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ARRANGER<> GUITARIST electric & acoustic
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to book Mel for your project see styles at base
of page.
Please note: A sense of humour is a boon, though I'm not for Racoon
hats with all the alternative materials available nowadays.... PREAMBLE
[ INTRO: focus...there are many aspects to everyone, here we
focus on a fragment of one aspect of one person. Do you think Melanie has
written this? She's written most of the songs at this site, though this,
well, in any event she has contributed information here...
Hello, Well, I was asked as this basic independent artist ,
to list the wonderful venues , radio stations, televised programs,
and other I have experienced as receptive to the truly independent artist,
so that others may avail themselves of those avenues of artistic expression.
I answered that whatever I could list would be historical and ,
let's not get hysterical , some have changed form, and here
' comprehensive ' is a myth. *
= does mean list available ....Well, o.k,
list some now, some later....Let's start with NY ]
FIELD Live Performance includes *
:
ensemble, solo, & guest
NY : about
wonderful venues over the past years [ click here ] ; NH ; FL; PA ;
MA ;
INTL includes*:
Bermuda
, Fiji , Indonesia , Italy , Ireland , India , Java , Khasi Meghlaya ,
Nepal , Switzerland ,
VISUAL-PRINT performed and or interviewed in conscientious print
; independent video ; independent television exchange *
and open-minded radio * Idioms:
modern:
Rock, New Age, Metal, Blues; Baroque, Romantic ancient: Himalayan
; Native American ;
Public Domain Audio: original and cover version releases *
;
compilations with other music artists * ; internet
; indie-college radio *; hard copies
CATALOGUE soundtracks and technologies include those
for programs and moving pictographic portfolios [ film related ] ; technique
demonstrations * original Rakatan Music Company, Broadcast Music
Inc.; interpretative schemes for modern ensembles *;;
lyrical themes: love, nature, and sci-fi fantasy; vantages:
first, second , and third person.
[ should this be the next thing to list? ]
REVIEWS* [click here
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PERFORMANCE - RECORDING - PRODUCTION * : original and
cover, independent releases, compilations with other music artists;
and soundtracks for diverse film portfolios include Melanie
Ray's work with the following :
RAKATAN project with 4 plus original music album CD audio releases
in hard and cyber formats; 4 plus DVD films in hard and cyber formats;
CATALOGUE* examples
[ click here ]; ;
Fierless Lieder Tom Kochan ; Musica Compagna Luganese ; Arbor
Day Cabaret Festival ; Paul Clements; Carl Fortunato; Charlie Tuitt: Miles
Davis ; Doc Halliday : B.B. King ; Graham Knox: Dom Perry ; Pepsi Robinson
; Catskills MUSIC FESTIVAL; Chelsea Music; Danny Miranda :
Cactus, Blue Oyster Cult, Queen ; Noel Redding : The Jimi Hendrix Experience
; Robert Silverman: Junior Welles ; Bill Shanley : Eire Billboard ; Shawn
Solomon: Ronnie Wood, Roger Daltrey, Nona Hendryx ; Mick Taylor : John
Mayall, Rolling Stones; Dave Amlen: Deep Purple ; Steve Wolfe: Hiram Bullock,
Grover Washington ;
As Supporting Player *on guitar, bass, vocals; keyboards , and drums
for: Rock: Two by Four; Unatural Axe; Band Raj; The Ragdolls;
Ace Harris and the Experiment; Anthony Aquarius ; Mark Alexander; Andy
Genovese ; Bruce Wayne; Paul Freefall World: Ghandarva Vedic
Music; Blues/Funk/R-n-B:
Brenda Bell's Delta Blues; Bill Sims; Blues
Review; Casey Jones; Kathleen Gerritsen ; Jumpin' Jehosaphat ; Maria Lee
Carta Metal/Punk: Ages of Fortune ; Elliot Essman ;
The Ragdolls; Mark Truth and the Liars, OrangeRecords, intl. Carribean
style: Ira Abel ; Folk Style: Ferrari Productions; Platinum
Island ;
*Recording Studio songwriter's projects: diverse
Sound Track Technician :Alice's Fourth Floor Reperetory Theatre
Studio: New Breed; Hot Sound
Studios; Electric Lady ; Studio 900 ; Shadow Sound ; Sound-On-Sound;
Lion's Den; Millrose Music; Dessau; Playroom; Skyelab; Platinum Island,
Absolute Audio; Master Disk. Ireland: Sulan Studios;
Guest participant Technical Study Group Meetings : Air Studios;
Compass Point; Hit Factory ;
FORMAL EDUCATION: MUSIC -Music Studies, B.A., SUNY Empire
FORMAL Education SCIENCE & other includes [ you'll
need to write for a list, no just kidding ] : Regeants-Excelsior
SUNY ; Fordham University; Franklin College Switzerland ; Unversity of
Neuchatel ; Instituto Allende Mexico ].
INFORMAL music EDUCATION INCLUDES
GUITAR: Guitar Study Center; American Institute of Guitar ;
The New School for Social Research : Steve Tarshis- Hendrix ; Phil Grande:
Joe Cocker, BOC ; Eddie Ojeda: Twisted Sister ; Daniel Debrit: Krokkus
; Jimmy Crespo : Aerosmith ; Howard Scherr-Muddy Waters, Clapton, S. R.
Vaughn ; Tommy Schiff -Billy Squier BASS :Derek Wood &
Frankie Gibson VOICE:
Brenda Bell: Spivey Records ; KEYBOARD:
Edith
Penguilly ; Rhythm and Meter: Yiqbal Singh: Ali Rakka ; Mitch Mitchell
- DESERT ISLAND DISC , jhe , Band of Gypsys, ;
Sitar, Sarod,
: Orissa Music School ; Ganesh Narayan - Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan
; Stix and Stonz ;Mechanics of the Independent : David Peel
: Elephant's Memory Muzic Biz:
Anne Ruckert : T.Rex
LETTERS of REFERENCE: available
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