Chris Spheeris

   
Artist: Chris Spheeris

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   Ambient
   

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Discography:


   
 Mystic Traveller

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 11


   
 Worldname

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12


   
 Allura

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Best Of Chris Spheeris

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 13


   
 Adagio

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 16


   
 Dancing With The Muse

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 8


   
 Eros

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 10


   
 Europa

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 9


   
 Culture

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 9


   
 Pathways To Surrender

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 9


   
 Desires of the Heart

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 10


   
 Desires

   Year: 1986   
Tracks: 10


   
 De Luxe Collection - Limited Edition

   Year:    
Tracks: 16


   
 Crystal Dream

   Year:    
Tracks: 13

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New age Chris Spheeris began authorship songs on his guitar as a adolescent. Inspired by the sacred and folks music of his Greek heritage and other world music, classical music, and crop up, Spheeris amalgamated these elements together into his have unique musical style. The family line aspects of his music were outstanding early in his life history as section of a duet with guitarist/composer Paul Voudouris in the '70s and early '80s. After they disbanded, Spheeris began to make a more complex, keyboard-based profound, which he attested on self-produced demonstration tapes. One of these demos found its style to the A&R department at Columbia Records, with whom Spheeris signed a carry on in 1985. The label released his debut album, Desires of the Heart, and Pathways to Surrender before he left in the early '90s to figure his own label, Essence, which released most of his solo output and 2 reunions with Voudouris: Spell and Zero merely the Truth. Along with his solo albums, Spheeris has too composed tons for cable and public television documentaries. He released his Higher Octave Records debut, Dancing With the Muse, in early 2000.





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Scott Storch - Storch Wanted By Police

Producer SCOTT STORCH is wanted by Florida authorities over his spiralling debt problems - they've issued an arrest warrant for the star after he failed to show for a recent child support court hearing.

The Lean Back beatmaker is currently being sued by his ex-girlfriend Dalene Daniel for late child support payments for their son Jalen, two.

The two parties were due to appear at a court in Miami-Dade earlier this month (Jun08), but Storch didn't turn up.

And his no-show has prompted Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Marc Schumacher to issue a pick-up order, giving cops the permission to arrest and jail the star until he can be brought to court.

The order, known as a "writ of bodily attachment", reads: "You are hereby commanded to take into your custody Scott Spencer Storch."

Meanwhile, Storch has also been hit with another paternity suit. Vanessa Bellido claims Storch is the "natural father" of her 16-year-old son Steven Brandon Bellido. She alleges Storch accepted he was his son and sent money voluntarily to help them cope.

However, the payments stopped in January (08) and now Bellido is struggling to make ends meet.

But Storch's lawyer, Guy Spielgelman, insists the producer is refinancing his home to try and settle his financial shortfalls.

He says, "'He intends to honour all of his obligations. He was a victim of mismanagement of his business enterprises, resulting in his current predicament.''

Storch, who has worked with the likes of Jay-Z, Beyonce Knowles, Mariah Carey and Dr. Dre, has been plagued by rumours of financial difficulty for months.

He is also alleged to have fallen two years behind on property taxes amounting to $511,839 (GBP255,919) for his $10.5 million (GBP5.25 million) home on Palm Island in Miami Beach, and back in February (08), he was ordered to pay back more than $500,000 (GBP250,000) to a record label boss after reneging on a loan deal.

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Lichens

   
Artist: Lichens

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 The Psychic Nature of Being

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 3

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Lichens was the solo improv project of Chicago composer Robert Lowe, antecedently known as the bassist with artistry stone combo 90 Day Men. A product of the Kansas City country, Lowe signed on with 90 Day Men in 1996, only prior to their relocation from St. Louis to Chicago; when the grouping went on hiatus following a European circuit supporting its 2004 disc Panda Park, Lowe channeled his energies into his long-simmering solo pursuits, appearance as Lichens at that summer's Arthur magazine-sponsored Million Tongues Festival and self-releasing a limited edition CD-R, R. Brown. Looping wordless vocals and avant-folk fingerpicking to create otherworldly sheets of deep-listening drone pipe, Lowe before long charmed the attention of Kranky Records co-owner Bruce Adams, and in the autumn of 2005 the tag released Lichens' official debut, The Psychic Nature of Being.

The Courteeners cover Sugababes and Velvet Underground for new single

The Courteeners have covered songs by The Velvet Underground and Sugababes for B-sides to their forthcoming single.

The Manchester band have recorded their versions of Sugababes' 'About You Now' and The Velvet Underground's 'I'm Sticking With You' as flipsides to 'No You Didn't, No You Don't'.

Liam Fray and co also reworked ' 'Dream A Little Dream Of Me', Laura Marling's 'New Romantic' and James' 'Out To Get You' for the release.

The songs will feature on CD, digital and 7" formats, all of which are out on June 23.




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Edith Bowman reveals pregnancy danger

Pregnant DJ Edith Bowman has revealed that giving birth could put her life at risk, because she is suffering from a serious heart defect.
The 33-year-old star, who is five months pregnant with her first baby, told the Evening Standard that she has a bicuspid aortic valve, which increases her chances of dying in childbirth.
The DJ said that she will require a Caesarean section and that doctors must monitor her closely throughout her pregnancy.
Bowman said: "We get to find out the baby's sex later this month but I'm like, 'there are really more important things to worry about right now than the colour of baby clothes'."
"Basically I need these extra scans early in the pregnancy and I'll have to have a Caesarean because no-one - including my heart specialist - sees the point in putting my heart through unnecessary stress."
Bowman was diagnosed with the condition in summer 2004 after suffering palpitations and tiredness while working at the Glastonbury Festival.
She said: "It was shocking, obviously. But once you get your head around it, you realise there's nothing you can do except try and get on with life."
"I was told that the greatest risk is deterioration and that I may need a valve transplant later on, which is scary. But for now, it seems fine."

Regina Spektor

   
Artist: Regina Spektor

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   Vocal
   Pop
   

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Discography:


   
 Valentines Day (Live At Tonic)

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 22


   
 Begin To Hope

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 12


   
 11.11

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 2

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A veteran of New York's anti-folk scene, Regina Spektor makes upbeat, highly eclecticist, but constantly personal medicine. Born and raised in Moscow until age nine-spot, Spektor listened to her father's bootleg tapes of Horse opera come out and rock confect as a prince Edward Young child and besides learned to play piano. She and her kin group stirred from Russia to the Bronx, where she was immersed in American culture (at the time, hers was the setoff Russian clan in the borough in 20 long time). Eventually, Spektor and her kindred became part of a community that balanced her Russian Jewish roots with her modern home's culture. She continued to exercise piano anywhere she could, including at her temple, until her crime syndicate got a pianissimo of their have. Spektor farther developed her serious music pianissimo training by attendance the SUNY Purchase Music Conservatory. During her studies, she was exposed to megrims and jazz artists, including Billie Holiday, for the kickoff sentence; these sounds made such an wallop on Spektor that they became a bad share of her self-released 2001 debut record album, 11:11. At the sami time, she was excessively playing gigs anywhere she could in the metropolis, in venues ranging from basements to parties to drollery clubs. With her frequent performances and or so other self-released album, 2002's Songs, Spektor developed a next that included Alan Bezozi, They Might Be Giants' drummer; he introduced Spektor to the Strokes' manufacturing business, Gordon Raphael. Raffaello Sanzio and Bezozi worked with Spektor on her third base album, Soviet Kitsch, in New York and Jack London (where she collaborated with the band Kill Kenada). Soviet Kitsch was initially self-released like her other ferment, just it eventually plunge a wider handout with Sire Records. Tours with the Strokes, Kings of Leon, Match of United States Department of State, and the Moldy Peaches' Kimya Dawson further raised Spektor's profile. Tours of the U.K. and the success of "Us" as a single there light-emitting rectifying tube to the release of the CD/DVD retrospective Blessed Virgin Ann Meets the Gravediggers and Other Short Stories betimes in 2006; that summertime, Begin to Hope, her number one base album of master material for Father, arrived.

Sheen fails in bid to stop Richards TV show

Sheen fails in bid to stop Richards TV show

Actor Charlie Luster has doomed a call to preclude his ex-wife Denise Richards from including their two daughters in a freshly reality TV show, after a Los Angeles judge ruled in the actress' favour.
Sheen is objecting to lease the former couple's girls, three year old SAM and two year old Lola, accept persona in the TV computer program.
But later a closed auditory modality at the Los Angeles syndicate courtroom on Tues, Commissioner Harvey A Silberman ruled Richards was allowed to include the children in the computer program, subject to a number of rules.
The inside information of which have yet to be released.
I. A. Richards was represented in court by her lawyer, wHO participated via telephony, patch Luster attended the hearing with his attorney.
The TV show will reportedly roll around Richards' life as a workings single mum in Hollywood.