Metal dreams: Four young guys have passion to make music

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- Metal dreams: Four young guys have passion to make music
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Metal dreams: Four young guys have passion to make music
Naples Daily News (subscription) – Mar 15, 2008
byline –> Saturday March 15 2008 ne is an anthropology student another studies art and history the third is a “Mr. Fix-it” of anything mechanical and the fourth is still in high school. Their common thread is that they’re exponents of “Death Metal” music the frenetic balls-to-the-wall kind of stuff that’ll shake rats out of the roof. But for band members T. Vollmar Hazel Vazquez Franco Castillo and Steven Laloggia the somewhat irreverent style of music is purely part of their act. Between them they’re actually big fans of an enormous variety of musical genres from John Coltrane to Lynrd Skynrd and from 1950s rockabilly to modern-day rap.

The Gauntlet: Keep f Kalessin Metal News
The Gauntlet – Mar 15, 2008
The highly anticipated new album entitled Kolossus is scheduled to be released in June 2008. Expect nothing less than a masterpiece!Keep f Kalessin is definitely the next big thing from Norway and will have a huge impact on the whole Metal scene. The base of the music is for sure Black Metal but Keep f Kalessin are also including other influences like Death Metal Thrash Metal and some non-metal components making their style fresh and truly unique. Keep f Kalessin will soon be one of the main driving forces in extreme Metal and one of the bands of 2008. Be prepared for their matchless crusade!”These Norwegians are delivering an unbelievable performance in Black Metal virulent aggressive and technically very far above the standard. The guys around bsidian C. are extremely heavy and to the point filling their songs with surprising breaks and instrumentation.

Car parts rchestra: the man who turned a family hatchback into a 30…
Telegraph.co.uk – Mar 15, 2008
In attendance is their inventor a thin man in his fifties who – with pony tail goatee and specs – looks as if he’s from central casting but is actually just off the plane from New Jersey. Bill Milbrodt was approached by the production company commissioned by Ford to shoot the ad for the simple reason that his is the name that comes up when you Google “car parts + music”. A composer of incidental music for corporate meetings on the East Coast who plays guitar “at the level of a high-school student” he chanced upon his career path in 1994 when his own car was ready for the knacker’s yard. “I decided to turn it into a series of musical instruments. I’ve always had a leaning towards the avant garde – John Cage Frank Zappa people who changed the language of music. I had a car I couldn’t sell so I thought why not?” Working with a metal sculptor he stripped the car down to nuts and bolts and came up with two prototypes: a xylophone made from window glass which he called a doorimba and “a guitar that was more like a ukulele”. In 18 months he had produced enough instruments – with quirky names such as dijeriduba exhaustaphone and tank bass – to form the Car Music Project with like-minded musos… It looks like something Jimmy Page might have wielded if he’d ever had a sci-fi phase. Milbrodt had to make the instruments as familiar as possible to the musicians who played Richey’s atmospheric waltz in the ad and on Alesha Dixon’s song because the shooting schedule afforded them only a few hours to get used to the unfamiliar keys strange shapes and in the case of the shockbone a less reliable slide mechanism than its brass cousin. “You can work it to death but it won’t move like trombone: it’s a chunky pipe made from shock absorbers. Saxophones are slightly conical but a car’s tubes are cylindrical so the sound behaves differently. You make what you can from what you have. ” The other difficulty was finding the metal parts in a modern car. “Cars are lighter better stronger but things start to disappear on you.

Law and disorderly
The Australian – Mar 15, 2008
It could be the early 1800s but this is Sydney 2008 and the venue is the Justice and Police Museum where the courtroom dating back to the 1890s has been hired for the filming of a new ABC series on the 200th anniversary of the Rum Rebellion. It’s a popular spot for filmmaking mock trials and education programs. The dock surrounded by metal spikes has been reconstructed based on old drawings of the Water Police Court which dealt with up to 120 cases a day at the close of the 19th century. The most common offences were petty theft assault drunkenness and vagrancy. Many features from the late 1800s remain including the magistrates’ bench. It’s an unusual museum giving a voice to Sydney’s dark side revealing a history some may prefer to forget. From the outside the small sandstone building on a corner at Circular Quay is dwarfed by high-rises: the Sir Stamford hotel looms menacingly… "I have tried to show that barristers are often vibrant grounded people with varied and active lives" he says. Back to the ’70s: Street festival (We’re) Living in the ’70s will celebrate the era of green bans and protests that saved Sydney’s Rocks area from the bulldozer. Live music from the time with revival band FABBA television show screenings fashion vehicle displays stalls and memorabilia. utside Susannah Place Museum 58-64Gloucester St on Sunday May 4 from 10am. Street event free; museum entry $4 a person. More: (02) 8239 2211.