Catsask Music & Entertainment

State College, PA, March 28, 2008 – BMI affiliated Singer-Songwriter Will Diehl has announced the presale for his new studio release Love and Motion, a CD of original music. The CD contains a mix of rock, pop, jazz and alt-country. A reviewer of one of the songs said, “I thought this song was going in one direction when it started out, and then it … took a new direction … Loved the sax. Vocals were cool too, it felt like a mix between Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, and George Thorogood.” One of the unique aspects of the process and creation of this CD is that collaboration was via the internet. Will has never met some of the musicians on this CD – and most of the tracks were recorded in the respective musicians’ home studios and then sent back and forth to Diehl. Diehl recorded the initial vocal and guitar tracks at his home studio and sent the tracks to drummer and bass player James Robinson (http://www.internetmusicproduction.com/) in Los Angeles.
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The epic “Pennsylvania Avenue” uses DC as Springsteen used Asbury Park, with the inner emotions, darkness, passions, power, and hope of the many different groups in DC used as a prism to reflect the power, passion, dreams, and often undiscovered darkness of humanity. The powerful political message has since seen the track included in a very popular Obama IMix on iTunes.
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“One of the greats of British contemporary music broadcasting?still an independent champion of great music,” says Radio Times.

TORONTO - March 28, 2007 - Legendary musical tastemaker Bob Harris thinks NXNE is the place to be. And who are we to argue? For more than 35 years, his voice has been a beacon to listeners trying to navigate their way through the vast, dark void of mediocre music. So when the award-winning music journalist said he was packing his keen sense of sound and heading to NXNE to search out cutting-edge artists and bring BBC Radio 2 listeners the best in new music from Canada’s “Best New Music” festival, we couldn’t have been more excited.
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SEPTEMBER 2006 (MOSCOW, RUSSIA) - Anton Tsygankov, an award-winning rock guitar virtuoso and songwriter, has just announced the worldwide release of his ground-breaking debut album titled ANTI - The Anton Tsygankov Project.

To promote the album’s message, Tsygankov and his band are touring the Middle East, performing at anti-terrorism rallies in war zones and geopolitical hot spots.
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Forget the traditional smooth sounding jazz platitudes — Johnny Ferreira is not your typical bluesman. His just-released new CD “Rock & Roll Saxophonist” shows he’s a man on a mission — a mission to kick blandness out and reinject some attitude back into the sax life of the world’s music scene.
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Since 1992, keyboardist Scott Kinsey has been the secret weapon of Tribal Tech, one of the premier bands on the fusion scene. A remarkably distinctive soloist with a unique harmonic sensibility and a wholly inventive approach to synthesizers.

Kinsey has an uncanny knack for making technology sound organic and orchestrating in the moment. As Tribal Tech ringleader explains, “Scott has been such a big influence on the direction that Tribal Tech has taken. Before we met him all we really had was a band that played tunes the way they were written out. But Kinsey was a major reason for us getting to that point of being able to throw the charts away and just jam right in the moment, because he could do it so well and pull it off every time. It wasn’t until I played with Scott that I realized how loose it can be and still sound totally together. Because he would be pulling out so much cool stuff to listen to that you didn’t need a note of written music. Kinsey’s such a great improvising musician but he also brings a real sense of form and harmony to it so that you can just jam freely and know that it’s always gonna sound cool.”
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JUST WHO IS ISM AND HOW DID THEY JUST BLOW AWAY THE 80,000 ATTENDEES AT THE 25th ANNIVERSARY OF ALBANY?S FAMED LARKFEST?

Still Riding High With Their Hit Album Debut Monkey Underneath And Crossover Radio Single “Beside The Sun”.

OK, so just who the heck is ism and how did they just blow away music fans spread over five city blocks on Saturday night? That was the big question buzzing on everyone?s mind on the Sunday after the 25th Anniversary of LARKFest, the world famous festival in Albany, New York, that attracts upwards of 80,000 attendees.
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The Roots and Deviants of Reality cracked “CMJ’s Top 5 Most Added List” this week. I know who the Roots are but i had never heard of this hip hop group “Deviants of Reality” so i did some research and this is what i found out…
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Austin-based phenomenon Alpha Rev’s swift rise from the ashes of frontman Casey McPherson’s long time musical troop, Endochine shows no signs of slowing in late 2006. In fact, the act seems to be gaining momentum. Most recently, Alpha Rev has been asked to showcase their alluring brand of eclectic rock alongside Australian rock sensation Jet on Wednesday, September 20 at local venue La Zona Rosa.
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