"Modern Day Tragedy" New sonic high water mark!

"Modern Day Tragedy" New sonic high water mark!
As I was into the last hours of a mix that started last Friday I did not know if this track was crap or not. I finished it last night at midnight I was all alone. I thought about all the many people who have made this track what it has become and was grateful.
The song has come a long way from writing it with Ralph Murphy at my dinner table with an acoustic guitar. To tracking the drums with Randal Stoll and my production team at the Warehouse with my long-time friend and partner Delwyn Brooks, an amazing talent! The song took me back to my studio, recording bass and keyboards with John Dryden and Andrew Lorimer. Finally the string arrangement by Christian Howes was done at Berklee.
We removed, edited and revised the arrangement to stay on point. “It’s all about the little girl”
Delwyn returned to mix the track with me for a few two days sessions.
Here I am sending it to you all I have to say is “I can stand behind it and now own it”
M

MICHAEL BEHM New Single "It's My Time"

MICHAEL BEHM
“It’s My Time”

With “It’s My Time,” prolific Canadian songsmith Michael Behm has crafted another winner. Rich in melody and possessing lyrics filled with universal resonance, it’s a song that belongs on Hot AC radio and in the hearts of its listeners.

Behm has earned a rapidly growing international following with his eloquent solo compositions, but “It’s My Time” marks a new foray into co-writing. The song is the shining outcome of a highly creative collaboration with legendary Canadian songwriter Ron Irving.

Behm had been working on an earlier version of the track, but Irving’s subsequent input in terms of the lyrics and arrangement proved invaluable. “The song went through a positive change, and I’m thrilled with the results,” says Behm. “I put the track out to my network of people around the world and the response has been overwhelming.”

The track will be features on the 2009 season of American Idol exposing Behm to millions of listener’s worldwide.

“It’s My Time” takes the listener on a voyage of emotional discovery when the singer finds he is now on the big stage and as Behm says, “The crowd is going wild!” The track features Behm’s expressive and honest vocals and guitar work. This is complemented by the superb accompaniment of A-list player’s drummer Randall Stoll (Tom Cochrane), bassist Scott Macleod (Platters) Steve Morris (Ian Gillan Band). Recording of the track took place at both Bryan Adam’s Warehouse Studios and Behm’s Vancouver Island studio. The track was mixed by Behm’s long time partner Delwyn Brooks, (INXS, Coverdale / Jimmy Page) with mastering by Brian Gardner at Bernie Grundman, Katy Perry, Linkin Park.

The result is another pop gem, one that belongs on your AAA play list.

For more information, contact michaelbehmmusic.com

Win one of 5 new autographed Fender Guitars by Michael Behm

Win one of 5 new autographed Fender Guitars by Michael Behm
Help me pick the new Michael Behm single!!!
You guys are way smarter than any record company.
Email your choice to me at the below link and you can win one of 5 Fender guitars.
A winner will be picked each week starting Sept 10/09

The three songs choices are
Where I Belong
APPLE In Her Hand
Don’t Throw Our Love Away
http://www.reverbnation.com/michaelbehmmusiccom

“Rock Impressions” Review Of Alessandro Bottura's Popular New “Morning Grooves” CD Out Now On Itunes

“Times are changed compared to 70s, 80s and 90s, music tries to derive benefits from the net. This modern weapon, indissolubly tied to computer, allows to been known and self-product oneself in the eyes of the whole world. Recording studios and producing companies are less and less useful, but that isn’t totally a negative side for music’s future. Thousands of musical talents all around the world, without internet, would have been remained anonymous. That’s the case of Alessandro Bottura, a local and valid multi-instrumentalist. Bottura loves to play mainly the bass and the way of playing recalls inexorably to the mind the name of Jaco Pastorius. So, we’re talking’ about a Rock Jazz with flashes of Fusion. Surely to the more attentive of you, Bottura’s name doesn’t sound new, and in fact Last.fm surely made it work.
The track “May Day Mayhem”, then, is topping the RadioIndy’s chart in America and the Reverbnation’s one here in Italy. This is why we can find “Morning Grooves” on Amazon.com, I-Tunes, CdBaby, Napster and much more websites of that kind. Internet is a stab in the back of the musical business because of wild downloading, but at the same time is an inexhaustible forge of brand new artists. “Out Of Sight” is a track that immediately displays the artist’s gifts and opens more than worthily the CD. Personally, I love very much the warm sound of the bass and this heats me inside, making me immediately endear this music. I don’t hide that I’ve been a big fan of the Canadian band Uzeb and those of you that knows them can understand what I mean for warm sound, even Bottura himself, I think. Jazz improvisation, good guitar solos and some nice drum roll, accompany the listening. And it’s not by chance that the second track has named “Mind, Passion & Instinct”, the real summary of “Morning Grooves”, valid more than a thousand words…But pay attention, we’re not listening to a self-celebratory record, although all the ingredients leads to that, there’s also heart and really melodic piano moments. There’s joy in “Quetzalcoatl”, so much that the foot starts to beat track rhythm by itself. Delightful is also the dynamism of the guitar in the final of “Deaf Kids’ Disco”, but, as I told before, the record star is “May Day Mayhem”. Dragging rhythm and explosive bass, it represents Alessandro Bottura’s present sound at his best.


All the record is very pleasant to be listened and flows away quickly in his nine tracks and fifty minutes. Surely, it isn’t all a bed of roses, let’s come to the faults (even if little), I think that sometimes there’s a need to dare more, for what concern the writing side. That’s giving a stylistic paw, too often (but that’s also a genre's fault) some deja-vus come to the mind. The second mole is a little critic, personally I’m still tied to certain canons, so that, for me, the artwork is still important, a completion of the whole work..and here things don’t go well at all. For everything else, boys, let’s give a listen to this new Italian artist, you won’t regret. Meanwhile, welcome and good luck to Alessandro Bottura”

- Massimo Salari for “Rock Impressions”

Extra Music Magazine Reviews New Morning Grooves CD By Alessandro Bottura

Extra Music Magazine Reviews New Morning Grooves CD By Alessandro Bottura

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PAS present "Bitten By a Spider" new video

PAS present "Bitten By a Spider" new video

"Bitten By a Spider" by PAS (Post Abortion Stress)

Steve Morris touches down with Michael Behm

Steve Morris Guitar Legend

Touches down in Vancouver July 25th to work with Michael Behm on new tracks for up and coming movie about legendary ACDC singer Bon Scott.
Behm will be recording 5 cuts for Dead Famous International to be used in the movie.

“Steve I will be writing together and he will be playing slide on other tracks I am working on for release late in the year. Steve will be signing a Fender Strat to be given away in a contest to be announced.”

Thanks to all who have enjoyed the daily downloads I will be doing a weekly song feature each week starting soon. The track will be free for the week it is featured.

Steve Morris Link
http://www.getreadytorock.com/10questions/steve_morris.htm