” (You’re my Life) in the 2004 Sanremo Festival, showed their musical talent and found their first admirer and supporter in master Procino.
The Rosini brothers started to attend master Partipilo’s music school and, thanks to their natural gift and young age, were soon participating in song festivals for children and later as a festival attraction in the surrounding villages and towns. At the age of eighteen, Gianni Rosini decided to leave Gioia del Colle and moved to Milan where his artistic abilities were soon noticed and he also began to receive invitations to perform abroad. As a consequence he started to perform in important venues in a number of major European capitals (Vienna, Berlin, Paris etc.) with a repertoire that ranged from international hits to classic Italian songs. Success and its inevitable entourage created in Gianni the urge, the need, to return to his native land and his roots.
Once home, Gianni gathered around him a number of talented musician friends: his brother Mario, an extraordinary pianist, the drummer Mimmo Campanale and the bass player Paolo Romano (currently involved in numerous jazz and pop projects), and formed a group that very quickly made itself known to the public thanks to its musical intensity and the charismatic stage presence of Gianni himself, a real showman. The formation of the group was followed by a long period of concerts in all the major festivals in southern Italy.
In the meantime Gianni nurtured his creative inspiration composing music which was to find favour amongst musical experts in general and in particular with Claudio Rispoli, aka Mozart, musician and producer, who endeavoured to persuade Gianni to record his first album. Unfortunately, Gianni’s restlessness, so typical of true artists, led him to flee from this first contact with the record industry and to enter an important period of artistic maturation triggered by his desire to experience Africa and her sonority. At this point Gianni took up residence for a period in Dakkar in direct contact with the real Africa, a country where extreme hardship merges with joy and with beauty of the truest deepest nature. All this can be found in the album “Giovanni”, in tracks such as “Africa”, “Splendida” or “Cico Bom Bom”. It was all that Gianni needed.
On his return to Italy, Gianni’s desire and need to shout out his emotions became possible in 2004 when his path crossed that of Michele Fazio, Mino Petruzzelli and Pino Mazzarano. These long-standing musician friends, each with a long and important musical experience both as soloists and in groups (the album “Bye Bye Patty Live”, the soundtrack to S. Rubini’s film “Tutto l’amore che c’è”, the tour with Ronnie Jones, Teo Teocoli, Gianluca Grignani etc.) were instantly enchanted by Gianni’s music and his project. This new formation, with the addition of the percussionist Francesco Pelizzari and the young bass player Pierpaolo Giandomenico, finally gave rise to Gianni’s long-awaited debut album, “Giovanni”.
The production of such a long-suffered and much loved creation could not be entrusted to anyone other than to Gianni’s first true supporter, Claudio Rispoli, whose understanding of the importance of the project led to his total dedication. This true life story, with its ups and its downs, its joy and its sufferance, has become the album “Giovanni”, a genuine product, like its author.

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Article Tags>> acoustic | easy listening | piano | POP | soul

Gianni Raschiatore: keyboard player, arranger, programmer, author and composer of great experience. His business is arranging and producing music for theatrical events, and he has also been involved in numerous collaborations with emerging artists. The year 2007 saw the release of his debut album: “Sunday Morning”, published under his artist name Kernell32. The album contains 9 tracks in lounge style which lay bare the author’s soul. With “Sunday Morning”, Kernell32 introduces himself with an innovative production, easy to listen to and with captivating atmospheres. “Order to Feel”, with its groove somewhat reminiscent of the early ‘80s and its enchanting choruses and positive impact, “UFO”, a driving track with decidedly surprising sounds, and of course “Standby”, with its changes in sonority creating an atmosphere of great effect. These are just a few of the tracks to be found on this album. Original tracks whose nuances and arrangements are never the same but are united by a common denominator – the desire to amaze the listener, accompanying him on a trip within a new refined music: a trip that winds up at the heart of the lounge genre. These characteristics make “Sunday Morning” an album that can be listened to in every moment of the day without it ever becoming tiring or repetitive.

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Article Tags>> | ambient | drum'n'bass | easy listening | lounge

Hadd, also known as Hadduhg, was born in Ghana on the 18th of January 1988. He goes by the name of Richard Agyepong and was raised in northern Italy. At the age of 12 he left his home town not because he wanted to, but for the good living of his family. At that age your boy didn’t know what “rappin” was; he was only listening and repeating all his favorite songs from 2Pac, Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, Nate Dogg, Coolio, Xzibit and let’s say all those influenced by the West Coast genre. Then a year later he started focusing on the lyrics of rappers like Eminem on his “The Marshall Mathers” album and mostly to 50Cents’s “Power Of The Dollar”. In those early days he was also watching what his big bros were doing, so from them too, he picked up something and made it his own. But when 50Cents came out with his “Get Rich Or Die Tryin” album, Hadd got touched and it was like the rap genre calling him. He responded to that call and started writing verses the first of which, as he still remembers, he wrote on a desk at school. After that verse he continued writing others and started to record when one of his homies gave him the number of a studio. Since then he hasn’t stopped. Right now he’s on his first mixtape entitled “Thatz Whatz Up”. The mixtape is going to be like 40% Italian rap and 60% English, so it’s definitely going to be HOT stuff! There is still a lot to buzz about Hadd, so stay tuned for more updates.

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Article Tags>> hip-hop | R&B | rap

Insout is a creative music duo formed in 2000 by two great friends: Claudio Allia (composer and producer) and Riccardo Samperi (composer, producer and sound engineer) with the only intent to express their own visions and inner emotions, through the exploration of several sonic directions. “Our artistic influences vary from Magritte and Dalì paintings to Mediterranian etno /folk music, rock and blues, electronic music, funk, jazz and classical; from J.S. Bach to Dreamtheater, from Thelonious Monk to Orbital.”

 

 

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Article Tags>> fusion | jazz | world

A driving passion for music and an overriding desire to play in front of a live audience led to the birth of the Acousticherie project at the end of the year 2005. The line-up includes two acoustic and classical guitarists: Ivan Melis and Elia Casu, a drummer and percussionist: Stefano Vacca, and a singer: Giulio Muscas, with the addition in October 2007 of the bass player: Matteo Muntoni. An instrumentation at the limit of acoustic sometimes filtered with effects to create a more original and particular sound. The group’s repertoire, which ranges from rock ’n’ roll to swing, from bossa nova to the sweetest of ballads and includes ethnic and experimental music, revisits and reinvents in acoustic form the most famous and powerful songs that have characterized the history of music from the beginning of the 20th century up to the present day. Contact with their audiences was immediate from the outset and live exhibitions have given an extra kick to a group already highly charged and well harmonized. Acousticherie has performed live on innumerable occasions, some considerably important, and has had the opportunity to play alongside a number of eminent artists such as the renowned musician Enzo Favata. In the winter of 2006/07 the group produced its first studio album entitled, quite simply, “Acousticherie” which saw the collaboration of a number of friends whose contribution has further enriched what was already a highly individual sound.

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Article Tags>> acoustic | experimental | nu-jazz | POP | rock